Keith Olbermann tears into NFL, Ray McDonald over new report (Video)
By Phil Watson
If Ray McDonald really did call a San Jose police officer who also works for his own team, then his ongoing allegations of domestic violence against his pregnant fiancee just got about a million times more complicated.
The ongoing domestic violence allegations against San Francisco 49ers defensive end Ray McDonald took a potentially conspiratorial turn last week when a Bay Area television station reported that one of the police officers who responded to the scene might also work for the 49ers as a security officer.
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So, yeah.
According to KGO TV, McDonald called a San Jose Police Department officer who allegedly moonlights as a security guard at Levi’s Stadium.
The report originally aired last week, but because it aired late in the week on the West Coast, most of the media watchers out East whiffed on it.
ESPN’s Keith Olbermann, however, weighed in for his show scheduled to air later Monday:
Olbermann is right. This doesn’t look good.
McDonald—around the same time 911 was being called to report his alleged assault of his pregnant fiancee (stay classy, Ray)—called a cop who just happened to also work for the 49ers.
This police officer, in contravention of department policy, went to the scene.
Somewhere, there is a prosecuting attorney in the district attorney’s office in Santa Clara County banging their head slowly into the top of their desk.
By the way, McDonald was arrested on Aug. 31. The police turned the case over to the DA’s office last week.
The incident allegedly took place at a party where McDonald’s teammates were present. What this means is that those players may have to testify against McDonald — their own teammate. This is the last thing the Nienrs need because, you know, there’s not enough controversy swirling in and around the 49ers locker room now over their coach, Jim Harbaugh.
And Olbermann raises the $64,000 question—did McDonald call that particular police officer on his own or because he was directed to by someone at the team’s Santa Clara headquarters?
But perhaps the most important point for everyone involved—will people ever get it through their thick skulls that it doesn’t matter how bad the initial crime is, because a perceived cover up will make it a million times worse?
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