Looks Like GPD Wanted to Get Chris Rainey

[ArtDeco]

http://www.behindthesteelcurtain.com...arrest-release

If you read his neighbor's account of what really happened, you'll see that GPD was not interested in hearing any story that exonerated Chris.
There's also a new story that the alleged "victim" says GPD got the story wrong, she claims she was never slapped.

[mac4lyfe]

Seems Rainey has a good way of getting back in the graces of his girlfriends. Didn't the first girl say he shouldn't be arrested too? Yet she called the police???

[iam4uf]

Originally Posted by mac4lyfe

Seems Rainey has a good way of getting back in the graces of his girlfriends. Didn't the first girl say he shouldn't be arrested too? Yet she called the police???

iirc, her sister called the police after the girlfriend told her not to do it.

[sflagator]

This is consistent with my experiences with GPD, both as an attorney and as a person they apparently thought was breaking into an apartment (it was my apartment, but who's keeping track of those little details?) There are a lot of good cops there, but the department is way too big for a city the size of Gainesville, and making arrests is how you used to climb the ladder. There is also an institutional bull-headed ness that dates back at least as far as Chief Waylon Clifton.

In the cops defense though, Rainey has a prior domestic on his record and the risk of leaving him on the street was too great given the circumstances -- if they had let him walk and the GF ended up injured or dead, can you imagine the headlines? In domestic situations where the cops are called, someone usually goes to jail for just that reason. There isn't much discretion involved, and I don't think cops anywhere would have just let him walk.

Still, the lack of interest in the real story, hostility toward adverse witnesses, etc., is pure GPD, and there's no excuse for it. If they had to make an arrest its understandable, but they should at least make a token effort to be professional and get the real story.

[gatordee]

I wonder if this will affect the Steelers decision on letting him go. I guess they wanted to show the world that they will not put up with violence towards women now.

[Tebowism0823]

Seems Rainey is the issue. When the same thing continues to happen its hard to keep pointing the finger at crooked cops.

[The_Graygator]

Starting to sound to me like a lot of the stuff I hear that goes on in my town. Guy has his baby-momma at home and she has a fight with her sugar daddy, there's a relatively immautre little shuffle and yelling match, the girl loses, so she calls the cops to get even, and then realizes she's tossing her sugar-daddy in the pokey and recants her story.

[g8rfan22]

Originally Posted by Tebowism0823

Seems Rainey is the issue. When the same thing continues to happen its hard to keep pointing the finger at crooked cops.

Or it sounds like the media and GPD jump to their own conclusions and declared Chris guilty before gathering all the evidence & interviewing all the witnesses. Obviously the media needs a headline.

[Tebowism0823]

Originally Posted by g8rfan22

Or it sounds like the media and GPD jump to their own conclusions and declared Chris guilty before gathering all the evidence & interviewing all the witnesses. Obviously the media needs a headline.

Or the witnesses are taking his side. This is the 2nd time this has happened. There's a pattern and it's not crooked cops.

[operamac]

or once was out of character and this time the cops based their assumptions on that previous encounter and felt he got off easy and wanted to put him where they thought he belonged instead of doing real police work.

GPD has a longer track record of shady arrests for situations that are not backed up by the evidence or the witnesses, than Rainey does of being an actual woman beating thug.

[gator7_5]

Its his third arrest in a year. F man, it's not hard AT ALL to not get arrested.

[gator1986]

Originally Posted by gator7_5

Its his third arrest in a year. F man, it's not hard AT ALL to not get arrested.

Lol, some people believe it or not their motto is F man, it's hard to not get arrested...

[Tebowism0823]

Originally Posted by operamac

or once was out of character and this time the cops based their assumptions on that previous encounter and felt he got off easy and wanted to put him where they thought he belonged instead of doing real police work.

GPD has a longer track record of shady arrests for situations that are not backed up by the evidence or the witnesses, than Rainey does of being an actual woman beating thug.

I could go with this. The only issue I'd still have is he continues to put himself in these type of situations. Just like Big Ben, whether he did it or not, he continued to put himself in those type of situations. It's not hard to avoid them. Most do it every day.

[geauxgator1]

GPD should be investigated by the Feds. No fan of the Feds but they are an agenda driven institution, and doing the right thing is not their style.

[gtr2x]

Given all the arrests of former players in Gainesville, don't think I'd be spending time there except on game day.

[ArtDeco]

Originally Posted by Tebowism0823

Or the witnesses are taking his side. This is the 2nd time this has happened. There's a pattern and it's not crooked cops.

Did you read the article I linked? His girlfriend didn't call 911, a neighbor with a known dislike for him and his roomate called. His next door neighbor, a straight A student at UF, emailed/called ESPN, the paper, the cops, and anyone else he could think of when he heard how this neighbor railroaded Rainey.

[GatorLaw]

Originally Posted by mac4lyfe

Seems Rainey has a good way of getting back in the graces of his girlfriends. Didn't the first girl say he shouldn't be arrested too? Yet she called the police???

IIRC she didn't call the police, her sister did.

[MelBeachGator]

Originally Posted by ArtDeco

Did you read the article I linked? His girlfriend didn't call 911, a neighbor with a known dislike for him and his roomate called. His next door neighbor, a straight A student at UF, emailed/called ESPN, the paper, the cops, and anyone else he could think of when he heard how this neighbor railroaded Rainey.

How do situations like this follow Chris? Have you asked yourself that at all? Maybe the problem is with HIM and not everyone elses over the past year.

Regardless of what you think, the chances if a grand GPD conspiracy to nab Chris Rainey is probably unlikely.

[Tebowism0823]

Originally Posted by ArtDeco

Did you read the article I linked? His girlfriend didn't call 911, a neighbor with a known dislike for him and his roomate called. His next door neighbor, a straight A student at UF, emailed/called ESPN, the paper, the cops, and anyone else he could think of when he heard how this neighbor railroaded Rainey.

My point is the cops didn't just show up because they heard Chris was in town. He continues to put himself in these situations. Lets not pretend that Chris is an innocent bystander here. The fact that the so called witness is an A student at UF is irrelevant. Now you mentioned the one who called the cops dislike Rainey. Is it possible that this student sticking up for him is only doing it because he was a ball player? Serious question.

[oragator1]

3 arrests in a year, were the other police forces out to get him too?
As far as GPD, In my experience working a fair amount with local police when i was at UF, the majority of the people I worked with were good people who had a very diverse beat to cover, from some of the poorest neighborhoods in the state to the areas around campus with many privileged students, and it wasn't always easy to tell who came from which group when they got to a scene. That meant students sometimes got treated a bit rougher than they thought they deserved.
But again Chris needs to grow up, he has been at the center of controversy since even before he got to UF, with his comments about money he got, then his arrest at UF and now three more in the last year. At some point when others continually making excuses for him or giving him a pass hurts him more than it helps him. He doesn't need enablers, he needs maturity, hundreds of athletes of all races make it through UF without being arrested, and especially without multiple arrests both locally and on the year.