Posted on 10/07/2025 11:11:31 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
A 69-year-old truck driver who was seriously injured in a fight that prosecutors say was started by former NFL quarterback and sports analyst Mark Sanchez is now suing Sanchez and his employer, Fox Corporation, in Indiana state court.
Lawyers for Perry Tole filed the lawsuit Monday seeking an unspecified amount in actual and punitive damages, as well as attorney’s fees. The lawsuit accuses Sanchez of instigating a fight with Tole late Saturday night outside a downtown Indianapolis hotel, leading to “severe permanent disfigurement, loss of function” and other injuries and emotional distress.
Tole also stabbed Sanchez several times in the fight, according to police. A picture of Tole circulating online shows him in a neck brace on a hospital bed, covered in blood with a deep slash to the side of his face.
A media contact for Fox Corporation did not immediately respond to an email Tuesday seeking comment. Attorneys representing Sanchez in his criminal case declined to comment on the lawsuit.
Attorneys representing Tole in the lawsuit, which requested a trial by jury, did not immediately return calls seeking comment.
Sanchez is facing a felony battery charge, along with several misdemeanor charges, for what prosecutors said Monday was a fight over parking.
“We are literally talking about people fighting over a parking space and-or a dispute about where people are parking, and it resulted in someone receiving just incredibly significant injures,” Marion County prosecutor Ryan Mears said at a news conference Monday.
A police affidavit says the 38-year-old Sanchez, smelling of alcohol, accosted Tole, who had backed his truck into a hotel’s loading docks in downtown Indianapolis. Tole’s lawsuit said Sanchez entered Tole’s truck without permission, then physically blocked and shoved Tole, who then doused Sanchez with pepper spray.
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It’s all on tape. Sanchez is cooked.
“How to judge who was right or wrong on this case? ... it seems convoluted as hell.”
only if one hasn’t been reading everything that is publicly known about what happened, namely that the whole thing is on video tape, and multiple witnesses back up what the 69 year old truck driver said happened: namely Sanchez entered the guy’s truck, attacked the truck driver and chased the truck driver and didn’t stop until sanchez realized he’d been seriously stabbed ... nothing really convoluted at all: simple unprovoked assault and battery on a 69 year old guy who was just doing his job at the loading dock and subsequent successful self-defense ...
Of course. Scumbag lawyer gets involved and sees dollar signs. Sanchez works for Fox, thereby Fox is responsible for this morons actions. This is why people despise lawyers.
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