Posted on 01/19/2005 7:09:12 PM PST by SmithL
MIAMI -- Former Oakland Raiders center Barret Robbins was charged Wednesday with three counts of attempted felony murder, less than a week after being shot during a furious struggle with three police officers investigating a burglary call.
Robbins is best remembered for missing team meetings the night before the 2003 Super Bowl in San Diego. He spent Super Bowl Sunday in a hospital and later acknowledged that he had stopped taking his medicine for depression and bipolar disorder.
He was wounded Saturday night after Miami Beach police found him inside a women's restroom in a building housing a pub, a gym and a jewelry store. The pub owner called police after Robbins forced his way inside the building and refused to leave, a police report said.
Robbins, 31, of Englewood, Colo., growled, snarled and "was heard laughing throughout the attack," the report said.
According to the report, Robbins beat Officer Colin Pfrogner to the floor, picked up Detective Mark Schoenfeld and slammed him into one wall and then another, then grabbed Detective Mike Muley by the face and rammed his head into a corner.
Robbins then grabbed Muley's forearms, and Muley shot Robbins twice in the torso, the report said. The former player dropped to his knees, grabbed his chest, snarled and growled again, swore at the officers and slapped Muley's gun out of his hand.
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Wasn't he arrested the day after Christmas as well, for assaulting a security guard? This guy has been on a long bender.
Was I the only one who hoped the headline was about Tony Robbins?
If he was a Raider, then this is not really news.
[Robbins, who suffers from bipolar disorder and alcoholism]...
...only one of which is a REAL disease.
which one
I was thinking Tim Robbins.
Any disease you choose to participate in is not really a disease.
I, too, was thinking Tim Robbins. Bummer that it wasn't.
Perhaps it was the effect of the steroids he took in order to send him over the top.
If he claims TV made him do it, he could hire L.S.Rubin as long as he signed over the literary rights.
legally it is a disease
I, too, was thinking Tim Robbins. Bummer that it wasn't."
There's a cold wind blowing through this thread. (<;
I was thinking little Timmy too.
Which one?
alcoholism
JACKPOT !!!
This is the greatest day of my life.......
I hope you have many more
The guy makes those shoulder pads look like a thick collar.
Wonder if a citizen plugged a guy twice in the torso after a fight like that if it would be excessive force or attempted murder? I don't think a citizen would be walking the street.
Shot with what caliber? 9mm? 10mm? .40? .357? .45?
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