Would have been more than one robbery if the Olympics had been held in Chicago.
For instance, Lochte now says the taxi wasn't pulled over by men with a badge, but that they were robbed after stopping at a gas station, NBC reported. Lochte also now says the assailant pointed a gun at him rather than putting it to his head. They also changed their story from several men (4 or 5) with guns to a single robber with a gun.
The robbery was also not reported to the police nor to the United States Olympic Committee, claiming they were too afraid to report it because they thought they would get in “trouble”. (In trouble for what? One wouldn’t get in trouble for simply reporting a robbery unless there was something more involved); the police only became aware of it via media reports after Lochte and his mother (who was not there) gave media interviews which led to them to being officially questioned, but then later changing parts of their stories in subsequent media reports.
And the police have been as yet unable to identify the cab driver and are asking him to come forward. And if I understand correctly, the swimmers have also given conflicting accounts of what time the robbery took place and what time they left the club and what time they arrived back at the Olympic Village - 4 AM vs 7 AM (claiming they were too drunk to remember all the details). And it has been claimed that the surveillance video from the gas station does not show the men having been there anytime on Sunday.
Then there is the video footage of them returning to the Olympic Village after the alleged robbery, looking very relaxed and smiling, joking around and going through security with what “appears” to be their wallets and cell phones and wrist watches.
Not sure as to why the conflicting accounts but something doesn’t seem right about it. That’s not to say they were not robbed but I question as to why and under what circumstances. A drug deal gone wrong or an attempt to pick up a hooker gone wrong?
Not to defend the Rio police or say that Rio isn’t a violent and dangerous city where armed robberies are common and some of the police and officials corrupt, but the authorities are likely on good legal grounds to detain them for further questioning and getting the matter cleared up.
If they lied to the police and gave false statements about what actually happened or if they lied and the robbery didn’t happen at all, they could find themselves in some deep water (pun intended).
It is in Brazil. Do not deceive yourselves boys and girls, Brazil is a third world nation masquerading as civilized. I’ve been there, and worked there and I’m not interested in going back. They make up the rules as they go. I have no doubt that this is all trumped up against the swimmers to avoid what Brazil sees as national embarrassment. It is very simple, they are accusing the accuser to cover up the problem. The upshot of this will backfire on them but they do not see it that way. Brazil is largely a mix of Portuguese / Latin and Aboriginal attitudes. The state house is half civilized and half just barely literate jungle savage and filled with ignorance and emotion.
....or grease the Constables palm with a few C notes.
Kind of heavy handed. That being said I think there is something screwy about their story. Seems one of the guys told his mom, and she told the media about it. That is how the story broke.
If our president had any balls the Marines would already be there and some government buildings would be smoking ash heaps with bodies under them.
Well Skerry will bring James Taylor along with him if they want..