Rio police: A security guard did point a gun at US swimmers but there was no robbery

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[BlackFemaleArmyColonel]

Rio police: A security guard did point a gun at US swimmers but there was no robbery.

[BlackFemaleArmyColonel]

Making up this story was very stupid on the part of these swimmers. Wow.

[drewh]

Lochte now saying most of it is true but the tape was edited for three minutes ..lol http://www.tmz.com/2016/08/18/ryan-lochte-robbery-lie-rio/

[luvbach1]

The cover-up, once discovered, is invariably worse than the truth. How many times does that have to be proved?

[BlackFemaleArmyColonel]

Rio police: One of the US swimmers said there wasn’t excessive behavior by the security guard:

https://twitter.com/FoxNews/status/766359043027836928

[E. Pluribus Unum]

I had friend who worked at Steak and Shake back in the ‘70s. There was a hot-shot white high school basketball player who was being recruited by everybody who pulled in and ordered a bunch of stuff from him, then drove away when the order was delivered. The waiters and waitresses in those days had to cover drive-aways out of their own pockets. The police were called and the perp apprehended and brought back to Steak and Shake. The cops treated the guy deferentially and asked him if an arrest for this would damage his prospects. “Why yes sir, it would!” he responded indignantly. Bottom line, the cops let the guy go.

[BlackFemaleArmyColonel]

Wow. SMH.

[cdga5for4]

I’m not trying to be obtuse, and it certainly seems that he did lie, but has someone explained why the hands of one of the swimmers are in the air through half of the surveillance video?

[LouieFisk]

“A security guard did point a gun at US swimmers but there was no robbery.”
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We’re talkin’ 3rd world here, where there’s no way to tell the bad guys from the good guys (if there even are any good guys).

[pioneerstakethearrows]

hhhmmm. perception. someone holds a gun on you, you open your wallet and hand them money. “i was robbed.”

perception.

[cdga5for4]

Agreed.

[ozzymandus]

Still a stupid idea to have the Olympics in a turd-world country.

[blueplum]

bull honkey there was no robbery

I listened to the entire press conference. A security guard accused the swimmers of vandalizing the bathroom. They held them at gunpoint from the start (hands up as soon as out of the cab). They surrendered 100 Brazilian currency and 20 American currency for supposedly a broken $10mirror except we were never told exactly what was damaged.

According to the police chief, if the store owner was satisfied there’s nothing the cops could do; that was the end of it. But it wasn’t the end of it.

The guards held them at gunpoint, saying they were waiting for the state police, but as soon as money was coughed up, they were released. A judge issued a search and seizure warrant to confiscate the passports, preventing the swimmers from leaving the country and wanting Loche ‘extradited’. The two swimmers in custody are not charged, not arrested, just detained. Again, there’s no list of damages, but there’s plenty of video showing the guys being detained until they came up with money.

imo, the actions of the ‘security guards’ in Brazil, the police and, especially, the judge, were illegal, and it strongly reminds me of Iran-sailors.

[pepsi_junkie]

The story as the police stated was that the guys kicked a broken mens room door at a gas station, then a guard confronted them about it but never pulled his weapon out, they owner came along and they argued (though he didn't speak english) and the swimmers agreed to pay for damage.

Now it turns out that the gun was in fact pointed at them. So here's another story. The guys kicked a door, a guard came out and pointed a gun at them while another man came out and in portuguese demanded money from them. Could it be possible that you would feel, under those circumstances, that you had just been robbed? Sure, possible. As in "we did like $10 worth of damage and this guy took hundreds from us while pointing a gun at us",

If that's how it played out, what would you call it?

[pepsi_junkie]

By the way, I was in Spain with several other colleagues and we were stopped by the Spanish Guardia Civil. These were the guys in the old days that arrested you and you were never heard from again. The spanish always told us "don't worry about the police. Except the Guardia Civil, don't cross them".

So we were pulled over, ostensibly for speeding though it was marginal at best. The cop said we could pay him a fine of approx $200 on the spot (cash only) and that would settle the matter or we could go to court which would require us to spend several days in a spanish jail.

We paid. And by the way, we felt like we were robbed.

[jacquej]

and, add the complication of possible language barrier?

I am not impressed with the Brazilian press conference, and think this is all a bunch of gorilla dust.

[SoCal Pubbie]

Same thing happened to me in a small town in Texas in the summer of 1981. I felt I was robbed too but it beat spending time in a hot, humid jail cell.

[Stingray51]

So now the Brazilians admit they were held at gunpoint!

This sounds like a set-up robbery: drunk foreign tourists come into gas station, try to get into already busted up toilets and local goons hold them up for cash at gunpoint claiming they are collecting money to pay for “damage”.

Gosh, that sounds a lot like a robbery