Adrian Peterson Was “Wasted” and Tried to Fight a Cop According to Club Manager

Adrian Peterson was arrested and charged with resisting arrest early Saturday morning at a club in Houston. At first, it looked like a slight misunderstanding as cops tackled Peterson after he couldn’t get a glass of water at closing time. Now TMZ is reporting that Peterson was drunk and unreasonable and tried to fight an off-duty police officer.

Daniel Maher, general manager of Live at Bayou Place, tells TMZ that Peterson has been to the club before, but he has never known him to drink much. Last night, however, Maher said Peterson was very drunk and was a difficult customer all night.

Maher says Peterson was throwing his ego around and making people mad, so they put him in the VIP area. Maher says when the club was closing, he rushed over to the bar to try and order one last drink and when he wouldn’t Maher says Peterson “tried to intimidate the bartender” into selling it to him.

At that point the off-duty officer intervened and Peterson allegedly shoved him. Peterson then “assumed a fight stance” and “looked like he meant business.” By the time the cops subdued him (take note NFC North fans), Peterson was apologizing.

[TMZ, Getty]

Previously: Adrian Peterson arrested in Houston

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19 Responses to “Adrian Peterson Was “Wasted” and Tried to Fight a Cop According to Club Manager”

VladimirCrouton Says:
July 8th, 2012 at 10:31 AM

4 game suspension.

PurdueMatt Says:
July 8th, 2012 at 10:47 AM

Officer JMac still thinks the Houston Police are corrupt and “have nothing better to do.”

FredSanford Says:
July 8th, 2012 at 10:59 AM

How can you be arrested for resisting arrest?

Jason McIntyre Says:
July 8th, 2012 at 11:00 AM

i never used the word “corrupt.” I do think there are better things to do than get all worked up and huffy about a running back at a bar.
Interesting to watch it unfold –

Peterson’s agent runs to PFT with his side.
Police and Bar manager counter by going to TMZ with their smear side.

can’t wait for the video to surface, or if it magically “disappears”

Mike NYC Says:
July 8th, 2012 at 11:14 AM

Officer JMac still thinks the Houston Police are corrupt and “have nothing better to do.”

Him and Sergeants Stephanie Stadler & Jemele Hill will continue to impugn the police force & imply racial motivation before knowing nothing about the incident itself. Journalism, 2012 ed.

Jason McIntyre Says:
July 8th, 2012 at 11:16 AM

“impugn the police force & imply racial motivation”

hey guy, find me saying anything racial about this. good luck

Some Random Old Dude Says:
July 8th, 2012 at 11:47 AM

Peterson then “assumed a ~~fight~~ buffalo stance” and “looked like he meant business.”

Business of kicking ass, and business is good!

Nada Says:
July 8th, 2012 at 11:51 AM

Peterson then “assumed a fight stance” and “looked like he meant business.”

If you knew you were going to spend another season suiting up with Joe Webb and Christian Ponder at QB, you’d get drunk, mad and aggressive toward authority, too.

Hollywoodtease Says:
July 8th, 2012 at 12:00 PM

AP should know it’s better to do your partying on a boat.

jpetrou2 Says:
July 8th, 2012 at 12:37 PM

This situation, as many do, always makes we wonder why “off duty” police officer matters. Somehow this makes what he did worse?

José Pippen Says:
July 8th, 2012 at 12:37 PM

Officer JMac still thinks the Houston Police are corrupt and “have nothing better to do.”
Him and Sergeants Stephanie Stadler & Jemele Hill will continue to impugn the police force & imply racial motivation before knowing nothing about the incident itself. Journalism, 2012 ed.

And you will continue to add absolutely nothing to any discussion you ever partake in.

PurdueMatt Says:
July 8th, 2012 at 12:45 PM

I do think there are better things to do than get all worked up and huffy about a running back at a bar.

So a drunk, agressive citizen disobeying orders to leave a bar should be ignored? Ok, gotcha.

oskie Says:
July 8th, 2012 at 1:22 PM

Florio said that besides the surveillance video, that there were a buncha people using their cell phones. how in the hell have none of those been uploaded to youtube?

Mike NYC Says:
July 8th, 2012 at 1:30 PM

And you will continue to add absolutely nothing to any discussion you ever partake in.

Am I supposed to have any idea — or care — who you are?

how in the hell have none of those been uploaded to youtube?

TMZ just posted something … that doesn’t really show much of anything.

oskie Says:
July 8th, 2012 at 1:33 PM

yeah, just watched that. so it confirms they put him in handcuffs. not worthy of even being shown.

Benjamin Franklin Rodriguez has the highest WAR evah! Says:
July 8th, 2012 at 2:02 PM

Him and Sergeants Stephanie Stadler & Jemele Hill will continue to impugn the police force & imply racial motivation before knowing nothing about the incident itself. Journalism, 2012 ed.

There are enough stories of police force and racial motivation within and outside of Houston with or without your Jemele Hill red herring. But there will always be cop groupies and citizens who hide their fear and cowardice behind bluster and the misguided support of law and order.

Monster is Meth Says:
July 8th, 2012 at 3:02 PM

KILL WHITEY!

/Drunk Peterson

Quietgoesthedon Says:
July 9th, 2012 at 12:38 AM

Houston’s police force has a long history of being aggressive toward athletes, and black folks in particular. This is nothing new to anyone who knows folks around the various leagues.

This is from a Yahoo article today:

http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/nfl-shutdown-corner/houston-police-history-peterson-reputation-resisting-arrest-case-150712737–nfl.html
I asked Stephanie Stradley, a practicing attorney in Houston and a football writer for the Houston Chronicle, about the Houston Police Department’s history with athletes of a certain pigmentation.
“Anytime there’s a resisting arrest situation and no other charges, and there’s a large, black athlete involved, it’s one of those situations where it raises eyebrows,” Stradley said. “Because there have been some very high-profile situations in the Houston area where African-Americans have been targeted by HPD wrongfully.”
Stradley brought up the case of Texans guard Fred Weary, who experienced this in November of 2006.
“Basically, he was followed in his car for 4-6 miles, and the reason they followed him all the way from Reliant Stadium was that he was ‘looking suspicious in a high-crime area.’ He’s driving his Impala near his place of business, and they followed him all the way around the 610 loop to find a reason to pull him over. He didn’t know why he was being pulled over, and one thing led to another, and they tasered him and arrested him for resisting arrest.”
The charges were dropped due to insufficient evidence. One year later, Weary sued the city of Houston and the two police officers involved in the stop. Joseph Walker, Weary’s attorney, said that the officers “clearly used race as a factor for reasonable suspicion and making a traffic stop.”
“He never got his letter of apology or a concrete review of tasering,” Walker said at the time. “He asked for a copy of [taser] policies and they sent him a policy that was completely blacked out, censored.”

Quietgoesthedon Says:
July 9th, 2012 at 12:42 AM

But the point is, if you’re a defense attorney and you have a high profile arrest of a minority without any other charges, that’s a warning flag. And given Houston’s history, a big one.