Kendrick Perkins claims innocence over the intoxication and brawl charge – NBA Update
With no basketball activity taking place due to the lockout, it seems that the NBA players are finding ways to stay in the limelight. Few days back, Los Angeles Lakers Matt Barnes hit an opposing player during a summer league game.
Most recently Lakers All-Star Kobe Bryant twisted a man’s wrist in a church, who was supposedly taking his pictures.
Kendrick Perkins also joined the non basketball spotlight club recently when early he was arrested over the charges of public intoxication and disorderly conduct in a night club.
On the same day when Perkins was arrested, he had planned a charity game. Players like Kevin Durant, Rajon Rondo, Stephen Jackson and Eric Maynor flew all the way to Beaumont to join the action, but unfortunately due to Kendrick’s
club episode, the event didn’t take place.
Charges of class C misdemeanour were imposed on Perkins as per Texas penal code 12.23 and Perkins was not just put behind the bars, but he was also fined. Perkins had to place a bond of $150 shortly after he was taken in.
Perkins was reportedly engaged in a fight with the club’s manager when police came in. He was hurling profanities at the manager and also tried to initiate fight with other people while on the way out.
However, after getting released Perkins completely denied all the charges and his lawyer Langston Scott Adams issued a statement, “Mr. Perkins has maintained his innocence to the charges and is recovering at home with family suffering
from injuries he received during the incident.”
Attorney Langston also said that they are seriously thinking of suing the police officers, who made the arrest and later they brutally treated his client. He also argued that the eye witnesses were giving varying accounts of the
incident.
The police has maintained that Perkins threatened the club owner and was drunk. It seems that Perkins has been partying hard during this lockout has got the reward for it. Due to the lockout he wouldn’t be facing any disciplinary
actions from his team.
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