Fitkul.cz | Diskuse

od **panxing18** » stř 15. srp 2018 8:15:24

A former NFL linebacker’s career was cut short after authorities in New Jersey fabricated evidence linking him to a gun used in a shooting Braden Smith Youth Jersey , the player alleged in a lawsuit filed this week.

The Elizabeth police department and Union County prosecutor’s office ”willfully ignored and were deliberately indifferent to overwhelming evidence” that Khaseem Greene hadn’t provided the weapon used in a shooting outside a nightclub in Elizabeth in December 2016, Greene says in the suit.

The Kansas City Chiefs released Greene in May of last year, the day charges against him were reported.

Two months later, a gun charge against Greene was dropped after an audio recording surfaced of the accused shooter telling detectives he lied about Greene’s involvement in the shooting.

The lawsuit filed Tuesday accuses the police and prosecutor’s office of ”simultaneously manufacturing and fabricating false evidence in order to charge Plaintiff with a crime he did not commit.”

A spokesman for the county prosecutor’s office declined comment Thursday. A message left at the Elizabeth police department wasn’t immediately returned.

The 29-year-old Greene is an Elizabeth native who was a Big East defensive player of the year while at Rutgers. He appeared in a total of 25 games for the Chicago Bears in the 2013 and 2014 seasons, starting six games at linebacker.

The lawsuit charges numerous counts including civil rights violations, false arrest and imprisonment, malicious prosecution, negligence and defamation. It seeks unspecified punitive and compensatory damages, including for past and future economic loss.

It also seeks the appointment of an independent monitor to oversee the Elizabeth police department.

According to the lawsuit, the man charged with the shooting, a career criminal with more than 20 prior arrests and six felony convictions, admitted he lied about getting the gun from Greene during an interview with police after his arrest in late December 2016.

Nevertheless Adidas Derick Brassard Jersey , authorities went ahead and charged Greene, citing surveillance video that allegedly showed Greene handing the gun to the man. No such video existed, the lawsuit alleges.

Greene last August said the legal trouble has been ”probably the toughest time of my life” and has been ”very hard emotionally and mentally.”

”People started looking at me differently and accusing me of being this thug, this monster, and all of it was false,” he said by phone.

The suit names the Elizabeth Police Department and the Union County Prosecutor’s Office as well as individuals in both offices.
Andrew Luck understands it will take time to prove his surgically repaired throwing shoulder is as good as he says it is.

First, he must pass a few more self-imposed tests.

As the Indianapolis Colts reported to training camp Wednesday, their incumbent quarterback sounded as eager and antsy as he did when he arrived as the highly touted No. 1 overall draft pick and hand-picked successor to Peyton Manning in 2012.

”I’m nervous. It will be interesting to step on the field again and practice and there will be some times that I’ll scratch my head and say what the heck did I just do? What the heck is going on?,” Luck said before later acknowledging one concern. ”I don’t want to fumble the first snap is what I don’t want to do.”

There are plenty of reasons for angst.

Thursday’s opening practice in Westfield, Indiana, a northern suburb of Indianapolis, will be the first time Luck has practiced or played in front of fans since January 2017.

Many of the names on the roster have changed since he threw a regular-season pass and some veterans still have not been in a huddle with Luck.

First-year coach Frank Reich has installed another new offense Leighton Vander Cowboys Esch Jersey , the fourth Luck has learned as he heads into his seventh pro season.

Luck has not taken a hit in 19 months, and everyone will be monitoring Luck to see if he can fully recover from the partially torn labrum in his throwing shoulder.

The Colts don’t seem to be worried.

”When he practices, he’s full go. There are no restrictions,” Reich said. ”The reps are all counted out, so it’s easy to do the math.”

The initial plan calls on Luck to mimic his regular-season routine, throwing three days and taking one off.

But the irregular camp schedule will look slightly different. For instance, Luck is expected to throw Thursday and Friday before sitting out Saturday and then returning Sunday when Indy holds its first night practice at the new training camp site, Grand Park Sports Campus.

”We’ll be in pads Sunday and we don’t want him to miss that,” Reich said.

Luck also will participate in live drills, which Reich describes as more physical than the Colts likely had in recent seasons. Reich replaces Chuck Pagano, who was fired just hours after last season’s finale after six seasons with the team.

Luck won’t be seen only at practice.

Reich intends to use Luck in preseason games, tentatively setting his debut for the Colts’ Aug. 9 opener at Seattle. General manager Chris Ballard hinted that could be the case last week.

The best news for Colts’ fans Cheap Isaiah Oliver Jersey , though, might be the fact that the pain Luck played with for most of 2015 and 2016 and kept him out all of 2017 has subsided.

”I feel like I’m in a much better place. I’m the best I’ve felt in a long, long, time,” he said. ”I’ve got work to do still, I’ve got things that I’m going to have to go out and prove to myself. But I feel a lot better.”

He’s been throwing since May and spent the time between minicamp and reporting day working out in California with a cadre of receivers including teammate Chester Rogers. Reich watched footage from the workouts and said he could see a steady, consistent progression.

But Luck knows workouts on college fields don’t necessarily translate to success on Sunday afternoons.

”I’ve got some work to do still and there is going to be a situation on the practice that I have not been in yet – like having to avoid a guy and playing at that little extra tempo, that speed,” he said. ”So there are steps I still need to take. I’m not kidding myself, and with that comes the endurance, the `Oh, that’s how I’ve got to throw the out to T.Y. (Hilton) or that’s how it is over the middle to (Jack) Doyle.”’

The Colts are doing their part to keep Luck healthy.

They invested heavily in revamping the offensive line Connor Williams Jersey , drafting guard Quenton Nelson in the first round, guard Braden Smith in the second round, re-signing versatile veteran Jack Mewhort and adding veteran free agent Matt Slauson.

And Luck hopes that making the effort to avoid preventable hits keeps his comeback on track, too.

”I think I’d be a bit of a fool not to (change),” he said. ”I have to learn how to protect myself and how to protect the team.”

Notes: Safeties Clayton Geathers and Malik Hooker and guard Jeremy Vujnovich – all starters last season – have been placed on the physically unable to perform list. Geathers had offseason knee surgery, Hooker tore the anterior and medial collateral ligaments in October and Vujnovich pulled his calf while working out on his own this summer. … Running back Robert Turbin said he ”let his teammates down” by violating the NFL’s policy on performance-enhancers. He will miss the first four regular-season games. … The Colts signed safety Shamarko Thomas and waived cornerback Juante Baldwin on Wednesday. The 5-foot-9, 205-pound Thomas has played 60 games with the Buffalo Bills and Pittsburgh Steelers since 2013. Baldwin was an undrafted rookie.

—

.