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Report: Police investigating assault by Deion Sanders
Posted by: Rick Brisse
October 10, 2013
The Dallas Police Department is investigating a scuffle at a local charter school after an employee of the school said he was assaulted by NFL Hall of Famer Deion Sanders, reports The Dallas Morning News.
Sanders, a former Dallas Cowboys defensive back, is a co-founder of the Prime Prep Academy.
Kevin Jefferson is an employee at the charter school and said he was in a faculty meeting with Sanders and other administrators and teachers when the alleged incident occurred.
From the Morning News: Sanders and other administrators and teachers were meeting and Jefferson said Sanders got upset that some student athletes are not doing well in school academically
“He was a little upset and a little emotional,” Jefferson said, and he and Sanders got into a verbal disagreement.
Jefferson told police that he told the suspect not to speak to him that way, according to a police report.
“He walked back to the back of the classroom to where I was sitting in a desk,” Jefferson told our Tanya Eiserer this morning. “As he got closer to me, I stood up because he was kind of standing over me and he just kind of kept talking to me and at me and then he just grabbed me by my throat and kind of threw me to the ground. Some people had to get him off of me.”
Sanders defended himself on Twitter, and claims that an assault did not occur, but a verbal altercation did happen.
Posted by: Rick Brisse
October 10, 2013
The Dallas Police Department is investigating a scuffle at a local charter school after an employee of the school said he was assaulted by NFL Hall of Famer Deion Sanders, reports The Dallas Morning News.
Sanders, a former Dallas Cowboys defensive back, is a co-founder of the Prime Prep Academy.
Kevin Jefferson is an employee at the charter school and said he was in a faculty meeting with Sanders and other administrators and teachers when the alleged incident occurred.
From the Morning News: Sanders and other administrators and teachers were meeting and Jefferson said Sanders got upset that some student athletes are not doing well in school academically
“He was a little upset and a little emotional,” Jefferson said, and he and Sanders got into a verbal disagreement.
Jefferson told police that he told the suspect not to speak to him that way, according to a police report.
“He walked back to the back of the classroom to where I was sitting in a desk,” Jefferson told our Tanya Eiserer this morning. “As he got closer to me, I stood up because he was kind of standing over me and he just kind of kept talking to me and at me and then he just grabbed me by my throat and kind of threw me to the ground. Some people had to get him off of me.”
Sanders defended himself on Twitter, and claims that an assault did not occur, but a verbal altercation did happen.
