Ahmad Brooks news

[msj61]

From the Enquirer:


Woman claims Brooks assaulted her
BY JIM HANNAH | JHANNAH@NKY.COM


BURLINGTON – A Florence woman claims Bengals linebacker Ahmad Brooks punched her in the face, according to court records.

Brooks has been summoned to appear June 6 in Boone District Court to answer to the charges.

Destiny Rosich gave a sworn statement Wednesday that Brooks was arguing outside her neighbor’s home on April 9 in the 7600 block of Banklick Street. She said her children were outside playing and began to cry because Brooks and the neighbor were about to start a fist fight.


Brooks told the neighbor that he was going to “split his head open,” Rosich wrote in her statement.

That when she “nicely approached” Brooks and asked him to stop and “take it somewhere else,” according to the statement.

“He then pulled back his fist and struck (punched) me in the left eye,” Rosich wrote. “I then fell and blacked out.”

Rosich said when she gained consciousness, she grabbed her children, ran inside
her home, called 911 and was taken to an area emergency room. She did not sustain any long-term injuries.

[XU 87]

This guy was a bum in college. And if this is true, he still is a bum. The moral of the story-don't keep drafting convicts and a-holes. You'd think that at some point the Bengals would learn this. On the other hand, you'd think that at some point Mike Brown would get tired of losing year after year.

[DC Muskie]

Seriously Brooks was a punk who has basically lived off his high school reputation.

[XU05and07]

This one won't play well in the media...All the arrests before, Chad runs his mouth, Henry gets arrested again, Chad runs his mouth some more, finally release Henry, now this

If there truly is a no tolerance policy with the Bengals, then Brooks should be released within the day. I don't care about due process, the Bengals just cannot have that stigma around the team.

And when was it ever OK to touch a women, let along punch her in the face?

[XU 87]

What's the over/under for when that punk from Fresno State commits his first crime in Cincinnati?

[xudeltasig]

Does anyone really believe this story?? I am one of the biggest Bengals critics out there (especially when it comes to their off the field antics), but somehow I just find this woman's story so difficult to buy. First of all, who walks up to two people about to fight to "nicely" ask them to stop, but gets close enough to them to get punched? His arms can't be that long. Secondly, assuming that is what happened, who punches someone (especailly a woman) in face for nicely asking them to stop fighting in front of her kids? Something about this just doesn't add up. Although, I won't be too surprised if it turns out to be true...

[XU 87]

I just read that this woman did not file criminal charges until three weeks after this alleged incident occurred. That kind of makes me wonder.

[Juice]

I hate this Bengal crap more than anyone but I think this story is kind of BS. With that being said, are any Bengals fans just getting sick and tired of this? Its the same story one after the other. I thought Brooks was going to turn it around here, I guess not. I guess it is now a good thing we drafted Rivers.

[wkrq59]

Several things here:
*Why did the woman wait all that time to file the complaint?
*Why is any Bengal player living in Kentucky? Nothing wrong with that side of the river except almost all of the Bengals who have run afoul of the law met their Waterloo in Northern Kentucky.
*Was that not where Chad Johnson allegedly promised to raffle a car or some other nonsense?
* Is there anyone who thinks this thing is not about money? Money? Money? Money?

*There is a joke passed on to me: Police officer to lady of the evening: "Maam, when did you first realize you had been raped?"
Hooker, tearfully :"When the check bounced."

Makes you wanna say hmmmmmmm.
Bottom line is when will ALL members of the Cincinnati Bengals football team, and I do mean ALL, wake up. They have it in their power to determine what kind of entertainment they can enjoy, how much they can drink, and where they can do their drinking. If you don't want fleas, don't sleep with dogs.
The Bengals can't legally put out a list of places the players may not enter, but if the players are smart, they will get together and decide what bars or restaurants to patronize and which ones to avoid.
Nothing need be in writing. Nothing need be promulgated. Just, "Here are the friendly places where you can enjoy a beer or two and here are places you don't want to spend your
time or money.
People, we're talking about millionaires here, but millionaires with egos larger than their wallets.
I'm not siding with Brooks or taking a stand against him because I don't know the facts. I'm not going to pronounce him guilty or innocent.
When I trod the Xavier campus more than 50 years ago--even as a freshman--and for the next four years--there were certain unwritten rules.
1)Never go near Dana Gardens if you aren't of legal drinking age. That establishment is sacrosanct and no one had better cause that place to have trouble with the law.
2)The Tally Ho and Greenwich Tavern--the clientele hadn't changed then-- are OK, but be very careful. Forewarned is forearmed.
The Bengals have brought people of questionable character into the organization from their very first draft. Jess Phillips was signed as he left a Michigan prison after serving a sentence for I believe forgery. Booby Clark, God rest, was pulled over on West 8th near the Holiday Inn for having the wrong set of tags on one of his four or five cars. Turned out he picked up the registration slips and the license plates for all of his cars, slapped one plate on the front and a different plate in the back and neither plate matched the registration slip he showed the policeman.
That said, in today's era of PAC-Man Jones, of Chris Henry and a whole bunch of Bengals and non-Bengals alike, athletes who are in the public eye, especially rich athletes and for that matter their college counterparts even more so, should be extremely careful. I know it can sometimes be very frustrating not to be able to behave--especially in college--like any normal man or woman when you are a well-known public figure.
But you can't be held accountable for some place you weren't, you can't be cited for DUI if you catch a cab or have a designated driver and if you are a student athlete, you'll have plenty of time to frolic after you leave college.
And nothing good can happen at a party at 3 a.m. when you have a team meeting the next day. :D

[Kahns Krazy]

Several of the Bengals met their trouble on the east side of cincinnati, so I don't think it's centered in KY. Many of the Bengals have lived in Kentucky over the years. The high end neighborhoods in NKY are in general much younger money than the high end Cincinnati neighborhoods, and are closer to the stadium. It make a lot of sense.

Moreover, the vast, vast majority of Bengals have not gotten into any trouble. The cincinnati media loves to blow up the Bengals stories.

There are no criminal charges filed in this case as of now. This is a non-story.