NFL cheerleader arrested for assault after misrepresenting attack to police

Submitted by StayingFit on Sat, 2013-08-03 10:46

Article here. Excerpt:

'Megan Welter, the Iraq war vet turned pro-football cheerleader whose inspiring story went viral this week has been arrested on assault charges in Scottsdale, Arizona.
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Here’s what's been reported so far: Welter placed a 911 call to the Scottsdale police at 3am on July 20, explaining that she’d been in a physical altercation with her boyfriend, Ryan, and that they’d both been drinking to celebrate her birthday. “My boyfriend became abusive…He smashed my head into tile,” Welter, sounding out of breath and intoxicated, told the emergency operator in the recording of the 911 call, obtained and provided to Yahoo! Shine by RightThisMinute. She added that he had also put her in a "choke hold," and that “He knows how to fight, he’s a professional fighter, he’s been trained in wrestling.”

When police arrived at Welter’s house, they interviewed her boyfriend—not identified by the Scottsdale Police Department, which blurred out his face in a video of that exchange, obtained by RightThisMinute. That’s when he told police that Welter had actually assaulted him, and that he had recorded the fight on his phone.
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That video recording, quickly making its way around the web, is grainy and has action that’s hard to see, but includes a wobbly-looking Welter pushing and pulling him and screaming, “Who is she?” and demanding her boyfriend's phone as he repeatedly tells her to stop and go inside.'

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It is amazing that this occurred while Ms. Welter has been all over the internet, and is at the height of her 15 minutes of fame. This should draw attention to the fact that women not only commit domestic violence, but also use the police as a weapon in such disputes. Here, we have a case where she did both.

If her boyfriend did not have the incident recorded, can anyone believe that he would not now be sitting in a cell somewhere? The fact that he had marks on him, and she did not, or that it is simply her word against his, would have made no difference. He would be presumed guilty.

Thank God for smart phones.

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Submitted by StayingFit on Sat, 2013-08-03 10:51

I have googled this story and read quite a few versions.

Many include the lines:
"both were drunk"
"A sad story, indeed."
"We hope she gets help."

And I am left to wonder if those reporters would have said the same things if he had beaten her.

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Submitted by bronxman on Sat, 2013-08-03 15:51