Chris Cook Bought a Lap Dance at a Strip Club, Which May Have Led to a Fight With His Girlfriend

"a prosecutor said Cook, 25, became enraged with jealousy after he found that his girlfriend of 10 months, Chantel Baker, was texting an old boyfriend. “Are you talking to him? Why are you talking to him?” … repeating the phrase Cook is alleged to have repeated “in a voice loud enough to be heard by a neighbor over 100 feet away,” … Hilleren described the battle that soon followed: “He walloped her so hard in the side of the head that he put her into a wall face-first, perforating her eardrum.”"

Cook’s lawyer tells a different tale – Baker was drinking, and she was the aggressor.

"Valentini painted Baker as the aggressor, striking Cook in the back of his head and cutting him beneath the left ear. He said Cook’s actions “were reasonable. He gets to defend himself.”"

As you may remember, Cook spent the night in jail, and then was suspended by the club. I found this nugget to be the most interesting of their entire day in court:

"Valentini said the partying was part of Cook’s plan for a weekend that would culminate in the Vikings-Packers game and Cook’s proposal of marriage to Baker."

I love how a visit to a strip club was part of Cook’s big weekend that end with a marriage proposal. Chris Cook – what a romantic dude. [Pioneer Press]