LeSean McCoy Will Not Be Charged for Night Club Incident with Off Duty Police Officers

The Philadelphia District Attorney’s Office is expected to announce today that Buffalo running back LeSean McCoy will not be charged for his role in a fight at a night club. BigTrial.net was the first to report this, and it has since been reported by multiple Philadelphia outlets.

More than six weeks ago, word came out that the D.A.’s office was concerned about the conduct of the off duty police officers who were also involved. There were reported tensions between the police officer organizations and the District Attorney’s Office. Expect those are going to be simmering today with this announcement.

The Big Trial account includes these details that may explain why the District Attorney does not believe they can make a case.

"The problem with the cops’s side of the case is that the off-duty officers didn’t exactly behave like the victims of an unfair assault. According to witnesses, the brawl was allegedly started by Officer Roland Butler, who supposedly swiped a $350 bottle of pink champagne off McCoy’s table. Then, when McCoy’s friends protested, Officer Butler, at 6-foot-4 and at least 250-pounds, allegedly grabbed one of Shady’s pals — Tamarcus Porter, a 6-foot-1, 195-pound former Pitt running back — by the neck and body-slammed him to the ground. During the brawl, a witness saw one of the off-duty cops, Sgt. Daniel Ayres, reach for a black 9 mm pistol in a holster on his right hip. “Shady, he’s a cop,” the witness told McCoy. The Philadelphia police commissioner has a directive that says off-duty cops aren’t allowed to carry guns into bars. There’s also the question of whether the other two off-duty cops were carrying guns in a club where cop patrons routinely aren’t frisked."

LeSean McCoy appears to be in the clear legally, and now we await whether the NFL Commissioner’s office will also determine that there is conflicting info such that punishment is not justified.