And doesn’t really tell us much, other than Benson looks like a man who has been beaten down, perhaps physically and mentally. Here’s why we’re fascinated by this story – so many athletes these days are racking up the arrests that it has become automatic to simply finger them as guilty as soon as the news hits the wires. Something feels different about this Benson case, though. (Unlike, say, the Marvin Harrison situation.) And it’s more than just a second witness – from another boat – coming forward to say the police manhandled the Bears running back. “He said, ‘I am fine, I can continue walking,’ and they put their legs behind his knees and knocked him over his knees and started hog-carrying him … It was uncalled for, it was ludicrous, no point for it.”

Cedric Benson hires new attorney, Travis County releases booking video (Chicago Tribune)