Two Houston Dynamo Players Arrested, Claim Altercation Began When Nightclub Denied Entry to Black Players
Race, Soccer, Video February 8th. 2012, 9:50am
Two Houston Dynamo players were arrested Saturday night after a skirmish with an off duty police officer working outside a Houston night club. Players claim the altercation began because the black players among them were denied entry.
Four players, Tyler Deric, Warren Creavalle, Alex Dixon and Will Bruin, attempted to enter the Roosevelt Lounge but were denied entry. The players claim it was because Creavalle and Dixon were black. The club claims it was because the players were drunk. The incident angered Deric who was subdued with a taser, arrested and charged with assaulting the officer. Creavalle was also arrested and charged with “interfering with public duties.” The players claim the assault never occurred.
The club’s racist entry policy was corroborated by the Houston-based rap group “Drank” who attempted entry the same evening but were denied because the club already had “too many black people.”
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February 8th, 2012 at 9:57 AM
The club’s racist entry was corroborated by the Houston-based rap group “Drank” who attempted entry the same evening but were denied because the club already had “too many black people.”
Hey, I thought the Internet said we were “post-racial”?
“Too many black people”. Don’t get me started.
/”Hey, how about Linds…”…nah, never mind
February 8th, 2012 at 10:02 AM
Here I always thought white people went to bars and black people went to clubs?
February 8th, 2012 at 10:04 AM
“Don’t you know who I am?”
“Good lord, no.”
February 8th, 2012 at 10:05 AM
They should have shown the bouncer the # of twitter followers they had.
February 8th, 2012 at 10:05 AM
Where’s our Houston people? What kind of neighborhood is that place in?
February 8th, 2012 at 10:06 AM
RAYCESS
February 8th, 2012 at 10:07 AM
“I’ve just spotted some more racism. Time to pen a missive.”
-Tyberius Duffy, from his Ivory Tower
February 8th, 2012 at 10:08 AM
lol!
the players in question were only going to be ticketed for kicking an officer and weren’t arrested until they started to use their hands.
/veal
February 8th, 2012 at 10:08 AM
Where’s our Houston people? What kind of neighborhood is that place in?
one with too many black people
February 8th, 2012 at 10:09 AM
/giggles
February 8th, 2012 at 10:10 AM
the description of the black guys as “players” by lily-white Duffy speaks to his passive bigotry.
February 8th, 2012 at 10:13 AM
Going by the google pics, it looks like Patrick Bateman would feel perfectly comfortable.
February 8th, 2012 at 10:14 AM
@ritty It’s a trendy party of Houston that used to be a drug/prostitute haven maybe five years ago that has opened several new clubs that set up velvet ropes and make people wait in line. Roosevelt is one of the bars that is known for not letting in black people.
February 8th, 2012 at 10:15 AM
Jamarcus Russell celebrates their entire catalog.
February 8th, 2012 at 10:17 AM
I’ve been here a once or twice a couple years ago. A couple years ago it was the new trendy place, but the area it’s in has gone downhill. A lot of the places around it are notorious for being really racist, so this story doesn’t surprise me. The clientele that his place is aiming for has already moved on to another part of town.
February 8th, 2012 at 10:17 AM
See people. This is the backlash from the Rooney Rule.
February 8th, 2012 at 10:19 AM
And there is not a group of people on earth with more integrity than those in the rap group Drank. No way they lied or exagerrated about this.
/Tawana’d
February 8th, 2012 at 10:19 AM
If you wont believe three soccer players no one knows about you will most definitely believe the members of Drank
February 8th, 2012 at 10:21 AM
Where’s our Houston people? What kind of neighborhood is that place in?
off washington ave in the heights. white man’s developer money has taken over and its a lily hotspot
February 8th, 2012 at 10:24 AM
Washington Ave is still a tad run down, but as MP III notes it is near the Heights so it’s warmed up a lot of the last decade. I had a friend who wanted me to invest in a club in the area (not that one, would have been a start-up) about six or so years ago.
February 8th, 2012 at 10:25 AM
Oh, one of those. The same motto applies, right – once you go black, you never go back?
February 8th, 2012 at 10:25 AM
So a place where duffy would hangout with all his of white friends and that one black guy who is really well spoken so they don’t even consider him to be black?
February 8th, 2012 at 10:25 AM
So a place where duffy would hangout with all his of white friends and that one black guy who is really well spoken so they don’t even consider him to be black?
February 8th, 2012 at 10:25 AM
creavs are fucked.
/nods at hernia
February 8th, 2012 at 10:27 AM
Who they jokingly refer to as Cosby?
February 8th, 2012 at 10:27 AM
If I’m not mistaken, Hispanics are “the man” in Houston. I think there are more of them than whites.
/not defending them
February 8th, 2012 at 10:28 AM
I got 19 out of 29 on that sporcle quiz about NFL players with over 200 career starts. There were 4 more I should have gotten right, and 6 I was righteously clueless about.
February 8th, 2012 at 10:29 AM
What is this 1989? We call him Wayne Brady.
February 8th, 2012 at 10:30 AM
If I’m not mistaken, Hispanics are “the man” in Houston. I think there are more of them than whites.
this is true. another reason houston is one of the best food cities in the country.
February 8th, 2012 at 10:30 AM
Regrets? Did he ever open up the club? That area has blossomed..
February 8th, 2012 at 10:30 AM
If I’m not mistaken, Hispanics are “the man” in Houston. I think there are more of them than whites.
/not defending them
I dont’ think that makes them the man. That makes them a majority (or at least a plurality), but it doesn’t change them from being primarily the proletariat.
February 8th, 2012 at 10:31 AM
shouldn’t this say racist entry policy or something to that effect? “racist entry” standing alone doesn’t make sense.
February 8th, 2012 at 10:32 AM
i thought jean-ralphio was flush with cash after his grandmother died…you missed out man, the snakehole lounge is sexiest, most dangerous club in town.
February 8th, 2012 at 10:35 AM
And if it’s anything like where I grew up, the black folks and the Mexicans do not get along…at all.
February 8th, 2012 at 10:35 AM
Tyberius Duffy, from his Ivory Tower
That ranks up there with “Huffy, Puffy, Duffy.” Many Paolo Points for Clayton Cargill.
February 8th, 2012 at 10:36 AM
Yeah, that was what I meant. Fixed it.
February 8th, 2012 at 10:37 AM
Not hipster enough.
February 8th, 2012 at 10:54 AM
racists? in Houston?
February 8th, 2012 at 11:00 AM
Thanks. that now makes much more sense.
February 8th, 2012 at 11:10 AM
I was there on Friday night so I barely missed this. This club wouldnt allow my dark skinned hispanic friends eneter even though we had a table reserved
February 8th, 2012 at 11:19 AM
But Ive also seen multiple Texans in here and even had a table next to Mario Williams and his boys so its who you are if you aint white
February 8th, 2012 at 11:20 AM
racists? in Houston?
They’re in every city, champ.
February 8th, 2012 at 11:37 AM
I drank too much last night and called in sick — great day
February 8th, 2012 at 1:24 PM
No, because the guy wound up in a some legal trouble, which meant he wound back up in his home country.
Plus, I never consider these places sure things – as the joke goes, the best way to get a $1 million in the restaurant business is to start with $2 million. I feel clubs are the same way – customers are fickle, too much under the table stuff making it very difficult to keep track of all of the money, etc