The Tennessee Titans are facing another crucial game besides the one against Houston Texans: one outside an NFL field. Its outside linebacker AlvinBudDupree has received a citation from Metro Nashville Police Department after a violent altercate in which he was involved on Sunday.
“Due to the victim being assaulted, the defendant is being charged with assault-fear of bodily injury” says the statement released by the Police. The consequence for BudDupree is to show himself in three weeks to continue with the legal process.
Tennesse Titans have just signed Dupree for thethe 2021 season with a five-year contract that guarantees the outside linebacker $82.5 million. The Georgia native made his NFL debutfor the Pittsburg Steelers, the ones picked him on the 2015 Draft.
What didBudDupree do for being charged for amisdemeanor assault?
On January 2,BudDupree was involved in a fight at a Walgreenin Nashville, Tennessee. According to TMZ Sports,first, there was a verbal altercation between the NFL player and a man, apparently an employee of the pharmacy.
After the words, the action came and Titans outside linebacker took the employee’s cell phone, because he was being filmed as proof of the conflict, and then tossed the 20 years old man to the floor to apply him a kind of wrestling movement.
Due to Dupree’s aggression, Walgreen’s employeesuffered a cut on his forehead, and also another person, a female, received medical attention because of a cut on one of her hands, reportedMetro Nashville Police Department spokesperson, Don Aaron, to the local newspaperThe Tennessean.
Bud Dupree recreated one of his tackles with a 20 year old employee of a pharmacy. (Wesley Hitt/Getty Images)
