Shawne Merriman arrested for choking Tila Tequila
You read that right. Shawne Merriman is (or was) dating reality TV star Tila Tequila and was arrested on Sunday for assaulting her.
San Diego Chargers star outside linebacker Shawne Merriman was arrested Sunday and accused of choking and restraining his girlfriend, reality TV star Tila Tequila, as she tried to leave his suburban home.
Tequila, 27, signed a citizen’s arrest warrant, charging Merriman with battery and false imprisonment, San Diego County Sheriff’s Lt. Gary Steadman said.
Deputies responded about 3:45 a.m. to Merriman’s house in Poway, north of San Diego, after a woman called to say she was choked by the player and thrown to the ground when she tried to leave, Sheriff’s Department spokesman Jan Caldwell said at a news conference.
Tequila, whose real name is Tila Nguyen, is best known for “A Shot at Love with Tila Tequila,” which ran for two seasons on MTV. The bisexual dating show featured men and women vying for Tequila’s affections. She has also modeled for Playboy and other men’s magazines.
A few words of free, unsolicited advice for Mr. Merriman: 1) stop choking people, and 2) stop dating bisexual reality TV stars.
If this incident doesn’t quickly “go away,” then Merriman could face another suspension for violating the NFL’s conduct policy.
9/7 Update: Merriman denies any wrongdoing.
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Yikes!
This will be a tough one for the Commish. Obviously if he’s convicted it’s a no-brainer. He will face a serious suspension.
But in the meantime, domestic cases are he said/she said disputes unless there is physical evidence, so it will be interesting to see where this goes.
Well you cant really blame him yet.
The media causes people to jump to conclusions before the facts are in.
Also I know Tila Tequila is an upstanding, honorable, classy individual who would never cry wolf or be “out of it” enough to make a false report.
Of course this is why so many dislike Merriman
why set yourself up by being involved with someone like her
I think that you should have a feature every day called: “The Moron of the day”. The only resriction is that you limit it to Football players right now (it’s their season). Obviously, you can expand this to Baseball, Basketball and my all time favorite group the Rap Singer.
Start with this tough guy if you want to or just wait 24 hours and you will have somebody else.
It’s amazing to me that these lugs are even able to find girl friends at all. Come to think of it, how about the girls who date football players. Lets see what makes these beauty’s tick?
It really makes it tough to watch football anymore, it’s a jail break.
As for having all of the details in before passing judgement? Don’t we already have the facts, haven’t we alreday seen this story before.
We can’t continue to defend and put these players up on pedistals.
They need to cut these guys faster than the College kid was cut the other day after throwing a punch a guy that was taunting him?
Maybe Tali was taunting him?
a black man commiting violence? no way this is REALLY shocking news.