More details have emerged from Miguel Cabrera’s arrest in Florida last month and they’re not pretty.
From ESPN.com:
Cabrera was told by deputies to drop to his knees so they could handcuff him, the newspaper reported.
He said, “[expletive] shoot me. Kill me,” according to the police report.
Cabrera continued: “Do you know who I am? I’m Miguel Cabrera. I play for the Detroit Tigers. You don’t know my family.”
About half an hour before Cabrera’s disabled 2005 black Land Rover was spotted by police, the manager of a bar in Fort Pierce, Fla., had had an altercation with the Tigers slugger, the police report said.
Cabrera reportedly walked into Cowboys Bar-B-Q & Steak Co. as it was closing and was asked to leave, the report said.
Cabrera ignored management’s request, the report said. When he was asked to leave again, Cabrera said: “You don’t know me. I will kill you. I know all of you, and I will kill all of you and blow this place up.”
In the same report by ESPN.com, it says that Cabrera is following a plan devised by the baseball commissioner’s office and the player’s union to help him with his alcohol-related issues. Hopefully all parties involved are taking the “plan” seriously because obviously this man needs a lot of help. Whether he was intoxicated or not, it’s troublesome to hear somebody tell officers to shoot them or worse, that he’s going to hurt innocent people.
Here’s hoping that if the league or the union realize that this guy shouldn’t be playing baseball and instead should be receiving 24/7 help that they’ll get it for him.
