No Lie, Rafer Wasn’t Drunk Off Three Drinks

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• thesubwayconnection Posted: Oct.25 at 3:01 pm
  Man. I feel for Skip. Thanks to the courts for holding up. Trouble seems to find him.

• RV Posted: Oct.25 at 3:14 pm
  Rafer’s lucky he got off because jurors could have seen this video and thought, here’s another pro athlete with an attitude and just nailed him for that alone….based on what i heard and the small parts of this clip the news showed, i though Rafer had been more cooperative and calm than this.

• Pete Casey Posted: Oct.25 at 3:16 pm
  2, 3, or 4 drinks–it doesn’t pay to get behind the wheel after it.

• mat smith Posted: Oct.25 at 3:18 pm
  Skip to my lawyer

• Teddy-the-Bear Posted: Oct.25 at 4:49 pm
  Thank God the courts got it right.

• Jukai Posted: Oct.25 at 4:59 pm
  I may not be a police officer, but he’s acting drunk as hell in that video

• B. Long Posted: Oct.25 at 5:10 pm
  Nope, that’s just how Skip acts, Jukai.

• MSkittle Posted: Oct.25 at 6:44 pm
  Legendary video

• Kenny Anderson's Auditor Posted: Oct.25 at 6:44 pm
  SKIp to my lawyer OMG LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL LMAOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO MAN THE GREATEST PLAY ON WORDS IN THE HISTORY OF LIFE! “I had something to eat like around like 11:40! I had jumbalaya! I had jumbalaya! Sausage, rice, beans, all that kinda stuff! I had jumbalaya! That’s it. Yo, y’all wanna take me in?” LMAOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

• KobeStopper Posted: Oct.25 at 7:30 pm
  Nice Aston Martin He could have avoided a lot of trouble with a better attitude. As a black male, I know police aren’t always the nicest people, but all he had to do was be a little nicer and he could have probably been let go and not had to go through all the trouble he did

• Allenp Posted: Oct.25 at 7:48 pm
  That’s right. The police get to take you to jail because they don’t like your attitude. That’s the high standard we should hold them too.
  Yep.

• chiqo Posted: Oct.25 at 8:11 pm
  that didn’t seem like he was being rude, but who likes being inconvenienced like that? then when the guy’s asking him the same questions and asking him stuff he wouldn’t be able to give an exact answer to, i’d get annoyed as well. i wouldn’t volunteer to go to jail, though.

• RV Posted: Oct.25 at 8:30 pm
  he was still being somewhat defensive, he could have just answered the questions.. the cop could have been more specific at times, but they were reasonable questions given the situation…not sure why he’d mention he plays for the Rockets, that’s not always a good thing.

• tealish Posted: Oct.25 at 8:54 pm
  Volunteering to go to jail to make a point? That’s smooth right there.

• Nathalie Posted: Oct.25 at 9:29 pm
  dam just let him arrest you, mind of a black male take 1

• Allenp Posted: Oct.25 at 10:29 pm
  I would be defensive too if the officer stopped me and started asking me random questions.
  I had a cop stop me once because my lights weren’t on. I’d just gotten the car and didn’t realize exactly how the lights worked.
  The cop started asking me about who the car belonged to, if I had a gun, if I was drunk; a whole bunch of stuff that seemed extra to me later. At the time, I was too worried about him taking me to jail to cop an attitude though.
  But, later I felt put upon. I felt like the way he handled me and the assumptions he made about what was going on were wrong. I think that’s a normal reaction and I think Rafer just had that reaction earlier than I did. And I’m betting this wasn’t his first time having to deal with a cop talking to him in that manner.

• Hursty Posted: Oct.25 at 10:53 pm
  Allenp, regarding your last comment I think thats a very good point. Skip is NYC bred and came from a rough neighbourhood as we know.
  @RV- Thank goodness he got off though huh?
  I think the reason Rafer mentioned that he played for the rockets was because he didnt have an ID (or something?) and that would explain his expensive car ( so the cop knew it wasn’t stolen).

• Sean Posted: Oct.25 at 10:55 pm
  Well said Allen

• Hursty Posted: Oct.25 at 10:56 pm
  Its also interesting to know that around the same time last year the Rockets were very unsure on Rafer’s place on the team. They gave both Brooks and Francis minutes over him (he was competing with Mike James for the back-up minutes).
  Alston then went on to have his most meaningful season in the NBA (as well as his best).

• RV Posted: Oct.25 at 11:48 pm
  Hursty, that’s a good point, maybe that’s why he said it.

• RV Posted: Oct.25 at 11:54 pm
  Allenp, i dont think the questions were really that random. Its difficult to say right off the bat if a guy is drunk. The questions give the officer more time to evaluate Rafer’s actions/words. Asking him where he came from, where he was before that, and what he drank and how much are all relevant. I agree that in your experience it was unneccesary, but in Rafer’s case i dont think it was. I’d say there was even a 50/50 chance the officer would have let him go, but Rafer jumped the gun.

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• Franco Posted: Oct.26 at 1:09 am
  Rafer didn’t jump the gun. If the police officer saw that he was swerving or driving wrecklessly then the questions are just.
  “How much have you had to DRINK tonight, sir?”
  “3, 4?”
  “3,4 what?” The cop starts prodding right from the jump, he’s looking to agitate what appears to be a random black driver. If he pulled him over for the lights, then he should’ve wrote a ticket for that, or let him go with a warning. This cop makes me sick. He’s so phony. The cop is the only one drunk in this scenario. He’s attempting to overcompensate within his illusionary power position. This guy should watch the wire and do some real police work.

• RV Posted: Oct.26 at 1:27 am
  Franco, how is turning around, putting ur hands behind your back and laying against the car not jumping the gun? Rafer made arresting him an easy choice for the cop at that point. If the cop stopped him because he suspected Rafer was drunk, then asking him how many drinks he had is an obvious question. There’s a difference between 3 or 4 mixed drinks and 3 or 4 beers, so asking what kind is reasonable as well. The police report stated Alston made an “erratic lane change”, so that, plus the headlights being off seems enough to suspect a drunk driver, especially at 2 am, in downtown Houston in an area full of bars/clubs. Now had the officer started asking about guns and implying it was a stolen vehicle like in Allenp’s case, then i’d agree with you.

• davidR Posted: Oct.26 at 2:03 am
  well, he did decline the breathalyzer. isnt that an automatic arrest?

• tealish Posted: Oct.26 at 2:19 am
  Ah, let’s not get too sensitive here. I think it’s pretty clear the cop didn’t want to arrest him. Way less than 50/50, RV. Rafer wouldn’t turn the hell back around, basically daring the officer to cuff him. I guess he won?

• Matt Caputo Posted: Oct.26 at 7:20 am
  WHEN MOTHERF+CKERS GROW UP IN NEW YORK YOU KNOW JUST TO TURN AROUND

• Yassi Posted: Oct.26 at 9:53 am
  For the life of me (and others on the streets) I´ll never understand why people get in the car and drive no matter how many drinks they have had. Just dont drive, while you are drinking. Not that hard, right? Especially for guys who have all the money in the world for a taxi ride…..
  

• Boing Dynasty Posted: Oct.26 at 10:33 am
  (and other on the streets) Haha.

• KobeStopper Posted: Oct.26 at 10:00 pm
  AllenP: The police don’t get to take you to jail because of your attitude, they take you to jail when you stop answering questions, turn around and say “Take me to jail”! I have been pulled over and had the car searched for drugs, and the only thing I did wrong was DWB (driving while black). This doesn’t seem like one of those situations. Regardless of how you feel about the cop, having an attitude is not going to help anybody. If you really have a problem with it, get the cop’s badge number and report the incident (although usually nothing happens, it’s still better than nothing) A cop has every right to pull you over if your lights are off, and if somebody seems drunk, they have the right to ask you about what you were doing earlier. Simply answering those questions would have probably gotten Rafter out of the situation

• chintao Posted: Oct.26 at 11:25 pm
  I don’t know what everybody else was watching, but I saw the cop use his professional experience to bait Rafer. Who the fu(k clocks what time he has his first drink? Skip gave an apporximation, then the cop tried to trip him up by asking the same question over again and again. It’s a classic law enforcement technique designed to confuse and/or annoy the “suspect”. Rafer has that street I.Q. he knew what po-po was doing. They wanted to mess with him and humiliate him by with their line of questioning, put him through some nonsense sobriety tests, then cart him dowtown anyway. Skip just cut short the whole process. “That’s why we feel like fu(k the law.”

• gii Posted: Oct.27 at 4:21 am
  vodka cranberry? for real? c’mon skip, that’s for the ladies…

• andrew Posted: Oct.27 at 7:14 am
  Hmm. I still don’t understand why cops in America don’t have breathalyser tests… we get randomly tested for drink driving with them frequently in Australia (victoria, at least). And any time you’re pulled over by a cop, they ask you if you’ve had anything to drink, and then breathalyse you anyway. No dumb sobriety tests, just hard evidence.

• andrew Posted: Oct.27 at 7:19 am
  Also, upon reviewing the video, that cop was being a prick. Skip was not acting drunk or impetuous, he seemed to be getting pi$$ed off at the cop using the rubbish techniques mentioned earlier. Top work on him telling the cop to take him in, that was great.

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