The all-around strange story concerning a tiff between Dallas Cowboys’ receiver Dez Bryant and officials at NorthPark Center mall has been developing for around a week, after a criminal trespass warning was reportedly issued to Bryant following a visit to the mall last weekend--but the details around the story remain murky.
A NorthPark spokesman recently confirmed the generally accepted version of events by the Dallas Police Department, to the Dallas Morning News--that a member or members of Bryant’s party were sagging, and that, after being told to pull up their pants, Bryant launched into a profanity-laden tirade.
The criminal trespass warning was issued by off-duty police officers at the mall. According to the Dallas Police Department, a criminal trespass warning carries with it a ban of 60 days--unless a photograph of the suspect is taken, in which case the ban is valid for 180 days.
"As far as we're concerned, that is the official legal record and we don't have any dispute with what's in the report," said David Margulies, NorthPark Center's spokesman, per the Dallas Morning News.
Margulies did not say that Bryant was banned from the mall as believed by many, an idea that Bryant’s adviser, David Wells, disputed from the outset. Bryant has said on Twitter that he has not been banned, and vowed recently to return to the mall.
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