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September-29th-2006, 01:47 PM
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Terrell Owens was on the field Thursday with Coach Bill Parcells and Jerry Jones, the owner of the Cowboys. Owens was hospitalized Tuesday.
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By KEN DALEY
Published: September 29, 2006
DALLAS, Sept. 28 — The president of the union representing Dallas police officers demanded an apology Thursday from Terrell Owens and the player’s publicist for comments he said impugned the reputations of three patrolmen.
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“They both need to call and communicate to these officers an apology,” said Senior Cpl. Glenn White, president of the Dallas Police Association. White said the officers were “being thrown under the bus for doing their job.”
The three officers joined Dallas Fire Department paramedics Tuesday night in responding to a 911 call from Owens’s home. The call was placed by Kim Etheredge, the personal publicist for Owens.
The incident was initially considered a suicide attempt, based upon the amount of the prescription painkiller hydrocodone Owens was believed to have ingested. But at a news conference Thursday, Dallas Police Chief David Kunkle said the incident was being reclassified in department records as an accidental overdose.
The recording of Etheredge’s call that was made public Thursday night shed no new light on the incident. In the approximately 30-second call, an excited Etheredge requested an ambulance because, “I think he took too many pills.” But she never mentioned Owens by name or the word suicide.
Owens returned to practice Thursday, hopeful of playing Sunday against the Tennessee Titans despite a broken bone in his right hand that required surgery Sept. 18. The practice was Owens’s first in pads since the operation. Cowboys Coach Bill Parcells said a decision on whether Owens, a five-time Pro Bowl player, will accompany the team to Nashville might not be made until Saturday.
“There was no visible evidence he was struggling to catch the ball,” Parcells said. “We’ll just see how it goes.”
Kunkle said that only Owens knows the truth about what happened Tuesday, and that he stood by the initial reporting from the officers on the scene ...
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Terrell Owens was on the field Thursday with Coach Bill Parcells and Jerry Jones, the owner of the Cowboys. Owens was hospitalized Tuesday.
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By KEN DALEY
Published: September 29, 2006
DALLAS, Sept. 28 — The president of the union representing Dallas police officers demanded an apology Thursday from Terrell Owens and the player’s publicist for comments he said impugned the reputations of three patrolmen.
Skip to next paragraph
N.F.L.
“They both need to call and communicate to these officers an apology,” said Senior Cpl. Glenn White, president of the Dallas Police Association. White said the officers were “being thrown under the bus for doing their job.”
The three officers joined Dallas Fire Department paramedics Tuesday night in responding to a 911 call from Owens’s home. The call was placed by Kim Etheredge, the personal publicist for Owens.
The incident was initially considered a suicide attempt, based upon the amount of the prescription painkiller hydrocodone Owens was believed to have ingested. But at a news conference Thursday, Dallas Police Chief David Kunkle said the incident was being reclassified in department records as an accidental overdose.
The recording of Etheredge’s call that was made public Thursday night shed no new light on the incident. In the approximately 30-second call, an excited Etheredge requested an ambulance because, “I think he took too many pills.” But she never mentioned Owens by name or the word suicide.
Owens returned to practice Thursday, hopeful of playing Sunday against the Tennessee Titans despite a broken bone in his right hand that required surgery Sept. 18. The practice was Owens’s first in pads since the operation. Cowboys Coach Bill Parcells said a decision on whether Owens, a five-time Pro Bowl player, will accompany the team to Nashville might not be made until Saturday.
“There was no visible evidence he was struggling to catch the ball,” Parcells said. “We’ll just see how it goes.”
Kunkle said that only Owens knows the truth about what happened Tuesday, and that he stood by the initial reporting from the officers on the scene ...
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