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Cedric Benson learns there are some things in life Mom can't help you with: Like police brutality

I don't frequently blog about celebrity crime cases, but the story of Chicago Bears running back Cedric Benson's run in with officers from the Lower Colorado River Authority appears to have more dramatic twists the more we learn about it.Benson was a star at UT Austin but has been a bust on the field in Chicago, so his legal troubles aren't earning him much love among Windy City sportswriters or fans. But since I still remember Benson's Texas career fondly (and as a Cowboys fan, suffer no bitterness regarding the Bears wasting their #4 draft pick on him in 2005), I wanted to highlight some of the oddities about the case that are slowly creeping out and casting doubt on the original story put out by LCRA.First, I was as curious as Jamie Spencer exactly how they perform a field test "to prove his sobriety while he is still standing on his boat...continue to full post

Full post as published by Grits for Breakfast on May 09, 2008 (boomark / email).