{"id":68399,"date":"2019-07-13T17:32:09","date_gmt":"2019-07-13T21:32:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lwosonnfl.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/?p=68399"},"modified":"2019-07-13T19:54:38","modified_gmt":"2019-07-13T23:54:38","slug":"ezekiel-elliott-facing-charges-las-vegas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/2019\/07\/13\/ezekiel-elliott-facing-charges-las-vegas\/","title":{"rendered":"Ezekiel Elliott Facing Charges From Las Vegas Incident [UPDATED]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a surprising turn of events, Dallas Cowboys running back <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pro-football-reference.com\/players\/E\/ElliEz00.htm?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ezekiel Elliott<\/a><\/strong> will apparently face charges stemming from an incident in Las Vegas earlier in the off-season. During the said altercation, a clearly inebriated Elliott shoved a security guard over a metal rail and was briefly handcuffed, although never arrested. Eliott <a href=\"https:\/\/lwosonnfl.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/2019\/07\/03\/ezekiel-elliott-will-not-face-suspension\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">didn\u2019t face any criminal charges or NFL punishment<\/a>, so the security guard has decided to take matters into his own hands. Security guard <strong>Kyle Johnson<\/strong> has reportedly filed charges against Elliott, according to <strong>Enzo Marino <\/strong>of the FOX5 Las Vegas News Team.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Soooo apparently the security guard from the Las Vegas incident is pressing charges against Zeke&#8230; (via <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FOX5Vegas?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@FOX5Vegas<\/a>) <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/w8G18iNMze\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/w8G18iNMze<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Blogging The Boys (@BloggingTheBoys) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BloggingTheBoys\/status\/1150146856707600384?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">July 13, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2><strong>Ezekiel Elliott Facing Charges Stemming From Las Vegas Incident<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Johnson claimed that he initially only wanted an apology from Elliott following the incident. Elliott apparently never gave a personalized apology, leading to Johnson officially filing a charge. Saying that he\u2019s had enough, Johnson clearly has an issue with Elliott receiving no discipline for the actions of that night. While Elliott issued an official apology, Johnson called it \u201cunempathetic\u201d and forced. He also believes that Elliott should face some sort of punishment and that the NFL didn\u2019t do enough. \u201cThe NFL\u2019s basically saying \u2018Hey, it\u2019s ok for you to go to Vegas, get obliterated, and shove people over fences.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Johnson said he didn\u2019t plan on pressing charges, but changed his mind following the NFL\u2019s lack of punishment. Johnson noted that at the time of the incident it was \u201c\u20263:00 in the morning, I\u2019m 12 hours into my shift, had another three or four to go. Didn\u2019t really think about it at the time, I wanted to go home. My dad has a legal background, I wanted to talk to him.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As of this posting, neither the NFL nor Elliott have released a statement regarding the updated charges. Elliott already met with NFL Commissioner <strong>Roger Goodell<\/strong>, and Goodell decided that Elliott didn\u2019t violate the NFL Personal Conduct Policy. It\u2019s highly unlikely Johnson\u2019s charge will affect Elliott\u2019s status for the start of the regular season.<\/p>\n<p><em>Update: Elliott is accusing Kyle Johnson of extortion<\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Ezekiel Elliott is accusing Kyle Johnson of extortion. Johnson is the security guard from the incident in Las Vegas <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/LKjUio9yzN\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/LKjUio9yzN<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Clarence Hill Jr (@clarencehilljr) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/clarencehilljr\/status\/1150173996979298307?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">July 13, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dallas Cowboys running back Ezekiel Elliott is facing charges stemming from his Las Vegas incident earlier in the off-season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2376,"featured_media":62887,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[19,36],"tags":[49,258,61,848,40,246],"class_list":["post-68399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cowboys","category-nfl-news","tag-dallas-cowboys","tag-ezekiel-elliott","tag-football","tag-las-vegas-raiders","tag-nfl","tag-nfl-news"],"modified_by":"David Latham, Managing Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68399","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2376"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68399"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68399\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62887"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}