Dez Bryant says the frightening weekend incident that landed him in handcuffs started with a driving dispute and escalated fast once police arrived.
The former Cowboys receiver said he got into it with two men he believed were driving recklessly, and the situation eventually moved into a parking lot, where the argument continued. Bryant said he knocked a phone out of one man’s hand during the exchange and claimed the man threatened him.
“He go to threatening me and basically saying, um, he’ll insinuate that he’ll, you know, he’ll shoot me or whatever,” Bryant said.
Bryant said he fired back with his own warning: “You pull that gun, I’m telling you right now, you better use it because if you don’t, I’m going to do something to you,” he recalled.
He also said no weapon came out before police showed up. “No, he didn’t pull a gun out on me,” Bryant said. Instead, he said the man used his phone to record him.
“I told him, you know, get the phone off me,” Bryant said. “So what I ended up doing is I knocked the phone out of his hand.”
Bryant said the man told him he would call police, and Bryant said he welcomed that because he believed the officers would sort out the alleged threat. When police arrived, though, he said things turned quickly. A responding officer drew a gun and ordered everyone to the ground.
“I was really more so concerned about my children, you know, looking at their dad, you know, being on the ground with a gun pointed at me,” Bryant said.
He said his girlfriend arrived with his two daughters and recorded the scene. Bryant said officers handcuffed the men, questioned them, and then released them with a citation. He also said the other men were allowed to leave.
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