Dez Bryant says the worst part of his weekend run-in with police wasn’t just the confrontation - it was having his daughters watch it unfold.
The former Cowboys star spoke out after footage from the incident began circulating, showing him in a frightening scene that reportedly ended with officers aiming a tactical rifle at him. Bryant said the trouble started with a road encounter involving two men he accused of reckless driving.
From there, the situation escalated into a parking lot argument. Bryant said one of the men threatened him during the dispute and suggested he would shoot 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 pushed 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 said no gun was ever pulled on him before police arrived. Instead, Bryant said, the man recorded him on his phone, prompting Bryant to knock the device from his hand.
“No, he didn’t pull a gun out on me,” Bryant said.
“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 then told him he would call police, and Bryant welcomed that because he believed officers would look into the threat he says had been made.
But when police got there, Bryant said the scene turned in a direction he didn’t expect. He said an 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 showed up with his two daughters and recorded the incident as it happened. Bryant also said police handcuffed the men, questioned them, and then released them with a citation. The other men were allowed to leave.
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