As is often the situation in domestic battery cases, the story has changed in that of Green Bay Packers linebacker Erik Walden.
Walden was arrested early last Friday on a charge of felony substantial battery after his girlfriend called police. He was released on bond today and another hearing is set for December 7. District Attorney John Zakowski said there isn’t enough information to file a criminal complaint at this time.
So what changed? Walden’s girlfriend said the linebacker was merely defending himself.
According to [Zakowski], she said she hit Walden first and that he was defending himself. The accuser, Walden’s live-in girlfriend, received four stitches to her forehead at a hospital after hitting her head on the bedpost and also injured her thumb, he said.
“The question is really, who is the primary physical aggressor,” Zakowski said to reporters afterward. “If this is a case where it’s an argument where she struck him and he pushed her away, there’s no charge. If it’s a case where they’re arguing and he pushes her, initiates the contact and that causes injury then it’s a different situation. That’s what we have to try to piece together from these varying statements that were given to law enforcement as well as to the hospital.”
The initial story implied Walden initiated contact.
The argument reportedly stems from Walden’s decision to leave town on Friday after returning from Detroit, where the Packers played the Lions on Thursday. Walden was planning to go to his home state of Georgia.
“She didn’t want him to leave and then it led to this verbal disagreement and at some place there was a push,” Zakowski said. “The question is, ‘Did she strike him first? Is this when she injured her thumb?’ If she struck him first and he pushed her back, that’s not a case we will issue charges on. That’s what we have to determine, if that really took place. Even if it didn’t happen that way, can we prove what took place?”
Walden is forbidden from having contact with his girlfriend by the court. It appears he’ll be able to play this week when the Packers meet the Giants.
Walden, STAY AWAY FROM CRAZY BITCHES ALRIGHT!
I would say I told you so, but I am too big a man for that.
I admit, as soon as I saw this story I thought of you and your post on the previous post regarding his arrest.
You have every right to say “I told you so”… You were 100% right. Even if Walden does get charged, you correctly predicted that she would change her story.
They don’t have enough to charge him. Crazy bitches!
The only reason for the recant is the bitch is seein’ her gravy train goin’ away.
Fuck da Bears!
I like your attitude .
Hear, hear!
Ah… there is nothing messed up about that at all.
That is the way a capitalist society works.
Money = good.
No money = effed.
STAY AWAY FROM CRAZY BITCHES WALDEN!
ya fu k da bears
Why, if she started the altercation, would there be no charges. Shouldn’t there be charges against her? I guess he’s declining to press charges?
If they know or suspect that she began the physical altercation, why isn’t she being charged with felony substantial battery? what else can I get away with because i’m a woman?!