--- title: Michael Bennett Says He Was Assaulted by Las Vegas Police description: The Seahawks defensive end says he had a gun pointed at him for being black and at the "wrong place at the wrong time." canonical: https://time.com/4929533/michael-bennett-assaulted-vegas-police/ author: Sports Illustrated article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-09-06T16:19:43.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-23T17:18:25.921Z article:section: Sports og:title: NFL Player Michael Bennett Says He Was Assaulted by Las Vegas Police og:description: The Seahawks defensive end says he had a gun pointed at him for being black og:url: https://time.com/4929533/michael-bennett-assaulted-vegas-police/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blte3dc76acd4e5ceab/6988dca54ee26240c530ee2b/michael-bennett-seahawks.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Minnesota Vikings v Seattle Seahawks og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: NFL Player Michael Bennett Says He Was Assaulted by Las Vegas Police twitter:description: The Seahawks defensive end says he had a gun pointed at him for being black twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blte3dc76acd4e5ceab/6988dca54ee26240c530ee2b/michael-bennett-seahawks.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # NFL Player Michael Bennett Says He Was Assaulted by Las Vegas Police > Sponsored content. 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Bennett says he was in Las Vegas on Aug. 26 on his day off to attend the Floyd Mayweather–Conor McGregor fight. After the fight, Bennett says he headed back to his hotel when he heard what he thought were gunshots. He says he ran away from the area seeking safety when he was confronted by a Las Vegas police officer who ordered him to the ground. “All I could think of was ‘I’m going to die for no other reason than being black and my skin color is somehow a threat.’ “Terrified and confused by what was taking place, a second officer came over and forcefully jammed his knee into my back making it difficult for me to breathe,” Bennett wrote. > [](https://twitter.com/mosesbread72/status/905430701595652096) Bennett says his fingers went numb because the handcuffs were so tight. He repeatedly asks the officers what he did to be handcuffed. Later, Bennett says he was placed into the back of a police car and only released when officers verified his name and that he was professional football player. “The system failed me,” Bennett wrote. “I can only imagine what Eric Garner, Michael Brown, Trayvon Martin, Tamir Rice and Charleena Lyles felt.” Bennett says he has hired an attorney to investigate the incident and that he plans to explore his legal options, including a potential civil suit for violation of his civil rights. Bennett has said he plans to protest all season during the playing of the national anthem to shed a light on racial injustice in the United States. _This_ [_article_](https://www.si.com/nfl/2017/09/06/michael-bennett-las-vegas-pd-incident) _originally appeared on_ [_SI.com_](https://www.si.com/) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4929533/michael-bennett-assaulted-vegas-police/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4929533/michael-bennett-assaulted-vegas-police/"},"headline":"NFL Player Michael Bennett Says He Was Assaulted by Las Vegas Police","datePublished":"2017-09-06T16:19:43.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-23T17:18:25.921Z","description":"The Seahawks defensive end says he had a gun pointed at him for being black","url":"https://time.com/4929533/michael-bennett-assaulted-vegas-police/","keywords":["Police Brutality","Football","Las Vegas","onetime"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blte3dc76acd4e5ceab/6988dca54ee26240c530ee2b/michael-bennett-seahawks.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Scooby Axson / SI"}],"articleSection":"Sports","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blte3dc76acd4e5ceab/6988dca54ee26240c530ee2b/michael-bennett-seahawks.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Minnesota Vikings v Seattle Seahawks","caption":"Minnesota Vikings v Seattle Seahawks","creditText":"Otto Greule Jr—Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/sports/","name":"Sports"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/police-brutality/","name":"Police Brutality"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4929533/michael-bennett-assaulted-vegas-police/","name":"NFL Player Michael Bennett Says He Was Assaulted by Las Vegas Police"}}]}] ```