Parker, Longoria clash with cop
December 27, 2005
Eva Longoria and Tony Parker, in happier times after the Spurs' NBA championship victory in June, had a run-in with a bicycle police officer Saturday in San Antonio. (ERIC GAY/Associated Press)
Take a star athlete, a famous actress, a bicycle cop, a vehicular incident, mix in some racial tension and what do you get?
A traffic violation that's better suited for a prime-time soap opera.
That's the plight of San Antonio Spurs point guard Tony Parker and his girlfriend, Eva Longoria, star of ABC's "Desperate Housewives."
Parker was cited Saturday in San Antonio for impeding traffic and failing to produce a valid Texas driver's license during a traffic stop.
An officer on a bicycle saw Parker's stopped car holding up traffic early Saturday and rapped the hood with his hand, according to a police report. Parker, behind the wheel as Longoria sat in the passenger's seat, questioned why the officer touched the car, and the couple "began screaming in a verbally abusive and demeaning manner," police said.
And that, according to reports, is when it got ugly.
Police said Parker began to drive away, almost hitting a man nearby. After being told to stop and get out, Parker showed a French driver's license, police said. Parker was born in Belgium and raised in France.
The officer who wrote the citations said Parker complained: "This is all the cops do, just mess with people," and that Longoria shouted from the car: "He's just a Mexican bike cop! He only wants your autograph."
Longoria called the police report "highly inaccurate" and denied making the comment.
"It's a shame that one officer conducted himself in such an inappropriate and disorderly manner," Longoria said through her publicist. "I never made any sort of racial slurs, let alone made any comments about the officer being Mexican, as a Mexican myself."
You just can't make this stuff up. Or can you?
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So, who do you believe? The cop or these two?
December 27, 2005
Eva Longoria and Tony Parker, in happier times after the Spurs' NBA championship victory in June, had a run-in with a bicycle police officer Saturday in San Antonio. (ERIC GAY/Associated Press)
Take a star athlete, a famous actress, a bicycle cop, a vehicular incident, mix in some racial tension and what do you get?
A traffic violation that's better suited for a prime-time soap opera.
That's the plight of San Antonio Spurs point guard Tony Parker and his girlfriend, Eva Longoria, star of ABC's "Desperate Housewives."
Parker was cited Saturday in San Antonio for impeding traffic and failing to produce a valid Texas driver's license during a traffic stop.
An officer on a bicycle saw Parker's stopped car holding up traffic early Saturday and rapped the hood with his hand, according to a police report. Parker, behind the wheel as Longoria sat in the passenger's seat, questioned why the officer touched the car, and the couple "began screaming in a verbally abusive and demeaning manner," police said.
And that, according to reports, is when it got ugly.
Police said Parker began to drive away, almost hitting a man nearby. After being told to stop and get out, Parker showed a French driver's license, police said. Parker was born in Belgium and raised in France.
The officer who wrote the citations said Parker complained: "This is all the cops do, just mess with people," and that Longoria shouted from the car: "He's just a Mexican bike cop! He only wants your autograph."
Longoria called the police report "highly inaccurate" and denied making the comment.
"It's a shame that one officer conducted himself in such an inappropriate and disorderly manner," Longoria said through her publicist. "I never made any sort of racial slurs, let alone made any comments about the officer being Mexican, as a Mexican myself."
You just can't make this stuff up. Or can you?
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So, who do you believe? The cop or these two?
