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A female passenger on Cedric Benson's boat Saturday night in Austin, Texas, was concerned enough about his safety after police took him into custody to phone her parents and urge them to call 911, the Tribune has learned. "I called my dad and told him, 'Call 911, my black friend is getting beaten up by police on Lake Travis,' " said Elizabeth Cartwright, 22, a friend of Benson's from the University of Texas. "It's more what I heard than what I saw. I have never heard or seen Cedric that scared."

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Cedric Benson, AP Cedric Benson, AP
May 7, 2008  07:01 AM ET

This picture is a definate step up from yesterdays

May 7, 2008  07:39 AM ET

Boats are for partying or fishing, and he wasnt fishing. He refused to put a life jacket on while boat was anchored...omg.

May 7, 2008  08:10 AM ET

Grab your kleenex everyone, I heard that him and TO are going to have a buddy sitcom on the Life channel

May 7, 2008  08:24 AM ET

Never seen Benson so scared, yet it's more what she heard than saw.

May 7, 2008  08:33 AM ET

Awwhhh!! Boo Hoo !! Are you sure it wasn't from all the coke he did ???

May 7, 2008  08:38 AM ET

I wouldn't be suprised if Benson is telling the truth - it's not like police brutality and racism has just gone away in this country, especially in the south, especially at some lake resort in the rural south where a big, black guy with dreadlocks is on a 30-foot boat with young white women.

I'm not saying, I'm just saying...

May 7, 2008  08:41 AM ET

wouldn't be suprised if Benson is telling the truth - it's not like police brutality and racism has just gone away in this country, especially in the south, especially at some lake resort in the rural south where a big, black guy with dreadlocks is on a 30-foot boat with young white women.

C-Smith

Agree - it's not like any charges of racism or police brutality has come out of NYC in the past ten years.

May 7, 2008  08:42 AM ET

why didn't SHE call 911?!!

May 7, 2008  08:43 AM ET

Let's see...I should call 911 so i'm going to call my parents and ask them to call 911 for me.

Both of these 2 are playing the race card and he was busted driving a boat drunk.

May 7, 2008  08:47 AM ET

why didn't SHE call 911?!!

PS Forever

Maybe she forgot the number. After all, she is an English student at UT.

May 7, 2008  08:47 AM ET

Completely agree - not a big fan of Benson, but I see the racism every day and it is getting old and tired. What makes a white person better than a black person or a jewish person or anyone else. Then put a badge in that persons hand and all the sudden you get these type of outcomes. Not clearing Ced on this, just saying I wouldn't be surprised either, I have racist cousins who are cops and they talk about black people like they are the scum of the earth.

May 7, 2008  08:47 AM ET

she heard him crying like a baby, for his mommy, so she assumed the police were beating him up. Sounds like a bimbo to me.

May 7, 2008  08:51 AM ET

????

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May 7, 2008  08:53 AM ET

I know that Chicao hates Benson, but this rings true. I am white and have been to Devil's Cove on Lake Travis for years. Not once have I been stopped for a safety check. Not once. He has been stopped 6 times this year. I'll tell you another thing...there are very few black boaters out there.

Plus an white adult male gets a lot more attention with our 911 system than a hystrical young girl.

May 7, 2008  08:55 AM ET

They should have tazed him too.

May 7, 2008  08:56 AM ET

Maybe she forgot the number. After all, she is an English student at UT.

CowboyDave | 05/07/08, 08:47 A


LOL. Now that's not nice! I mean, it's not like UT is University of Miami! At least she knew who her parents were!... and where they were on the speed dial.

May 7, 2008  08:57 AM ET

didn't Mike Vick try to pay "witnesses" to cover his ace too?

May 7, 2008  08:58 AM ET

So if you sensitive and show emotion you're a bimbo? I think trivializing alleged police bias and potential brutality is idiotic.

 
May 7, 2008  08:58 AM ET

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