Dee Finley won't face felony charge

[travisduncan]

Update: Muschamp commented on Finley's status on Wednesday, the coach said, "I'm handling that. We''ll work through that. That's where we are."

Interpretation: It's a wait and see approach, but Finley is still a member of the football team, and wasn't expected to play as it were.
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Dee Finely's felony charge of resisting arrest has been dropped, according to multiple reports.

Finley will now be charged with a misdemeanor of resisting without violence, and driving while suspended, also a misdemeanor. At first Finley was charged with third-degree felony resisting arrest with violence.

According to the police report, a university police officer by the name of William Sasser attempted to pull over Finley and his scooter Monday afternoon on campus after Finley went around a barricade set up near Ben Hill Griffin stadium. The officier grabbed Finley's wrist who then pulled away from he officer. Finley did not put up resistance once the officer pulled out a taser.

The UF police officer has been involved in several newsworthy altercations with students, including handcuffing one student for jaywalking.

The Florida Athletic dept. said Monday in a statement that the team would handle the matter. As of Tuesday evening there is no word on what if any discipline will give to Finley by the team.

From the information it looks like there are definitely two sides to the story, so UF may elect to let the legal process play out before handing out any internal discipline.

Muschamp will speak to the media on Wednesday morning, and will inevitably be asked about the arrest...Expect a "no comment", but we'll have to see.

 

[DRU2012]

I knew it from the moment I heard even the first few details of the bust--another one of these UPD Storm Troopers...Where do they GET these @$$holes? There sure are a LOT of 'em on that force, it seems--and they REALLY seem to get a woody going after football players...I hate to be the one to mention THIS part too, but so far not ONE of the players these "heroes" have gone after has been of the "caucasian persuasion", know what I'm sayin'? Look, I'm not trying to go overboard making out the players' actions and reactions in most cases (including this one) being especially bright, but it sure seems like there's something rotten at the University of Florida Campus Police Department, and along with all the investigations of incidents and resulting (often trumped up) charges that have, are and will be going on, maybe it's about time for SOMEONE to have a closer look at a force that appears to have way too many overzealous officers, to say the least.