FSU RB Dalvin Cook, Currently Suspended For Allegedly Punching A Girl In The Face, Was Cited For "Mistreating Puppies"

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Realllllll rough week for Dalvin Cook. Like, real rough. We’re not just talking “get charged with punching a woman in the face outside of a bar and turn yourself into the county jail then find yourself suspended from the football team” kind of rough. We’re talking “get charged with punching a woman in the face outside of a bar and turn yourself into the county jail then find yourself suspended from the football team AND have someone dig up a 2014 citation of you mistreating puppies to the point where they were sleeping in the pouring rain and practically choking to death.” I mean talk about a charge you don’t want the internet getting a hold of. Might be fucked up priorities, but facts are facts – hit a woman and you’re still going to get a large sample of scumbags coming to your defense. Mistreat a puppy? 100% of the internet will call for your immediate execution.

Here’s the Dalvin Cook allegations if you need a refresher:

The woman who said Cook punched her told ESPN.com that her bottom lip was split and her nose was sore the next day. The woman said she identified Cook as the man who struck her in a photo lineup with two Tallahassee Police Department investigators on July 1. She told police she wanted to pursue criminal charges against him.

The woman, who lives in Tallahassee, told ESPN.com that she was approached by a man who was not Cook outside the bar Clyde’s and Costello’s shortly after it closed on June 23. The woman said the man asked for her phone number, which she refused to give him.

“I told him I had a boyfriend and wasn’t interested,” said the woman, who spoke to ESPN.com on the condition she not be identified.

The woman said the man returned to the parking lot with Cook and an argument became heated, and then Cook punched her in the face several times. Her friend ran to a nearby TPD car, which wasn’t occupied, so the woman called 911.

“They kept telling me they were football players,” the woman said. “They kept telling me to Google them. They told me they were football players and they could buy me in two years.” [ESPN]

Not going to jump to calling him a scumbag yet without it being confirmed he is in fact a woman beater. Without video or any other hard evidence it’s basically just he said she said right now so that wouldn’t be fair. But suffice it to say he’s on our bad guy radar.

On June 26, 2014, Cook was one of three FSU football players questioned in connection with a BB-gun battle that damaged cars and homes at an apartment complex in Tallahassee. The incident prompted a full-scale response from local law enforcement, which included the county sheriff’s office helicopter, based on witnesses’ initially fearing a more serious shootout. Cook was charged with criminal mischief and given pretrial intervention in December, which he completed on June 16.

And last July, Cook was named as an “associate” in an aggravated assault case in which police were investigating whether two men brandished a firearm at a neighbor. The incident happened at Cook’s apartment, but one of the accusers told ESPN’s Outside the Lines that he didn’t believe the weapon belonged to Cook.