Fort Mill, SC – TMZ released cell phone video on Friday morning of Kansas City Chiefs cornerback Bashaud Breeland resisting arrest after he was caught smoking marijuana at a gas station in South Carolina (video below).
The incident occurred on Tuesday after a York County sheriff’s deputy spotted Breeland and two of his friends sharing a blunt at a gas station, according to the police report.
The police report said that the men at first tried to flee, but then Breeland stopped his Range Rover and got out to talk to the deputy.
The deputy said he saw one of the men toss a blunt into Breeland’s car, and wrote that all of the men and the car smelled of marijuana.
That’s when a witness in the parking lot of the gas station began filming the interaction between the National Football League (NFL) Super Bowl champ and the deputy.
The video showed the deputy repeatedly told the football player to put his hands behind his back and get on the ground, but Breeland completely ignored him.
Then he started to open his car door to get back in and the deputy grabbed his wrist and attempted to pull his arms behind his back, the video showed.
But the NFL player continued to pull away from him as if he wasn’t taking the deputy’s orders seriously.
He gestured for a woman across the parking lot to come talk to him, the video showed.
“He’s not listening, he needs to cooperate,” the woman filming the video observed. “He needs to cooperate. Bro, just cooperate.”
In the video, Breeland appeared to become less cooperative and more combative as the deputy continued to hold on to one of his wrists.
At one point, the deputy pulled out his Taser but Breeland appeared to laugh it off as he pulled away and then forced his car door open to get away from the deputy.
The moment that the football player got back behind the wheel and closed the driver’s door, the deputy pulled his duty weapon and pointed it at Breeland through the open vehicle window.
Even then, with the deputy’s weapon on him, Breeland continued to argue and make a scene as he got back out of his Range Rover.
When the officer put his hand on the NFL player’s arm, Breeland told him in the video not to put his hands on him.
That’s when the deputy ordered the Super Bowl champ to the ground at gunpoint, the video showed.
Once Breeland was sitting beside his vehicle, the deputy holstered his weapon and again began to try to take the man into custody.
But Breeland continued to be uncooperative, the video showed.
He turned away and pulling the deputy with him so he could talk to the woman he’d been gesturing too earlier.
The video showed he gave the woman a hug just before he was arrested.
Police found a 1.3 gram blunt in the Range Rover, in addition to 3.2 grams of marijuana tucked in the driver door, two open bottles of Corona beer, and an open bottle of tequila, WDAF reported.
Breeland was arrested and charged with resisting arrest, transporting alcohol in a motor vehicle with the seal broken, open container of beer or wine in motor vehicle, possession of 28 grams or less of marijuana or 10 grams of hash, and driving without a license.
He was released just after 11 p.m. the same day on $2,362.50 bond, CNN reported.
Breeland has made $7.1 million in salary over his six-year NFL career.
In 2019, he played all 16 games for the Kansas City Chiefs and made two interceptions.
Breeland also had an interception in the Chiefs’ Super Bowl victory over the San Francisco 49ers.
Kansas City Chiefs Head Coach Andy Reid told TMZ that he had seen the video and talked to Breeland.
Reid said he planned to hold off on taking action until after law enforcement was done with the player.
Watch the incident at the gas station unfold in the video below: