[devane617]

Morning new in Tampa is getting interesting.

[Travis McGee]

He then said he was sorry and that he had panicked because he works worked for Fox 13, the report states.

[microgood]

Callaway said injuries to Rhodes' face happened when he hit the ground.

Right. Looks like he was punched quite a few times.

[Seruzawa]

Guess the cops can’t subdue a drunk any more without playing dirty Harry. Still, he’s lucky he didn’t get shot and left with a drop gun.

[sport]

Won’t nothing come out of it. They wil only find that he hit the deputy’s knuckles with his eye and mouth. Probably more than once.

[Mr. Mojo]

Callaway said injuries to Rhodes' face happened when he hit the ground.

After his face was repeatedly smashed into the ground, most likely.

[DCPatriot]

What? A tazer wouldn’t have worked instead of a clubbing?

[cripplecreek]

Makes me glad i never acted like a moron when I got popped for drunk driving.

[BallyBill]

He would fit right in as a Philly anchor person.

[Sudetenland]

Drunk driver...got pretty much what he deserves. Smart off to a cop-get thumped a few times-if you don't know that, you learn pretty quick.

Sorry. I don't find this particularly newsworthy.

[FormerACLUmember]

The Fox News dude should be lucky the “off-duty sheriff’s deputy” just beat the cr*p out of him and didn’t do a Taser Execution.

[ncalburt]

A well known Gay party boy in Tampa and very pleasant.
My relatives lived next door to the guy in South Tampa.

[School of Rational Thought]

Don’t buy the injuries were from hitting the ground.

It appears there are multiple contact points.

[JrsyJack]

Around 10:15 p.m., an off-duty sheriff's deputy working security at Channelside spotted a 2006 BMW 325i weaving erratically in the public parking garage, Callaway said. The deputy stopped the BMW and the driver, Rhodes, got out, reportedly with his belt undone and his pants unbuttoned, though they were still up. Rhodes appeared to be intoxicated, Callaway said.

Excuse me but where does an off-duty police officer working as a parking lot guard get the authority to detain ANYONE, let alone punch him in the face?

[packrat35]

That's when he was "taken to the ground." Callaway said injuries to Rhodes' face happened when he hit the ground.

Not defending the reporter but cops seem to use this excuse more and more lately.

[TalBlack]

Based on the picture I would not have the slightest problem believing the cops story. That yellow bruise (I've had a million of them) is blunt trauma and it's huge (there ain't nothing blunter than the ground). The other stuff can have been caused by simple hydraulics. I'd buy it unless a Doc said otherwise.

[Dawn531]

Wasn’t it a Tampa or Hillsborough jail where they dumped the guy out of the wheelchair, onto the floor, because they didn’t believe him when he said he was a paralyzed?

[Cicero]

I’m withholding judgment. That sure doesn’t look like just hitting the ground. For one thing, it’s on both sides of his face. He was hit more than once.

Also, it’s dumb to talk back to a cop. But if the cop was off duty, how did he know that he was a cop? Probably some blame for both of them.

[VanShuyten]

Is he related to Randi Rhodes? I think I see some family resemblence in that picture on the left.

[vpintheak]

Attention dumb bastards: Resisting arrest and running away will get your behind kicked every, single, time.

[Grizzled Bear]

Brought his face to a pavement fight.

Ouch!