Buffalo Bills defense attorney Ed Oliver said he felt “hurt” when discussing the incidents surrounding an arrest in May in which prosecutors were later dropped.
Oliver was arrested on charges of driving while intoxicated (DWI) and on May 16 unlawfully carrying a weapon, stuttering, but District Attorney Montgomery County, Texas, dismissed the prosecutors in July.
Oliver told reporters Monday that his breathalyzer test recorded time at 0.0 and he does not know how that reading could have led to his arrest. Oliver said the officer at the scene maintained that he was intoxicated, despite Oliver saying he was just tired. That led to frustration on the part of the defensive tackle, as he had passed the breathalyzer exam. Oliver also told reporters that he took a blood test after his release from prison in May.
“You know what, I had, I’m sure, 0.0 of everything,” Oliver said. “I’m not sure how you get arrested with anything in your system. Honestly, I do not know. I do not know how I got arrested. That’s one of the things I will say that life you can get raped fast.Even if you are innocent, you can still go to jail for nothing.You just have to do what you had to, bruh.They say you should go to jail? Go to jail, do not resist , go Like I said, light at the end of the tunnel, come back 0.00, let him go, throw all the accusers on … Did they say you should go to jail? Guess what, you should “go to jail that day. It’s not good, but it’s what it is. You can not fight five officers. Maybe even just go to jail. I have no choice.”
Oliver said he was then given a jumpsuit with holes in it upon his arrival at the prison.
“Man, I’m not feeling well,” Oliver said. “I have not worked my life and my whole life ran the straight line to put in a jumpsuit to take to jail for something? So that’s how I feel disturbed.”
When Oliver’s charges were dropped, the Bills issued a statement of support for the player.
Oliver’s arrest came a week before the murder of George Floyd while he was in Minneapolis policy, and he said these incidents put things in perspective that it could have been him if things had turned out differently.
“It really puts things in perspective like I could have been,” Oliver said. “If I’m not just ‘yes sir, no sir’ and just follow along. All it took was for me to move the wrong way or do something the wrong way and that could have been me.”
