Mike Williams’ Legal Hassle Over A Door
February 11th, 2014
The details of the legal hassle Bucs wide receiver Mike Williams finds himself in has everything to do with a front door. In short, a court document alleges Williams did up to $200 damage to a front door, reports Woody Cummings of the Tampa Tribune.
The incident in question occurred on Dec. 13, when Williams “without being authorized, licensed or invited, willfully enter(ed) or remain(ed) in the property of Gabrielle Edwards,’’ according to the charging document.
Williams “did willfully or maliciously injure or damage real or personal property belonging to Edwards, resulting in damage of $200 or less,’’ the document states.
The relationship between the owner of said front door and Williams is unclear.
Now Joe is not about to condone a player bashing — for those who play loose with the King’s English, this is “bashing” — in a woman’s door. No way.
But are we really going to get wound up about $200? That could be the price to repaint and surface a scratch, or to clean up a chocolate shake spill.
It is not cool what Williams did at all. But up to $200? Going through all of this nonsense for $200?
February 11th, 2014 at 5:44 pm
If there’s $200 damage, there had to be some physical action that caused that damage. The part that we should be concerned about is violent outbursts, threatening behavior, etc… Putting aside the misdemeanor property damage, the team needs to look into his behavior in the incident.
February 11th, 2014 at 5:47 pm
True. But what provoked that response? The reality is we don’t even know if the door’s owner was there.
February 11th, 2014 at 5:51 pm
^^ Well, we don’t really know. If there was violence, it wouldn’t be the first time such behavior against a woman wasn’t reported. Like I said, the team needs to find out.
February 11th, 2014 at 5:52 pm
Pretty sure the Bucs know every detail of Williams side of the story.
February 11th, 2014 at 5:54 pm
Why assume it’s anger? He could have broken the door knob and wouldn’t pay her to fix it because he didn’t think he did it. The truth will come out.
February 11th, 2014 at 5:55 pm
Told you that this was staged for “Street Cred” for his rap career.
February 11th, 2014 at 5:56 pm
Yup.
February 11th, 2014 at 6:02 pm
Better he beat up the door than Gabrielle Edwards ..right? For all we know he may have slammed it real hard and splintered the door jamb like I did once pissed off at my wife as I stormed out the house. Again better than confrontation.
February 11th, 2014 at 6:04 pm
If you have been following Mike Williams on Twitter, his tweets are erratic and concerning. Because of his tweets almost assumed this was about an ex girlfriend. In December he did have some tweets that would suggest this.
February 11th, 2014 at 6:05 pm
I’m sure this is garbage. Probably some woman he blew off the morning after and now she tried to get something out it. Do we really believe Mike Williams wouldn’t just pay up to fix a stupid door and avoid this. $200.00 ?????? This guy could wipe his you know what with that and never look back. If he indeed in fact act violent towards a woman, I don’t care how much I like the guy as a player he’s gotta go.
February 11th, 2014 at 6:09 pm
Man that is inches away from a residential burglary and third degree felony.
Very lucky to have a magnanimous prosecutor.
February 11th, 2014 at 6:09 pm
Rappers don’t need street cred. This isn’t the mid-90s.
February 11th, 2014 at 6:09 pm
I honestly don’t get what goes through these players heads. They have more money than they know what to do with and they can’t find anything better than trouble to get into. If I had this kind of cash I would sit in my phat house and drive my phat car and navigate my phat boat and people would never hear about me. Yet they choose to act like morons. Crazy
February 11th, 2014 at 6:11 pm
Just slappin’ hoes and slammin’ Cadillac doors! Make it rain Mike! Lol.
February 11th, 2014 at 6:16 pm
@Grizz
obviously, you have not watched the movie “CB4”.
February 11th, 2014 at 6:28 pm
There was no woman behind that door. It was Johnny Manziel. Williams was calling him out for impersonating a genuine NFL QB prospect. When Johnny refused to open the door Williams had no choice but to go to town on it.
Johnny was last seen being led away by police officers, wrapped in a blanket and sucking his thumb.
February 11th, 2014 at 6:34 pm
LOL Beautiful!
Joe’s just going to guess that FLBoyInDallas is a ‘Horns fan.
February 11th, 2014 at 6:34 pm
I don’t think Drake has much street cred, but he is still a good rapper.
February 11th, 2014 at 6:50 pm
I would be scared as hell if MW destroyed my front door. This is inexcusable and he should publicly apologize to the women. He trespassed, he broke the door and generally when you broke a door to make your point you threathen the one on the other side.
Joe don’t play down violence. It’s not the consequence its the act that’s punishable
February 11th, 2014 at 7:16 pm
Hello!!! What ever happened to “Innocent until proven guilty”?
How do we know that MW19 did anything? He has just been charged. Perhaps its someone with a beef or its mistaken identity or he was with a friend who did it. We just don’t know.
Perhaps the “Hawk” was with him and was practicing his new strike zone on the door.
It seems to me that this should have been settled one way or another. The court system’s time is valuable and should be used for more serious crimes.
February 11th, 2014 at 7:19 pm
Lol flyboyindallas
February 11th, 2014 at 7:24 pm
@tbf
You’re right but if he’s found guilty, he needs to step up
February 11th, 2014 at 7:43 pm
Please please please let the combination of this and the article by Pewter Report scare him straight and motivate him! This is not looking good so far. Maybe he can post 10 seconds of him walking on a treadmill again like he did a couple weeks ago to prove that he’s rehabbing. That would make me feel so much better.
February 11th, 2014 at 8:03 pm
Well he didn’t break the door r the frame, because if he did, it would cost more than $200.00 to replace and re-paint labor and material cost. And was this a some crappy motel room or her house in Avilla??? Either way I hope we get a better no.2 receiver or a giant tight end/receiver. I have never seen Mike williams as being worth the money we are paying him.
February 11th, 2014 at 8:05 pm
Joe, I actually don’t root for or against any Texas teams. I was born & raised in Florida so all my teams are there. I’m only here in Dallas for business reasons.
I do enjoy a good Jerry Jones or Tony Romo slam and I take every opportunity here in Dallas to do so.
February 11th, 2014 at 8:08 pm
Perhaps he was just testing out the hammy?
February 11th, 2014 at 8:09 pm
Just look at that picture… Mike is a weird dude. This seems like a harmless incident, and as long as Mike shows up to work when he’s suppose to and puts his best foot forward on the field then I could care less how weird he is.
February 11th, 2014 at 8:39 pm
MW19 needs to be challenged….we need a #3 reciever that coould take his job….that will get him going. He has what it takes….we’ve seen it!!!
February 11th, 2014 at 8:53 pm
Door damage? Rap career? Has to be $200 in graffiti.
February 11th, 2014 at 10:23 pm
I figure NFL guys should be able to obtain the benefit of female companionship without breaking down doors.
Plenty of it around Mike. Don’t get obsessed with one.
Many a man has gone down in flames over that.
February 11th, 2014 at 10:39 pm
$200 or less? I’m calling weak on this one. We don’t know if he punched a hole in some crap door or if he spilled juice on it but we do know one thing. It’s freaking less than $200. non-issue
February 11th, 2014 at 10:56 pm
As soon as I read it was a front door, my first thought was there was a woman on the other side of it. Please, it seems pretty obvious to me. The only think I wonder about is why MW19 did not just pay for the damage. Thats strange, and stupid on his part.
February 11th, 2014 at 10:58 pm
He may have mistaken the house as his own and took it out on the door when his key didn’t work.
February 11th, 2014 at 11:06 pm
Seems like almost any door damage would be more than $200.00, unless Ms. Edwards lives in a trailer park.
Kinda sorta sounds like the man was trying to break her door down.
Of course she could be a psycho and is trying to get back at him for breaking up with her, and he did nothing. Who knows.
Can’t see where this one would lead to anything serious happening to Mike.
February 11th, 2014 at 11:10 pm
This could have been a $250 screen door ( it is Florida people) that someone grabbed and a foot was blocking it causing it to bend and needs to be replaced. How about we stop jumping to conclusions. Someone who values a Dante of property at $200 dollars, against anyone is looking to cause a scene
February 12th, 2014 at 12:53 am
Wow. I cannot believe there are still individuals trying to judge Williams on this. The charges will end up being dropped because this is nothing more than a CIVIL MATTER.
And people pointing to his tweets seems judgemental too, by someone who is clears not grounded in hiphop culture.
February 12th, 2014 at 5:57 am
The law will handle this accordingly but as far as anyone questioning who he is on the field or what he gives us until he gives us anything other than what he has always given us on the field when he’s healthy there is absolutely 0 reason to make up why he’s all of the sudden not what he has been.
And that’s been one of the top receivers on the game who can go up and come down with the ball.
Quit playing detective and making up reasons why he’s now not that guy.
February 12th, 2014 at 12:17 pm
Have a connection to inside knowledge of this situation and there was an ex-girl behind the door and he went kinda crazy on the door. Can’t say much more about it but his angry outburst is concerning. Legally it probably won’t be too much but it is a concerning sign for a guy that wasn’t known for this kind of action. I think it was wrong and he needs to make it right. Hopefully this will start a turn around for him. I think Lovie will handle it well and everything will be fine, Mike is normally a good guy he is just making some poor choices right now.
February 12th, 2014 at 12:20 pm
Sounds like he was attempting to go In through the Out door 😉
February 12th, 2014 at 2:09 pm
while this feels like it will end up being a non-story, isn’t it interesting how many strange incidents with outsized potential consequences williams is involved in? a series of seemingly small issues or misunderstandings at syracuse resulting in suspension and then him quitting…the dui charge that was dropped…his social media weirdness…now this.
no single incident makes me think he has a negative affect on the locker room, or shakes my belief he has the ability to produce like at least a pro bowl alternate. but neither did freeman until he went weirdly off the rails. not sure if this will all fade into irrelevance or if we will look at stuff like this and the Pewter Report article and say we should’ve seen something big coming down the line
February 12th, 2014 at 11:42 pm
…more dead money brought on by the weak sauce star….between resigning this man child, over paying for an injured line man while drafting the handicapped…the WSS cost the glaziers a half a bil at minimum……
February 12th, 2014 at 11:56 pm
resigning? He just got a contract not too long ago