one fan goes off on the Seahawk's latest controversy

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kailuaram

There is tons of backlash here in seattle over the frank clark pick who was charged, and later pleaded to a lesser charge of disorderly conduct.

schneider and carroll have been consumed by their own hubris. frank clark was the last best pass rusher on their board, according to schneider, and they went ahead and took a woman hitter. this, after schneider was quoted as saying they would never stand for that and those kind of players wouldn’t be on their board. schneider actually said at the press conference on friday when confronted with the police report….”well, that’s just one side of the story.” go read the police report. it’s brutal.

carroll and schneider are lying pieces of garbage. they are so full of themselves. i know this will come back to haunt them.

Hawks didn’t interview witnesses to ugly hotel incident involving draft pick

http://www.seattletimes.com/sports/seahawks/witnesses-describe-ugly-hotel-incident-involving-seahawks-draft-pick/

Two women say they found the girlfriend of Seahawks draft pick Frank Clark sprawled half-naked on her hotel-room floor and barely moving the night of his arrest on charges of domestic violence and assault.

Lis Babson, 44, and Kristie Colie, 43, who were in the room next door with their young daughters at a Sandusky, Ohio, hotel and waterpark resort last November, say they heard loud banging, yelling and screaming coming from Clark’s room. Babson says she immediately sensed something was terribly wrong, ran outside and pounded on the door until Clark opened it.

In an interview with The Seattle Times on Monday, Babson said an enraged Clark tried to quickly slam the door in her face, but she caught it before it could close.

Colie, who had followed Babson into the hallway, said the woman on the floor inside the room “was definitely beat up” and initially didn’t move.

“She looked unconscious,’’ Colie said. “She looked like she was knocked out, and then she started to move slowly.’’

Related: Police report relates victim’s injuries, Clark’s denial

The two women’s accounts corroborate details in a police report describing the incident involving Clark and his then-girlfriend, Diamond Hurt — and they stand in contrast to statements by Seahawks officials who have had to explain their selection of Clark in the second round of the NFL draft on Friday.

A sought-after defensive end with Michigan just six months ago, Clark was kicked off the team Nov. 17, two days after his arrest.

But the Seahawks made him the 63rd overall pick in the draft, saying team officials had conducted an extensive investigation of their own and felt confident that the 6-foot-2, 277-pound Clark had not struck his girlfriend. The team acknowledged on Monday that their investigation did not include interviews with witnesses other than Clark.

The police report describing the incident quotes Diamond Hurt, then 20, saying Clark punched her in the face. Hurt’s younger brothers are quoted saying the same thing.

When Babson and Colie found her, Hurt “was just laying there,’’ Babson said. “She looked like she was unconscious to me.

“The kids were saying, ‘He killed my sister!’ ’’

Colie added that Hurt “was on the ground, curled up and holding her head and stuff.’’

Both women gave written statements to police via email the following day. But they say they never heard back from anybody about the case until The Seattle Times contacted them on Monday.

They remain perplexed as to why there were no follow-up calls to them by police.

Clark was initially charged with two first-degree misdemeanors for domestic violence and assault. Three weeks ago, he pleaded guilty to a reduced charge of persistent disorderly conduct in a plea deal with prosecutors.

He was given a $250 fine, received no further jail time beyond two days already served and won’t have a domestic-violence conviction on his record. Police and prosecutors could not be reached Monday to explain why Clark was offered a plea deal, or to detail the extent of any follow-up investigation.

Seahawks general manager John Schneider has said the team investigated the matter thoroughly and would never have drafted Clark if they believed he’d struck his girlfriend. Schneider made those statements Friday and repeated them again in a radio interview Monday with 710 ESPN Seattle. He said in the radio interview that the team had three people investigate Clark’s background, and had concluded that “whether it was punching a woman or striking a woman he would not have been on our board.’’

Told later Monday of what Babson and Colie had said in their interviews with the Times, the Seahawks issued a statement saying the team conducted “confidential interviews with people directly involved with the case.’’

But other than Clark, the statement added, the team did not “speak directly to any witnesses from that night.’’