Cleveland Browns defensive tackle Malik McDowell was arrested Monday in Florida on charges of public exposure, battery on a law enforcement officer and obstruction of justice with violence for resisting arrest, according to an incident report.
A Broward County sheriff’s deputy responded to a report of a naked man walking near a school in Deerfield Beach, according to the report. After McDowell looked up at the deputy and yelled an expletive, « the defendant then charged at me with at full speed (sic) with closed fist, » the report said. The officer said that due to proximity he was unable to avoid the attack or to use de-escalation tactics or a nonlethal weapon. « The defendant intentionally rammed his body into me and began swinging closed fist punches at me, » the officer said, according to the report.
