Channel 5 ran a piece regarding the Andy Kennedy arrest from mid-December, and they included the police video from the evening.

Wow. 

That doesn't exactly paint him in a favorable light.  Let's set aside the fact that clearly Kennedy had indulged in more than "a few drinks", as the reporter stated - we've all done it, though most of us are usually able to maintain enough control to not get thrown out of a bar by a police officer and then get in an argument with a cab driver.  The bothersome part is how this guy tried to make the argument that they couldn't take him to jail because he was coaching against Rick Pitino the next night.  Really?  I guess it just goes to show you that anyone that thinks they can pull the "do you know who I am" card will take a shot with it.

Kennedy really didn't need to worry, since, as Donald at Cincinnati Blog pointed out, he was released before having to appear before a judge, a move that he found to be more than a bit unusual for someone charged with a violent crime.  And given the weird twists and turns this saga has taken, who knows whether this video or report will have any affect on the outcome of this case.

I will note two interesting items in the video.  First, it doesn't speak well of Kennedy's judgment to hire William Armstrong as his director of basketball operations (2:35 in).  It takes a special kind of clown to tell the police to "I'll go to jail".  Second, the line at 3:46, when the officer tells Kennedy "we deal with the Bengals all the time"...I can only imagine what the national media could do with that one.

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