Bills RB LeSean McCoy won’t be charged over fight, reports say

After considering the evidence for almost two months, the Philadelphia district attorney’s office will reportedly not press any charges against Buffalo Bills running back LeSean McCoy over a bar fight.

The fight, which happened early in the morning on Feb. 7, involved two off-duty police officers, who suffered injuries. McCoy and former NFL running back Curtis Brinkley were investigated. TMZ published a video of the fight and it appears to show McCoy’s face, but it’s hard to tell from that video if McCoy was involved in the fight at all. Apparently the Philadelphia DA’s office agrees that there wasn’t enough evidence against McCoy, because according to multiple reports (including Philadelphia law blog BigTrial.net, which was first to report the news, and Philly.com’s Jeff McLane among others), McCoy won’t be charged. The official announcement should come in the next day or two, the reports said.

The news might mean McCoy won’t be punished by the NFL, although commissioner Roger Goodell has previously punished players who weren’t charged, and Goodell has an inconsistent track record with disciplinary matters so it’s hard to say for sure if McCoy is in the clear. But the fact that the Philadelphia district attorney couldn’t find enough evidence to charge McCoy after almost two months of looking into the case probably bodes well for McCoy avoiding NFL punishment.

Philadelphia Fraternal Order of Police president John McNesby said in February that he was frustrated no charges were brought against McCoy right away. He and others might not be pleased McCoy will face no charges at all. But apparently there wasn’t enough evidence. Now McCoy just has to find out if the NFL feels the same way.

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