Scottsdale police release body-cam footage of Cardinals tight end Ricky Seals-Jones arrest

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Police body-cam footage provides differing accounts of an altercation at a Scottsdale hotel leading to the arrest of Arizona Cardinals tight end Ricky Seals-Jones.

Seals-Jones was arrested July 14 on suspicion of assault, disorderly conduct and trespassing after he tried to get into a Sushi Roku restaurant because he needed to use the bathroom "badly," police said.

Videos obtained Tuesday by The Arizona Republic show police interviewing several security guards and Seals-Jones outside the W Scottsdale hotel.

One security guard told police Seals-Jones and a friend were denied at the front door of the hotel after he tried to go in to use the restroom. They then tried to go through the adjacent Sushi Roku restaurant door when the security guard told them the restrooms were for hotel customers only, according to the video.

"He didn't want to take 'no' for an answer" and "kind of muscled his way in," the guard said in the video.

The guard then said Seals-Jones pushed him, and said it was "like pretty much (an) offensive lineman moving me through the door." The guard said he pushed Seals-Jones out the door, but no punches were thrown, according to the video.

"I felt endangered. I thought I was going to get my head slashed for a second," he said in the video.

Another man said Seals-Jones pushed him as he was trying to get through to the bathrooms.

Seals-Jones disputes those accounts, saying he never went to the front door or talked with anyone there, according to the videos. He said he went directly from his car to the doors at Sushi Roku because he knew that's where the bathrooms were.

A guard told him he was not allowed to go in, Seals-Jones said. He asked the guard to let him out through the front door because the guard "was not about to push me out this side door," he said in the videos.

"I play ball here, I'm not about to piss out here," he said in the video.

He told police he took a step inside when the guards "tackled" him, and he put his arms up like he wasn't trying to fight, he said in the videos.

The 23-year-old is in his second season with the Arizona Cardinals.

In a statement, the Cardinals said, "the team is aware of the incident over the weekend involving Ricky Seals-Jones. While the legal process remains on-going, we will refrain from commenting further at this time."

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