Yahoo Autos California college basketball player punches cop outside South Florida bar, police say
A Division 1 college basketball player went toe to toe with a South Florida police officer outside a bar packed with spring breakers Wednesday, authorities said. The ensuing fight landed the California ball player in jail.
De’Sean Leighton Eikens, 22, is facing charges of battery on an officer, resisting an officer without violence, resisting an officer with violence, disorderly conduct for brawling, disturbing the peace and disturbing a public place while being intoxicated. He has already bonded out of jail.
Eikens plays on the California State University Northridge men’s basketball team as a guard, according to ESPN. The Cal State Northridge Matadors are a Division 1 team in the NCAA.
On Wednesday, Fort Lauderdale Police Officer Joseph Perez saw Eikens fighting with security staff at the Rock Bar, 219 Fort Lauderdale Beach Blvd., an arrest report read.
Body cam video shows Eikens being thrown to the ground by security and Perez stepping in to pick him up and escort him outside.
