New police bodycam video shows officers arresting Florida State kicker Conor McAneney on three charges, two of them third-degree felonies, while he was on Spring Break in Fort Lauderdale in March.
The arrest report stated that McAneney was “uncooperative and violent” when officers attempted to make him leave Rock Bar, located at 225 S. Fort Lauderdale Beach Boulevard, at approximately 2:30 a.m. on March 18, following St. Patrick’s Day. According to the complaint, security had removed McAneney from several bars that night for causing disturbances.
During the incident, a Fort Lauderdale Police officer grabbed McAneney beneath the arms in an attempt to force him to loosen his hold on the bar’s barrier gates. Then McAneney tried to pull the cop down by grabbing his arm or shirt.
McAneney, then 20, allegedly continued to “actively resist,” even after an officer punched him twice in the face and knocked him to the ground. According to the police report, officers eventually handcuffed him after a short scuffle.
“Give me your f—— hands,” one officer can be heard saying on the bodycam video during the melee. Also in the video, McAneney can be heard yelling, crying, and begging the cops to “stop.”
The Seminoles’ kicker was clearly bleeding from his face after the brawl. Police took him to a nearby hospital before booking him into jail.
Prosecutors later reduced the charges against Conor McAneney.
The 21-year-old from Plumbridge, Ireland, was charged with multiple offenses, including battery on a police officer, firefighter or EMT, resisting an officer with violence, and trespassing in an occupied structure or conveyance.
Prosecutors later chose to charge him with one misdemeanor count of disorderly drunkenness and one misdemeanor offense of resist/obstructing without violence, according to Broward County court records.
He entered a not guilty plea to the charges. He was scheduled to appear in court for a status conference on Tuesday morning.
McAneney, a 6-foot-2, 200-pound sophomore, played last season for Quincy University in Illinois before transferring to Florida State University. After his arrest, Florida State placed McAneney on an indefinite suspension; however, Noles247 reported in April that the team had reinstated him.