Cleveland Browns defensive tackle Malik McDowell has no memory of his bizarre, naked arrest in Florida on Monday, according to his mentor and former high school football coach, who is echoing suggestions that the 25-year-old was drugged.
'He said he doesn't remember anything,' former Southfield High School (Michigan) coach Reggie Wynns told Cleveland.com about McDowell, whom he's spoken with since the arrest. 'He was so emotional. It had me in tears.'
A completely nude McDowell led police in Broward County on foot chase before attacking an officer and ultimately getting tasered and arrested outside a preschool in Deerfield Beach.
McDowell, who remains on probation for assaulting police in Michigan in 2019, was released on $27,000 bond Tuesday night. He's been charged with aggravated battery on a law enforcement officer, resisting an officer with violence and exposing his genitals in public.
Footage from before and after the incident has since surfaced in bystander and surveillance videos, which have been authenticated to DailyMail.com by a source close to McDowell.
One clip shows the 6-foot-6, 295-pound lineman charging and pummeling a Broward County deputy — footage that appears to confirm accusations in the arrest report obtained by DailyMail.com.
However, TMZ has published a contrasting clip that shows a calm, clothed McDowell casually walking through a nearby gym less than an hour before the arrest. From there, the Detroit native reportedly went next door to take a shower in his hotel room.
The emotional Wynns said he is struggling to understand how McDowell could have been running naked from police less than an hour later.
'You don't do a great job for 17 games starting for the Cleveland Browns and then go to a training facility, and then you're walking down the street [naked] and doing what he did,' said Wynns, who coached running backs at Southfield High and helped guide the recruiting process for McDowell, according to Cleveland.com.
'That doesn't make sense to me.'
Police have not accused McDowell of being under the influence of drugs, but his attorney Adam Swickle has suggested to local media outlets that
