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Ex-Tampa Bay Buccaneers wide receiver Antonio Brown is speaking out after creating a scene caught on video sticking his butt out at a woman's face and brandishing his penis in a Dubai swimming pool.
Brown, 34, tweeted out after newly-released footage of Brown's trip at the Armani Hotel Dubai on May 14 showed the troubled ex-player shoving his bare butt in a stunned woman's face, who tries to get away.
On Saturday afternoon, he tweeted, 'It's crazy to me that even after I retire there is disinformation coming out about me. Ironically, during a time when the NFL is getting heat for allowing players to play when they're clearly concussed. They've been using black men as guinea pigs.'
The seven-time Pro Bowler added, 'Every chance they get to sway the heat off themselves they use me. In the video you can clearly see she runs off with my swim trunks. If roles were reversed the headlines would read 'AB having a wild night with nude female'. Yet when it's me it automatically becomes a hate crime.'
Brown is referring to Dolphins QB Tua Tagovailoa, who after officially escaping a concussion on Sunday in Miami, was diagnosed with a head injury on Thursay following a medical evaluation process that is suddenly at the center of a growing controversy for the NFL.
Ex-Tampa Bay Buccaneers wide receiver Antonio Brown is speaking out after creating a scene caught on video sticking his butt out at a woman's face and brandishing his penis in a Dubai swimming pool
On Saturday afternoon, he tweeted, 'It's crazy to me that even after I retire there is disinformation coming out about me. Ironically, during a time when the NFL is getting heat for allowing players to play when they're clearly concussed. They've been using black men as guinea pigs.
The seven-time Pro Bowler added, 'Every chance they get to sway the heat off themselves they use me. In the video you can clearly see she runs off with my swim trunks. If roles were reversed the headlines would read 'AB having a wild night with nude female'. Yet when it's me it automatically becomes a hate crime'
Tagovailoa was cleared to return Sunday, despite stumbling to the ground and continuing to struggle even after getting back on his feet. Teammates needed to help keep the 24-year-old Hawaiian upright before he was removed from the game moments before halftime.
But as both he and the team later claimed, Tagovailoa was not suffering from a head injury, but rather, an aggravated and existing back problem. And his play certainly supported that assertion, as he returned in the second half to lead an upset win over the visiting Buffalo Bills. Afterwards, Tagovailoa and the Dolphins both said he was cleared by doctors, who had examined him for concussion symptoms.
Brown himself suffered a concussion after a shocking hit from Cincinnati Bengals defender Vontaze Burfict during the 2015 season. All of the receiver's controversies, including multiple arrests and an accusation of sexual assault, happened after the violent hit and concussion.
Witnesses told the New York Post that as others egged Brown on to keep shoving his butt at her, he then snatched a head scarf from another swimmer and tried to tie it around the woman.
He proceeded to lift her and slam her into the pool, with one onlooker quipping that 'He's waterboarding her.'
Another man responded, 'He's giving her the long board.'
Brown then flashed his penis at the woman, asking, 'You want it?' After the story emerged Saturday, Brown insisted the woman had in fact snatched his trunks for a game, and that he hadn't done anything to upset her.
Brown is referring to Dolphins QB Tua Tagovailoa, who after officially escaping a concussion on Sunday in Miami, was diagnosed with a head injury on Thursay following a medical evaluation process that is suddenly at the center of a growing controversy for the NFL
Members of the Miami Dolphins surround quarterback Tua Tagovailoa (1) as he is carted off the field after a hit in the first half against the Cincinnati Bengals
Former Tampa Bay Buccaneers receiver Antonio Brown was filmed flashing a woman his bare butt and penis while at the Armani Hotel Dubai swimming pool. He is pictured enjoying a swim on another occasion during the same vacation
Brown (pictured in the same trip) was seen repeatedly flashing the woman and grabbing her inside the pool, asking her, 'You want it?' as he showed his privates
The former NFL star-turned-aspiring rapper was in Dubai with Floyd Mayweather Jr. for an exhibition boxing match (above). A hotel staffer said multiple people complained about Brown allegedly breaking laws in the strict United Arab Emirates
It's the latest in a series of controversies that led the former Buccaneer (left, alongside Tom Brady) to quit the NFL and kickstart a rapping career
Two witnesses told the Post that Brown continued to flaunt his privates at the woman several times and said multiple people complained to hotel staff about his actions.
Representatives from the hotel declined to comment on the incident.
A staffer, speaking under the condition of anonymity, told the outlet that other guests complained about Brown snubbing the United Arab Emirates' strict dress code by flaunting his bare chest inside the hotel.
The Middle East nation follows Sharia law and has a strict set of morality codes that could've landed Brown in serious trouble.
Other complaints also accused Brown of smoking marijuana in his room, which is a criminal offense in the country.
The hotel incidents all took place during Brown's visit to Dubai with Floyd Mayweather Jr. for an exhibition boxing match.
It's the latest in a long series of shocking behavior that has resulted in Brown leaving the NFL in controversy and turning to rap music.
Armani Hotel Dubai hotel staffer, Brown (above) was flashing his bare chest at chests inside the hotel, which is against the United Arab Emirates' dress-code
Brown, pictured posing over a bridge in Dubai, could have faced severe consequences from the United Arab Emirates, which follows Sharia law
The troubled Pro Bowler shocked NFL fans across the country when he had a public meltdown in the middle of a game in January.
As the Bucs played against the Jets at MetLife Stadium, the benched Brown hopped into the field, shirtless, after an apparent dispute with coaches about whether he was healthy enough to play.
Brown claimed his outburst was fueled by 'dangerous painkillers' that Buccaneers' medical staff gave him for his ankle injury.
He was suspended days later, with Buccaneers officials saying he refused help for his mental health.
While the incident ultimately left Brown off the team and floating around as a free agent before he announced he was quitting the NFL, he had long been followed by controversy before that.
Embattled NFL star Antonio Brown claims he was suffering a severe ankle injury and that he'd been injected with a dangerous painkiller by Tampa Bay Buccaneers medical staff shortly before he stormed off the field in January
Brown seen before (left) and during (right) his outburst, was suspended days later, with Buccaneers officials saying he refused help for his mental health
A N.J. State Police trooper, background, watches as Tampa Bay Buccaneers wide receiver Antonio Brown throws his gloves into the stands in his infamous walk-off
In 2020, former female trainer Britney Taylor filed a lawsuit against Brown, accusing him of sexually assaulting her.
While the suit was settled out of court, Brown was suspended for eight games for violating the NFL's personal conduct policy.
That same year, Brown faced burglary and battery charges in Florida for attacking a truck driver delivering his belongings from California after being traded from the Oakland Raiders.
Brown was ordered to serve two years of probation, which included taking anger management courses.
THE NFL'S COMPLICATED HISTORY ON CONCUSSIONS
The conflict between NFL profits and player health is nothing new, although the effort to reduce traumatic brain injuries (TBIs) is, relatively speaking. And it's that discrepancy that resulted in countless avoidable cases of brain damage, according to epidemiologist and George Washington University professor David Michaels.
An expert on environmental and occupational health who served as OSHA assistant secretary under Barack Obama from 2009 until 2017, Michaels wrote a book in 2020, The Triumph of Doubt, illustrating various industries' strategies to suppress data on the inherent dangers of their products.
'It remains a fundamental contradiction within football - for both the league and the players - that more football brings in more revenue, but it also increases the number and severity of brain damage cases,' Michaels told the Daily Mail in 2020.
'No other profession—not one—outranks professional football in causing life-altering injuries.'
With faulty science and flawed studies conducted by conflicted researchers, Michaels argues, the NFL delayed meaningful preventative action on chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) until the early 2000s – a decade after first resolving to address head injuries and nearly a century after the neurodegenerative disease was discovered in 1928.
'The steps that are being taken now, which we think will be useful in reducing the terrible damage to the brains of players, they could have been implemented years earlier,' said Michaels. 'The lives of many players may have been greatly improved had that been done.'
The NFL did not respond to DailyMail.com's request for comment in response to the 2020 interview with Michaels. However, the league did refute any similarities between itself and the tobacco industry in a statement given to the New York Times in 2016: 'The NFL is not the tobacco industry; it had no connection to the tobacco industry.'
Before the 1990s, the NFL didn't need such tactics. It was when journalists and fans began noticing a spike in concussions that the league took action, and that was only after then-commissioner Paul Tagliabue called it a 'pack journalism issue' while claiming that concussions only occurred 'every three or four games.'
Tagliabue's comments ignited a small controversy at the time, prompting him to start the Mild Traumatic Brain Injuries (MTBI) Committee, which was aimed at reducing the 'injury risks in football.'
The problem, aside from its euphemistic choice of the word 'mild,' was that the committee didn't do very much.
'For eight years, the committee published nothing,' Michaels said. 'Evidence accumulated, but even when they started publishing papers, the papers were really covering up the problem. They asked questions in the wrong way. To me, it looked like they knew the answers they wanted to find before they even did a study.'
The NFL had claimed the MTBI committee was impartial, but when it finally did publish 13 papers in 'Neurosurgery' between 2003 and 2006, Michaels explained, 'obvious conflicts of interests' emerged.
Several members of the committee were clinical consultants for NFL teams, including the group's chairman, Elliot Pellman, a rheumatologist who served as the New York Jets' team doctor and also happened to be Tagliabue's personal physician.
In fact, over a dozen of the MBTI members had connections to league franchises. And that's not to mention Michael L. J. Apuzzo, a Neurosurgery editor who happened to be a medical consultant to the New York Giants.
It's not known if those conflicts affected the research directly, but Michaels argued that the MBTI committee's misguided conclusions did minimize the long-term risks of football.
For one, the concussion data was hardly comprehensive.
The records between 1996 through 2001 omitted more than 100 diagnosed concussions, according to the Times.
In response to that finding, the NFL acknowledged that 'the clubs were not required to submit their data and
