One of the off-duty police officers who was in Ben Roethlisberger's entourage on the night he allegedly sexually assaulted a 20-year old woman has just been banned from working for the Steelers quarterback.
TMZ has learned the Pennsylvania State Police has rescinded Trooper Edward Joyner's authorization to perform supplemental employment, which allowed him to work as a "driver/assistant" to Roethlisberger in an "off-duty" capacity.
In a release by the state police, Trooper Joyner had his contract revoked after an "initial review of the investigation conducted by the Georgia Bureau of Investigation."
The rescission documents, executed Monday, claim Joyner violated "the stipulations" of his employment approval and he "demean[ed] the image of the department."
Joyner wasn't the only off-duty cop rolling with Big Ben on the night of the alleged incident -- but so far, the other cop has not faced any disciplinary action.
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He's lucky that is the only disciplinary action he received.
Ben Roethlis-BURGER
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Ingredients
* 1 lb ground beef
* 1/2 lb bulk pork sausage
* 6 onion hamburger buns
* 18 slices cooked bacon
* 6 slices cheddar cheese
* 6 slices provolone cheese
* barbecue sauce
* ranch dressing
Directions
1. Combine beef and sausage, mix well.
2. Form six burger patties out of the meat mixture. Place in the refrigerator until chilled.
3. Grill patties to well done, 170°F.(There's pork in there!).
4. Near the end of grilling, top each patty with a slice of provolone and a slice of cheddar to melt.
5. Toast buns.
6. Assemble burgers: bottom bun, bbq sauce, burger, bacon, ranch dressing, top bun.
CHEF KOOKY
Ben is a RAPIST!!! He has no morals. If you read his original statement to the policeman that got forced out he claimed he saw her in the VIP room and told her she had to leave because she was too drunk to be there. After being lawyered up he admitted to having sexual contact with her. The owner of the club and some of Ben's party said they saw joyner walk the girl back the hallway and place her on the stool. The girl is not without fault, she should have contolled the amount she drank, but no is still no.
Suspend him, hell no trade him. Immediately. You want to talk about hits taken. If Rooney keeps this goon, he is telling his wife, mother, daughter and any other woman on the planet that no doesn't mean no if you are a two time Super Bowl winning quarterback of the Pittsburgh Steelers. That it is ok for two tax paid, public trusting, one a state trooper from Pa., the other a policeman from somewhere in Pa. to go anywhere in this country and intimidate women into having sex. ( The cops are an even bigger issue for the state of PA. ) Underage women no less. How PATHETIC. How could an OL block for this creep. How could a man, any man, much less NFL players drink a beer with this guy. With his money, job, star status, etc. he has to trick women into having sex. PATHETIC isn't even the correct way to articulate this s***. Kobe, Tiger, John Edwards, pick somebody, anybody; this is WAY worse. Also, twice now in this situation. This is abhorrent behavior and if Rooney tolerates it. Shame on him,
I, personally am done with entitled athletes. Mistakes are one thing, not respecting women another. How could any man tolerate this behavior in a son, a father, a brother, a friend, in any man. Society will not get better until individuals, teammates,etc. are done with this type of behavior. Rooney was correct in his thinking to trade SH, what is taking him so long with Big Ben? This is black and white, crystal clear, compared with what SH was up to.
"Big ben" got off this time, the other time...and lord knows how many other times he's been given a pass. It's time to call a rapist, "a rapist". This guy belongs behind bars!
My just sentence;
If this trooper did prevent the girl's friends from coming to her aid and BR raped her, he's an accessory to the crime - or at best whale s h i t as a man - just like RB. The state police did the right thing and this sleazy S O B's next jub needs to be cleaning the bathrooms at the club.
Ben Roethlisberger should NOT be hanging out with this guy...or vice versa http://tinyurl.com/26c6ze6
Double standard for an NFL star
Why did Ben Roethlisberger get the benefit of the doubt from authorities in Georgia?
April 22, 2010
BEN ROETHLISBERGER should be thanking the heavens that he possesses the unique skill to throw a football 60 yards. If he was Ben the 28-year-old mill worker accused of raping a 20-year-old student in the bathroom of a college town bar, he'd be in prison awaiting trial.
Ben Roethlisberger should be thanking the heavens that he is white. If he was Ben the Black guy accused of sexual assault in Georgia, he might not even make it to trial.
Ben Roethlisberger should be thanking the heavens that he is rich. If he didn't have the lawyers to block any volunteering of his DNA, as well as lawyers poised to spend hours investigating the last details of a 20-year-old woman's sexual history, he would be wearing the steel bracelets. And he likely wouldn't have had his accuser, after going through the ordeal of a "rape kit," deciding that a high-publicity rape trial was not how she wanted to spend the next two years of her life.
Instead, because he resides on a white pedestal of wealth and fame, Ben Roethlisberger gets Ocmulgee, Ga., District Attorney Frederick Blight telling Ben to "grow up" and little more. He gets DA Blight saying that he couldn't indict because he didn't think the case could be proven "beyond a reasonable doubt" or that he could make the case "100 percent."
And here I thought that was a judge or jury's job, to determine whether a case could be proven "beyond a reasonable doubt." I thought that evidence is then gathered and presented at a trial. I thought that, as the saying goes, a DA could indict a ham sandwich if he saw fit.
Of course, evidence was hard to come by after police didn't seal the bathroom in question. In addition, investigating Milledgeville police officer Jerry Blash had been posing for pictures with Roethlisberger earlier in the evening. After questioning the accuser, it has been reported, Blash made derogatory comments about the accuser. He has since been forced to resign.
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IT'S UNDERSTANDABLE that people who have been following this case only out of the corner of their eye might think that it is just a classic "he said/she said" situation. No charges were brought, and women try to scam pro jocks all the time, right?
People who say that haven't read the 572-page police report. They also haven't read the Lake Tahoe police summary that came out nine months earlier in which Roethlisberger was investigated in another rape allegation.
The reports are so similar, so patterned, so damning, that you are left with one of two conclusions: either Roethlisberger's 20-year-old accuser is a sociopathic genius who set the millionaire up brilliantly, or Roethlisberger has a patterned modus operandi for how he goes about sexually assaulting women.
Either in the middle of the night, in a state of addled inebriation and having sustained a bump on the head, the accuser recalled details of the Lake Tahoe police report (which she had memorized on the off chance she would meet Roethlsiberger in Milledgeville, Ga.), and she got him--or, Ben Roethlisberger did something very wrong on the night in question.
So far, Roethlisberger has chosen to not rebut one word in the 572-page report. Instead, he read a 74-second statement, in which he said, "I'm truly sorry for the disappointment and negative attention I brought to my family, my teammates, coaches, the Rooneys and the NFL."
If there was nothing to these charges, there would be no reason to apologize. If there was nothing to these charges, Roethlisberger's bodyguard Ed Joyner, a Pennsylvania state trooper, would not be suffering an internal investigation by his own department. The staties want to know more about the part of the police report where Joyner is said to have denied people access to the bathroom where Roethlisberger was with his accuser.
Now, the burden is on NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell to show whether there will in fact be any punishment for Big Ben. Goodell has the power of judge and jury to indefinitely suspend players and order them into counseling, regardless of whether they were convicted of any crime.
Anyone who has read this column knows that I think that this is an unconscionable part of the collective bargaining agreement. It's been used primarily against players caught smoking weed and, most notably, in the case of Michael Vick, who was suspended indefinitely for fighting and abusing dogs. But it is a power that Goodell has and has shown he will exercise. Now, he will show the world whether violence against women matters less to the NFL than violence against dogs.
In a league where an accepted culture of sexism exists, from the cheerleaders to the commercials to the locker room, Goodell better choose wisely. Women make up the fastest-growing sector of NFL fans. For far too long, they have been treated as if they were invisible or worse.
It's not too much to ask that the NFL send a message that misogyny and violence against women is not acceptable under any cir***stance and a 28-year-old quarterback getting underage women drunk for bar sex will not be seen as "boys will be boys."
Roethlisberger should have to donate a portion of his salary to rape crisis and battered women's shelters. He should have to speak to young kids about the fact that "no means no."
He should, in other words, have to do everything that Michael Vick has had to do to make amends. Yes, Vick was convicted and Roethlisberger wasn't. But if Vick's entourage had lawyered up instead of turning state's evidence against him, it might have been a different story. Roethlisberger went out on the town not with his normal entourage, but with off-duty cops: people who know the value of silence. He had a game plan.
Goodell had better send a strong message that whatever Roethlisberger was trying to do that night, it's not a game.
Roethlisberger's new endorsement deal with Bud Light
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=alvW2qYshuM
To #12. Look He is suspended for 6 games. Tired of race card.
If you want to use the race card, what about Michael Irving, he was accused of rape in Florida I believe. I do not see anything about him
What happen or not happen in Georgia is seen to be known. Grant if he bought the girls drinks if he did then should have know better, nobody for one thing FORCE the drinks down the girls down their throats!!!!
She claimed in her statement that she was teased by him, if she was not liking it,WHY DID SHE STAY!!!.WHy did she not go away. WHy did she follow the group from bar to bar. ALso if she claims that she was dragged down the hall, why didn't her friends RIGHT THEN ANS THERE go find a cop. Her friends claim she was led down the hall. WHICH IS IT!!! The girls were just out to have a good time with a superstar quarterback.
Read the reports. DUMB A**
As for the Nevada witch, she was a scorn woman, I bet she and ben got together when he would go down there for a tournament, after he thought that those two would not get together, she decided to make the claim. Why would you have your picture taken by TMZ and other tabloids, state your name. Also tell you friends that you have a guy named solider Ben. Also claims were she was having an affair with a married man via internet which turn out to be the wife of the man.
I am a valid Steelers fan, always will be. Grant not happy with his decisions in his personal life. But trust me, Rooney's are watching him. Guarenteed if he would screw up again, he will be gone. If the the old man was still alive, there would have been more consequences. You do not mess with the Rooney family.
Also by the way how many superbowls did he win. How many has your won?
probably a dallas fan
Ben Roethlisberger is a two-time Super Bowl winning quarterback. It is entirely appropriate for him to have two off-duty policemen as his bodyguards, and for them to prevent a drunk girl's friends from taking her out of a locked bathroom when she's in there with gun, The girl's two friends may have told the club manager and the two bodyguards that the girl was too drunk to be in there with Roethlisberger, but the bodyguards were simply doing their jobs when they prevented the girl's friends from removing her from that bathroom. They were employed by Ben Roethlisberger at the time, not by the Pennsylvania state police. Given that they were off-duty at the time, it was not their repsonsibility to prevent the girl's rape. Remember, she was drunk, had a fake ID, and was dressed provocatively. If anyone was responsible for her rape, it was her.
