Dalvin Cook: Victim of domestic abuse and extortion
A strange story has emerged out of the blue on Tuesday night.
Here’s the vague tweet from Adam Schefter of ESPN.com: “Minnesota Vikings’ RB Dalvin Cook is the victim of domestic abuse and extortion – there’s pending litigation, according to his agent Zac Hiller.”
It’s confusing, to be sure. So we spoke to Hiller. Here’s what he told PFT by phone.
Roughly a year ago, someone unlawfully entered Cook’s house.
The female who did it, is a sergeant in the U.S. military, attacked Cook in his home while he had a guest present. Cooks defended himself, as authorized by Minnesota’s version of the Castle Doctrine. The invader then allegedly tried to extort Cook for millions of dollars, claiming that she suffered injuries during the course of the attack that she allegedly initiated.
Because she allegedly broke into Cook’s house, however, he had the right to defend himself. Litigation, per Hiller, has not yet been commenced, but it’s in the process of being initiated. No criminal complaints have been filed in connection with the incident.
Stay tuned for more details on this developing story.
https://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2021/11/09/dalvin-cook-contends-that-hes-the-victim-of-domestic-abuse-and-extortion/
Text message between Vikings Dalvin Cook and ex girlfriend who filed assault complaint against him from alleged November 2020 incident. pic.twitter.com/wwjUDoPYRi
— Rochelle Olson (@rochelleolson) November 10, 2021
He is saying she had a gun and broke in with a stolen garage door opener and maced him. She is saying that he wouldn't let her leave and she was hit. She filed a civil lawsuit. If you click on the tweet the picture shows up. We'll see how it plays out. Also Dalvin had a guest at his house at the time.
Oh happy joy. Because of course this shit has to happen.
@"Mike Olson" said: Oh happy joy. Because of course this shit has to happen.Unfortunately when it rains, it pours. What s shit show.
Video of Sergeant Gracelyn Trimble Threatening to Pull Her Gun Out and Shoot Dalvin Cook pic.twitter.com/zGzn5j50ag
— LowenDowski (@LowenDowski1) November 10, 2021
Wow - 2 very different takes on this story...If this is domestic assault? Cooks days with the Vikings are probably numbered.
Her lawsuit accuses the 26-year-old Cook of assault, battery and false imprisonment. She is seeking unspecified monetary damages and, she says, accountability. The lawsuit was sent to Cook late Tuesday. Before it was filed, Trimble and her lawyer, Daniel Cragg, held settlement discussions with Cook and his attorney, David Valentini, but no agreement was reached.
Valentini responded to the lawsuit by saying that Trimble broke into Cook's house, assaulted him and two houseguests and is now trying to "extort him for millions of dollars."
"While Mr. Cook and Sgt. Trimble had a short term relationship over several months, she became emotionally abusive, physically aggressive and confrontational, and repeatedly attempted to provoke Mr. Cook," Valentini said.
According to the lawsuit, Cook and Trimble met on a Florida beach in 2018 and began an off-and-on sometimes rocky relationship.
Trimble flew to Minnesota on Nov. 19 to break up with Cook and get her things from his Inver Grove Heights home. She entered through the garage, grabbing mace she stored there on her way in, the lawsuit said.
Trimble claims in the filing that Cook got angry when she asked for his help in gathering her things. Cook "grabbed her arm, and slung her whole body over the couch, slamming her face into the coffee table and causing her lower forehead and the bridge of her nose to bust open."
She attempted to spray the mace at Cook, but he overpowered her and the mace went into her eyes, the lawsuit said. She went to shower when she was allegedly assaulted again.
Then Trimble went into the bedroom, grabbed Cook's gun and called her friend, according to the lawsuit. Cook overheard her and threatened her, and beat her with a broomstick, the suit claims.
The next morning, when Cook took her to the airport, Trimble covered her injuries with a hooded sweatshirt, sunglasses and a face mask. On Nov. 25 in Florida when she sought treatment for her injuries, she told medical personnel she had been in an ATV accident. She learned she had a concussion along with several deep cuts and bruising, the lawsuit said.
Neither Trimble nor Cook called police or filed a report about the night in dispute. The lawsuit includes text messages purportedly from Cook to Trimble saying, "I know what I did can't be rewind...If you wanna go to the police I'll respect that I'll take my punishment for what I did!"
They saw each other off and on afterward until permanently splitting in May.
Valentini counters that Cook was the victim of assault that night, and that he was defending himself after she entered his home without his consent, punched and Maced him, then held him hostage with a firearm. He contends Trimble was knocked to the ground when Cook tried to stop an attack on one of his guests.
"We are confident a full disclosure of the facts will show Mr. Cook did nothing wrong and any injury Sgt. Trimble may have sustained that evening was the result of Sgt. Trimble's own unlawful conduct," Valentini wrote in a statement.
When the Vikings selected Cook 41st overall in the 2017 draft, the choice was made despite concerns about allegations from his time at Florida State.
Cook was charged with misdemeanor battery for allegedly punching a woman outside a bar, though a jury acquitted him in August 2015.
Vikings general manager Rick Spielman said he drafted Cook after an extensive vetting process.
Coach Mike Zimmer named Cook a team captain before the 2020 season, and the Vikings made him one of the NFL's highest-paid running backs with a five-year, $63 million contract the day before that season started.
The team said it immediately notified the NFL about the lawsuit. "We are in the process of gathering more information and will withhold further comment at this time," a team statement said.
https://www.startribune.com/dalvin-cook-lawsuit-vikings-physical-eotional-abuse-allegations-gracelyn-trimble/600114656/
The text conversation doesn't look good for Dalvin, but what's being reported from his camp, along with witness verification seems to support they were the victims, not the ex-girlfriend. This is going to be a messy situation for quite a while
The story from purple is weird:
- Flew to MN to break up
- Entered through garage and grabbed mace on way in
- After breaking up she asked for help to gather her things
- Cook got angry and slammed her over the table
- She tried spraying her with mace but Cook over powered her
- She went to the shower and Cook assulted her again
- She then went and grabbed Cooks gun and called her friend
- Cook overheard the conversation and threatened her and beat her with broomstick
- The next day Cook drove her to the airport and she hid the injuries and also later lied that it was from an ATV accident.
We'll have to see what the facts are (if anything definitive ever comes out), but so far... I'd lean to believing Cook's side of the story. The video shows her being the aggressor and Dalvin was telling her to stop pulling his hair and then it sounded like she hit him and he yelled for her to stop and then was not physical with her right after that in the clip and told her to leave? Meanwhile she's threatening to get her gun?
The short video doesn't seem to jive with her version of events.
My abusive relationship with the Vikings:
The gift that keeps on giving.
So, he takes responsibility for messing her up, which is what’s said in the text messages. He apologizes and says he loves her and asks her to come back to him. There appears to be no denying that he put an ass beating on her.
She enters his home without permission, arms herself with mace, confronts him in front of a witness, gets physical with him, and verbally threatens to get her gun. She says she doesn’t care if he calls the police. He certainly should have at that point. The witness video supports that she broke in and immediately was confrontational and physical.
So, who is the person that will ultimately be punished here? The man that apparently defended himself very vigorously or the woman who incited the incident in the first place?
And the even more strange thing to me is that she chose to hang around and take a shower. She chose to hang around and make a phone call to a friend about the incident which provoked him once again.
I don’t condone the violence at all on his part, but the bigger part of me asks what the hell would I do if an angry ex broke in my house and attacked me and threatened to get a gun and shoot me???
Dalvin, man…I do have a smidge of empathy for you in this situation…
Why oh why do these millionaires keep sticking their dicks in crazy?
@"Kentis" said:Yep, not many predicted this type of season back in August.
I don’t believe anyone in this story at all.
This is a true shit show. Seems like dumb fucks all around.
Cook's lawyer earned his pay getting out ahead of this one. Agree with Mike, sounds like a cluster on all sides. But his lawyer changed the landscape by claiming he was the victim of abuse before those pics came out. Maybe the ex was trying to extort him, but that don't look good.
Geez and I thought I had a crappy Covid Thanksgiving last year! You have to put things in perspective and think.....was my Thanksgiving better then Cook and the Sergeant's? After some thought, yes mine was better!
On a not-so side note: Did anyone else notice that it says they stayed in an on again off again relationship through May of this year so 7 months after giving Thanks. I say Thanks for nuttin!
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