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Atlanta police are looking at former NBA center Shaquille O’Neal in an open assault investigation. Allegedly one of Shaq’s co-workers filed a police report on July 2nd about an incident that occurred last May at the Time Warner studio where Shaq works as an NBA analyst. In the report, the man accuses that O’Neal “ran out of a room and hit me with a tackle punch to the back knocking me down and falling on top of me injuring my neck and back”.
Shaq’s lawyer describes the incident as nothing more than “horseplay”. O’Neal has no malice when he struck the man in the back. The accuser’s lawyer says his client is recovering from surgery and the incident was much more than just horseplay. No official charges have been filed over this incident. If Shaq really was trying to hurt someone, I would imagine he could inflict a lot of pain with his size!
