CU Player says he's victim of profiling | Denver Post

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Player says he's victim of profiling
Race a factor in assault allegations, he states

By Marcos Mocine-McQueen
Denver Post Staff Writer


CU president Elizabeth Hoffman and
Chancellor Richard Byyny announce
that coach Gary Barnett has been put
on administrative leave, 9NEWS at
10 p.m. Feb. 18, 2004.

BOULDER - A University of Colorado football player named in connection with an alleged sexual assault went public Friday to proclaim his innocence and said he has been the victim of racial profiling.

"I feel that my rights have been violated. ... I feel harassed and mistreated," the player wrote in a statement.

The player, clad in a black CU shirt, stood stoically in front of cameras as his attorney, Nancy Holton, read the statement on his behalf. In the statement he expressed pain and said the investigation seemed to be more the product of racial profiling than evidence.

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1. The problem is that Coach Gary Barnett

is protective of his players no matter what they do. And he is really in trouble now because of yet another incident involving a female employee of the athletic department who made an allegation, and Barnett told her he would back his player "100 percent." There are reports that Barnett may have threatened her job in the process.