from www.ft.com -- Enemy of the people: a poster accusing Ryan Lochte of lying hangs in Rio's Olympic

From USmagazine:

One of the security guards who confronted Ryan Lochte and his teammates Gunnar Bentz, Jack Conger and Jimmy Feigen on Sunday, August 14, is telling Us Weekly his side of the story.
The 34-year-old guard, who chose to remain anonymous and spoke with an Us Weekly associate in Portuguese, claims that there was no violent altercation with the swimmers, but that the 12-time Olympic medalist and his teammates came to the gas station and appeared to have been drinking.

 

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"These guys came here causing trouble … but we did not touch them at all,” the guard states. “There was never any physical contact. I only showed my gun … I did not order them to lay down on the floor and the gun was certainly not pointed in anyone's face.”

 

“Everything that took place that evening was within the rights of the law,” he concluded, adding that he cannot comment further amid the police investigation.
As previously reported by Us Weekly, Lochte claimed that he and his teammates were robbed and held at gunpoint on Sunday. "We got pulled over, in the taxi, and these guys came out with a badge, a police badge, no lights, no nothing, just a police badge, and they pulled us over,” the 32-year-old athlete told the Today show’s Billy Bush. “They pulled out their guns ... I was like, ‘We didn’t do anything wrong.’”

 

On Thursday, August 18, however, Civil Police Chief Fernando Veloso said during a press conference that there “was no robbery” and that Brazilian officials believe that Lochte and his teammates lied about being robbed to cover up a fight they were allegedly involved in after vandalizing the gas station bathroom.

 

According to reports, the swimmers allegedly broke the gas station bathroom door, along with a poster, and peed outside the premise.

 

As reported by the Associated Press — and as shown in security camera footage obtained by Us Weekly — an armed security guard approached the men about the alleged vandalization, and a manager asked the swimmers to pay for the damage. The AP reports that the swimmers did indeed pay. Police reports obtained by Brazil EXTRA also confirm that the men handed over money.

 

Lochte and Feigen have since maintained that their robbery story is true.

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