Monday, December 26, 2005

Parker and Longoria have altercation with police

More basketball players getting in trouble, you have to love it when celebrities and athletes show their true colors.

After a San Antonio bicycle officer saw a vehicle, driven by Spurs guard Tony Parker, impeding traffic things escalated with Parker and his passenger “Desperate Housewives” actress Eva Longoria.

The officer saw the stopped car holding up traffic early Saturday and rapped the hood with his hand, according to a police report. Parker, behind the wheel, questioned why the officer touched the car, and the couple “began screaming in a verbally abusive and demeaning manner,” police said. Longoria called the police report “highly inaccurate.”

Police say the Parker began to drive away, almost hitting a man standing nearby. After being told to stop and get out, Parker showed a French driver’s license, police said. The star guard for the defending NBA champions was was born in Belgium and raised in France.

The officer said Parker complained: “This is all the cops do, just mess with people,” and that Longoria shouted from the car: “He’s just a Mexican bike cop. He only wants your autograph.”