The “Rafer Tape” has to be the best NBA-related police video since Eddie Griffin wrecked his car while masturbating. (via Slam)
Here we see Rafer stopped by a cop in August after leaving a club at around 3 a.m. for not having his headlights on. Skip tells the officer that they normally come on automatically.
The officer asks where he’s coming from. Skip tells him “Pandora,” which is a local club.
The officer asks if he’s had any drinks. Skip tells him “3…4″ and says they were vodka/cranberry
The officer asks him to get out of the car. Skip gets out and tells him he’s just out with his girlfriend and that he’s not drunk and that he hasn’t done anything wrong and generally wonders why the officer is bothering him.
The officer tries to get a timeline on his drinking and Skip doesn’t really have definitive answers but paints the picture well enough.
They start talking about Skip having an attitude and the officer says “You’re stepping to me all wrong” and they discuss the headlight situation.
The officer asks when the last time he ate was. Skip says 11:40 and explains that it was jambalaya. “I had jumbalaya. Sausage, rice, beans, all kinda stuff. I had jumbalaya.”
Then, unprompted by anything, Skip turns around and puts both his hands behind his back and says to the officer, “Yall wanna take me in? Take me in. Take me in, man. Take me in.”
The officer says he just wants to ask him some questions and for him to turn around.
Skip says “Nah, I’m not turning around. Take me in or [Ed note: I think] tell me to go home.”
“Who said anything about you going in?” asks the officer.
Skip’s reply: “Take me in. I’m not trying to stand out here all night looking like some sort of [Ed note: I can't make out what noun he uses]. You wanna take me in…take me in. Let’s go.
“You wanna do some tests?” asks the cop.
Skip, unprompted, leans over the top of his car. “I’m not doing any tests. You gonna take me in…take me in.”
“Okay,” says the cop and then he puts on the cuffs.
And…scene.
The epilogue on this whole things is that Rafer wasn’t legally drunk and a jury found him not guilty of DWI. The reason his lights were off is because the valet at the club turned off the automatic switch. Alternate juror Thomas Tran-Park, who I’m not sure why is talking to the paper, said:
“I could completely understand,” Tran-Park said. “I’ve been to Pandora. I had my car valet parked and the valet turned off the automatic lights. I wasn’t intoxicated either.”
In fairness, Rafer never really seems drunk during the video. He doesn’t come off as particularly bright, however. And in the end, the real lesson here is that the Skip to My Lou/Tru Warier Era in Houston has a lot of promise.
Skip manages to stay off camera on this one.
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So he got a jury of his peers?
It would certainly seem that way.