Athletics catcher Bruce Maxwell was arrested at his home Saturday night in Scottsdale, Ariz., on charges of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon and disorderly conduct, TMZ first reported. A food delivery person alleged that Maxwell pointed a gun at her.
In a statement confirming Maxwell’s arrest, the Scottsdale Police Department announced that he was being held in custody and awaiting an appearance before a judge (Twitter link via Kurt Chirbas of NBC News).
The 26-year-old Maxwell made headlines toward the end of the regular season when he became the first major leaguer to kneel for the national anthem in protest of racial injustice.
Maxwell, a 2012 second-round pick who debuted in 2016, batted .237/.329/.333 in 253 plate appearances this year. He impressed A’s brass in the process and looks like the favorite to start at catcher for the club in 2018, though he could now face discipline from Major League Baseball.
Cue 200 comments on why kneeling during the anthem is basically genocide.
I was gonna say reminds me of Gilbert Arenas (NBA)
GREAT….now we will get tired, old stories bout Bruce Maxwell and his plight on a daily basis…..why I have basically stopped browsing the football side….what next, the entire league is against em, he’s second coming of Johnny Bench if only the racist owners would let his .237 avg. and other incredible skills have a platform to amaze us all….? Please….
Haha. At least this is baseball and he can’t hide from his atrocious numbers or blame them on other players like people can in football.
Lol nice
@reflect
You were wrong on that!
This guy is a bad joke… first the restaurant lie and now this. Obviously needs some help. Hopefully he gets the right kind.
Restaurant lie? Witness said he was telling the truth. It’s juat the South being the South.
The witness that confirms Maxwell’s story is his high school friend who is a local councilman. Politicians don’t lie?? It is possible that Maxwell is lying. It is possible that the waiter is lying. None of us know as none of us were there…..
A broad statement such as the “South being the South” is as bigoted as the message it’s meant to convey.
True that, sir.
Roy Moore.
Well said!
No idea what the true story is at the restaurant, but it seems highly unlikely anyone would recognize him. I’m a huge baseball fan and I wouldn’t notice him if he walked past me.
In his own hometown though?
No offense, but do you know everyone in your home town by sight?
A small town is likely to know the guy that plays major league baseball by sight. Simply because he is probably interviewed quite a bit by the local media. Especially in light of his mainstream notoriety.
Did the waiter grow up there? Is it the waiter’ s hometown?
that is such a bullshit argument it isn’t even worth debating
There’s a big difference between knowing “everyone in your home town by sight” and knowing every professional athlete in your home town by sight…
I’m sure the waiter lives there now and has the capability to read local news.
Just because the waiter lives there now does not know he would know who Maxwell is. Maxwell now lives in Scottsdale, AZ. That means he ins not back home all the time. When I was a kid, I went to high school where a Miss USA went to and a pro athlete or two went to. I knew the name but would never have recognized any of them in the street of our small town because you never saw them much after high school they all graduated a few years befor I did so never saw them in school.
Huntsville has a population of 197,000… not necessarily a small town
I’m from Huntsville. It is not a “small town.” I didn’t even know Maxwell was from there until the restaurant story happened. Heck, I didn’t even know who he was until the kneeling stuff started.
Witnesses also said he was lying and his friend wasn’t served because he didn’t have an ID.
Oooh! One of his posse said he was telling the truth. Well case closed, then.
His posse? Really? The guy is a city councilman not the corner drug dealer.
Politicians never lie? Bwaaahhhhahahahahaha!
Posse is a group of friends. Has nothing to do with a drug dealer.
You know EXACTLY what he meant by that word. He could have just used the word friends, but he chose to use that particular word.
The South will rise again lol
Oh witnesses huh? Like his loser friends at the table? Those witnesses? Get real
I bartend at said restaurant and he lied his ass off
Oh boy, this is not good. It’s surely gonna cause some stuff to the public. Hide yo kids hide yo wife
Not good. He appears to have anger issues. This wasn’t a domestic thing..it was a female delivering thing. Hey Bruce…if you’re going to be the only kneeler in baseball it would be a good idea to keep your nose clean because the only reason we’ve heard of you is probably the reason we even know of this
Thugs like him are the reason people get so hot over the kneeling. They want equality but do things that make them look like thugs. That’s where labels come from and that’s where what they say is “inequality” comes from. Rooted in their own selves
Thanks richard spencer
“They”? As in who exactly?
You know: “Those people”.
If only he had held a tiki torch and worn khakis and a white polo, he wouldn’t be mistaken for a “thug”.
Thugs come in all shapes, sizes and colors. Plenty of white thugs who do thug things too.
Would anyone actually call them that though?
I’m white and I listen to 2pac and do thug things too…I’m just not into khakis or white polos…and I use tiki torches to make my backyard look festive when I have my friends over…thug life!
No, they’re “many…fine people”.
Well they do when they are involved in criminal activity. A thug is a thug. Anyone who uses violence against another is a thug.
all thugs matter over here lol
Sweet handle
Hey Knox Christopher, it’s common knowledge what the word “thugs” represents in 2017 – a slight cover for the n-word. I don’t make the rules, but it appears you don’t know them, so please don’t shoot the messenger and please refrain from using it in future, thanks.
Thugs are thugs, plain and simple, if the shoe fits wear it. This over sensitive crap is ridiculous
Wow. I would’ve said it about a white person too haha. A thug is a thug. So get off of me. If he wants equality, don’t do crap like that.
Well said!
You have no idea what you’re talking about, and should stop talking about it.
Get rid of this problem while you can
I’m sure someone in jail would like it if he stays on his knees
I was scrolling to see if this comment was on here already…you’re quick, touché
Did they find any uraniam on him?
This is too funny.
Those who live in glass houses…
and here come the old white guys
Didn’t have any problem with him kneeling, but this is unacceptable IMO. If you’re going to voluntarily put yourself into the public eye to make a societal statement, you owe it to yourself and to your supporters to handle yourself in a dignified way. Like it or not, this behavior will certainly undermine the significance of any political gesture that he makes moving forward
Really? No matter how much sense “old white guys” make, we can’t listen to them? Obviously, you are not everything wrong with civil discourse today.
Why does everything have to be about race?
Tell me about it. Pennant race, Indy 500, Kentucky derby. It’s sick. Seriously though, who thinks perhaps alcohol played a part? What reason could he of had to pull a gun on a delivery person?
None, there is no reason to pull a gun on someone let alone a female delivery driver. If this is true, he may need to find a new career. He’s definitely no yadi. He’s replaceable
Because we live in a world where everyone is offended and everyone is a victim. Race is an easy card to play. It makes it easy to point fingers, rather than take personal accountability. Ohhhh…gotta go! My monthly white privilege check was just put into my mail box!!
That’s a new spin on cheque your privilege.
Because we live in a racially unjust society? Dunno, try some critical thinking.
Cut the victim mentality and mabey you can be successful
And my opinion on him just did a total 180
Right now it’s just an acccusation. We need to hear both sides of the situation.
It would take a pretty extreme “other side” of the story to justify pulling a gun on a food delivery person.
^^^you can’t be serious. You don’t even know if it’s true. Smh
Somehow this type of accusation in the setting it was in doesn’t strike me as something that could be mistaken…a club full of rowdy intoxicated patrons maybe, a food delivery woman, not so much
Well the other side might be a right wing lunatic who saw him, knew who he was (if he gave his real name out on the order that’s a big tell) and made up a story to get him in trouble.
I’m not saying that’s what happened, but it’s a possibility. 2017 is a strange year.
The southern waiter, shamed and now unemployed, decided to make a fresh start as a delivery driver in Arizona.
Yeah, only 1 person hated him for kneeling.
I work in pizza delivery and I have had drivers get guns pulled on them before. They were even in the right place.
He was arrested. Plain and simple. If there wasn’t any evidence he wouldn’t have been arrested
Arrested does not mean charged. He probably did it, but for all we know it’s a lie. Let’s all step away from the keyboard and wait and see.
Oh yes because that is what right wingers do when left wing is the one causing this in the first place. But that’s none of my business. Lefts will always try to turn it back on rights
regressive left doesn’t care about facts, just “muh feelz”. So of course, when met with logic, they feel the need to try to just blaim someone else and play the civtim
Good god there’s morons on both sides.
Way too many of them
Arrested does mean charges… it doesn’t mean he was convicted. But for accusations like this, there would have to be some evidence.
MR Maxwell we need you to kneel on both knees before we apply the cuffs..SJW start the bail kickstarter fund!
You sound pretty ignorant.
Explain yourself Richard…
Seemed pretty self explanatory to me.
The cuffed part or the bail part? My bad more then likely they made him get on his stomach to be cuffed. He probably had one of his “Posse” bail him out.
Sounds like prime DFA fodder. I own 10 firearms and would NEVER point one at someone unless I intended on using it. He sounds like a real stand-up guy, oh wait…
He’s protesting the social injustice of food delivery. Duh
Lies about racial discrimination in a restaurant and pulls a gun on a female delivery person. People getting off knees all over America. Way to go, Bruce. By your actions, you may have put an end to all this silliness. Then, again……
Well, it’s time now for the A’s to give more exposure to Justin Garneau and Josh Pegley. Sean Murphy is also waiting on the winds. Plenty of choices…
They also have Dustin Garneau and Josh Phegley. So even more choices.
So forgetting talking about Gun control. Half you idiots talk about kneeling. Smh wtf does kneeling have to do with someone pulling out a gun on another? Some of you are lost to reality.
I think the real problem here is food delivery service
So someone who protests brutality and then points a gun in the face of a pizza delivery woman for disrespecting him by forgetting his cheesy sticks. You’re not seeing the irony there? So who is the idiot again?
He could have physically assaulted the girl with the gun while using the C-word and guys like this insert gun control. @sckoul he’s a mediocre player who wanted attention,so he gets it. Sign a petition already!
Imagine, someone getting upset when they protest on the job. Hey Maxwell, you have freedom to protect on the job, so does the waiter (if it ever happened). You have consequences and I am sure he did too. However to call him out on it shows your true hypocrisy.
Difference is maxwell did his job, the waiter didn’t
So, you were there in the restaurant? I am assuming you were not. If the true story is the waiter’s story, the waiter did do his job. He refused service to a person without ID. That is the job of a waiter.
Shouldn’t we hear both sides of the story? I’m sure he has a witness that will say he mistakingly pulled the gun because he thought it was his wallet or better yet that the delivery lady was a Trump supporter which seems to make it justified in these thugs, I mean “protestors” minds
Usually what the cops do/say… so…..
well his career is now over, hope it was worth it big guy
His career never really got started
He brings negativity and publicity over from the NFL to the MLB and now this.. Most hated guy in baseball?
Who actually pays attention to/reads TMZ?-the blog for the uneducated. Yes, I know it’s not a blog-it’s actually worse than a blog. Not a baseball story.
Did you actually read the article or did you stop at TMZ? The arrest was confirmed by Scottsdale police and reported elsewhere. Maxwell is currently on a Major League roster It baseball news.my news.
@jMC70
Of course its a baseball story. It involves a major league baseball player pointing a gun at a delivery person. Yes its baseball news.
They don’t play the national anthem in jail so I guess its back to obscurity for Mr. Maxwell.. hope he enjoyed his 15 mins of fame
But they sure as hell spend time on their knees…
This guy has proved he is a nit wit….first he lies about restaurants discriminating against him now he’s terrorizing food delivery people. The liberal insanity march continues. If he were on my team he’d be gone….but we all know what team owners interest are.
How is this a liberal/republican issue?
Dumb people love buzzwords
because he’s a race baiting liberal?
Side note, i love how he said he was racially profiled or discriminated against at the restaurant and then went on to describe not racial profiling, but political.
I don’t care for much of the comments but the bottom line is common sense. Bottom line is people need to learn when guns deserve and need to be brought into a situation. People not serving is not, someone or something threatening your life then yes. someone throwing words at you oh well go some place else. People need to start thinking again. If a person calls me a name am I going to get mad yes but I also have thick skin too if I don’t let it bother me then words have no power. Plus at same time I don’t have the right to use an object on them that can be permanent such as a gun. You shoot and kill someone that’s it no redo. You don’t get to start game over.
I said pepperoni!!!!!
Effin anchovies…
Certainly new meaning to 30 minutes or it’s free.
30 minutes just turned into 30 days…
Maxwell is a moron and should be suspended ASAP. The A’s should consider giving him his walking papers as well
Send Maxwell to the Rehab Rangers. They will take him.
I bet there’s a hundred “he was framed/wish he could frame pitches as well as this” jokes I could say right now but I just woke up and am blanking.
I’d love to stay and participate in this discussion, but I’m lying. Stay classy MLBTR.
Are you suggesting MLBTR’s should not post this? Why?
Must have been a pizza topped with prunes. The “unconditional release” special pie.
Maxwell just committed career suicide by pulling that stunt!
Agreed. Stupid racial issues and kneeling crap aside, it’s a shame that he would do something like this and cost himself possibly a career. I really don’t see him recovering from this unless the charges are totally dropped and there is a retraction from the police.
it’s not his fault his parents didn’t love him enough. Sorry but in the end he will have no one to blame but himself!!!!!
God don’t let @hiflew read this post!!!
More controversy in baseball, Hooray….
Delivery driver probably expected a tip, just not $3.57
Bruce who?
“Aggravated assault with a deadly weapon” can mean hard prison time. A [X]-game suspension is nothing compared to 5-years + weapons enhancement. This is serious stuff. You guys can carp about kneeling but Maxwell may be in prison.
And if he did this, he should be.
Kneeling for inequality and bad cops and all that, yet lie and wave a gun in someone’s face “like a thug”. That will really push your “cause”. I hope they throw the book at him. Dirtbag.
In his defense, he did say no mushrooms.