“Went to wind up to punch me,” Shaquille O’Neal once used his police training to HURT a Lakers loyalist
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Although Shaquille O’Neal is most known for his time playing basketball for the LA Lakers, he has consistently indicated a desire to join the police force. In 2005, he received an honorary US Deputy Marshall title in addition to his honorary status as a deputy with the Florida Sheriff’s Office. In one incident, Shaq performed frisking on a famed Lakers trainer Gary Vitti, leaving him severely injured.
O’Neal received an honorary US Deputy Marshall title in 2005 as a result of his completion at the Los Angeles County Reserve Academy, which enabled him to work as a deputy sheriff for the Los Angeles Port Police. Throughout his vast, varied, and widely publicized career in the limelight, O’Neal has consistently endorsed and welcomed police enforcement. Well, he once took advantage of the role once deceiving a Lakers trainer and making him unable to walk.
O’Neal’s former Los Angeles Lakers trainer Gary Vitti discussed how O’Neal once hurt him in the recently released “Shaq” documentary. At one point, Vitti was being frisked by Shaq in full view of everyone. After this, Vitti had had enough one morning and when the Lakers star attempted to continue with his customary frisking, he resisted and punched him.
In the documentary, Vitti describes the incident stating: “So he turned around and yelled to everybody in the training room, ‘he’s resisting arrest!’ And he went to wind up to punch me, and I saw it coming so I turned, and he hit me right in the back of my pelvis. I had to get 2 injections to walk.”
Shaquille O’Neal’s era of dominance in the NBA
NBA on TNT host, Shaquille O’Neal was regarded by many as the most dominant player in the NBA’s seventy-five-year existence. He won various honors during his 19 seasons in the league, including MVP and Rookie of the Year. In addition to three MVP trophies in the Finals, O’Neal won four NBA titles.
Heavyweight O’Neal had an immediate impact after the Orlando Magic acquired him first overall in the 1992 NBA Draft. The LSU alumni played in the 1995 NBA Finals after spending four seasons with Orlando. He established a league scoring record that season by averaging 29.3 points per game.
In 1996, Shaquille O’Neal became a member of the Los Angeles Lakers, a team that would go on to gain a lot of prominence in his era. From 2000 through 2003, O’Neal and Kobe Bryant’s Lakers led the NBA to three straight championships.
After making a comeback and helping the Miami Heat win their first NBA championship in the 2006 NBA Finals, the Miami Heat and Los Angeles Lakers decided to retire O’Neal’s number.
He shares fourth place for the most selections in NBA All-Star history with 15 All-Star outings. He was selected for the NBA’s 50th and 75th-anniversary teams after an outstanding career that concluded in 2011 and was inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame the following year.
Shaquille O’Neal is the Law and Order
When serving as a police officer, the50-year-old was once forced through a door for no apparent reason. The Big Diesel has also appeared in the movie named “Grown Ups 2” as a police officer. He has previously said that he is particularly passionate about working with the special victim’s detective squad to stop crimes against minors.
In 2017, O’Neal stated his intention to run for Henry County, where he promised to restore community policing and create a safe environment. O’Neal was sworn in as a reserve officer in a secret ceremony in 2005, and oddly enough, he only receives $1 a year in pay.
All of this indicates, or at least hints, that he wasn’t only a great basketball player, who dominated each and every defensive unit he faced but also a prolific police officer.
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