Linebacker Jeremy Banks out of Tennessee was arrested on campus this past month.
On September 15, Banks was pulled over after making a U-turn and was arrested after he had a suspended driver’s license and had a warrant for not showing up to court for a driving citation back in July.
On the drive to the Know County Detention Center, he told a woman in the car “Ma’am, you don’t wanna be an intern because where I’m from we shoot at cops. I’m from Memphis, Tennessee.”
Banks then got his phone call to talk to his head coach, Jeremy Pruitt.
Pruitt said “I still don’t understand this. The kid don’t have nobody at home to help him like figure out how to do this and he came to ask how to do it. His grandfather died and we got the people from the state troopers’ office to walk him through how to do it. That’s why I’m kind of confused why he would have this.”
Banks sent an apology video through his football program on Tuesday…
Banks said: “I want to sincerely apologize to my family, the University of Tennessee and the law enforcement community. I deeply regret my language and attitude in the video. I have great respect for our policemen and women, and I am embarrassed by my actions that night. That’s not who I am. I promise to be a better representative for the University of Tennessee moving forward.”
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