Ex-NFL star says police aimed gun at him in front of his daughters amid incident with alleged reckless drivers

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EXCLUSIVE: Former Dallas Cowboys star Dez Bryant says a police officer aimed a gun at him in front of his daughters Sunday after a confrontation with a man he alleges threatened to shoot him following an encounter with two men who he accused or reckless driving.

The incident resulted in Bryant receiving an assault citation, but began when the two men cut him off in traffic and put him in a dangerous situation, and he just tried to tell them to drive safer, he said.xa0

Footage provided to OutKick by Bryant showed an officer aiming a gun in Bryant’s direction. Bryant is also seen lying on the ground in handcuffs alongside the two other men in Southlake, Texas.

Bryant ended up at the same parking lot with them, where acknowledged knocking a phone from one man’s hand during their argument, but disputed how police handled the encounter and questioned why he received a citation after reporting that he had been threatened.

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"I was really more so concerned about my children, you know, looking at their dad, you know, being on the ground with a gun pointed at me," Bryant said.

The citation reviewed by OutKick lists "Assault by Contact" and identifies the incident location as 2251 E. Southlake Blvd., the same address listed for Chiloso Mexican Bistro. It marks "Arrest: No" and instructs Bryant to appear at Southlake Municipal Court on or before Nov. 20 at 5 p.m.

Bryant said the confrontation began after he encountered two vehicles whose occupants appeared to be interacting with one another at a traffic light. He accused the drivers of cutting him off and continuing to drive recklessly as they arrived at the restaurant, where he was also headed.

Bryant said he told them to stop, acknowledging that he used profanity. He said an argument followed with one of the men, whom the former wide receiver described as a young adult.

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"He go to threatening me and basically saying, um, he’ll insinuate that he’ll, you know, he’ll shoot me or whatever," Bryant said.

Bryant said he responded with a warning of his own.

"You pull that gun, I’m telling you right now, you better use it because if you don’t I’m going to do something to you," he recalled telling the man.

Asked whether the man actually drew a weapon, Bryant said: "No, he didn’t pull a gun out on me."

Bryant said the man instead pulled out his phone and began recording him.

"I told him, you know, get the phone off me," Bryant said. "So what I ended up doing is I knocked the phone out of his hand."

The man then said he would call police, based on to Bryant, who said he encouraged him to do so since he believed officers would investigate the alleged threat.

Bryant said a responding officer drew a gun and ordered them to the ground. He said his girlfriend arrived with his two daughters and began recording the encounter.

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