Police video shows cops dragging Marshawn Lynch from car in DUI arrest

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Police bodycam video shows former NFL star Marshawn Lynch being dragged from his vehicle before he fell to the ground during his DUI arrest earlier this week.

Lynch was in his parked car, asleep and smelling of alcohol when Las Vegas police officers found him in his damaged sports car, the Associated Press reported.

The video shows the former Seattle Seahawks running back at first speaking to cops, but when he is asked to step out of the vehicle, Lynch refuses — leaving them no choice but to forcibly remove him from the car.

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“What’s the problem? The car’s not on, the car’s not going,” Lynch is heard assuring an officer.

“Right now, if you don’t get out of the vehicle, you’re going to be charged with obstructing an investigation,” an officer tells him. “That is a criminal offence and you will go to jail.”

When Lynch asks, “What kind of obstructing,” the officer responds, “There’s not different kinds. There’s only one kind: Failure to obey a lawful order by an officer is obstructing.”

He is then yanked from the car, which Lynch strangely told cops he stole.

Lynch’s 2020 Shelby GT500 was “undriveable,” according to arresting officer Kevin Barker, who wrote in the arrest report that one of the front wheels was missing and the rear driver’s side and front passenger wheels were badly damaged.

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The arrest report detailed that there were markings found by investigators that suggested the car “hit sidewalk areas” before it stopped in an industrial area of downtown Las Vegas.

“The driver was asleep behind the wheel with the driver’s door open leaning back in the seat with bloodshot, watery eyes and had one shoe on and one shoe off,” the report stated.

Lynch’s attorneys, David Chesnoff and Richard Schonfeld, responded in a statement that the former football player’s car “was safely parked and not in operation” when he was approached by police on Tuesday morning.

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“Marshawn was not pulled over for a DUI,” the statement said. “We are confident that when all evidence is presented, this will not be a DUI under Nevada law.”

He faces charges of DUI, failure or refusal to surrender proof of insurance, driving an unregistered vehicle, and failure to drive in a travel lane.

He is scheduled to appear in court on Dec. 7.

Lynch’s arrest came the day after the Seahawks announced he was hired as a special correspondent. No word on whether that is still the case.