If that would have happened in Canada; the RCMP would have accepted his apologies and that would have been the end of it.
Plus the RCMP wouldn't have asked one other swimmer for close to $40,000, then the swimmer attorney contested, and then the Rio judge or police raised that amount right away to close to $60,000! Just so that he could have his passport back, fly home, and not be charged! In Canada that's not how the police and judges operate. ...They finally agreed on $11,000
Yes yes yes Ryan did this and said that. He was pissed off @ those two guards off duty, who draw their guns, and wanted money on the spot (they gave them $70 US equivalent total), when the Shell gas station employee saif that the damaged poster was worth $20.
There was never any mention of the bathroom's damage, because none was done to it! But the Rio police chief said in his official statement, press conference, that the US swimmers vandalized the restroom by breaking two mirrors and the soap dispenser after breaking the door! That is a straight lie! Him too embellished the story, why?
And also, why they didn't release two of the swimmers' statements? First they deleted essential key paragraphs, then they decided to not release them @ all!
Plus, they omitted key moments from the video camera aiming directly @ the restroom door! Why?
Plus, they also omitted video segment where the two "security detail" (off duty prison guards from another district) guys draw their guns on the four swimmers and the money delivered to them! Why?
Plus, they mentioned two women accompanying the four swimmers in the cab, as "sex" friends! Why? It is simply not true again.
Plus, they don't want to release the names and pictures of those two off duty prison guards, because they say they fear for their reputation and for their life!
Yes yes yes Ryan over exaggerated, we all know that, and he did admit it and he did apologize to all people from Rio, to the police department, to all Brazilians, to all Americans, to the Olympic committee, to all the Olympic workers and volunteers, to the US swimming team, to his three swimmers friends, to the entire world.
What else could be done to Ryan so that everyone is fully satisfied? Put in jail for six months and paid a fine of $250,000? ...After paying his lawyers roughly $1 million, plus all other expenses? And staying in Rio during the entire court proceedings...nine months? Ok, maybe not nine months but perhaps nine weeks.
If someone knows the best solution @ this time, because he is officially charged with lying and the consequences that come with it, from one to six months in jail that he is facing, legal expenses, extradition matters, US vs Brazil amnesty laws and court systems, the reputation of the two countries, the Olympic committee's next assessment and judgement, so on and so on; then please tell me.
Methinks that the US and Brazil governments should come to a peaceful and satisfying agreement.
