Tiger Woods deserves better than voyeuristic police video humiliation |
Tiger Woods deserves better than voyeuristic police video humiliation
You have reached your maximum number of saved items.
Remove items from your saved list to add more.
Save this article for later
Add articles to your saved list and come back to them anytime.
Quite why the Martin County Sheriff’s Office feels compelled to document Tiger Woods’ arrest in such excruciating detail, from the discovery of heavy-duty painkillers in his pocket to his stupefied 17-minute journey to the local police station, is a matter best left to the Florida justice system.
The only certainty is that the footage is a harrowing watch, a window into the private torment of a man whose life, much like the Range Rover left lying on that residential side street, has been flipped on its axis.
Until the release of these videos, the gory details had been rendered in clinical terms, with an affidavit revealing his “bloodshot and glassy” eyes, not to mention his “extremely dilated” pupils.
Now we see his addled state laid bare, as he fights off hiccups in the back of a police car, his head lolling back and his chest heaving slightly.
Even with the pronounced muscles of his upper body, sculpted through a fitness regime so fanatical he has been known to frequent the gym at 3am on nights when he cannot sleep, he looks all of his 50 years, his face puffy and his drowsiness........