Notes taken by Officer E.E. Bridges shortly after the arrest reflect Williams profanely threatening sex acts with the officer's wife and daughter and later called Bridges, who is white, a "honky" coupled with a sexual epithet. Williams, who is black, also said the officer arrested him because he was jealous of his date and that Williams was "an [n-word]'' in a Bentley, according to the officer's notes.
"Almost every other rant was racial," Bridges wrote in the handwritten report. "Loud and yelling throughout ride to jail."
Williams also offered to let Bridges have sex with his date "if you let me go," according to the officer's notes.
The incident wasn't taped.
Another Jaguar, Khalif Barnes, launched a similar rant when he was arrested two months later. His was captured on videotape.
Williams, 28, apologized after the incident and following news reports indicated he made racially provocative comments. But the actual statements were not part of the public record at that time.
He declined comment Tuesday through his attorney, Hank Coxe. "I didn't say anything in 2006, but it isn't within Brian Williams' makeup to be the one to initiate any racial remarks," Coxe said.
Jaguars spokesman Dan Edwards said the team has no comment on Williams' remarks. Assistant State Attorney Richard Mantei, who is prosecuting Williams, also declined to discuss the case.
Then new to Jacksonville, Williams was arrested in September 2006 on West Bay Street downtown after swerving and running Bridges' patrol car into a curb, according to a police report. The player was coming from Club Paris at The Jacksonville Landing and refused to submit to a blood-alcohol test.
Williams didn't reveal he played for the Jaguars, and Bridges indicated in his notes that he didn't learn that until the next morning on the Internet. Williams was a recent acquisition from the Minnesota Vikings and had just received a $10 million signing bonus.
Williams immediately pleaded guilty, received a standard six-month probation sentence and suspended license and apologized to the team, police and community. But later that month, Williams returned to court saying he wanted to withdraw his plea because he didn't understand its ramifications, didn't think he could pay a $2,500 bail and wanted to get out of jail.
Three months ago, an appellate judge allowed him to withdraw the plea over the state's objections, and the case began anew. A pretrial hearing is scheduled Monday.
The Times-Union obtained Bridges' notes Monday through a public records request seeking recent filings in the case. The document reveals Williams ranting about everything from sex to social status.
According to the report, Williams said he would rather flip burgers than be a police officer and bragged that he went to a "name college" while the (expletive deleted) officer "went to public college, probably junior college." Williams attended North Carolina State University.
Asked if he wanted his female passenger to take his car, Williams replied, "I ain't letting that ho take my car," Bridges wrote. Advised that a tow truck was the only alternative, Bridges said Williams responded: "Let the [expletive deleted] take it."
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