An aggravated menacing charge against Cincinnati Bengals running back Joe Mixon was dismissed Friday morning.
Mixon, 26, had been accused of threatening a woman at gunpoint on Jan. 21 in downtown Cincinnati. The charge was filed Thursday.
At a Friday morning hearing, Cincinnati prosecutors asked for the dismissal, the Cincinnati Enquirer reported. The alleged victim agreed with the move, prosecutors told Judge Curt Kissinger. The charge can be refiled.
Mixon’s agent said police were in a “rush to judgment” when they filed the charge.
A woman told authorities that Mixon pulled a gun on her and said, “You should be popped in the face. I should shoot you, the police [can’t] get me,” according to charging documents.
The incident allegedly occurred one day before the Bengals played the Buffalo Bills in the NFL playoffs. The Bengals won that game in Buffalo before losing in the next round.
In 2014, while at the University of Oklahoma, Mixon was caught on camera punching a woman in the face at a restaurant. The woman was also an Oklahoma student at the time.
Mixon, then 18, entered an Alford plea, in which a defendant does not admit guilt but acknowledges there is sufficient evidence for a conviction. He got a deferred jail sentence and community service.
