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Dalvin Cook Suspended from Florida State Football Team After Being Charged With Battery

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Weeks after allegedly punching a woman outside a local bar, Florida State running back Dalvin Cook turned himself in on charges of misdemeanor battery.

Cook, 19, was released on bond Friday from the Leon County Jail shortly after the State Attorney in Tallahassee filed the battery charges against him, the Tallahassee Democrat reported.

Florida State University (FSU) head football coach Jimbo Fisher suspended Cook indefinitely, indicating in his statement he had seen a video of the incident.

"It is important to me that our fans and the public be aware that I do not tolerate the type of behavior that was captured on video and that was most recently alleged," Fisher said. "We will do better. I will not tolerate anything less."

Cook is the second Seminole in the past few weeks to have been charged with battery for hitting a woman at a bar. Fisher recently dismissed De'Andre Johnson, a backup quarterback, after surveillance footage from within the bar showed him punching a 21-year-old FSU student.

Cook is accused of hitting a female, who is not an FSU student, multiple times outside Clyde's and Costello's around 2 a.m. on June 23, the Democrat reported. The woman and her friend were apparently talking with a group of FSU football players.

Court documents obtained by the Democrat indicate another FSU football player was trying to get the woman's phone number, but was being denied. While walking away, yelling obscenities as she went, the documents stated Cook intervened to try and calm the situation. However, he started hitting the woman after she had pushed another one of the FSU football players in the group.

Willie Meggs, State Attorney in Tallahassee, told the Democrat the alleged victim and one other witness to the incident were "very credible."

"They have a good recall of the events of the evening," he said, "and they are pretty confident in their identification."

The victim told ESPN.com the football players were coming onto her and were bragging about playing football at FSU. She said she identified Cook at a lineup and chose to pursue charges against him.

"They kept telling me they were football players," the woman told ESPN.com. "They kept telling me to Google them. They told me they were football players and they could buy me in two years."

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