In San Diego, California, Shawne Merriman, San Diego's outside line backer is accused of choking his girlfriend and restraining her. His girlfriend is MTV's reality T.V. star, Tila Tequila, also known as Tila Nguyen, and was taken into custody Sunday morning.

Tila was hospitalized after she called 911 on her boyfriend for abusing her at his suburban house in Poway. She is pressing charges on Merriman for battery and false imprisonment with the County Sheriff's department in San Diego. Her 911 call states that he Merriman choked her and threw her down to the ground when she was trying to leave the residence.

The release of Shawne Merriman and future court proceedings will be updated and posted in the news. As of right now, neither party has anything to comment on at the moment, says their lawyers.

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There are a lot of people out there that think they can beat up on women and not get away with it. The stars think they are invisible to everything and they use their money to get them out of bad situations. They try to keep things quiet, try to get a lower sentence, or to get away with what they did with no consequences. It's sad that a man, so much bigger that a woman, will beat on her to make himself feel more like a man.