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Cowboys' Ezekiel Elliott Under Police Investigation for Security Guard Incident

The Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department has confirmed it's investigating Dallas Cowboys running back Ezekiel Elliott for alleged battery after a confrontation with a security guard in May.

TMZ Sports reported Kyle Johnson, the security guard, contacted the department and asked them to open a criminal investigation.

Video of the altercation that previously leaked shows Elliott getting in the face of a security guard and knocking him over after he backed into a barricade. Elliott is then led away by the woman he was with before being placed in handcuffs by police officers at the event.