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The sheriff in King County, Washington is not having it with the NFL. John Urquhart lambasted the NFL on Thursday after the league singled out his agency as the reason it did not have all the information in former New York Giants kicker Josh Brown's domestic violence case.

"I don't like to get pushed around by a bully," Urquhart said in a radio interview on Thursday, per USA Today. "Or I can be charitable and say they don't know the facts. They don't understand how public disclosure works. That's a better way to put it, if I felt like being charitable.

"I don't like the NFL taking shots at the sheriff's office when it's not deserved. It's real simple."

The league had issued a statement earlier Thursday in which it stated the refusal by the King County sheriff's office to provide evidence impeded the NFL's ability to fully investigate the matter.

"NFL investigators made repeated attempts -- both orally and in writing -- to obtain any and all evidence and relevant information in this case from the King County sheriff's office. Each of those requests was denied and the sheriff's office declined to provide any of the requested information, which ultimately limited our ability to fully investigate this matter."

Urquhart disputed that characterization of events, per USA Today, stating that his office received phone calls relating to the case, but turned away requests for evidence because the case was still active. Another person requested documents but did not identify himself as working for the NFL.

"We didn't use the Google to Google this guy's name (until Thursday)," Urquhart said. "Turns out, he is a security representative based in Seattle for the NFL. He never told us that."

The NFL elected to suspend Brown for one game as a result of the incident, but more evidence has since come out, notably written confessions of physical, verbal, and mental abuse in Brown's journals. The NFL has now moved Brown to the commissioner exempt list, and a lengthier suspension is likely on its way.

"Since it was a hot button item and since it's the NFL, we probably would have told them orally a little bit more about we had," Urquhart said. "We would have told (the NFL investigator), or I would have told him, 'Be careful, NFL. Don't rush into this. This case is blossoming way more than what happened on May 22 of 2015. We are getting more information.'

"We wouldn't have gotten into specifics, but we would have cautioned the NFL to be careful with what they were going to do."

The NFL probably wishes it had gotten that advice before handing down Brown's one-game suspension.