Abed Hassuneh, the brother of a man who filed a lawsuit against Eddie Griffin, called police shortly after 6 p.m. Thursday, about an hour after Griffin and a friend came to his store near the University of Minnesota.

Once at the store, Hassuneh said, Griffin had a store employee call him at home and that was when the player threatened him and called him names.

"It's an uncivilized way of settling something," Hassuneh said Saturday. "He started making threats that he'd have people to deal with me."

Griffin confirmed to a reporter that he went to the store and had spoken with Hassuneh on the phone. "I went there yesterday and asked him why he was doing that," Griffin said late Friday.

He said he told Hassuneh that an allegation that he was masturbating at the time of the accident was false and that nobody should have said that.