CLEVELAND -- Cleveland Browns football player Corey Fuller spoke out Monday about his arrest for disorderly conduct.

Police said that Fuller (pictured, left) blocked traffic Saturday night and didn't follow police orders.

But as NewsChannel5's Chris Hernandez reports, Fuller said that it was nothing serious.

Fuller is a cornerback, but on Monday, he tried to back himself out of a corner.

He was arrested after Saturday night's game, accused by police of disorderly conduct while blocking traffic on the way to the Flats.

He insisted that he wasn't causing trouble.

"I never had my rights read to me, I never had handcuffs -- I couldn't have been too bad," Fuller said.

The incident allegedly occurred at West 25th Street and Detroit Avenue. Fuller had just come over the Detroit-Superior Bridge, reportedly headed for the west bank of the Flats.

Police said that after Fuller missed the turn toward the Flats, he asked two police officers if he could make the turn anyway. Both officers apparently told him to move on. By that time, Fuller was in the intersection, and police said that he blocked traffic for a full eight minutes on a busy Saturday night.

The police report said that Fuller stated "I'm Corey Fuller of the Cleveland Browns." The police officer allegedly said, "That's nice, but you need to leave the intersection now."

"All I wanted to know was a different way to get down there," he said. "I had never been that way. That's what it all boils down to. But I never got a chance to ask that question."

The police officer also wrote that Fuller said that he "would give me $5,000 if I would let him go."

Police are still investigating that, but Fuller denies it.

"I'm not walking around with $5,000 in my pocket," he said. "What was I going to do -- write him a check?"

Fuller is known for helping people, like when he comforted the family of Tiffany Dunning, a 13-year-old who was accidentally shot and killed. Fuller lost his own brother to violent crime.

He said that the traffic problem isn't really a problem.

"I've been through stuff way deeper than this in my life," he said. "I know everything was handled wrong anyway, because I've seen people arrested for real crimes."

Fuller was arrested for disorderly conduct, but the city prosecutor has changed the charge to a misdemeanor called " obstruction of official business."

Fuller has a court date Thursday.

Late Monday afternoon, Cleveland's police chief issued a one-day suspension for Cmdr. Charles McNeely.

The police report said that McNeely showed up at the scene with two Browns executives a little after midnight Sunday morning, apparently to help Fuller after his arrest.