Friday afternoon, TMZ dropped a bomb on the Kansas City Chiefs and the NFL when they released a video of KC running back Kareem Hunt punching and kicking a woman in a Cleveland hotel from this past February. A few hours later, the former NFL Rookie of the Year would find himself released by the Chiefs as a result of lying to the team and the League.
Statement from the Kansas City Chiefs on Kareem Hunt
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— Kansas City Chiefs (@Chiefs) December 1, 2018
Via TMZ:
In the video, Hunt is seen arguing with a 19-year-old woman outside of his room at The Metropolitan at the 9 at 3:22 AM on February 10, 2018.
Hunt turns a corner and confronts the woman, shoving her hard. The woman strikes him back in the face … and that’s when Hunt goes berserk.
As friends try to hold him back, the 2017 Pro Bowler — who led the league in rushing yards — explodes and knocks one of his friends into the woman … who both go flying into a wall.
Both Kareem’s male friend and the woman appear dazed — but Kareem makes his way over to the female and kicks her while she’s crouching on the ground … knocking her over.
Below is the video in question:
So is Hunt’s release by the Chiefs another Ray Rice situation in which the an NFL team and the League are reactionary only when an extremely incriminating video is made public? Well the Chiefs and the NFL are going with the notion that the hotel in Cleveland would not share the video of the Hunt incident with either investigation.
Neither the NFL nor the Chiefs viewed the Kareem Hunt video before it became public today, per official.
Other info on the case: pic.twitter.com/dch7mbY3Y5
— Adam Schefter (@AdamSchefter) December 1, 2018
So is it possible the NFL and the Chiefs are being forthcoming about when they knew and didn’t know about Hunt for over ten months now? Perhaps, however in any sense both the League and Kansas City seem to be releasing Hunt for lying to them and not necessarily hitting a woman.
