Two wrongs don’t make a right.
You have heard that saying all your life probably from your grandmother or your mother. It is very clear that Kareem Hunt had several options that night which would have kept him employed.
He could have called cops or security. He could have let his boys who don’t have multimillion contracts to handle the situation. He could have just stayed in his room. Instead, Hunt aggressively shoved and lightly kicked a woman because he was upset that she called him a nigger and wouldn’t leave the room.
ESPN reports on how Hunted ended up in the situation that at the moment has him out of NFL.
“I only know those girls through a friend,” Watkins tells officers in the video. “They invited us to a club tonight. We got to the club, and they were overly drunk, as you can tell. But come to find out, they’re not even 21. They’re 19 years old. We were like, ‘Can you guys please leave us alone?'”
Watkins tells police Ottinger and her friend, Dominique Hamilton, got along fine with everyone throughout the evening, but that ended inside Hunt’s residence. According to Watkins’ account, Hunt said Ottinger and Hamilton couldn’t stay the night. Watkins says he offered $20 when they said they didn’t have enough money for an Uber ride home. After he sent them into the hall, Ottinger began to scream and pound on the door, according to his account.
“They’re in the hallway, like standing by the elevator,” Watkins tells police. “I come out and I’m like, ‘You guys are being too loud. Please just leave us alone.’ She started freaking out, grabbing the back of my head. She broke my necklace. She tried calling me the N-word. She called us n—–s and s— like that. We’re like, ‘There is no point of you to do that. We just want you to leave us alone.’ Then they started getting aggressive, hitting us.”
He says Hunt’s friend, Nicole McManamon, went into the hall to try to calm Ottinger down, and that’s when things got even more physical.
“[McManamon] was being really nice, like, ‘Hey guys, could you please leave? You’re being obnoxious; you’re bothering us. Please leave,” Watkins tells police. “And then they f—ing tackled her.”
A friend of Hunt’s attempts to hold Hunt back, but Ottinger appears to reach past that man and strike Hunt. Several of Hunt’s friends drag him back into his apartment, but he surges back into the frame and careens into another friend, who careens into Ottinger, who falls near a wall.
None of this excuses Hunt’s actions, but it does give you insight on what happened that night from both sides that started with underage drinking.
Hunt’s career in jeopardy because he couldn’t keep his cool after being called racial slurs and struck in the face. While no one unless you are black knows what it is like to be called a nigger, you just have to walk away when you have more to lose than the other person.
Flip the pages for all the videos of incident.