This is about Kareem Hunt. For those who don’t know, Hunt is the starting running back for the KC Chiefs. Well, he was until a video emerged of him in an altercation with a young woman. He knocked down another dude who inadvertently knocked her to the ground. The altercation continued and Hunt kicked her while she was down. Hunt was fired the day the video emerged and now is waiting to see if another team wants to take a chance on him. I’m going to say something that is not politically correct: Hunt was put in a dangerous position and reacted the wrong way. This should not mean he no longer has a career in the NFL.
Here is the video. It has been deemed a brutal assault and drawn comparisons to the Ray Rice assault. However, a careful analysis of both shows but two key commonalities. Both women delivered the first hit and both videos were released by TMZ in an effort to draw in more clicks. In the hunt video the kick was delivered with little to no force in an effort to humiliate and demean vs. do damage.
That doesn’t make it right, but it does raise questions about whether or not a man can recover from this kind of media coverage.