NFL working once more Adrian Peterson was taken into police custody Sunday morning after he and his wife Ashley have been involved in a house violence matter. The couple was at Los Angeles Worldwide Airport and on their method once more to Houston when the airport responded to “a verbal and bodily altercation between a male suspect and a female sufferer,” per the police report.
“It’s blown out of proportion,” Peterson knowledgeable Mark Berman of Houston’s KRIV. “Me and the wife obtained into an argument on the airplane. That was simply concerning the gist of it. I ended up grabbing her hand and taking her ring off her finger. She didn’t press any prices. The state of California pressed prices on account of there was a scratch on her hand. Really that’s why I went to jail, on account of the ring left a scratch on her finger.”
“I do know the headlines: Residence violence,” Peterson added. “You’d suppose I beat her up or one factor. It was nothing like that.”
A seven-time Skilled Bowler and current free agent, Peterson already has a historic previous of family violence. In late 2014, he was charged with “reckless or negligent injury to a toddler” in Montgomery County, Texas after using a tree division to spank his 4-year-old son. Peterson allegedly struck his son all through his physique, along with the boy’s lower once more, buttocks, and scrotum. Consistent with police research, the boy moreover said his father stuffed his mouth with leaves and that he was scared Peterson would retaliate if he went to the authorities.
Peterson was loads milder when he gave his facet of the events, though. “On no account do I am going overboard!” he said in an interview with Sports activities actions Radio 610. “Nevertheless all my kids will know, hey daddy has the biggie coronary coronary heart nonetheless don’t play no video video games as regards to showing correct.” He averted jail time by agreeing to a plea deal nonetheless did admit he was nonetheless using bodily self-discipline as simply recently as 2018.
With regard to yesterday’s fracas (and equivalent to what was knowledgeable to Mark Berman), Ashley Peterson refused to endure with pressing prices in opposition to her husband. After he was booked on the Los Angeles Police Division Pacific Division, Peterson was given $50,000 bail. He posted bond and was launched shortly afterward.
“This could be a private misunderstanding between husband and wife and we anticipate it ought to all be resolved shortly,” the couple said in a joint assertion.
“Solely issue I will say is it seems to be like horrible on account of Adrian Peterson arrested for house violence,” Peterson moreover knowledgeable Berman. “I don’t hit women. It’s not that type of state of affairs, and it merely seems to be like harmful. I’ll deal with it, and God eager get the prices dropped and switch on.”
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