VIDEO SHOWS HUNT BEATING WOMAN

Kansas City Chiefs cut their star running back and reigning NFL rushing champion, who they say had lied about what happened during the incident in February.

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The Kansas City Chiefs released running back Kareem Hunt on Friday night after video surfaced that showed the NFL’s reigning rushing champion knocking over and kicking a woman in a Cleveland hotel hallway on Feb. 10.

The team issued a statement shortly after the NFL had placed Hunt on its Commissioner Exemption List that said the running back had lied when asked about the incident by team officials. The team said “the video today confirms that fact. We are releasing Kareem immediately.”

Hunt was at the Chiefs’ facility earlier Friday in preparation for Sunday’s trip to Oakland, but he was excused and sent home shortly after TMZ posted the video online.

The Chiefs and the NFL have been aware of Hunt’s incident since it occurred, but the video brings a new dimension to the case. It shows Hunt lunging toward a woman and several others in the hotel hallway, and the second-year pro being restrained several times. Hunt later shoves an individual and knocks down a woman, whom he then kicks on the ground.

No charges have been filed stemming from the altercation, but two police reports were created. In one report, 19-year-old Abigail Ottinger is listed as a suspect, and in another Hunt is listed as a suspect.

According to one of the police reports, Ottinger and a friend told police they were Kent State students and were traveling to Cleveland bars with Hunt and his friends on a party bus.

According to the police reports, Ottinger and her friend went back to Hunt’s hotel apartment, and Hunt’s friend told police that he kicked the girls out of the apartment when he learned they were 19. Ottinger told police they were kicked out because she “didn’t want” one of the men in the group. The man was not specifically identified.

According to Hunt’s friend in one of the reports, Ottinger called Hunt and his friends racial slurs when they were told to leave. Once outside of the room, the report says, Ottinger and her friend banged on the hotel door “about 20 times.” Ottinger eventually sat down on the ground outside the room, according to the report, and that’s when Hunt and another friend came outside to tell them to “go home” and Hunt “shoved and pushed” her.