oh yeah, whoever that woman was she's about to get P-A-I-D
UPDATE: Kareem Hunt RELEASED BY CHIEFS!
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And TMZ uncovering more shit... incident during playoffs in Jan.
http://www.tmz.com/2018/12/03/kareem-hunt-nightclub-attack-police-report/
Now he's a violent black man with an established pattern of volatile behavior and the NFL has covered it up.
But let a nigga kneel during the anthem
Now he's a violent black man with an established pattern of volatile behavior and the NFL has covered it up.
But let a nigga kneel during the anthem
It's funny,how black people always get their past dugged up,magically yet they got a hidden tape of the 7th Heaven guy confessing about touching a little girl nothing was done to him and they done dropped many charges n Harvey Weistein caseyet folks want to dig up something that has nothing to do this situation.
I’m still trying to figure out how Ben Rapistberger doesn’t get same coverage
I woulda gave miko like 4 babys
I see,Ray Lewis on that fuck shit again.
How can this dude act high and mighty yet he was accused of killing two people and then his son was accused of raping some woman.....
How can this dude act high and mighty yet he was accused of killing two people and then his son was accused of raping some woman.....
One chick was he/said she said. The second one cops made sure the bar erased the tape, showing Ben going into the bathroom with the girl.
The hypocrisy just amazes me,sometimes.
I see,Ray Lewis on that fuck shit again.
How can this dude act high and mighty yet he was accused of killing two people and then his son was accused of raping some woman.....
Wait
WHAT!??!
His son WHAT?!?
https://www.myrtlebeachonline.com/news/local/crime/article155689229.html
After that he transferred to VA Union (Div 2) here in Richmond. I've played against him in our flag football league a few times
So its the 21st Century and we still loose our minds when someone hurls a racial slur at us ? That sounds like bondage to me , when you call another group a name that's not us it just bounces off, even the females seem to not get so broken up from being called certain names I'm seeing but us, we will give up $$Millions of dollars to satisfy our pointless rage. We give too much power to any person who says something like that and its hilarious.....THAT'S WHY THEY SAY IT To SET YOU OFF and quiet often IT WORKS!!.
Guilty or Innocent
You would think something like that...
which was obviously under reported
would make Ray chill the f*ck out on how he speaks on these topics in the future.
You'd think being accused of MURDER and essentially getting away with it would have made him chill the fuck out
I understand,that a person that was in trouble early in their life wants help folks,especially folks that's younger than them. Even more,specifically,young black people but when you act all high and mighty and think you're better than them you're a problem.
Cris Carter and Coon Lewis have habit of doing this bullshit. I get even more annoyed with Coon Lewis because he always trying to act like a fucking preacher when he talks....
And the fact that Lewis is NOT smart REALLY pisses me off
talking like a preacher and citing vague bible passages
without any REAL THOUGHT
is offensive as f*ck
Sportswriters Are Too Outraged By Kareem Hunt To Bother To Learn What Domestic Violence Is
The video, once again, is brutal. In the recording from The Metropolitan at the 9 hotel in Cleveland, you can see Kareem Hunt shove and kick a 19-year-old woman. The day the video was published by TMZ, Hunt still was a running back with the Kansas City Chiefs. That night, he was cut. Nobody has signed Hunt yet, and that grew increasingly unlikely after TMZ and KCTV5 reported that Hunt had been the suspect in an assault at a nightclub earlier this year. (The case was dropped when the complainant stopped speaking to police.)
What unfolds in the video is truly awful to watch. The sports media, in turn, did what it does best—got angry and churn out takes. Anger sells, and it’s relatively easy to spit out a few hundred words about how appalled you are by domestic violence. The same way “tough on crime” can be the ticket to winning elections for top prosecutors, “tough on domestic violence” is all but a given among modern sportswriters. Which is fine, I suppose—it’s better than being for domestic violence. But lost in all the outrage and hot takes was a key fact: What Hunt did wasn’t domestic violence. It wasn’t intimate-partner violence. It is in no way covered by the Violence Against Women Act.
Yet sportswriters ignored this inconvenient fact from the get-go. They compared Hunt’s actions to when ex-Ravens running back Ray Rice cold-cocked his wife. They brought up Jovan Belcher, who murdered his girlfriend and then took his own life. They brought up Reuben Foster, who has been charged with misdemeanor domestic violence.Again and again, they declared that Hunt committed domestic violence, ignoring that that’s a specific crime with a specific definition, and that activists worked for years to have that specific crime treated as something separate from “hitting a woman.” In doing so, they reduced the woman who had been shoved and kicked to someone defined by her presumed relationship to a man.
But why let the facts get in the way of a narrative?
What is domestic violence? The federal government’s definition is a bit wonky, but it covers the bases well, and most other definitions don’t stray too far from it:
The term “domestic violence” includes felony or misdemeanor crimes of violence committed by a current or former spouse or intimate partner of the victim, by a person with whom the victim shares a child in common, by a person who is cohabitating with or has cohabitated with the victim as a spouse or intimate partner, by a person similarly situated to a spouse of the victim under the domestic or family violence laws of the jurisdiction receiving grant monies, or by any other person against an adult or youth victim who is protected from that person’s acts under the domestic or family violence laws of the jurisdiction.
You’ll notice that intimate relationships are the key here. That’s because the cycle of domestic violence is possible, in part, due to those connections. These connections—from children to bank accounts to shared space—contribute to the emotional power the abuser has over their victim, which allows victims to be manipulated into staying in dangerous relationships. It’s a cycle of violence, not a one-time act, a cycle that if allowed to continue can grow to consume every waking moment of a person’s life. The cycle is so insidious and yet so well known it has its own visualization, the power and control wheel.
Hunt appears to have met the woman he shoved and kickedjust once. In Cleveland, police took two reports at the hotel; neither mentioned any sort of significant relationship between Hunt and the woman. Everyone who spoke to police said Hunt and the woman met through a mutual friend; in her interview with police, captured by body camera, the woman tells police, “I just met him today, the person who assaulted me.”
So there’s no intimate-partner relationship to speak of; in fact, it would be pushing it to say there was any sort of relationship at all. Could you call them acquaintances? Perhaps. But domestic violence or intimate-partner violence requires a deeper relationship.
This does not take away from the pain and anguish the woman shows in the video, or mitigate any trauma from what happened to her. But not all trauma is domestic violence. This kind of violence is simply covered by the more traditional parts of the law, crimes such as battery and assault.
Sportswriters got this wrong in many ways. Some just couldn’t help themselves and immediately reached for the most convenient comparisons. Like this tweet:
At Yahoo, Kimberley A. Martin comparedtwo recent cases: Foster, who has been charged with slapping his ex-girlfriend, and Hunt. “I’m sick of people acting like they care about domestic violence,” she wrote. I am too! But only one of these fits the bill.
Writing at the Daily Beast, Robert Silverman asserted that watching the Hunt video, “it’s impossible not to recall Ray Rice.” Sure, both involved video, and both involved a man hitting a woman. But the comparison, at best, only partially works, because Rice was filmed harming his then-fiancée, putting it in an entirely separate category. (Silverman also throws in the Foster case.) At Sports Illustrated, Michael Rosenberg’s column started out fine before veering into its own outrageous Rice comparison: He argues there is one major difference between the Rice case and Hunt’s case—one of the men was criminally charged and the other was not. His column goes on and on without ever mentioning the other, really obvious difference: What Hunt did was not domestic violence.
There’s more. Will Leitch called Hunt’s case a “high-profile domestic violenceincident” in a column for New Yorkmagazine. Vice Sports headlined Britni de la Cretaz’s column“Kareem Hunt and a Sports World that Ignores Domestic Violence Victims.” Multiple outlets, including NFL Media, interviewed Rice, who said he wanted to help Hunt. While there is no reason to think his offer doesn’t from a place of compassion, reporters seeking out his perspective specifically doesn’t make sense.
Men hitting women is bad, and Hunt’s actions in the video should be condemned. But calling them “domestic violence” is only possible if you assume that there is nothing unique about a man controlling, abusing, and manipulating his partner. The phrase exists to remind us that physical and emotional abuse of women by their intimate partners has a specific and very dark history. For centuries, it was perfectly legal for a man to legally beat his wife. Domestic violence is a tool of oppression and it must be acknowledged and fully understood before it ever can be snuffed out. To rob the phrase of its meaning, as sportswriters have done, erases feminists’ effort to change that history. It also erases the victim herself by defining her only in relation to a man—even when, as in this case, the relationship barely exists.
Some will certainly argue that this is the wrong point to focus on. Imprecise outrage is better than when sportswriters ignored players’ “off-the-field issues.” It’s better than when sportswriters always took a league or team’s side. But I refuse to believe that I must settle for a standard as low as “at least sportswriters get angry when women get hit.” If they’re going to write hot takes about how much they care about domestic violence, they should bother to learn what the words mean. When we ignore the details of how domestic violence works in favor or turning it into a catch-all phrase, we turn domestic violence into just another piece of jargon—something catchy and meaningless, just one more cool Twitter quote for the sports-media machine.
https://deadspin.com/sportswriters-...ther-1830839608/amp?__twitter_impression=true
The video, once again, is brutal. In the recording from The Metropolitan at the 9 hotel in Cleveland, you can see Kareem Hunt shove and kick a 19-year-old woman. The day the video was published by TMZ, Hunt still was a running back with the Kansas City Chiefs. That night, he was cut. Nobody has signed Hunt yet, and that grew increasingly unlikely after TMZ and KCTV5 reported that Hunt had been the suspect in an assault at a nightclub earlier this year. (The case was dropped when the complainant stopped speaking to police.)
What unfolds in the video is truly awful to watch. The sports media, in turn, did what it does best—got angry and churn out takes. Anger sells, and it’s relatively easy to spit out a few hundred words about how appalled you are by domestic violence. The same way “tough on crime” can be the ticket to winning elections for top prosecutors, “tough on domestic violence” is all but a given among modern sportswriters. Which is fine, I suppose—it’s better than being for domestic violence. But lost in all the outrage and hot takes was a key fact: What Hunt did wasn’t domestic violence. It wasn’t intimate-partner violence. It is in no way covered by the Violence Against Women Act.
Yet sportswriters ignored this inconvenient fact from the get-go. They compared Hunt’s actions to when ex-Ravens running back Ray Rice cold-cocked his wife. They brought up Jovan Belcher, who murdered his girlfriend and then took his own life. They brought up Reuben Foster, who has been charged with misdemeanor domestic violence.Again and again, they declared that Hunt committed domestic violence, ignoring that that’s a specific crime with a specific definition, and that activists worked for years to have that specific crime treated as something separate from “hitting a woman.” In doing so, they reduced the woman who had been shoved and kicked to someone defined by her presumed relationship to a man.
But why let the facts get in the way of a narrative?
What is domestic violence? The federal government’s definition is a bit wonky, but it covers the bases well, and most other definitions don’t stray too far from it:
The term “domestic violence” includes felony or misdemeanor crimes of violence committed by a current or former spouse or intimate partner of the victim, by a person with whom the victim shares a child in common, by a person who is cohabitating with or has cohabitated with the victim as a spouse or intimate partner, by a person similarly situated to a spouse of the victim under the domestic or family violence laws of the jurisdiction receiving grant monies, or by any other person against an adult or youth victim who is protected from that person’s acts under the domestic or family violence laws of the jurisdiction.
You’ll notice that intimate relationships are the key here. That’s because the cycle of domestic violence is possible, in part, due to those connections. These connections—from children to bank accounts to shared space—contribute to the emotional power the abuser has over their victim, which allows victims to be manipulated into staying in dangerous relationships. It’s a cycle of violence, not a one-time act, a cycle that if allowed to continue can grow to consume every waking moment of a person’s life. The cycle is so insidious and yet so well known it has its own visualization, the power and control wheel.
Hunt appears to have met the woman he shoved and kickedjust once. In Cleveland, police took two reports at the hotel; neither mentioned any sort of significant relationship between Hunt and the woman. Everyone who spoke to police said Hunt and the woman met through a mutual friend; in her interview with police, captured by body camera, the woman tells police, “I just met him today, the person who assaulted me.”
So there’s no intimate-partner relationship to speak of; in fact, it would be pushing it to say there was any sort of relationship at all. Could you call them acquaintances? Perhaps. But domestic violence or intimate-partner violence requires a deeper relationship.
This does not take away from the pain and anguish the woman shows in the video, or mitigate any trauma from what happened to her. But not all trauma is domestic violence. This kind of violence is simply covered by the more traditional parts of the law, crimes such as battery and assault.
Sportswriters got this wrong in many ways. Some just couldn’t help themselves and immediately reached for the most convenient comparisons. Like this tweet:
At Yahoo, Kimberley A. Martin comparedtwo recent cases: Foster, who has been charged with slapping his ex-girlfriend, and Hunt. “I’m sick of people acting like they care about domestic violence,” she wrote. I am too! But only one of these fits the bill.
Writing at the Daily Beast, Robert Silverman asserted that watching the Hunt video, “it’s impossible not to recall Ray Rice.” Sure, both involved video, and both involved a man hitting a woman. But the comparison, at best, only partially works, because Rice was filmed harming his then-fiancée, putting it in an entirely separate category. (Silverman also throws in the Foster case.) At Sports Illustrated, Michael Rosenberg’s column started out fine before veering into its own outrageous Rice comparison: He argues there is one major difference between the Rice case and Hunt’s case—one of the men was criminally charged and the other was not. His column goes on and on without ever mentioning the other, really obvious difference: What Hunt did was not domestic violence.
There’s more. Will Leitch called Hunt’s case a “high-profile domestic violenceincident” in a column for New Yorkmagazine. Vice Sports headlined Britni de la Cretaz’s column“Kareem Hunt and a Sports World that Ignores Domestic Violence Victims.” Multiple outlets, including NFL Media, interviewed Rice, who said he wanted to help Hunt. While there is no reason to think his offer doesn’t from a place of compassion, reporters seeking out his perspective specifically doesn’t make sense.
Men hitting women is bad, and Hunt’s actions in the video should be condemned. But calling them “domestic violence” is only possible if you assume that there is nothing unique about a man controlling, abusing, and manipulating his partner. The phrase exists to remind us that physical and emotional abuse of women by their intimate partners has a specific and very dark history. For centuries, it was perfectly legal for a man to legally beat his wife. Domestic violence is a tool of oppression and it must be acknowledged and fully understood before it ever can be snuffed out. To rob the phrase of its meaning, as sportswriters have done, erases feminists’ effort to change that history. It also erases the victim herself by defining her only in relation to a man—even when, as in this case, the relationship barely exists.
Some will certainly argue that this is the wrong point to focus on. Imprecise outrage is better than when sportswriters ignored players’ “off-the-field issues.” It’s better than when sportswriters always took a league or team’s side. But I refuse to believe that I must settle for a standard as low as “at least sportswriters get angry when women get hit.” If they’re going to write hot takes about how much they care about domestic violence, they should bother to learn what the words mean. When we ignore the details of how domestic violence works in favor or turning it into a catch-all phrase, we turn domestic violence into just another piece of jargon—something catchy and meaningless, just one more cool Twitter quote for the sports-media machine.
https://deadspin.com/sportswriters-...ther-1830839608/amp?__twitter_impression=true
Did yaw know his real name is graduel?!?
Graduel Christopher Darin Carter (born November 25, 1965) is a former American football player in the National Football League. He was a wide receiver for the Philadelphia Eagles (1987–89), the Minnesota Vikings (1990–2001) and the Miami Dolphins (2002)
Kareem Hunt Removed from Madden 2019
He will be a Cowboy, Skin, Steeler, or Eagle before the end of next season.
All he had to do is stay in the room and let his folks finish tossing out the basic trash. That's what HANDLERS are for. The kick to the head didn't do him any favors.
So now, let’s make his family the story
Also, I hate the family members who can’t just stfu and tell the media to go pound sand.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/spor...reem-hunt-family-criminal-history/2289525002/
Family of former Kansas City Chiefs star Kareem Hunt has history of criminal behavior
Josh Peter | USA TODAY
Woman's 911 call after physical altercation with Kareem Hunt
Listen to the 911 call reporting the violent altercation between Kansas City Chiefs running back Kareem Hunt and a woman at a Cleveland hotel in February.
USA TODAY
AMHERST, Ohio — Kareem Hunt peeked through window blinds.
It was early Sunday evening when a reporter knocked on the front door of his mother’s house about 35 miles outside of Cleveland.
Stephanie Riggins, Hunt’s mother, opened the door. She closed it almost as fast when the reporter identified himself, making it clear to USA TODAY that uninvited guests were not welcome.
Watching from inside the house was her youngest son, with his signature braids and muscular 5-11, 200-pound frame. He is the star NFL running back who has kept a relatively low profile since he was placed on the commissioner's exempt list and released by the Kansas Chiefs on Nov. 30 after TMZ published a graphic video that shows Hunt shoving and kicking a 19-year-old woman.
Now not only is Kareem Hunt’s football career in jeopardy, but so is his reputation, even in a part of Ohio where he grew up being celebrated for his exploits on the field and where his father and other family members are known for something else — their extensive criminal records.
Hunt’s father, also named Kareem Hunt, has been arrested at least 35 times in northeast Ohio and multiple times on charges of domestic violence, according to records obtained by USA TODAY. Most of the felony convictions were for drug-related offenses. He was sentenced to a combined nine years in prison on nine felony convictions, but it's unclear how much time he spent in jail for dozens of misdemeanor charges.
On Friday, the senior Kareem Hunt, 47, is due in court for nonpayment of court costs, records show. The court appearance stems from a 2012 conviction for disorderly conduct and violating a protecting order, which prohibits an abuser from harassing a victim of domestic violence.
Yet until recently, the junior Kareem Hunt, 23, has avoided serious trouble and was on his way to another 1,000-yard rushing season for the surging Chiefs after he led the NFL in rushing yards as a rookie in 2017.
“I knew it was too good to be true,’’ Ava Hunt, Kareem Hunt’s great aunt, told USA TODAY. “I knew it, I knew it."
In April, Ava Hunt’s son, Rashan Hunt, was sentenced to 23 years in prison for voluntary manslaughter. It was the latest blow for the family.
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While Kareem Hunt grew up in Willoughby, a suburb of Cleveland, and ascended from a three-star prospect at South High School, to an NFL prospect at the University of Toledo and to a third-round draft pick by the Chiefs in 2017, several members of his family faced criminal charges.
“He’s a miracle,’’ said Lorenzo Hunt, Kareem Hunt’s cousin, who was sentenced in 2004 to seven years in prison for aggravated robbery and a felony firearm offense. He added that several family members squandered their own athletic potential. “For Kareem to make it, it’s not just validation for him, it’s validation for all of us who tried our hardest and failed or succumbed to bad situations and poverty.’’
Kevin Riggins, who family members and records say is Kareem Hunt’s uncle, is serving a 10-year prison sentence for drug-trafficking and other drug-related offenses. A cousin, Gregory E. Hunt, is serving a 12-year prison sentence for drug- and gun-related offenses.
Kareem Hunt’s older brother, Clarence Riggins, was sentenced to more than two years in prison after a 2014 conviction for criminal trespass, according to court records. Hunt’s mother was arrested in 2014 on charges of cocaine possession and pleaded guilty to driving under the influence, court records show. Hunt’s stepfather, Deltrin Kimbro, was sentenced in 2004 to eight years in prison for drug trafficking and related offenses, according to court records.
Four more cousins and another uncle have pleaded guilty to felony offenses, most related to drugs, according to court records. .
'All we know is to fight'
Even before Kareem Hunt admitted he lied to the Chiefs prior to TMZ posting the video of his Feb. 10 altercation with a 19-year-old woman at a Cleveland hotel, there were missteps.
In 2011, when Hunt was 16, he was one of four teenage boys in a car when a police officer in Willoughby approached because of suspicious behavior and discovered .38 grams of marijuana and a marijuana grinder, according to a juvenile report obtained from the Willoughby Police Department. The report states that the car’s driver, Matthew A. Hendricks, said the marijuana and grinder were his and his friends, including Hunt, had nothing to do with it.
The matter was referred to juvenile court, according to the report.
In 2015 while he was at Toledo, Hunt was suspended for the first two games of his junior season for an undisclosed violation of team rules.
But it was the TMZ video that resulted in national media comparing Hunt to Ray Rice, whose NFL career ended after a video was released showing Rice punching his then-fiance in the face and knocking her unconscious.
“You see the tape and it just kind of breaks your heart,’’ said Louis Ayeni, who coached Hunt at Toledo and isnow an assistant coach at Northwestern, referring to the security video from the Cleveland hotel. “He’s so likeable and when heknows you, he’s a really giving, caring person. But his choices and his actions put him in this situation right now.’’
Kareem Hunt did not respond to multiple requests for comment made through his agent, Dan Saffron.
Though Hunt has not been charged with a crime, the NFL is investigating three incidents in the past year in which he allegedly was involved in physical altercations — with the woman at a Cleveland hotel in February, with a man at an Ohio resort in June and with another man at a Kansas City club in January.
Lorenzo Hunt said he sees a link between Kareem Hunt’s physical altercation with the 19-year-old woman and his family’s checkered history.
“The only thing that he has now is a resonance, just a small, tiny, little seed of all that anger, all of that trial and tribulation, all of that frustration,’’ said Lorenzo Hunt, 36, who is a professional MMA fighter and also said he works in security. “It’s in him. But it’s not of him. It’s pain from us. It’s not his. He got away.
“It’s like all of us, we fought so hard, that all we know is to fight. To see Little Kareem get out of there, we never even saw that he had so much of us in him until we saw how he fights for the other yard, how he fights for the extra inch, how he never quits no matter (if) you got 300-pound linemen holding on to you, trying to drag you down. He never stops. That’s us. That’s a Hunt.’’
The elder Kareem Hunt was a football star at Collinwood High School in Cleveland and later played in adult leagues, according to family members, who said the sport bound father and son. Or Big Kareem and Little Kareem, as they are still known.
“We used to go to Big Kareem’s games, Little Kareem, I’d carry him with me,’’ said Dixie Hunt Dorsey, Little Kareem’s great-grandmother. “When Big Kareem got the ball to the goal, Little Kareem was right with him. I wish I’d had a camera.’’
Chimed in Ava Hunt, Little Kareem’s great aunt: “He ran out on the field so he could play. He’d see his Daddy playing, and that’s what inspired him to play.’’
The elder Kareem Hunt declined to comment for this story other than to say, “I love my son.’’
Wearing a Chiefs jersey bearing his son’s No. 27 in February, the Big Kareem on behalf of his son accepted a “Hometown Hero’’ award presented by the Ambassador Brothers of Lorain County. And video taken by Ava Hunt shows Big Kareem and Little Kareem joking during a Fourth of July picnic this year as the father sat in a dunking booth and stayed dry as the son threw softballs that missed the target.
“I’m the quarterback and you the running back,’’ Big Kareem can be heard saying with laughter.
But by the time the junior Kareem Hunt was born in 1995, his father had been in and out of jail and Stephanie Riggins was the primary parent for the future NFL star. A few years later she moved him out of Elyria, which has a crime rate higher than 86% of the state's cities and towns of all sizes, according to neighborhoodscout.com.
Four years later they settled in Willoughby, about 50 miles northeast of Elyria, a town notorious for drug abuse and drug trafficking, according to Capt. Christopher P. Constantino of the Elyria Police Department.
Stephanie Riggins declined comment when reached by phone. But Lorenzo Hunt praised her efforts as a mother.
“What Steph did with Little Kareem was absolutely amazing,’’ he said of Stephanie Riggins, who has worked as a home health aide, “that she was able to rise above her station and provide for her son in such a stable fashion.’’
Kareem Hunt was playing linebacker at South High School until the team's running back got hurt. Just like that, Hunt was starting at running back — permanently.
During his junior and senior seasons, he rushed for a combined 5,204 yards and 83 touchdowns. But the hometown hero’s status is complicated in parts of Willoughby.
A bartender at The Wild Goose pointed to a spot on the wall where he said a photo of Hunt was taken down after TMZ posted its video.
“He’s a good kid,’’ said the bartender, who identified himself only as John. “Seems like he’s lost his way a little bit.’’
But around the corner at Frank & Tony’s Place, a server who said she attended high school with Hunt, defended him.
“I’ve never seen him get in a fight or any argument,’’ said Mariah Wilson, 27. “I think the general feeling from everyone is people make mistakes.’’
Support at home
Unbeknownst to most in Willoughby, Kareem Hunt was in his mother’s home in Amherst last weekend, according to Hunt’s brother, Clarence Riggins. Hunt purchased the five-bedroom, split-level house in June for $325,000, according to property records. Riggins said Hunt was with his girlfriend, Julianne Oser, who was a cheerleader when they met at Toledo.
“You know, he’s still smiling,’’ Clarence Riggins said of his brother. “He hasn’t let it break him, and he said he’s not going to let this break him and define him."
In the security video published by TMZ, Hunt can be seen approaching the woman and engaging in an argument before shoving her back with his right hand. Another man tries to restrain Hunt, while the woman approaches him and swats at Hunt’s face, making contact.
Rayshawn Watkins, Hunt’s friend, told police that the accuser began calling both him and Hunt the “N-word”.
“It took a lot for him to get there,’’ Clarence Riggins said of Hunt's altercation with the woman, whom Riggins says also spit in Hunt's face. “… But as a man, you don’t put your hands on a woman no matter what."
In the two weeks since Hunt’s release from the Chiefs, family and friends have rallied around him, according to his brother.
“The pastor was at the house when Kareem first came home,’’ Clarence Riggins said. “A lot of church people were there. We said a prayer for him and everything. He has a lot of support."
Hunt, who earned his degree from Toledo in criminal justice, has started counseling and anger management classes and has been in contact with the NFL, according to Riggins. He has cleared waivers and is a free agent, but while he's on the commissioner's exempt list he's barred from playing if another team signs him.
Among those who have taken a special interest in the situation is Duane Whitely, police chief in Elyria, where the elder Kareem Hunt has a long history with law enforcement. Whitely said he grew familiar with Hunt during his series of arrests.
Whitely has followed the younger Kareem Hunt’s progress from afar and praised Stephanie Riggins.
“It was a smart move for her, to get him out of here,’’ Whitely said of Elyria, “and move him to a different environment.’’
He said he was disappointed when he saw the video of Hunt but has not given up on the son of the father who was arrested as recently as August on charges of drug possession.
“My hope is that Kareem can turn this around, learn from it, not do it again," Whitely said. “If he can learn and grow, everybody deserves a second chance.’’
Also, I hate the family members who can’t just stfu and tell the media to go pound sand.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/spor...reem-hunt-family-criminal-history/2289525002/
Family of former Kansas City Chiefs star Kareem Hunt has history of criminal behavior
Josh Peter | USA TODAY
Woman's 911 call after physical altercation with Kareem Hunt
Listen to the 911 call reporting the violent altercation between Kansas City Chiefs running back Kareem Hunt and a woman at a Cleveland hotel in February.
USA TODAY
AMHERST, Ohio — Kareem Hunt peeked through window blinds.
It was early Sunday evening when a reporter knocked on the front door of his mother’s house about 35 miles outside of Cleveland.
Stephanie Riggins, Hunt’s mother, opened the door. She closed it almost as fast when the reporter identified himself, making it clear to USA TODAY that uninvited guests were not welcome.
Watching from inside the house was her youngest son, with his signature braids and muscular 5-11, 200-pound frame. He is the star NFL running back who has kept a relatively low profile since he was placed on the commissioner's exempt list and released by the Kansas Chiefs on Nov. 30 after TMZ published a graphic video that shows Hunt shoving and kicking a 19-year-old woman.
Now not only is Kareem Hunt’s football career in jeopardy, but so is his reputation, even in a part of Ohio where he grew up being celebrated for his exploits on the field and where his father and other family members are known for something else — their extensive criminal records.
Hunt’s father, also named Kareem Hunt, has been arrested at least 35 times in northeast Ohio and multiple times on charges of domestic violence, according to records obtained by USA TODAY. Most of the felony convictions were for drug-related offenses. He was sentenced to a combined nine years in prison on nine felony convictions, but it's unclear how much time he spent in jail for dozens of misdemeanor charges.
On Friday, the senior Kareem Hunt, 47, is due in court for nonpayment of court costs, records show. The court appearance stems from a 2012 conviction for disorderly conduct and violating a protecting order, which prohibits an abuser from harassing a victim of domestic violence.
Yet until recently, the junior Kareem Hunt, 23, has avoided serious trouble and was on his way to another 1,000-yard rushing season for the surging Chiefs after he led the NFL in rushing yards as a rookie in 2017.
“I knew it was too good to be true,’’ Ava Hunt, Kareem Hunt’s great aunt, told USA TODAY. “I knew it, I knew it."
In April, Ava Hunt’s son, Rashan Hunt, was sentenced to 23 years in prison for voluntary manslaughter. It was the latest blow for the family.
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While Kareem Hunt grew up in Willoughby, a suburb of Cleveland, and ascended from a three-star prospect at South High School, to an NFL prospect at the University of Toledo and to a third-round draft pick by the Chiefs in 2017, several members of his family faced criminal charges.
“He’s a miracle,’’ said Lorenzo Hunt, Kareem Hunt’s cousin, who was sentenced in 2004 to seven years in prison for aggravated robbery and a felony firearm offense. He added that several family members squandered their own athletic potential. “For Kareem to make it, it’s not just validation for him, it’s validation for all of us who tried our hardest and failed or succumbed to bad situations and poverty.’’
Kevin Riggins, who family members and records say is Kareem Hunt’s uncle, is serving a 10-year prison sentence for drug-trafficking and other drug-related offenses. A cousin, Gregory E. Hunt, is serving a 12-year prison sentence for drug- and gun-related offenses.
Kareem Hunt’s older brother, Clarence Riggins, was sentenced to more than two years in prison after a 2014 conviction for criminal trespass, according to court records. Hunt’s mother was arrested in 2014 on charges of cocaine possession and pleaded guilty to driving under the influence, court records show. Hunt’s stepfather, Deltrin Kimbro, was sentenced in 2004 to eight years in prison for drug trafficking and related offenses, according to court records.
Four more cousins and another uncle have pleaded guilty to felony offenses, most related to drugs, according to court records. .
'All we know is to fight'
Even before Kareem Hunt admitted he lied to the Chiefs prior to TMZ posting the video of his Feb. 10 altercation with a 19-year-old woman at a Cleveland hotel, there were missteps.
In 2011, when Hunt was 16, he was one of four teenage boys in a car when a police officer in Willoughby approached because of suspicious behavior and discovered .38 grams of marijuana and a marijuana grinder, according to a juvenile report obtained from the Willoughby Police Department. The report states that the car’s driver, Matthew A. Hendricks, said the marijuana and grinder were his and his friends, including Hunt, had nothing to do with it.
The matter was referred to juvenile court, according to the report.
In 2015 while he was at Toledo, Hunt was suspended for the first two games of his junior season for an undisclosed violation of team rules.
But it was the TMZ video that resulted in national media comparing Hunt to Ray Rice, whose NFL career ended after a video was released showing Rice punching his then-fiance in the face and knocking her unconscious.
“You see the tape and it just kind of breaks your heart,’’ said Louis Ayeni, who coached Hunt at Toledo and isnow an assistant coach at Northwestern, referring to the security video from the Cleveland hotel. “He’s so likeable and when heknows you, he’s a really giving, caring person. But his choices and his actions put him in this situation right now.’’
Kareem Hunt did not respond to multiple requests for comment made through his agent, Dan Saffron.
Though Hunt has not been charged with a crime, the NFL is investigating three incidents in the past year in which he allegedly was involved in physical altercations — with the woman at a Cleveland hotel in February, with a man at an Ohio resort in June and with another man at a Kansas City club in January.
Lorenzo Hunt said he sees a link between Kareem Hunt’s physical altercation with the 19-year-old woman and his family’s checkered history.
“The only thing that he has now is a resonance, just a small, tiny, little seed of all that anger, all of that trial and tribulation, all of that frustration,’’ said Lorenzo Hunt, 36, who is a professional MMA fighter and also said he works in security. “It’s in him. But it’s not of him. It’s pain from us. It’s not his. He got away.
“It’s like all of us, we fought so hard, that all we know is to fight. To see Little Kareem get out of there, we never even saw that he had so much of us in him until we saw how he fights for the other yard, how he fights for the extra inch, how he never quits no matter (if) you got 300-pound linemen holding on to you, trying to drag you down. He never stops. That’s us. That’s a Hunt.’’
The elder Kareem Hunt was a football star at Collinwood High School in Cleveland and later played in adult leagues, according to family members, who said the sport bound father and son. Or Big Kareem and Little Kareem, as they are still known.
“We used to go to Big Kareem’s games, Little Kareem, I’d carry him with me,’’ said Dixie Hunt Dorsey, Little Kareem’s great-grandmother. “When Big Kareem got the ball to the goal, Little Kareem was right with him. I wish I’d had a camera.’’
Chimed in Ava Hunt, Little Kareem’s great aunt: “He ran out on the field so he could play. He’d see his Daddy playing, and that’s what inspired him to play.’’
The elder Kareem Hunt declined to comment for this story other than to say, “I love my son.’’
Wearing a Chiefs jersey bearing his son’s No. 27 in February, the Big Kareem on behalf of his son accepted a “Hometown Hero’’ award presented by the Ambassador Brothers of Lorain County. And video taken by Ava Hunt shows Big Kareem and Little Kareem joking during a Fourth of July picnic this year as the father sat in a dunking booth and stayed dry as the son threw softballs that missed the target.
“I’m the quarterback and you the running back,’’ Big Kareem can be heard saying with laughter.
But by the time the junior Kareem Hunt was born in 1995, his father had been in and out of jail and Stephanie Riggins was the primary parent for the future NFL star. A few years later she moved him out of Elyria, which has a crime rate higher than 86% of the state's cities and towns of all sizes, according to neighborhoodscout.com.
Four years later they settled in Willoughby, about 50 miles northeast of Elyria, a town notorious for drug abuse and drug trafficking, according to Capt. Christopher P. Constantino of the Elyria Police Department.
Stephanie Riggins declined comment when reached by phone. But Lorenzo Hunt praised her efforts as a mother.
“What Steph did with Little Kareem was absolutely amazing,’’ he said of Stephanie Riggins, who has worked as a home health aide, “that she was able to rise above her station and provide for her son in such a stable fashion.’’
Kareem Hunt was playing linebacker at South High School until the team's running back got hurt. Just like that, Hunt was starting at running back — permanently.
During his junior and senior seasons, he rushed for a combined 5,204 yards and 83 touchdowns. But the hometown hero’s status is complicated in parts of Willoughby.
A bartender at The Wild Goose pointed to a spot on the wall where he said a photo of Hunt was taken down after TMZ posted its video.
“He’s a good kid,’’ said the bartender, who identified himself only as John. “Seems like he’s lost his way a little bit.’’
But around the corner at Frank & Tony’s Place, a server who said she attended high school with Hunt, defended him.
“I’ve never seen him get in a fight or any argument,’’ said Mariah Wilson, 27. “I think the general feeling from everyone is people make mistakes.’’
Support at home
Unbeknownst to most in Willoughby, Kareem Hunt was in his mother’s home in Amherst last weekend, according to Hunt’s brother, Clarence Riggins. Hunt purchased the five-bedroom, split-level house in June for $325,000, according to property records. Riggins said Hunt was with his girlfriend, Julianne Oser, who was a cheerleader when they met at Toledo.
“You know, he’s still smiling,’’ Clarence Riggins said of his brother. “He hasn’t let it break him, and he said he’s not going to let this break him and define him."
In the security video published by TMZ, Hunt can be seen approaching the woman and engaging in an argument before shoving her back with his right hand. Another man tries to restrain Hunt, while the woman approaches him and swats at Hunt’s face, making contact.
Rayshawn Watkins, Hunt’s friend, told police that the accuser began calling both him and Hunt the “N-word”.
“It took a lot for him to get there,’’ Clarence Riggins said of Hunt's altercation with the woman, whom Riggins says also spit in Hunt's face. “… But as a man, you don’t put your hands on a woman no matter what."
In the two weeks since Hunt’s release from the Chiefs, family and friends have rallied around him, according to his brother.
“The pastor was at the house when Kareem first came home,’’ Clarence Riggins said. “A lot of church people were there. We said a prayer for him and everything. He has a lot of support."
Hunt, who earned his degree from Toledo in criminal justice, has started counseling and anger management classes and has been in contact with the NFL, according to Riggins. He has cleared waivers and is a free agent, but while he's on the commissioner's exempt list he's barred from playing if another team signs him.
Among those who have taken a special interest in the situation is Duane Whitely, police chief in Elyria, where the elder Kareem Hunt has a long history with law enforcement. Whitely said he grew familiar with Hunt during his series of arrests.
Whitely has followed the younger Kareem Hunt’s progress from afar and praised Stephanie Riggins.
“It was a smart move for her, to get him out of here,’’ Whitely said of Elyria, “and move him to a different environment.’’
He said he was disappointed when he saw the video of Hunt but has not given up on the son of the father who was arrested as recently as August on charges of drug possession.
“My hope is that Kareem can turn this around, learn from it, not do it again," Whitely said. “If he can learn and grow, everybody deserves a second chance.’’
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So now, let’s make his family the story
Also, I hate the family members who can’t just stfu and tell the media to go pound sand.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/spor...reem-hunt-family-criminal-history/2289525002/
Family of former Kansas City Chiefs star Kareem Hunt has history of criminal behavior
Josh Peter | USA TODAY
Woman's 911 call after physical altercation with Kareem Hunt
Listen to the 911 call reporting the violent altercation between Kansas City Chiefs running back Kareem Hunt and a woman at a Cleveland hotel in February.
USA TODAY
AMHERST, Ohio — Kareem Hunt peeked through window blinds.
It was early Sunday evening when a reporter knocked on the front door of his mother’s house about 35 miles outside of Cleveland.
Stephanie Riggins, Hunt’s mother, opened the door. She closed it almost as fast when the reporter identified himself, making it clear to USA TODAY that uninvited guests were not welcome.
Watching from inside the house was her youngest son, with his signature braids and muscular 5-11, 200-pound frame. He is the star NFL running back who has kept a relatively low profile since he was placed on the commissioner's exempt list and released by the Kansas Chiefs on Nov. 30 after TMZ published a graphic video that shows Hunt shoving and kicking a 19-year-old woman.
Now not only is Kareem Hunt’s football career in jeopardy, but so is his reputation, even in a part of Ohio where he grew up being celebrated for his exploits on the field and where his father and other family members are known for something else — their extensive criminal records.
Hunt’s father, also named Kareem Hunt, has been arrested at least 35 times in northeast Ohio and multiple times on charges of domestic violence, according to records obtained by USA TODAY. Most of the felony convictions were for drug-related offenses. He was sentenced to a combined nine years in prison on nine felony convictions, but it's unclear how much time he spent in jail for dozens of misdemeanor charges.
On Friday, the senior Kareem Hunt, 47, is due in court for nonpayment of court costs, records show. The court appearance stems from a 2012 conviction for disorderly conduct and violating a protecting order, which prohibits an abuser from harassing a victim of domestic violence.
Yet until recently, the junior Kareem Hunt, 23, has avoided serious trouble and was on his way to another 1,000-yard rushing season for the surging Chiefs after he led the NFL in rushing yards as a rookie in 2017.
“I knew it was too good to be true,’’ Ava Hunt, Kareem Hunt’s great aunt, told USA TODAY. “I knew it, I knew it."
In April, Ava Hunt’s son, Rashan Hunt, was sentenced to 23 years in prison for voluntary manslaughter. It was the latest blow for the family.
Column: Will Kareem Hunt play again? It's the question we shouldn't be asking
Column: Why does it take a video to move NFL to action on assaults of women?
More: NFL defends tactics on personal conduct investigations, but impasse remains
While Kareem Hunt grew up in Willoughby, a suburb of Cleveland, and ascended from a three-star prospect at South High School, to an NFL prospect at the University of Toledo and to a third-round draft pick by the Chiefs in 2017, several members of his family faced criminal charges.
“He’s a miracle,’’ said Lorenzo Hunt, Kareem Hunt’s cousin, who was sentenced in 2004 to seven years in prison for aggravated robbery and a felony firearm offense. He added that several family members squandered their own athletic potential. “For Kareem to make it, it’s not just validation for him, it’s validation for all of us who tried our hardest and failed or succumbed to bad situations and poverty.’’
Kevin Riggins, who family members and records say is Kareem Hunt’s uncle, is serving a 10-year prison sentence for drug-trafficking and other drug-related offenses. A cousin, Gregory E. Hunt, is serving a 12-year prison sentence for drug- and gun-related offenses.
Kareem Hunt’s older brother, Clarence Riggins, was sentenced to more than two years in prison after a 2014 conviction for criminal trespass, according to court records. Hunt’s mother was arrested in 2014 on charges of cocaine possession and pleaded guilty to driving under the influence, court records show. Hunt’s stepfather, Deltrin Kimbro, was sentenced in 2004 to eight years in prison for drug trafficking and related offenses, according to court records.
Four more cousins and another uncle have pleaded guilty to felony offenses, most related to drugs, according to court records. .
'All we know is to fight'
Even before Kareem Hunt admitted he lied to the Chiefs prior to TMZ posting the video of his Feb. 10 altercation with a 19-year-old woman at a Cleveland hotel, there were missteps.
In 2011, when Hunt was 16, he was one of four teenage boys in a car when a police officer in Willoughby approached because of suspicious behavior and discovered .38 grams of marijuana and a marijuana grinder, according to a juvenile report obtained from the Willoughby Police Department. The report states that the car’s driver, Matthew A. Hendricks, said the marijuana and grinder were his and his friends, including Hunt, had nothing to do with it.
The matter was referred to juvenile court, according to the report.
In 2015 while he was at Toledo, Hunt was suspended for the first two games of his junior season for an undisclosed violation of team rules.
But it was the TMZ video that resulted in national media comparing Hunt to Ray Rice, whose NFL career ended after a video was released showing Rice punching his then-fiance in the face and knocking her unconscious.
“You see the tape and it just kind of breaks your heart,’’ said Louis Ayeni, who coached Hunt at Toledo and isnow an assistant coach at Northwestern, referring to the security video from the Cleveland hotel. “He’s so likeable and when heknows you, he’s a really giving, caring person. But his choices and his actions put him in this situation right now.’’
Kareem Hunt did not respond to multiple requests for comment made through his agent, Dan Saffron.
Though Hunt has not been charged with a crime, the NFL is investigating three incidents in the past year in which he allegedly was involved in physical altercations — with the woman at a Cleveland hotel in February, with a man at an Ohio resort in June and with another man at a Kansas City club in January.
Lorenzo Hunt said he sees a link between Kareem Hunt’s physical altercation with the 19-year-old woman and his family’s checkered history.
“The only thing that he has now is a resonance, just a small, tiny, little seed of all that anger, all of that trial and tribulation, all of that frustration,’’ said Lorenzo Hunt, 36, who is a professional MMA fighter and also said he works in security. “It’s in him. But it’s not of him. It’s pain from us. It’s not his. He got away.
“It’s like all of us, we fought so hard, that all we know is to fight. To see Little Kareem get out of there, we never even saw that he had so much of us in him until we saw how he fights for the other yard, how he fights for the extra inch, how he never quits no matter (if) you got 300-pound linemen holding on to you, trying to drag you down. He never stops. That’s us. That’s a Hunt.’’
The elder Kareem Hunt was a football star at Collinwood High School in Cleveland and later played in adult leagues, according to family members, who said the sport bound father and son. Or Big Kareem and Little Kareem, as they are still known.
“We used to go to Big Kareem’s games, Little Kareem, I’d carry him with me,’’ said Dixie Hunt Dorsey, Little Kareem’s great-grandmother. “When Big Kareem got the ball to the goal, Little Kareem was right with him. I wish I’d had a camera.’’
Chimed in Ava Hunt, Little Kareem’s great aunt: “He ran out on the field so he could play. He’d see his Daddy playing, and that’s what inspired him to play.’’
The elder Kareem Hunt declined to comment for this story other than to say, “I love my son.’’
Wearing a Chiefs jersey bearing his son’s No. 27 in February, the Big Kareem on behalf of his son accepted a “Hometown Hero’’ award presented by the Ambassador Brothers of Lorain County. And video taken by Ava Hunt shows Big Kareem and Little Kareem joking during a Fourth of July picnic this year as the father sat in a dunking booth and stayed dry as the son threw softballs that missed the target.
“I’m the quarterback and you the running back,’’ Big Kareem can be heard saying with laughter.
But by the time the junior Kareem Hunt was born in 1995, his father had been in and out of jail and Stephanie Riggins was the primary parent for the future NFL star. A few years later she moved him out of Elyria, which has a crime rate higher than 86% of the state's cities and towns of all sizes, according to neighborhoodscout.com.
Four years later they settled in Willoughby, about 50 miles northeast of Elyria, a town notorious for drug abuse and drug trafficking, according to Capt. Christopher P. Constantino of the Elyria Police Department.
Stephanie Riggins declined comment when reached by phone. But Lorenzo Hunt praised her efforts as a mother.
“What Steph did with Little Kareem was absolutely amazing,’’ he said of Stephanie Riggins, who has worked as a home health aide, “that she was able to rise above her station and provide for her son in such a stable fashion.’’
Kareem Hunt was playing linebacker at South High School until the team's running back got hurt. Just like that, Hunt was starting at running back — permanently.
During his junior and senior seasons, he rushed for a combined 5,204 yards and 83 touchdowns. But the hometown hero’s status is complicated in parts of Willoughby.
A bartender at The Wild Goose pointed to a spot on the wall where he said a photo of Hunt was taken down after TMZ posted its video.
“He’s a good kid,’’ said the bartender, who identified himself only as John. “Seems like he’s lost his way a little bit.’’
But around the corner at Frank & Tony’s Place, a server who said she attended high school with Hunt, defended him.
“I’ve never seen him get in a fight or any argument,’’ said Mariah Wilson, 27. “I think the general feeling from everyone is people make mistakes.’’
Support at home
Unbeknownst to most in Willoughby, Kareem Hunt was in his mother’s home in Amherst last weekend, according to Hunt’s brother, Clarence Riggins. Hunt purchased the five-bedroom, split-level house in June for $325,000, according to property records. Riggins said Hunt was with his girlfriend, Julianne Oser, who was a cheerleader when they met at Toledo.
“You know, he’s still smiling,’’ Clarence Riggins said of his brother. “He hasn’t let it break him, and he said he’s not going to let this break him and define him."
In the security video published by TMZ, Hunt can be seen approaching the woman and engaging in an argument before shoving her back with his right hand. Another man tries to restrain Hunt, while the woman approaches him and swats at Hunt’s face, making contact.
Rayshawn Watkins, Hunt’s friend, told police that the accuser began calling both him and Hunt the “N-word”.
“It took a lot for him to get there,’’ Clarence Riggins said of Hunt's altercation with the woman, whom Riggins says also spit in Hunt's face. “… But as a man, you don’t put your hands on a woman no matter what."
In the two weeks since Hunt’s release from the Chiefs, family and friends have rallied around him, according to his brother.
“The pastor was at the house when Kareem first came home,’’ Clarence Riggins said. “A lot of church people were there. We said a prayer for him and everything. He has a lot of support."
Hunt, who earned his degree from Toledo in criminal justice, has started counseling and anger management classes and has been in contact with the NFL, according to Riggins. He has cleared waivers and is a free agent, but while he's on the commissioner's exempt list he's barred from playing if another team signs him.
Among those who have taken a special interest in the situation is Duane Whitely, police chief in Elyria, where the elder Kareem Hunt has a long history with law enforcement. Whitely said he grew familiar with Hunt during his series of arrests.
Whitely has followed the younger Kareem Hunt’s progress from afar and praised Stephanie Riggins.
“It was a smart move for her, to get him out of here,’’ Whitely said of Elyria, “and move him to a different environment.’’
He said he was disappointed when he saw the video of Hunt but has not given up on the son of the father who was arrested as recently as August on charges of drug possession.
“My hope is that Kareem can turn this around, learn from it, not do it again," Whitely said. “If he can learn and grow, everybody deserves a second chance.’’
Came here to post this shit.
White people can shoot up venues and nobody talks about that person's family history....lol
I read this story earlier today at work, I was pissed that cacs put this shit out there but at the same time after reading it I'm surprised dude even made it out. Usually when every family member is in and out of jail or on drugs, you usually end up the same way. That shit affects you growing up. I hope he gets back in the league.So now, let’s make his family the story
Also, I hate the family members who can’t just stfu and tell the media to go pound sand.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/spor...reem-hunt-family-criminal-history/2289525002/
Family of former Kansas City Chiefs star Kareem Hunt has history of criminal behavior
Josh Peter | USA TODAY
Woman's 911 call after physical altercation with Kareem Hunt
Listen to the 911 call reporting the violent altercation between Kansas City Chiefs running back Kareem Hunt and a woman at a Cleveland hotel in February.
USA TODAY
AMHERST, Ohio — Kareem Hunt peeked through window blinds.
It was early Sunday evening when a reporter knocked on the front door of his mother’s house about 35 miles outside of Cleveland.
Stephanie Riggins, Hunt’s mother, opened the door. She closed it almost as fast when the reporter identified himself, making it clear to USA TODAY that uninvited guests were not welcome.
Watching from inside the house was her youngest son, with his signature braids and muscular 5-11, 200-pound frame. He is the star NFL running back who has kept a relatively low profile since he was placed on the commissioner's exempt list and released by the Kansas Chiefs on Nov. 30 after TMZ published a graphic video that shows Hunt shoving and kicking a 19-year-old woman.
Now not only is Kareem Hunt’s football career in jeopardy, but so is his reputation, even in a part of Ohio where he grew up being celebrated for his exploits on the field and where his father and other family members are known for something else — their extensive criminal records.
Hunt’s father, also named Kareem Hunt, has been arrested at least 35 times in northeast Ohio and multiple times on charges of domestic violence, according to records obtained by USA TODAY. Most of the felony convictions were for drug-related offenses. He was sentenced to a combined nine years in prison on nine felony convictions, but it's unclear how much time he spent in jail for dozens of misdemeanor charges.
On Friday, the senior Kareem Hunt, 47, is due in court for nonpayment of court costs, records show. The court appearance stems from a 2012 conviction for disorderly conduct and violating a protecting order, which prohibits an abuser from harassing a victim of domestic violence.
Yet until recently, the junior Kareem Hunt, 23, has avoided serious trouble and was on his way to another 1,000-yard rushing season for the surging Chiefs after he led the NFL in rushing yards as a rookie in 2017.
“I knew it was too good to be true,’’ Ava Hunt, Kareem Hunt’s great aunt, told USA TODAY. “I knew it, I knew it."
In April, Ava Hunt’s son, Rashan Hunt, was sentenced to 23 years in prison for voluntary manslaughter. It was the latest blow for the family.
Column: Will Kareem Hunt play again? It's the question we shouldn't be asking
Column: Why does it take a video to move NFL to action on assaults of women?
More: NFL defends tactics on personal conduct investigations, but impasse remains
While Kareem Hunt grew up in Willoughby, a suburb of Cleveland, and ascended from a three-star prospect at South High School, to an NFL prospect at the University of Toledo and to a third-round draft pick by the Chiefs in 2017, several members of his family faced criminal charges.
“He’s a miracle,’’ said Lorenzo Hunt, Kareem Hunt’s cousin, who was sentenced in 2004 to seven years in prison for aggravated robbery and a felony firearm offense. He added that several family members squandered their own athletic potential. “For Kareem to make it, it’s not just validation for him, it’s validation for all of us who tried our hardest and failed or succumbed to bad situations and poverty.’’
Kevin Riggins, who family members and records say is Kareem Hunt’s uncle, is serving a 10-year prison sentence for drug-trafficking and other drug-related offenses. A cousin, Gregory E. Hunt, is serving a 12-year prison sentence for drug- and gun-related offenses.
Kareem Hunt’s older brother, Clarence Riggins, was sentenced to more than two years in prison after a 2014 conviction for criminal trespass, according to court records. Hunt’s mother was arrested in 2014 on charges of cocaine possession and pleaded guilty to driving under the influence, court records show. Hunt’s stepfather, Deltrin Kimbro, was sentenced in 2004 to eight years in prison for drug trafficking and related offenses, according to court records.
Four more cousins and another uncle have pleaded guilty to felony offenses, most related to drugs, according to court records. .
'All we know is to fight'
Even before Kareem Hunt admitted he lied to the Chiefs prior to TMZ posting the video of his Feb. 10 altercation with a 19-year-old woman at a Cleveland hotel, there were missteps.
In 2011, when Hunt was 16, he was one of four teenage boys in a car when a police officer in Willoughby approached because of suspicious behavior and discovered .38 grams of marijuana and a marijuana grinder, according to a juvenile report obtained from the Willoughby Police Department. The report states that the car’s driver, Matthew A. Hendricks, said the marijuana and grinder were his and his friends, including Hunt, had nothing to do with it.
The matter was referred to juvenile court, according to the report.
In 2015 while he was at Toledo, Hunt was suspended for the first two games of his junior season for an undisclosed violation of team rules.
But it was the TMZ video that resulted in national media comparing Hunt to Ray Rice, whose NFL career ended after a video was released showing Rice punching his then-fiance in the face and knocking her unconscious.
“You see the tape and it just kind of breaks your heart,’’ said Louis Ayeni, who coached Hunt at Toledo and isnow an assistant coach at Northwestern, referring to the security video from the Cleveland hotel. “He’s so likeable and when heknows you, he’s a really giving, caring person. But his choices and his actions put him in this situation right now.’’
Kareem Hunt did not respond to multiple requests for comment made through his agent, Dan Saffron.
Though Hunt has not been charged with a crime, the NFL is investigating three incidents in the past year in which he allegedly was involved in physical altercations — with the woman at a Cleveland hotel in February, with a man at an Ohio resort in June and with another man at a Kansas City club in January.
Lorenzo Hunt said he sees a link between Kareem Hunt’s physical altercation with the 19-year-old woman and his family’s checkered history.
“The only thing that he has now is a resonance, just a small, tiny, little seed of all that anger, all of that trial and tribulation, all of that frustration,’’ said Lorenzo Hunt, 36, who is a professional MMA fighter and also said he works in security. “It’s in him. But it’s not of him. It’s pain from us. It’s not his. He got away.
“It’s like all of us, we fought so hard, that all we know is to fight. To see Little Kareem get out of there, we never even saw that he had so much of us in him until we saw how he fights for the other yard, how he fights for the extra inch, how he never quits no matter (if) you got 300-pound linemen holding on to you, trying to drag you down. He never stops. That’s us. That’s a Hunt.’’
The elder Kareem Hunt was a football star at Collinwood High School in Cleveland and later played in adult leagues, according to family members, who said the sport bound father and son. Or Big Kareem and Little Kareem, as they are still known.
“We used to go to Big Kareem’s games, Little Kareem, I’d carry him with me,’’ said Dixie Hunt Dorsey, Little Kareem’s great-grandmother. “When Big Kareem got the ball to the goal, Little Kareem was right with him. I wish I’d had a camera.’’
Chimed in Ava Hunt, Little Kareem’s great aunt: “He ran out on the field so he could play. He’d see his Daddy playing, and that’s what inspired him to play.’’
The elder Kareem Hunt declined to comment for this story other than to say, “I love my son.’’
Wearing a Chiefs jersey bearing his son’s No. 27 in February, the Big Kareem on behalf of his son accepted a “Hometown Hero’’ award presented by the Ambassador Brothers of Lorain County. And video taken by Ava Hunt shows Big Kareem and Little Kareem joking during a Fourth of July picnic this year as the father sat in a dunking booth and stayed dry as the son threw softballs that missed the target.
“I’m the quarterback and you the running back,’’ Big Kareem can be heard saying with laughter.
But by the time the junior Kareem Hunt was born in 1995, his father had been in and out of jail and Stephanie Riggins was the primary parent for the future NFL star. A few years later she moved him out of Elyria, which has a crime rate higher than 86% of the state's cities and towns of all sizes, according to neighborhoodscout.com.
Four years later they settled in Willoughby, about 50 miles northeast of Elyria, a town notorious for drug abuse and drug trafficking, according to Capt. Christopher P. Constantino of the Elyria Police Department.
Stephanie Riggins declined comment when reached by phone. But Lorenzo Hunt praised her efforts as a mother.
“What Steph did with Little Kareem was absolutely amazing,’’ he said of Stephanie Riggins, who has worked as a home health aide, “that she was able to rise above her station and provide for her son in such a stable fashion.’’
Kareem Hunt was playing linebacker at South High School until the team's running back got hurt. Just like that, Hunt was starting at running back — permanently.
During his junior and senior seasons, he rushed for a combined 5,204 yards and 83 touchdowns. But the hometown hero’s status is complicated in parts of Willoughby.
A bartender at The Wild Goose pointed to a spot on the wall where he said a photo of Hunt was taken down after TMZ posted its video.
“He’s a good kid,’’ said the bartender, who identified himself only as John. “Seems like he’s lost his way a little bit.’’
But around the corner at Frank & Tony’s Place, a server who said she attended high school with Hunt, defended him.
“I’ve never seen him get in a fight or any argument,’’ said Mariah Wilson, 27. “I think the general feeling from everyone is people make mistakes.’’
Support at home
Unbeknownst to most in Willoughby, Kareem Hunt was in his mother’s home in Amherst last weekend, according to Hunt’s brother, Clarence Riggins. Hunt purchased the five-bedroom, split-level house in June for $325,000, according to property records. Riggins said Hunt was with his girlfriend, Julianne Oser, who was a cheerleader when they met at Toledo.
“You know, he’s still smiling,’’ Clarence Riggins said of his brother. “He hasn’t let it break him, and he said he’s not going to let this break him and define him."
In the security video published by TMZ, Hunt can be seen approaching the woman and engaging in an argument before shoving her back with his right hand. Another man tries to restrain Hunt, while the woman approaches him and swats at Hunt’s face, making contact.
Rayshawn Watkins, Hunt’s friend, told police that the accuser began calling both him and Hunt the “N-word”.
“It took a lot for him to get there,’’ Clarence Riggins said of Hunt's altercation with the woman, whom Riggins says also spit in Hunt's face. “… But as a man, you don’t put your hands on a woman no matter what."
In the two weeks since Hunt’s release from the Chiefs, family and friends have rallied around him, according to his brother.
“The pastor was at the house when Kareem first came home,’’ Clarence Riggins said. “A lot of church people were there. We said a prayer for him and everything. He has a lot of support."
Hunt, who earned his degree from Toledo in criminal justice, has started counseling and anger management classes and has been in contact with the NFL, according to Riggins. He has cleared waivers and is a free agent, but while he's on the commissioner's exempt list he's barred from playing if another team signs him.
Among those who have taken a special interest in the situation is Duane Whitely, police chief in Elyria, where the elder Kareem Hunt has a long history with law enforcement. Whitely said he grew familiar with Hunt during his series of arrests.
Whitely has followed the younger Kareem Hunt’s progress from afar and praised Stephanie Riggins.
“It was a smart move for her, to get him out of here,’’ Whitely said of Elyria, “and move him to a different environment.’’
He said he was disappointed when he saw the video of Hunt but has not given up on the son of the father who was arrested as recently as August on charges of drug possession.
“My hope is that Kareem can turn this around, learn from it, not do it again," Whitely said. “If he can learn and grow, everybody deserves a second chance.’’
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Right, wasn’t his girlfriend just a random chick
Kareem was defending a bunch of people from a possible trench coat mafia candidate... Screaming racial slurs, violently attacking random people, destroying private property, attempting trespassing, being a public nuisance, she couldve been a possible affiliate of school shooters and mass shooters..you know the dangers 1 cac can do inside of hotels...Kareem said not on my watch and saved lives from the possibilities of a deadly outcome
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