NFL running back Adrian Peterson removed from Houston-bound flight, arrested

[TexasTowelie]

LOS ANGELES — NFL running back Adrian Peterson was arrested Sunday morning at Los Angeles International Airport, according to a statement from the Los Angeles Airport Police.

Peterson, 36, is accused of verbally and physically assaulting his wife on a plane that was leaving for Houston, where he lives.

According to the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department, Peterson was arrested at about 9 a.m. and was booked a couple of hours later. He posted a $50,000 bond and was released.

His wife remained on the flight, police said. According to several posts on Peterson's Twitter account, he and his wife had been in Los Angeles for events surrounding the Super Bowl.

Read more: https://www.khou.com/article/news/crime/adrian-peterson-arrested-lax-domestic-violence/285-462d9997-6e99-4778-be67-1fdb868afcbe

[underpants]

1. Adrian is a cautionary tale in so many sad ways.

I don’t feel for him if this is true which it probably is.

[Mosby]

2. This is the guy who was whipping his 4 yo with a switch

And still thinks it was OK, even after being prosecuted.

[Cuthbert Allgood]

3. I am not chiming in on this new charge, but I think your framing of the old charge misses a bit.

Yes. What he did to his kid was horrible. He got counseling for it. I think what the court/NFL missed with that one was the opportunity to have him be a speaker to change the way people see/saw child punishment. The texts to his wife indicate that he thought (remember; I agree what he did was horrible) it wasn't as bad because he didn't use an extension cord like his dad did. He is clearly a product of severe child abuse and thought he was working toward breaking that cycle. Was he breaking it? No. But he seemed to be trying.

Plus there were a lot of articles at the time about the demands of disciplining a child of color vs a white child that I could find if you want.

If this new charge is true (which I have no reason to believe it isn't), then I have nothing other than it isn't surprising from the child of an abusive parent.

[tishaLA]

5. And lacerated his son's testicles with the "switch"

I understand that certain people are much more forgiving about hitting children than I am, but surely we can agree that a beating that ends with a kid's balls lacerated, whether intentional or not, is beyond excessive.

[tishaLA]

4. Anyone who would do this on a plane, in public,

is someone who does it so often that he no longer sees a stigma to doing it. It's not like we didn't know he was a dirtbag after the child abuse, though.