I hate that we're going through this Hunt situation again (not even that he did something again, but we're discussing hypotheticals now)...
That said, the hypothetical that he'd do something if they were in a 1 on 1 situation falls completely flat for me because of the situation. It happened outside of a hotel room that she was trying to enter because there was a party. It didn't happen at a club, or his house/apartment. She tried to enter a party she wasn't welcome at. Is she demanding to enter his apartment by herself if he's there alone? Highly doubtful. This isn't a sexual assault case we're sussing out here, it's a trespassing and verbal/physical assault situation.
The woman wasn’t *in* the hotel room when the incident happened. Hunt came out of the room that she wasn’t in at the time for a confrontation.
He could have simply called hotel security or the police and gotten her arrested/removed if he was so inclined, right? If she was beating on the door and screaming and acting a fool trying to get in to a place she wasn’t welcome, they had other options that didn’t involve a confrontation.
What if Hunt had stepped out of the room alone? Does anyone think this woman was going to stop acting drunk/belligerent/angry because he’s by himself? They’re still going to inevitably end up in each other’s faces because that’s what drunk people do.
And look there’s no audio, so we don’t know for sure what she was saying (and it’s likely she did say racial slurs), but it certainly looks like Hunt doesn't actually lose his mind in rage until she made an open hand slap at his face, which happened *after* he shoved her the first time.
The point is, outside of extreme circumstances like the woman having a deadly weapon, men absolutely can not act violent towards women.
Hunt did and it’s just indefensible. Now I do think Hunt “served his time” (lengthy suspension from work and significant loss of income) and shouldn’t continue to be punished for this incident.
But I just really don’t like people trying to lessen the magnitude of an unacceptable incident. It was completely inappropriate and we shouldn’t pretend like it wasn’t that bad because he’s a good football player who plays for the team we root for.
I’m also certainly not saying the woman is without blame. She physically assaulted Hunt too which is also unacceptable and should have been punished through the appropriate channels for her role in the incident
Tying this back to Deshaun Watson…
If he is proven to have done the things he’s being accused of doing, he deserves to be in prison and he shouldn’t even be a consideration for the Browns or any other NFL team.
If this incident fades away without charges or admission of guilt or anything like that, then the Browns should pursue him.