Adrian Peterson Speaks Out After Being Arrested On Domestic Violence Charge Over The Weekend

NFL running back Adrian Peterson is back in the news for all the wrong reasons…

Over the weekend, the future Hall of Famer was arrested and charged with felony domestic violence. Peterson was in Los Angeles for pre- Super Bowl festivities, and was heading back to Houston for a Super Bowl party. But the plane returned to the gate so AP could be arrested in LA.

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On Monday, Adrian Peterson maintained his innocence while admitting he had a “disagreement” with his wife. The former All-Pro says he never hit his wife.

“I was literally mind-blown that they took me to jail,” Peterson told Mark Berman of Fox 26. “They were like, ‘I’m sorry, Mr. Peterson, but because she had a scratch on her finger, (in) the state of California, we have to take you in.’ I sit there and watch the plane pull back and take off and I’m just like, ‘Wow! I cannot believe this is happening right now. I’m going to jail, and I literally didn’t do anything.’

“It’s blown out of proportion. Me and the wife got into an argument on the plane. That was pretty much the gist of it. I ended up grabbing her hand and taking her ring off her finger. She didn’t press any charges. The state of California pressed charges because there was a scratch on her hand. Literally that’s why I went to jail, because the ring left a scratch on her finger. We just had a disagreement. I know the headlines: Domestic violence. You’d think I beat her up or something. It was nothing like that.”

Adrain Peterson blamed a passenger on his plane for blowing things out of proportion, and said he’s looking to get the charges against him dropped.

“Only thing I will say is it looks horrible because Adrian Peterson arrested for domestic violence,” Peterson told Berman. “I don’t hit women. It’s not that type of situation, and it just looks bad. I’ll deal with it, and God willing get the charges dropped and move on.”

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