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Photographer shoved by Raiders wide receiver Davante Adams files police report

The viral incident was caught on broadcast cameras following the Chiefs' Monday night win

Photographer shoved by Raiders wide receiver Davante Adams files police report

The viral incident was caught on broadcast cameras following the Chiefs' Monday night win

UP IN MINUTES. ALL RIGHT, BRIAN, THANKS. A POLICE REPORT HAS BEEN FILED AFTER A PERSON WAS PUSHED TO THE GROUND BY A LAS VEGAS RAIDERS FOOTBALL PLAYER AT ARROWHEAD. JAMIE SIMMONS LEN JENNINGS IS HERE WITH FALLOUT FROM THAT DRAMATIC GAME LAST NIGHT. ABSOLUTELY. WELL, THIS HAPPENED MOMENTS AFTER THE CHIEFS DEFEATED THE AL LAS VEGAS RAIDERS. LAS VEGAS WIDE RECEIVER DEVONTE ADAMS WAS SEEN SHOVING A PHOTOGRAPHER TO THE GROUND. THE PHOTOGRAPHER WENT TO THE HOSPITAL AND CALLED POLICE TO REPORT AN ASSAULT. DETECTIVES WILL INVESTIGATE THE INCIDENT AND COORDINATE WITH PROSECUTORS TO DETERMINE IF ANY CHARGES ARE WARRANTED. ADAMS APOLOGIZED FROM THE LOCKER ROOM FOR INCIDENT AND TELLS US IT’S GOOD TO SEE SOME GUY RUNNING OFF THE FIELD AND HE RAN, JUMPED IN FRONT OF ME COMING OFF THE FIELD AND I BUMPED UNTIL AND KIND OF PUSHED HIM. AND AT THE END UP ON THE GROUND. SO I WANT TO SAY SORRY TO HIM FOR THAT BECAUSE THAT WAS JUST FRUSTRATION MIXED WITH HIM RUNNING AND LITERALLY JUST RUNNING IN FRONT OF ME. AND I WAS SO CERTAIN I RESPONDED THAT WAY, BUT AS SO ON THE RESPONSE WHEN I APOLOGIZED. ADAMS IS FACING NFL’S DISCIPLINE AND POTENTIAL SUSPENSION FOR SHOVING THE MAN. THE LEAGUE IS REVIEWING THE SITUATION. KELLY NOW, THAT INCIDENT OVERSHADOWED A BIG GAME FOR ADAMS, WHO HAD THREE CATCHES FOR 124 YARDS AND TWO TOUCHDOWNS. THE CHIEFS, OF COURSE, GOT THE
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Photographer shoved by Raiders wide receiver Davante Adams files police report

The viral incident was caught on broadcast cameras following the Chiefs' Monday night win

Star receiver Davante Adams had several highlight-reel catches in the Las Vegas Raiders Monday Night Football loss to the Kansas City Chiefs.Unfortunately, it's another moment from after the game that is going viral for the wideout. Broadcast cameras captured an outburst from Adams where he openly shoved a freelance photographer with ESPN to the ground on his way to the locker room. Now, police have confirmed that the photographer has filed a police report following a trip to the hospital after the game. The photographer jumps up after the shove. A summary from police indicates that the injuries weren't serious. Adams has already apologized for the incident. He spoke with reporters in the locker room following the defeat. In his postgame comments, he underplayed the shove as pushing someone out of the way that jumped in front of him.CBS 8, a local news affiliate in Las Vegas, captured another angle of shove as well as Adams's locker room comments. The shove came shortly after an Adams toe-tap sideline catch was overturned by official review on the second to last play of the game. The play was likely the final difference in the Monday night loss. The incident is currently being handled by KCPD's assault unit detectives. The investigation is expected to take several days to wrap up. Police say that the photographer made private arrangements to go to the hospital for treatment. Further identification of the man that filed the police report are currently unknown.

Star receiver Davante Adams had several highlight-reel catches in the Las Vegas Raiders Monday Night Football loss to the Kansas City Chiefs.

Unfortunately, it's another moment from after the game that is going viral for the wideout.

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Broadcast cameras captured an outburst from Adams where he openly shoved a freelance photographer with ESPN to the ground on his way to the locker room.

Now, police have confirmed that the photographer has filed a police report following a trip to the hospital after the game.

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The photographer jumps up after the shove. A summary from police indicates that the injuries weren't serious.

Adams has already apologized for the incident. He spoke with reporters in the locker room following the defeat. In his postgame comments, he underplayed the shove as pushing someone out of the way that jumped in front of him.

CBS 8, a local news affiliate in Las Vegas, captured another angle of shove as well as Adams's locker room comments.

This content is imported from Twitter. You may be able to find the same content in another format, or you may be able to find more information, at their web site.

The shove came shortly after an Adams toe-tap sideline catch was overturned by official review on the second to last play of the game. The play was likely the final difference in the Monday night loss.

The incident is currently being handled by KCPD's assault unit detectives. The investigation is expected to take several days to wrap up.

Police say that the photographer made private arrangements to go to the hospital for treatment. Further identification of the man that filed the police report are currently unknown.