NFL star Adrian Peterson angered a lot of people when he seemed to compare the grand jury’s decision to not indict police officer Darren Wilson in the Michael Brown shooting to the decision made about his own child abuse charges.
The comparison was made by the 29-year-old Vikings running back in a tweet posted to his official Twitter page on Monday night.
“The GRAND JURY DECIDED NOT TO INDICT ME TOO! But that changed a week LATER! MAYBE,BUT NOT LIKELY N THIS CASE.”
The GRAND JURY DECIDED NOT TO INDICT ME TOO! But that changed a week LATER! MAYBE,BUT NOT LIKELY N THIS CASE #PUTyourTrustNGODnotINtheWORLD !
— Adrian Peterson (@AdrianPeterson) November 25, 2014
Adrian Peterson was arrested back in September for striking his four-year-old son with a wooden switch as a form of discipline. There were many other celebrities that voiced their own opinions and reactions to the verdict on Monday night. However, quite a few people were quick to react to Adrian’s controversial comment on Twitter – including Mike Freeman, an NFL columnist for Bleacher Report.
Why, Adrian Peterson? Whyyyyyyy?????? — mike freeman (@mikefreemanNFL) November 25, 2014
Soooo Adrian Peterson is still an absolute moron.
— Brett Anderson (@BAnderson_30) November 25, 2014
Instead of deleting the comment or even apologizing to anyone that may have been offended by it, Adrian Peterson decided to take a different approach.
In a tweet that was posted one hour before the controversial message, Peterson stated that “if you don’t like what I have to say, it’s simple just don’t follow me! Your opinion doesn’t apply to me, I know who I am!”
In the tweet that followed his controversial message about the grand jury verdict, he posted the picture of a quote discussing how others misunderstand, judge and find fault with him.
— Adrian Peterson (@AdrianPeterson) November 25, 2014
Even though Peterson did not apologize for his statement, he did use his Twitter account to send condolences to the family of Michael Brown – stating that his “heart goes out to Mike Brown’s family” and “[his] thoughts and prayers are with you.”
Adrian Peterson entered a plea of no contest to the misdemeanor assault charge after he was arrested. Peterson was fined $4,000 and must perform mandatory community service.
He was later suspended for the rest of the current NFL season. As reported on the official NFL website , Peterson has officially appealed the suspension with the argument that the NFL was not consistent with the due process of the CBA when making the decision to suspend the star running back.
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