{"id":19090,"date":"2013-01-14T17:09:22","date_gmt":"2013-01-14T22:09:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=19090"},"modified":"2013-01-14T17:09:22","modified_gmt":"2013-01-14T22:09:22","slug":"pittsburgh-steelers-release-chris-rainey-for-girlfriend-slapping-arrest-charges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=19090","title":{"rendered":"Pittsburgh Steelers Release Chris Rainey For Girlfriend-Slapping Arrest Charges"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pittsburgh Steeler running back <strong>Chris Rainey<\/strong>, who was arrested Thursday morning and charged with simple battery (dating violence) for reportedly slapping his unidentified girlfriend around, has lost his job over the incident.<\/p>\n<p>Just hours after the arrest hit the media, <strong>Rainey<\/strong>, the fifth-round 2012 draft pick, was let go by his team. According to the team\u2019s general manager, <strong>Kevin Colbert<\/strong>, \u201cUnder the circumstances and due to this conduct, <strong>Chris<\/strong> will no longer be a member of the Pittsburgh Steelers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Rainey<\/strong> and his girlfriend supposedly fought over his cell phone. The unidentified female reportedly got in to <strong>Rainey\u2019s<\/strong> roommate\u2019s vehicle.\u00a0 A witness told police that <strong>Rainey<\/strong> then approached the woman on the passenger side of the car and began tugging at her to get out.\u00a0 He was also reportedly seen slapping the woman across the face with an open hand.<\/p>\n<p>Both <strong>Rainey<\/strong> and the female victim then fell to the ground. The victim was able to run away, but <strong>Rainey<\/strong> chased after her because his cellphone was in a bag the victim was carrying. <strong>Rainey<\/strong> grabbed the bag again and they both fell to the ground again. Neither party suffered visible injuries from the encounter. Multiple witnesses confirmed the incident.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Rainey\u2019s<\/strong> girlfriend later stated<strong> Rainey<\/strong> didn\u2019t hit her.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pittsburgh Steeler running back Chris Rainey, who was arrested Thursday morning and charged with simple battery (dating violence) for reportedly slapping his unidentified girlfriend around, has lost his job over the incident. Just hours after the arrest hit the media, Rainey, the fifth-round 2012 draft pick, was let go by his team. According to the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":210,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19090","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19090","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/210"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19090"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19090\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}