{"id":80404,"date":"2025-08-13T19:55:06","date_gmt":"2025-08-13T19:55:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/80404\/"},"modified":"2025-08-13T19:55:06","modified_gmt":"2025-08-13T19:55:06","slug":"shacarri-richardson-arrest-video-shows-her-calling-boyfriend-a-coward","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/80404\/","title":{"rendered":"Sha’Carri Richardson arrest video shows her calling boyfriend a ‘coward’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Bodycam footage of Sha\u2019Carri Richardson\u2019s recent arrest<\/a> was released Wednesday amid her domestic violence altercation with her boyfriend at the Seattle-Tacoma International Airport.<\/p>\n

Richardson is seen in the video arguing with a responding police officer and calling her boyfriend, fellow sprinter Christian Coleman, a \u201ccoward.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is the position that Christian puts me into,\u201d Richardson said to the police in the Seattle airport, according to bodycam footage. \u201cBecause he\u2019s a coward and I don\u2019t want anything to do with him from this point going forward. My name is Sha\u2019Carri Richardson. Have no problem with letting you know who I am. Haven\u2019t put my hands on him. We had an argument, I will be honest about that.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Sha\u2019Carri Richardson is stopped by police after a domestic dispute. Port of Seattle Police Department<\/p>\n

Richardson, 25, then gave her identification to the officer who was moving on to talk to Coleman.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut yeah, you\u2019re a coward,\u201d Richardson said, now turning to talk to her boyfriend. \u201cYou\u2019re a f\u2013king coward. \u2026 I will never f\u2013k with you again.\u201d<\/p>\n

When she was placed under arrest, she began yelling at him as officers put handcuffs on her. <\/p>\n

Sha\u2019Carri Richardson in a police car after arrest. Port of Seattle Police Department<\/p>\n

\u201cYou\u2019re under arrest for assault,\u201d one officer said to her. <\/p>\n

Richardson then denied assaulting him when another officer said, \u201cWe have video cameras.\u201d<\/p>\n

She continued, saying, \u201cChristian, are you serious right now? Christian, I am going to go to jail because of you right now.\u201d<\/p>\n

Richardson then asked if she could get bail from the officers, who told her that would not be happening.<\/p>\n

Sha\u2019Carri Richardson repeatedly asked to get her handcuffs taken off. Port of Seattle Police Department<\/p>\n

The Olympic gold medalist continued as she got put in the back of the police car, asking if she could take her handcuffs off, but she was also denied that request and began crying. <\/p>\n

\u201cMy name is Sha\u2019Carri Richardson \u2026 I don\u2019t have anything on me. Can you please take these off? I am not a criminal. I had an argument with my boyfriend,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

Surveillance footage shows<\/a> that Richardson had shoved Coleman multiple times, even once shoving him into a wall as he continued to walk away. <\/p>\n

Richardson has since apologized for the ugly incident<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Shacarri Richardson speaking with a police officer at the Seattle-Tacoma airport. Port of Seattle Police Department<\/p>\n

\u201cI apologize to Christian. He came into my life & gave me more than a relationship but a greater understanding of unconditional love from what I\u2019ve experienced in the past,\u201d she wrote. <\/p>\n

\u201cDue to my past trauma & pain. I was blind & blocked off to not only receive it but give it. I love him & to him I can\u2019t apologize enough. My apologize should be just as loud as my actions honestly louder. To Christian I love you & I am so sorry.\u201d<\/p>\n

Richardson, a two-time medalist in the Olympics with one gold and one silver, said that she is actively seeking help on the matter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bodycam footage of Sha\u2019Carri Richardson\u2019s recent arrest was released Wednesday amid her domestic violence altercation with her boyfriend…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":80405,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[11264,8018,40980,99,1625],"class_list":["post-80404","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-athlete-arrests","tag-domestic-violence","tag-shacarri-richardson","tag-sports","tag-sports-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80404","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80404"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80404\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/80405"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}