{"id":887434,"date":"2026-10-19T06:46:11","date_gmt":"2026-10-19T06:46:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/887434\/"},"modified":"2026-10-19T06:46:11","modified_gmt":"2026-10-19T06:46:11","slug":"duke-football-player-catches-backlash-for-swatting-at-female-medical-trainer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/887434\/","title":{"rendered":"Duke Football Player Catches Backlash for Swatting at Female Medical Trainer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                  <a class=\"js-click-image js-track-link image-lightbox-preview\" data-node-ref=\"tmz:image-asset:image_jpg_20261018_a10a9a88321742639fcd84c2d434467e\" data-container-ref=\"tmz:article:f0071397-39a0-41e6-a99f-3c1ca35f458b\" data-context=\"{&quot;section&quot;:&quot;permalink&quot;,&quot;name&quot;:&quot;image&quot;}\"><\/p>\n<p>                          <img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"eager\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/a10a9a88321742639fcd84c2d434467e_md.jpg\" alt=\"Kimari-Robinson-shutterstock-1\" width=\"728\" height=\"546\" class=\"img-fluid image-block__img-fluid img-aspect-auto\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                  <\/a><\/p>\n<p>Duke cornerback Kimari Robinson is getting blasted by college football fans &#8230; with some calling for his suspension after he swatted away a female medical staffer&#8217;s arm as she rushed to help his injured teammate.<\/p>\n<p>The ugly moment unfolded during the third quarter of Duke&#8217;s 24-20 loss to North Carolina on Saturday, when DaShawn Stone went down with an injury.<\/p>\n<p>      TRENDING: College football fans are calling for Duke CB Kimari Robinson to be suspended after he shoved a female medical staff member\u2019s arm away as she rushed to help an injured teammate.<\/p>\n<p>DOES ROBINSON DESERVE TO BE SUSPENDED FOR THIS\u2026?<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udc40\ud83d\udc40\ud83d\udc40 https:\/\/t.co\/hGxKwD2YCa<br \/>\n              <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MLFootball\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">@MLFootball<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Robinson was hovering over his teammate when the female athletic trainer hurried onto the field and tried to move him out of her way &#8230; but Robinson responded by swinging his arm at her.<\/p>\n<p><a id=\"continued\" class=\"continued-anchor\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The trainer appeared startled by the exchange, but continued trying to help the injured player.<\/p>\n<p>Video of the incident quickly made the rounds online &#8230; and plenty of fans weren&#8217;t willing to give Robinson a pass, demanding he be suspended or even booted from the team.<\/p>\n<p>Waiting for your permission to load the Twitter Tweet.<\/p>\n<p>Former NFL quarterback <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/people\/robert-griffin-iii\/\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Robert Griffin III<\/a> weighed in, writing on X, &#8220;As a man, this just can&#8217;t happen. No excuses for it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Not everyone agreed with the outrage, though &#8230; some fans defended Robinson, arguing he was emotional and worried about his injured teammate.<\/p>\n<p>                  <a class=\"js-click-image js-track-link image-lightbox-preview\" data-node-ref=\"tmz:image-asset:image_jpg_20261018_0753d0f2e75b43a089dd2ce0189539c4\" data-container-ref=\"tmz:article:f0071397-39a0-41e6-a99f-3c1ca35f458b\" data-context=\"{&quot;section&quot;:&quot;permalink&quot;,&quot;name&quot;:&quot;image&quot;}\"><\/p>\n<p>                          <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/0753d0f2e75b43a089dd2ce0189539c4_md.jpg\" alt=\"Kimari-Robinson-shutterstock-3\" width=\"728\" height=\"546\" class=\"img-fluid image-block__img-fluid img-aspect-auto\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                  <\/a><\/p>\n<p>Stone was eventually able to walk off the field on his own.<\/p>\n<p>As of Sunday, Duke has not publicly announced any punishment for Robinson, who has yet to address the controversy.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ve reached out to Duke University for comment &#8230; so far, no word back.<\/p>\n<p>      <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Duke cornerback Kimari Robinson is getting blasted by college football fans &#8230; with some calling for his suspension&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":887435,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[399,398,396,397,3,99,2415,2525],"class_list":["post-887434","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ncaa-football","tag-football","tag-ncaa","tag-ncaa-football","tag-ncaafootball","tag-news","tag-sports","tag-sports-news","tag-tmz-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/887434","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=887434"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/887434\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/887435"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=887434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=887434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=887434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}