{"id":897027,"date":"2026-10-28T02:20:13","date_gmt":"2026-10-28T02:20:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/897027\/"},"modified":"2026-10-28T02:20:13","modified_gmt":"2026-10-28T02:20:13","slug":"alabama-dismisses-cb-dre-kirkpatrick-jr-after-arrest-for-doxxing-harassing-police-officer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/897027\/","title":{"rendered":"Alabama dismisses CB Dre Kirkpatrick Jr. after arrest for doxxing, harassing police officer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Alabama cornerback Dre Kirkpatrick Jr., the son of former NFL cornerback Dre Kirkpatrick, has been dismissed from the team.<\/p>\n<p>Coach Kalen DeBoer <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/college-football\/story\/_\/id\/50298800\/alabama-kirkpatrick-charged-allegedly-threatening-officer\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">announced the move on Tuesday<\/a>, via Alex Scarborough of ESPN.<\/p>\n<p>Kirkpatrick Jr. was arrested on Friday for doxxing and making harassing communications with a police officer. He had been suspended before Saturday\u2019s game against Texas A&amp;M. The officer had been involved in a 2025 arrest of Kirkpatrick Jr. for reckless endangerment, attempting to elude police and speeding. Alabama suspended him in October 2025. He did not play again last season.<\/p>\n<p>More recently, Kirkpatrick Jr. allegedly texted the officer, among other things, \u201ctext me back don\u2019t be no bitch!\u201d Kirkpatrick Jr. also allegedly posted a photo of the officer and his family on Facebook.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAfter gathering more information on the situation, Dre Kirkpatrick Jr. will no longer be a part of our program,\u201d DeBoer said in a statement. \u201cHe did not live up to the standards and expectations that I have set for this team and our players.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Separately, Kirkpatrick Jr. is facing a misdemeanor charge from June 2026 of leaving the scene of an accident.<\/p>\n<p>Dre Kirkpatrick Sr. was a first-round pick of the Bengals in 2012. He spent 10 seasons in the NFL with Cincinnati, Arizona, and San Francisco.<\/p>\n<p>Kirkpatrick Jr., who was a second-string defensive back, joined Alabama in 2024.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Alabama cornerback Dre Kirkpatrick Jr., the son of former NFL cornerback Dre Kirkpatrick, has been dismissed from the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":897028,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[99],"class_list":["post-897027","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/897027","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=897027"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/897027\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/897028"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=897027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=897027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=897027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}