Troubled ex-NFL player Adam ‘Pacman’ Jones was captured on video launching a vulgar outburst and jabbing elbows at police officers during his arrest earlier this month.
At 41, Jones faced multiple charges, including assaulting a police officer in the third degree, public intoxication, and disorderly conduct in the second degree, following an incident in Covington, Kentucky, on Saturday, June 7.
Peter Schaffer, the former Cincinnati Bengals cornerback’s representative, later criticized the police for excessive force and claimed his client ‘merely exercised his right to inquire why he was being held without doing anything wrong.’
Footage shared by Jones on social media also showed him asking officers why they were grabbing him, before one responded: ‘Because you’re walking away.’
Cops also accused him of ‘intentionally’ throwing an elbow at an officer’s face during his detainment at Kenton County Detention Center just before 2am local time on Saturday.
Now police footage has appeared to back up that claim, with Jones captured throwing an elbow at an officer in a furious outburst after arriving at the detention center.
New police footage of former NFL star Adam ‘Pacman’ Jones being arrested has emerged
The 41-year-old, pictured in his mugshot, was detained on multiple charges on Saturday June 7
Jones was said to be ‘causing annoyance’ while intoxicated at a bar in Kentucky on the night
He was initially stopped in Covington to be questioned about a dispute at a nearby bar, and the bodycam video shows him becoming confrontational from the off.
After getting animated and trying to walk away, Jones eventually calmed down and explained his side of the story to officers, telling them he and his group were involved in a dispute with a bar worker.
Yet when he attempted to walk away again, cops placed him in cuffs.
While in custody the 2014 First-team All-Pro was heard using frequent profanities and insisting he’d done nothing wrong, before he was thrown in a car and taken to jail for public intoxication and disorderly conduct.
Upon arrival Jones continued to protest his innocence while endlessly telling cops not to touch him, with the video also capturing him shouting at cops ‘shut the f*** up’ and ‘suck my d***’. He could also be heard calling one of them ‘stupid’ and a ‘coward’.
And as he made his way into the detention center, it was at that point when ‘Pacman’ appeared to hit an officer with his elbow.
The cop in question is heard in the video saying ‘my lip is bleeding’ before a colleague later tells him that his lip looks ‘swollen’.
Jones went on to say on his podcast that he didn’t assault anybody, and claimed he had a ‘real lawsuit’ on his hands.
The ex-cornerback is seen berating cops and insisting he did nothing wrong in new footage
Jones can be heard telling officers ‘shut the f*** up’ and ‘suck my d***’ during his arrest
‘Pacman’ played in the NFL for 13 seasons for four teams and last played in the league in 2018
However, he also added that he was treated ‘unbelievably good’ by staff at Kenton County Detention Center.
Police documents state Jones was questioned by police outside of a Kentucky bar around 12:45am, cussing and displaying signs of drunkenness, including ‘slurred speech’ and ‘glossy eyes’.
‘Officers determined [Jones] to be a danger to himself and others in his current intoxicated state,’ the documents stated. ‘[Jones] was causing annoyance and alarm to the pedestrians nearby.
Last weekend marked at least the fourth time since 2021 that Jones, who last played in the NFL in 2018, has been arrested and the second in almost seven months. In each of the past three years, he has been booked on a public intoxication charge.
The most serious incident in recent years came in 2021 when he plead no contest to two counts of misdemeanor accounts for an altercation at a Cincinnati bar. He ultimately served 18 days in jail, Hamilton County court records show.
He was released from jail at around 11:30am on Saturday after posting a $10,000 bond. Jones is due back in court on Wednesday.
