Charles Barkley Accused of Threatening To Hit Female Reporter!
Former NBA baller Charles Barkley obviously doesn’t understand that in today’s climate you can’t touch, look or even joke with women or they will call it an assault. Read on and get more details on how Charles Barkley threatens female reporter…
CelebNSports247.com has the latest on sports analyst Charles Barkley who made a joke in bad taste and now he is getting smeared by women.
Most NBA fans know Charles Barkley as the former NBA great turned analyst on Inside The NBA. He, Ernie, Kenny Smith, and Shaq provide us with laughter every single week on TNT.
A large majority of seasoned NBA fans also know Chuck to be a terrible human being throughout his life as he has joked about hitting women, joked about beating his wife, and actually spitting on an 8-year-old during a game.
With that said, good ole Charles aka Chuck has now found himself in a heap of trouble after he came at a female reporter at a get-together, then he allegedly joked about hitting her.
The woman is Axios reporter Alexi McCammond, who said the following:
Just FYI Charles Barkley told me tonight “I don’t hit women but if I did I would hit you,” and then when I objected to that he told me I “couldn’t take a joke.”
Just FYI Charles Barkley told me tonight “I don’t hit women but if I did I would hit you,” and then when I objected to that he told me I “couldn’t take a joke.”
— Alexi McCammond (@alexi) November 20, 2019
There are almost no times I will beak an OTR “agreement” but this is not OK. And it was all because he came in talking about how he loves Deval Patrick and once someone from Pete‘s campaign came around he said he loved Pete and I reminded him he previously said he was a Deval fan
— Alexi McCammond (@alexi) November 20, 2019
of course, she has a photo to prove the moment could have happened at this location:
Here’s a pic (albeit dark and blurry) if you need more. pic.twitter.com/Ad32cMemiv
— Alexi McCammond (@alexi) November 20, 2019
It just gets worse for Barkley because she began to retweet some of Barkley’s dirty deeds from years past:
Barkley once told a room full of people at a NABJ panel in 2017 in New Orleans that Black women shouldn’t report sexual harassment/assault until they’re in power positions at the work place. https://t.co/nHDjF36SJ1
— Carron J. Phillips (@carronJphillips) November 20, 2019
The first serious conversations about domestic abuse in sports were sparked in 1990 by Barkley’s comment about beating his wife. A year later, he spat on an eight-year-old girl during a game. A year after that, Nike featured him in the famous “not a role model” ad. https://t.co/xJSbFNKZie pic.twitter.com/Ahfq6JxL3T
— Timothy Burke (@bubbaprog) November 20, 2019
I hate being part of a story so here’s a reminder that this is so much bigger than me: nearly 20 people per minute are physically abused by an intimate partner in the US. 1 in 4 women and 1 in 9 men experience severe intimate partner physical violence https://t.co/eqgn0McbYt https://t.co/nll7a0rv2o
— Alexi McCammond (@alexi) November 20, 2019
I encourage you to consider how you’d respond if a friend said something similar to what Barkley said tonight. And then challenge yourself to ask the same of yourself if a stranger (or “celebrity”) said that. I hope the answers are the same. Everyone should be held accountable.
— Alexi McCammond (@alexi) November 20, 2019
After she annihilated him on social media for his derogatory remark, Charles Barkley sent out a statement and apologized for his actions:
Statement on behalf of Charles Barkley in response to tweet by Axios reporter Alexi McCammond:
“My comment was inappropriate and unacceptable. It was an attempted joke that wasn’t funny at all. There’s no excuse for it and I apologize.”
— TurnerSportsPR (@TurnerSportsPR) November 20, 2019
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