{"id":2068,"date":"2023-04-03T00:58:51","date_gmt":"2023-04-03T00:58:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailynewsintime.net\/?p=2068"},"modified":"2023-04-03T00:58:51","modified_gmt":"2023-04-03T00:58:51","slug":"police-announce-charges-for-womens-basketball-player","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailynewsintime.net\/index.php\/2023\/04\/03\/police-announce-charges-for-womens-basketball-player\/","title":{"rendered":"Police Announce Charges for Women\u2019s Basketball Player"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Memphis senior guard Jamirah Shutes has been charged with assault after an ugly incident in which she allegedly sucker-punched an opponent in the face.<\/p>\n<p>The incident occurred after a playoff game in the Women\u2019s National Invitation Tournament (NIT). The teams were attempting to shake hands when the altercation occurred.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">BGSU women\u2019s basketball moving on to the final 8 of the WNIT after beating Memphis \u2014 but this will steal the headlines unfortunately. <\/p>\n<p>Ugly, ugly scene in the handshake line. A Memphis player punched Elissa Brett. Just brutal. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/2hptXYBEtj\">pic.twitter.com\/2hptXYBEtj<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Jordan Strack (@JordanStrack) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JordanStrack\/status\/1639065193836576769?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 24, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Bowling Green State University police less than 24 hours after the incident.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the video evidence, Shutes has pleaded not guilty in court to the assault charge.<\/p>\n<p>Bowling Green Falcons guard Elissa Brett was assisted off of the court after the punch.<\/p>\n<p>The university said, \u201cFollowing Thursday\u2019s unwarranted physical incident after the WNIT home game, the Bowling Green State University Police Department has charged a member of the Memphis Women\u2019s Basketball team with assault.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Tigers lost to the Bowling Green State University Falcons.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAdditionally, BGSU Athletics is conducting its own review,\u201d the university said in its statement. \u201cViolence is never acceptable and our priority remains the health, safety and support of our student-athlete, who is recovering and doing well.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is an active investigation in conjunction with the City of Bowling Green Prosecutor, and no further comment is available at this time,\u201d the university said.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Memphis guard Jamirah Shutes has been charged with assault after appearing to punch Bowling Green\u2019s Elissa Brett following the Falcons\u2019 WNIT victory over the Tigers <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/a1mRtG5jNC\">https:\/\/t.co\/a1mRtG5jNC<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Sports Illustrated (@SInow) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SInow\/status\/1639348883343179776?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 24, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Memphis senior guard Jamirah Shutes has been charged with assault after an ugly incident in which she allegedly sucker-punched an opponent in the face. The incident occurred after a playoff game in the Women\u2019s National Invitation Tournament (NIT). The teams were attempting to shake hands when the altercation occurred. BGSU women\u2019s basketball moving on to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2069,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2068","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-daily-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailynewsintime.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2068"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailynewsintime.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailynewsintime.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailynewsintime.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailynewsintime.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2068"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dailynewsintime.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2068\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2070,"href":"https:\/\/dailynewsintime.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2068\/revisions\/2070"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailynewsintime.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2069"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailynewsintime.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailynewsintime.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailynewsintime.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}