Fans have criticized Green Bay Packers head coach Matt LaFleur for calling Josh Jacobs’ return to practice “business as usual” in spite of the running back’s arrest on five domestic violence charges last week.
Jacobs, 28, was charged with battery-domestic abuse, criminal damage to property-domestic abuse, disorderly conduct-domestic abuse, strangulation and suffocation, and intimidation of a victim. He turned himself in to Wisconsin police last Tuesday.
Authorities determined they were “not prepared to make a formal charging decision” based on current evidence, and he was freed less than twenty-four hours after being brought into Brown County Jail. The investigation is still in progress.
On Tuesday, exactly one week after his brief incarceration, Jacobs was allowed to resume Green Bay practice during the investigation.
Despite the charges he is facing, LaFleur claimed it’s “business as usual” with the three-time Pro Bowler after welcoming him back to the facility this week.
One fan responded to the Packers coach’s remark on X by tweeting, “Absolutely disgusting this low life is allowed to practice Greenbay should be ashamed of themselves.”
Matt LaFleur, the head coach of the Green Bay Packers, has come under fire for referring to Josh Jacobs’ return to practice as “business as usual.”
One week after being arrested on five allegations of domestic abuse, Jacobs (left) started his offseason exercise regimen on Tuesday.
“That is a very strange way to put this situation,” remarked another. “Business as usual.” Really?
As a Packers supporter, this doesn’t seem right. The coach will then declare it to be business as usual. A third wrote, “Really bad form.” A fourth wrote, “Business as usual is crazy man.”
One even went so far as to remark, “Wow, this team is disgusting.”
Jacobs was permitted to start his offseason training regimen on Tuesday in preparation for the required minicamp the following week, despite the anger surrounding his return.
Additionally, quarterback Jordan Love said that they have “talked internally” regarding his teammate’s off-field circumstances.
“Everyone is aware of the current situation,” Love continued. “It’s nice to have Josh here with us and get back to work, but obviously the facts are… everyone is keeping the details under wraps for now out of respect for the situation and all the legal stuff that will be playing out.
Dispatchers describe a chaotic scene at Jacobs’ Wisconsin home in 911 calls from the alleged domestic conflict last Tuesday, according to Milwaukee’s TMJ4 News earlier this week.
After the alleged incident, the running back turned himself in before being released from custody. One dispatcher added, “I can hear yelling and screaming.” Things are being hurled. Let the line open. A male and a female, perhaps.
The issue became even more urgent after a neighbor made a follow-up 911 call.
The dispatcher stated, “The neighbor is calling now saying her neighbor [redacted] was assaulted.”
“Yeah, at this point we’ll want that vehicle stopped if you come across it,” another dispatcher is heard saying as the Packers star allegedly drove off in his Mercedes G Wagon and was followed by license plate monitors.
In the end, an ambulance and deputies showed up at Jacobs’ house to speak with the unnamed victim. Later on, Jacobs would surrender to the authorities.
