{"id":135524,"date":"2025-06-16T23:13:09","date_gmt":"2025-06-16T23:13:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/135524\/"},"modified":"2025-06-16T23:13:09","modified_gmt":"2025-06-16T23:13:09","slug":"antonio-brown-takes-shot-at-media-as-attempted-murder-warrant-waits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/135524\/","title":{"rendered":"Antonio Brown takes shot at media as attempted murder warrant waits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Antonio Brown seemed to be blaming the media for his current predicament as the former NFL star faces attempted murder charges in Miami-Dade County.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A warrant for the ex-wide receiver\u2019s arrest <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/06\/12\/sports\/ex-nfl-star-antonio-brown-facing-attempted-murder-charge-in-miami\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">was issued last week by a judge <\/a>related to a May incident that occurred outside a celebrity boxing event.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>But Brown pushed the blame on the media in a post on social media, in which he screenshotted an alleged ChatGPT conversation in which he asked the service, \u201cIs Antonio Brown being racial profiled?\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Along with the screenshot, Brown posted a lengthy caption where he suggested \u201cthey\u201d control the media, though he never specifies who exactly he is referring to.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p> AP<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHow TF you go from being victimized [into an] attempt to murder,\u201d Brown posted on X. \u201cYou see they control the media. Took a month to change the narrative. A year or 2 them dragging the narrative. Attempt to murder. You see they only want 3 types of n\u2014-s. In America, in jail dead or dead broke.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Brown had ended the post with the hashtags \u201cBlack man\u201d and \u201ctakedown.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The incident occurred on May 16 and Brown had claimed that he was jumped in an attempted robbery outside the Brand Risk boxing promotion being put on by streamer Adin Ross.<\/p>\n<p>Video from outside the event was posted online and showed Brown in a brawl with several men before falling to the ground.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The video later cuts to Brown kicking a man on the ground before jumping to the sounds of gun shots and a second video showed Brown being led away by police, though he was later released.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Antonio Brown\u2019s post-NFL spiral continued Friday night as the former All-Pro wide receiver was involved in a chaotic brawl at a boxing event in Florida. The incident, which escalated from an attempted chain-snatching to alleged gunfire, is the latest in a growing list of public controversies involving the ex-NFL star.  MEGA<\/p>\n<p>While Brown was trying to push the narrative that he was being treated unfairly, the warrant includes that police were able to obtain video that showed the former NFLer punching another man, <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/06\/13\/sports\/alleged-antonio-brown-gun-shot-victim-recaps-scary-scene-that-led-to-arrest-warrant\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">identified as Zul-Qarnain Kwame Nantambu<\/a>, and later taking a gun from a security officer before moving toward Nantambu, according to the warrant.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMr. Nantambu stated Mr. Brown proceeded to shoot at him (possibly grazing him in the neck), placing him in fear for his life,\u201d the arrest warrant stated.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Antonio Brown\u2019s post-NFL spiral continued as the former All-Pro wide receiver was involved in a chaotic brawl at a boxing event in Florida. MEGA<\/p>\n<p>Nantambu told police that he had known Brown since 2022 and that there was a \u201cverbal altercation\u201d before things came to blows.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A spokesperson for the Miami-Dade state attorney\u2019s office said \u201cthe warrant speaks for itself\u201d when reached by The Post for comment last week.<\/p>\n<p>Brown has been traveling in the Middle East since the warrant was issued, though <a href=\"https:\/\/www.miamiherald.com\/news\/local\/crime\/article308744710.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">police do not consider him <\/a>to be on the run.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Brown has posted a number of social media posts from foreign countries in recent days and Miami Police Chief Manny Morales told the Miami Herald that its believed that the former Steeler is still in Dubai.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Morales told the outlet that they have been in contact with Brown\u2019s attorney and he is expected to be taken into custody when he returns to Florida.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Antonio Brown seemed to be blaming the media for his current predicament as the former NFL star faces&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":135525,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[6086,1142,7,6,9],"class_list":{"0":"post-135524","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nfl","8":"tag-antonio-brown","9":"tag-athlete-arrests","10":"tag-football","11":"tag-nfl","12":"tag-sports"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/114695582735535515","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135524","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=135524"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135524\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/135525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}