Credit: Port of Seattle Police Department
Footage has emerged of Olympic gold medallist sprinter Sha’Carri Richardson allegedly attacking her boyfriend Christian Coleman at an airport.
Richardson was detained last week in Seattle and a police report said footage appeared to show Coleman being shoved into a wall before an item was thrown at him.
The 25-year-old Richardson was released following the incident after her boyfriend “declined to be a victim,” the police report read.
CCTV images, first obtained by TMZ, appear to show Richardson slamming Coleman into a wall and bumping into him after the first altercation. The argument continues as the pair bump into each other as he walks towards a checkpoint at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport.
Port of Seattle Police said Richardson claimed the argument was started over a pair of headphones.
“Richardson advised she did not assault him in any way and the dispute was only a verbal argument,” police documents said.
Richardson, who won a 100m silver medal and 4x100m relay gold medal at the 2024 Olympics, was arrested and charged with fourth-degree assault before she was released without further action.
Coleman, 29, later said: “For me personally, I feel like it was a sucky situation all round. I don’t feel like she should have been arrested.
“I’m the type of guy who’s in the business of extending grace, and mercy and love. She’s just had a lot of things going on, lot of emotions and forces going on inside of her that not only I can’t understand, but nobody can. She’s one-of-one. I know it’s been a tough journey for her this year. But she’s gonna bounce back because she’s the best female athlete in the world. I see it every day. She’s gonna be just fine. She’s gonna be good, and I’m gonna be good too.”
Richardson will run in the 100m at the World Championships in Tokyo next month but missed out on qualifying for the 200m by one-hundredth of a second. She finished fourth in her heat in Oregon last week and declined to speak to reporters afterwards.
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