Surveillance Footage Shows Fox News Anchor Brawling With Cops

Cops aggressively apprehend Fox News anchor Greg Jarrett after his arrest at the Minneapolis-St. Paul Airport in May 2014.
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The Fox News anchor who was arrested last month on suspicion of drunken and disorderly conduct at a Twin Cities airport bar later scuffled with his arresting officers, according to surveillance footage released Tuesday.

Gawker obtained the footage through a public records request. It appears to show anchor Greg Jarrett insulting cops in a Minnesota jailhouse after his arrest. Slurring his words, he is heard calling one officer a “fucking stupid ass.” He then stood up and confronted a helmeted officer. The officer didn’t take kindly to the aggression, and subsequently slammed Jarrett against the wall.

“You put your hand on me again?” the officer demanded.

“Yeah,” Jarrett said.

The officer then slammed Jarrett on a bench and demanded that he “stay down.”

Watch the footage at Gawker.

Jarrett was arrested last month at the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport after police responded to reports of an intoxicated and belligerent man at a bar in the main terminal. He was booked at the Hennepin County Jail.

It turned out that Jarrett, who requested time off from Fox News last month for “personal reasons,” was reportedly fresh out of rehab at the time of his arrest.

The Minneapolis Star Tribune reported that police found documentation that Jarrett had just been released from an alcohol and chemical dependency treatment facility. Police also said they found three painkiller pills in Jarret’s pocket and suspected the anchor had mixed the drug with alcohol, according to the newspaper.

Jarrett was charged with a misdemeanor of obstructing the legal process and interfering with a police officer, according to the Star Tribune.

After Jarrett’s arrest, a Fox News spokesperson said that the newsman is “dealing with serious personal issues at this time” and that his return to the network had yet to be determined. Gawker reached out to the network again after the video was released, but a Fox spokesperson declined to comment.

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  1. Avatar for jw1 jw1 says:

    I’m one who has over the past 3 years been prescribed some fairly strong pain medicine-- and have, on occasion, imbibed alcohol too.

    I can say that you should be quite careful when mixing that combo-- while being a complete assh^le.

    jw1

  2. I went to Gawker to view the video, and IMO the cop who slammed him against the bench was being far too aggresive.

  3. This is not news–or at least old news. I think some compassion is due, even to Faux news anchors. Pointing and laughing at somebody else’s misfortunes is their thing–it should not be ours.

  4. He needs treatment and shaming him in this manner seems wrong.

  5. Jarrett is an attorney, as well as a former court reporter. He should know how to behave in the presence of law enforcement personnel. If he were drunk or had a combination of alcohol and prescription drugs in his system, he should know better than to drive irresponsibly, and, if he were driving irresponsibly, he should simply submit, plead guilty, and pay the fine, no need to fight or argue with cops.

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