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Updated · Fox News · Aug 28

DA Says 8-Minute Garage Video Corroborates Josh Jacobs Battery, Phone Damage Charges

Updated

Updated · Fox News · Aug 28

DA Says 8-Minute Garage Video Corroborates Josh Jacobs Battery, Phone Damage Charges

Q: What hidden details in the surveillance video saved Packers star Josh Jacobs from facing severe felony strangulation charges?

The key detail appears to be what the surveillance video did **not** show: any strangulation inside the house. Prosecutors said the home video captured the garage confrontation and phone damage, but “does not depict any portion of the incident that is alleged to have occurred inside the residence,” where the more serious strangulation/suffocation claim would have had to be proved. What the video reportedly did show was narrower. It corroborated parts of the ex-girlfriend’s account that support the misdemeanor charges: Jacobs and the woman leaving and returning to the home, Jacobs taking her phone while she was on the garage floor, and about 40 seconds later appearing to damage that phone. It also supported the allegation that she was thrown down in the garage and struck her head. That matters because the physical evidence described publicly — redness on her face and neck and a bump on the back of her head — was consistent with an altercation, but the surveillance footage apparently did not provide direct visual proof of strangulation. After reviewing the video along with newly available forensic work, prosecutors reduced the case from the original arrest allegations to two misdemeanors: battery and criminal damage to property. So the “hidden” detail was less a dramatic new image than an evidentiary gap: the cameras captured the garage incident and damaged-phone sequence, but not the alleged in-house conduct needed to sustain a felony strangulation charge.

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8 minutes of garage surveillance footage from May 23 allegedly shows Josh Jacobs throwing his ex-girlfriend to the ground, taking her phone and later appearing to damage it, according to Brown County DA David L. Lasee.
The video became central after investigators recovered surveillance-system components and both phones from Jacobs' residence in late July, with a forensic review taking weeks before final verification and helping support Thursday's two misdemeanor charges.
Josh Jacobs turned himself in on May 26 and now faces one count of misdemeanor battery and one count of criminal damage to property; his lawyers have said he will be exonerated.
The Packers said they are cooperating with the NFL, whose separate Personal Conduct Policy investigation could bring discipline or placement on the commissioner's exempt list even before the criminal case is resolved.