In a series of stunning allegations, Los Angeles Rams wide receiver Puka Nacua is being accused of biting a woman and uttering anti-Semitic phrases.
The alleged victim applied for a temporary restraining order which revealed her account of events in a group outing on New Year’s Eve in the Century City area of Los Angeles.
According to court documents obtained by the Daily Mail, Nacua is accused of saying ‘f*** all the Jews’ during dinner, which the complainant took exception to.
The woman called this phrase the ‘first act in what became an escalating course of rude or vulgar, threatening, violent, and harassing conduct’ by the Rams star.
After dinner, the woman claims that she and her friend – as well as Nacua and others – got in a Sprinter van when he became ‘touchy-feely’ with her.
Then, out of nowhere, Nacua ‘dropped his head into [her] girlfriend’s lap and crotch area and bit her thumb so forcefully that she screamed in acute pain’ before the wide receiver then turned to the alleged victim and bit her left shoulder.
Los Angeles Rams wide receiver Puka Nacua is being accused of uttering an anti-Semitic phrase before then biting a woman with enough force to break her skin
The woman attached this photo of the bite mark allegedly left by Nacua in court documents
The woman accused Nacua of making the remark at dinner before biting her and a friend
The bite allegedly broke the woman’s skin and left a circular imprint of his teeth. A photo of this was included in the application for a temporary restraining order.
A day after the incident, the alleged victim contacted police and filed an incident report.
Before the woman filed the petition for a temporary restraining order on Tuesday, the two sides met at a mediation conference that was attended by both the woman and Nacua, both their attorneys and a crisis PR team.
In that meeting, Nacua’s attorney – Levi McCathern – ‘made unprivileged threats to contact TMZ and other press and media outlets and to disseminate false, inaccurate, and/or deliberately exaggerated public statements’ about the events on New Year’s Eve.
According to court documents, the request for a temporary restraining order was denied until a follow-up hearing on April 14.
McCathern told TMZ that the accusations in the complaint were a ‘shakedown attempt’ and claimed the woman is demanding millions of dollars.
He claims the bite mark happened during some ‘horseplay’ while the group was partying and that nothing more than a ‘temporary mark’ was left.
The lawyer says the remark at dinner was never made and claims that sober witnesses never heard Nacua say those words.
Nacua’s attorneys then threatened to go to TMZ and other media to spread ‘false statements’
Nacua’s attorney denied the accusations against his client, calling it an attempted ‘shakedown’
This alleged incident took place just days after Nacua performed an offensive Jewish stereotype on a live stream at the behest of Adin Ross (L). Nacua later apologized.
The timing of this alleged incident came just days after Nacua was embroiled in another anti-Semitic controversy with streamer Adin Ross – who tried to convince the receiver to celebrate a touchdown with Ross’ so-called ‘Jewish dance.’
The ‘dance’ was little more than the streamer rubbing his hands together – evoking a negative stereotype of Jewish people from a racist cartoon.
Nacua was publicly criticized by the likes of Barstool Sports founder Dave Portnoy among others.
The receiver then apologized, saying he had ‘no idea’ about the reference.