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Jason Kelce Under Investigation For Penn State Cellphone Incident
"In a heated moment, I chose to greet hate with hate," the Eagles legend said of the incident, which went viral on social media.
STATE COLLEGE, PA — Eagles legend, future NFL Hall of Famer, and popular media figure Jason Kelce is now under investigation following a confrontation with a fan at Penn State over the weekend, according to authorities.
Videos and images shared across social media showed Kelce walking through a crowd just before a game between Penn State and Ohio State. He was signing autographs and greeting fans warmly, as he always does, when one screamed out at him: "Hey Kelce, how's it feel your brother is a (expletive) for dating Taylor Swift?"
The expletive was an anti-LGBTQ slur.
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The video then appears to show Kelce grabbing the fan's cellphone and throwing it on the ground.
"I'm not proud of it. In a heated moment, I chose to greet hate with hate," Kelce said before his broadcast of Monday Night Football. "And I just don't think that's a productive thing. I don't think that leads to discourse, it's not the right way to go about things."
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Penn State Police's incident log confirms "a visitor damaging personal property" at that time.
The university has confirmed to multiple media outlets, including NBC Philadelphia and USA Today, that the individual in question is Kelce.
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