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New England Patriots safety Jabrill Peppers was placed on the NFL commissioner’s exempt list this week after pleading not guilty Monday to charges of assault and battery, assault and battery with a dangerous weapon, strangulation and possession of a Class B substance, which police said tested positive. for cocaine

On Friday, team owner Robert Kraft said the team was conducting its own investigation into the matter.

“(The NFL) will do their independent check. We’re doing ours,” he said during an appearance on The Breakfast Club (46:00 mark). “If what was reported is true, it is gone. There have been some suggestions that this was a setup and what is being reported is not accurate.”

A woman told police in Braintree, Mass. that Peppers beat her, pushed her to the ground, pushed her against a wall, choked her six different times, stripped her of her clothes and forced her outside , according to ESPN’s Mike Reiss.

Peppers’ attorney, Marc Brofsky, told the court the defense had evidence that “alleviates genuine doubt about the allegations, including videotaped evidence.”

Peppers was released from jail on $2,500 bond and ordered to have no contact with the woman. He did not resist arrest and cooperated with police.

“I have a saying that I use with all my key people: In major decisions in life, measure nine times and cut once,” Kraft said Friday. “And I think in this case, if what’s been reported is true, he’s gone. But we want to know the facts.

“The easiest thing would have been to cut it straight away, but we are trying to measure nine times and get it right,” he added. “If the facts are as has been publicly reported, then he is not with us.”

After Peppers was placed on the commissioner’s list, head coach Jerod Mayo told reporters that any form of domestic violence is “unacceptable to us as a team” and that the organization is “wholeheartedly against of any type of domestic violence”.

“Having said that, I do believe that Jabrill must continue to go through due process,” he added. “We’ll see how that works out. The league has put him on the exempt list, and that will give us time to gather more information going forward. Right now, he’s not in the building and we’ll talk about that. In a moment In hindsight, as a father of three daughters, I definitely understand the seriousness of the allegations, and I hope they are not true.”