Patriots defensive tackle Christian Barmore faces one misdemeanor domestic assault charge, court documents from Attleborough District Court (Mass.) revealed on Wednesday. 
Barmore faces one count of assault and battery on a family/household member, as detailed by Emily Maher of WCBV. The charge stems from an alleged incident which took place on August 8, 2025 at a home in Mansfield. Barmore was in a relationship with the alleged victim, a woman with whom he engaged in an argument on the day in question.
According to the charging documents, Barmore grabbed the woman’s phone out of her hand while she was attempting to leave the house. He is alleged to have grabbed the woman before she could leave and “[thrown] her to the floor.” Barmore then grabbed her by the by the shirt “in the area of the neck” before eventually letting go, per the documents.
“The New England Patriots are aware of reports regarding a pending February arraignment involving Christian Barmore, which stems from an alleged domestic incident that occurred in August,” a team statement reads. “The Patriots were made aware at the time of the incident and informed the NFL in a timely manner. The matter remains part of an ongoing legal process. We will respect that process, continue to monitor the situation closely, as we have over the past few months, and cooperate fully with the league. We will have no further comment at this time.”
Court records reveal that on December 4, the alleged victim sent an email to police indicating her desire not to proceed with charges. A criminal complaint then emerged on December 16. Barmore is now scheduled to be arraigned on February 3.
A second-round pick in 2021, Barmore has been a regular contributor during his tenure in New England and a full-time starter this season. The 26-year-old has posted 26 tackles and one sack while playing an important role on the 13-3 Patriots. Barmore – who was limited to four games last season due to blood clot issues – is attached to a $21MM-per-year deal. His contract runs through 2028.
Today’s news comes one day after it was learned Patriots receiver Stefon Diggs faces strangulation and assault charges. Neither player spoke to the media on Wednesday.
Should start calling them the New England thugs!!
New England Hateriots has a nice ring to it 🙂
The Patriots are self destructing by the day. Calling the team shrink, Calling the team shrink! Report to the Coaches office stat!
It’s almost like the roids mixed with being praised as false heroes cause some sort of rage/superiority issue.
In other news Aaron Hernandez has been found guilty in a heavenly tribunal for 1st degree murder.
Aaron Hernandez went to heaven? Your god has a very low bar for entry.
And the pats are back folks..
Aaron Hernandez approves.
Hernandez was a three-dollar bill and wanted the quickest way out. I don’t see anything wrong with that.
Another one bites the dust
Culture starts at the top. Great job
That’s one fine team.
Most of us can avoid taking an angry hand to a woman for free. Imagine having millions of reasons not to.
True, the athletes have to be better and show better restraint but some of these women can be psychotic themselves, especially wanting a payday … there are suckers born e’vry minute.
That’s a pretty gross thing to leap to.
If you have been lucky enough to avoid crazy, violent girls, more power to you. I have not … haha
Hose Bee Lion. Right Brian?
Haha
These thugs in New England need to get their sh** together. About to start a playoff push.
Wow, what a great culture they’re creating in New England. Starts at the top!
Life in the public eye is different from what most of us will ever experience. It’s one thing to ask our actors, business leaders, athletes, politicians and well-known individuals, whether national, or even just people around town, to behave virtuously, and with respect to their being in the public eye, but it’s unreasonable to expect that they’re going to be any “better” than the rest of us. Meanwhile, the wagging tongues are ready to gossip, the holier than thou are ready to point fingers, the media and the scandal sheets are ready to pounce upon these people, so the rest of us can wax superior.
Many of us have engaged in a regrettable public argument or demonstrated unreasonable impatience. Many of us have let our emotions get the better of us in a moment of stress. Some of us have snatched the keys from an incompetent valet, punched an idiot in a bar fight, cursed at the moron who couldn’t get our order right in a restaurant or at a drive through, and I would defy most of you to honestly claim that you have never honked your horn, indicated that you felt that the driver alongside you was #1, or tailgated, while flashing your high beams.
Celebrities do this, too. They’re human beings, just (often, but not always) rich.
It’s a shameful observation on our society that men (and women) let their emotions overwhelm them, every day, and there are thousands, if not tens of thousands of incidents of domestic violence. Lovers, ex-partners, spouses, children, parents.
The police are called to many of these events, most go unreported. When the police are called, they take whatever statements they can gather, they talk to witnesses, they observe physical evidence. In nearly all cases, the complainant will eventually advise the police that they will not pursue charges, or cooperate with any prosecution.
Apologies are offered, sometimes legitimate, promises are made, mea culpas are emotionally exchanged, handshakes, hugs, dinners, flowers, whatever.
Assailants with reputations to protect are a very different type of target. Reputation protection can, and does sometimes become a source of great leverage. You and yours might kiss and make up, or, this might be the occasion that finally breaks the camel’s back, and you break off the relationship, romantic, business, or otherwise, that everyone else seemed to realize should have been broken off long ago.
Or, in the case of those with professional reputations to protect; someone, whether the victim, the victim’s loved ones, friends, attorneys – someone – reminds that the public will be VERY interested in this story. For every sad situation that is normally settled with a heartfelt apology, or an absolutely fake promise to change, famous people get a whole lot of “I want such and such, or you’re going to see your name in the press”.
This doesn’t make domestic violence right, this doesn’t make physical violence or obnoxious behavior against others excusable; it’s just important to recognize that Joe Smith, down the block, got into it with his girlfriend, too, and some woman you know from the office slapped the cashier at McDonald’s when she thought the fries weren’t hot enough, and you’ll never know, hear, or judge them as harshly, as you want to pile up on these celebrities. It’s not right for anyone to abuse another person, but let’s not make believe that this is an affliction of the famous, or that their actions are any more egregious.
Damn, human being animals … Anyone who thinks we’re completely civilized, needs to buy some elixer I am selling.
Just unfortunate. Young men need to learn from the mistakes of others. Young women too
Sad that the victim is terrified to press charges, happens way too often….NFL needs to suspend this guy….