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Report: Saints releasing Junior Galette

Junior Galette #93 of the New Orleans Saints at the Mercedes-Benz Superdome on August 25, 2012 in New Orleans, Louisiana. (Chris Graythen/Getty Images)

NEW ORLEANS (WGNO) – Two recent controversies may have cost Saints linebacker Junior Galette his job. NFL insider Ian Rapoport reported Friday that the team released Galette. He also added that the “Saints have been frustrated for a while”.

In January 2015, police were called to Galette’s Kenner home after a live-in assistant claimed she was jumped by Galette and his cousin Terrance Banks. A misdemeanor domestic violence charge stemming from that incident was dropped a month later.

In June, Galette was back in the news after a video surfaced showing him hitting a woman with a belt during a brawl in 2013.

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