Brandon Marshall speaks on domestic abuse accusations against NFL

CHICAGO (WLS) -- Brandon Marshall, star Chicago Bears wide receiver, spoke publicly about allegations of domestic abuse from his past during a conference after practice Thursday, criticizing media coverage of the allegations involving former girlfriend Rasheedah Watley.

Marshall is the latest NFL player to be caught in the middle of the league's domestic violence controversy.

During the conference, Marshall passed out documents from legal proceedings in 2007 and 2008 related to domestic abuse charges against him, and then railed against a culture he thinks is too quick to judge.

"We have to let the process play itself out, whether the process is a day or the process is a month, we have to gather all the facts before we can go play judge and jury," he said.

The receiver, who did not practice Thursday, called the current environment around the NFL a shame. But he said controversies involving abuse allegations against Baltimore Ravens receiver Ray Rice and Vikings running back Adrian Peterson require due process, and at the heart of them are matters of mental health - which he has struggled to maintain.

"I love controversy because it's an opportunity and platform to talk about some of these issues that really need to have light shed on it," he said.

He seemed particularly upset about a recent ESPN profile that looked at his own history of domestic abuse.

"He's very angry at ESPN for bringing up issues from the past, he seems to have moved on beyond his own domestic violence issues from 2006-2008, but those victims likely haven't," said Rick Telander, Chicago Sun-Times sports columnist.

After 40 minute, Marshall was done. And while he said perhaps 90 percent of NFL players were hit his children, he would not raise his kids the same way.

"I don't believe in child abuse, I don't believe in that so, I'm not going to raise my kinds that way," he said.