Report: Seahawks rookie Frank Clark told hotel manager “I’ll hit you like I hit her”

A hotel manager is claiming that Seahawks draftee Frank Clark admitted to hitting his girlfriend while threatening, “I’ll hit you like I hit her”

The Seattle Seahawks’ insistence that rookie Frank Clark never hit his girlfriend is looking flimsier by the day. According to a report from the Seattle Times, Stephanie Burkhardt, a hotel manager, alleges that during an altercation Clark threatened her by saying “I will hit you like I hit her”, seemingly admitting to hitting his girlfriend in the process.

According to Burkhardt, she entered Clark’s hotel room shortly after the alleged incident between Clark and his girlfriend, where Clark proceeded to make the threat before shouldering her out of the way and leaving. When the Times reached out to Burkhardt on Friday, she reiterated her position, saying “Yes, he said it. I would never lie about something like that”.

Clark is accused of punching his then-girlfriend Diamond Hurt while on vacation with Hurt and her family at the Maui sands hotel and waterpark in Sandusky, Ohio.  According to the Times, the official statement that Burkhardt gave police says that she removed Hurt’s three young brothers and sisters the children from of the hotel room after the incident and waited inside with Hurt while police arrived. Burkhardt told police that she asked Clark to stay in the room until the police came.

“Frank was putting his shoes on at the end of the bed and told me not to (expletive) talk to him …’’ her statement said. “On his way out of the room he told me he would hit me like he hit her as well as he shoulder checked me.’’Hurt told responding officers that night she was “punched in the face” by Clark. Her two younger brothers also told police she was punched, according to the report.

The Seahawks, who have stated that they would never draft a player who struck a woman, have come under fire since drafting Clark, a defensive end from Michigan, in the second round of the NFL Draft. While the team has insisted that they covered all the bases in their pre-draft examination of Clark, this new information is calling that claim into question. It’s looking like Seattle may not have known enough before making the decision to select Clark.

We’ll see how if this new wrinkle to the story, as well as the other information unearthed in the Times article, affects Clark’s future with the Seahawks.