The Kansas City Chiefs cut their star running back, Kareem Hunt, on Friday, shortly after the N.F.L. suspended him in response to the release of a video that showed Hunt knocking a woman down and kicking her at a hotel in February.

Hunt is one of the most prominent players on a contending team to lose his job in the middle of a season because of an incident involving violence against a woman.

The video was recorded at the Metropolitan at the 9 hotel, in downtown Cleveland, where Hunt has an apartment. The police were called after the February incident, but no arrests were made and no charges were filed.

But the graphic video’s release on Friday forced the hands of the league and the team, both of which had been unable to get the footage as part of their investigation, according to Brian McCarthy, a spokesman for the N.F.L.