Ok so, sure, other parents seem to have escalated things in a dumb way, but… for the rest of his life, this kid can say “I was so good at soccer they called the police on me… when I was 3.”
Edit: Body cam footage was released:
Upon arrival, police met with someone from the soccer league who made the call to police requesting that the family be asked to leave the area in which the soccer games were being played.
[H]e said the 3-year-old was allegedly pushing other players, so he told the child and the parents that no pushing was allowed.
The man said the child’s parents became irritated and caused a “big scene, arguing with the other parents,” according to the body-camera video.
“I just want them out, immediately,” he said.
Police said that because the games were being played in a public park, they could not be forced to leave, but that they would meet with the family to figure out what was going on.
The league official said that the mother was live-streaming their interactions, and that’s why he walked away from the family. The officers made their way to the other side of the field where the family was.
When officers made contact with the family, the mother said they were just confused and didn’t understand why her child was being removed from the soccer games and why they were being asked to leave the park.
https://www.wesh.com/article/winter-park-police-soccer-game-dispute-players-parents/74248881
It would be hilarious if he grows up and completely stops playing or just is shit at it.
Why would that be hilarious?
As irony!
My neighbor called the police when my dog chased their cat…in my backyard. I got off with a warning.
Were they at least told to keep their cat inside? Or on their own property?!?
Laws vary from county to county, city to city, but in most places cats are free to roam, legally, and deliberately harming a cat for nothing more than trespass exposes you to animal cruelty charges punishable with fines and/or mandatory anger management and other counselling.
Obviously I don’t know the specifics of this situation, but if a cat jumps into a fenced yard with a dog and gets chased, that seems pretty unfair since the dog owner is being responsible. But maybe that wasn’t the case here.
I am a responsible dog owner. The guy was just a jerk, and he still is.
Every case needs a proper, unbiased, investigation - and we won’t be getting that here tonight.
My snowflake neighbor came crying to me about his chickens being murdered and how he saw my cat on his camera and if he ever saw my cat again he was going to shoot it - nevermind that cats don’t murder full grown laying hens in their pen and the fact that we have raccoons, hawks, owls, and coyotes which DO murder full grown laying hens at any opportunity. I had to jump a hoop (get an ear clipped) to get my cat protected as “free to roam” in our county, which is a little weird, but now that he’s protected legally as a “community cat” anyone who brags about shooting him is eligible for an open and shut animal cruelty case, $500 fine and court ordered anger management counselling. We passed this information to the snowflake through his landlord, and have not heard peep out of him since - 2 and a half years now.
If you ever get another cat, name it Snowflake and make sure to tell your neighbor you named it after them 😁👍
Not about your specific situation, but Cats can definitely kill hens. I used to live on a small farm and we had issues with some wild cats.
Lots of other issues with other predators, but it’s entirely possible, especially at night.
Yeah, we’ve got a vicious killer on our hands here, he’s a big orange/white floof and about 6 times in the 7 years we have had him, he’ll bring a baby squirrel, or little fledgling bird to us. Nothing approaching the size of an adult squirrel, much less a hen. I suppose if he were hungry enough he might try, but… with all the other wildlife around it’s irresponsible to not protect your henhouse with hardware cloth to prevent predators from digging under the wire in the night (which, somehow the camera surveillance managed to miss - although why snowflake didn’t just make his coop more secure like the neighbors do is just… a him thing.) His next door neighbor watched a hawk grab the wire on the top of their run, in the middle of he day, and try to fly up with it / lift it off. We have had a young hawk grab a hen from the new neighbors’ open run that was a little too big for him to carry far, made it 100 meters to our driveway and set down there, as I rounded the corner I spooked him away and he left his prize, 15 minutes later he had returned to take it away.
So, yeah, bruiser the cat is capable, but about as likely to bother with his hens as he is to attack the FedEx delivery guy.
Maybe you like, don’t let the cat wander free?
I would probably buy a gun and shoot someone if they shot my cat. Humans aren’t more special than animals. That’s like the one thing that would get me riled up enough to commit a crime of passion is hurting my cats.
When I was 9 years old, our neighbor boys used our cat for target practice with their air rifles, back in those days apparently the air rifles were powerful enough to put a pellet through a pelt, our cat crawled up inside the engine bay of our car to hide, got caught in the belts when we started it, but it wasn’t the belt that killed the cat, it was the pellet hole in its torso. I never acknowledged their existence again except to be rude at any opportunity, I doubt it changed their cruel dispositions.
Sure, but there’s a difference between deliberately harming a cat and your dog chasing a cat.
Agreed, idiots abound.
…and even country to country.
Cats are free to roam here. He wasn’t a nice guy to begin with. He was renting and I own so…problem solved.
He was renting and I own
what does this have to do with anything?
tenants have just as much rights in their homes as anyone else
He moved, I didn’t.
He was temporary, I was permanent.
The “problem” solved itself.
We have several of those temporary neighbors here, too. I wish the one next to me was a renter. Or, maybe I don’t. I suppose having a new neighbor every year or so has it’s downsides, too. You never know what you’re going to get. Although, rent is so high now, renters pay more than most owners pay on their mortgages here. In my case, renting a house here is double what I pay in mortgage.
All the houses in my neighbourhood have sold to some kind of commercial endeavor. Rental or airbnb.
A lot of people live here but no one “LIVES” here.
You’re right, what does your comment have to do with anything? Tenants can be just as big of idiots as homeowners.
He moved, I didn’t.
He was temporary, I was permanent.
The “problem” solved itself.
they really shouldnt, cats on the outside are likely to live shorter lives than indoor cats.
This is a VERY rural area. Population 3.000.
When my “outside” cat passed (cancer), the vet had 17 years of medical history on him.
I live next to a highway. That cat would cross the highway to get mice in the field.
“Ball so hard motherfuckers wanna fine me”
Bro was out there breaking ankles!
I’m the one who called the cops. You guys don’t understand just how good this toddler is, someone had to do something
Don’t you know about cops killing black people though. They could have showed up and thought that little 3 year old boy was going to kick a soccer ball at them.
Or an acorn could have fallen on a car, causing them to shoot the place up.
Home boys gonna fucking roll more than he has since he played sonic in the 90s.
If those cops ever live that down…
I thought it was obvious, but /s for the aforementioned comment you’re replying to.
Edit, I read half your reply when I replied. It seems I’m the one with egg on my face
Someone call the cops! This comment is too good.
If you want this kid in black and white stripes, call Juventes.
The episode has prompted online discussion about age-group rules, competitive balance in recreational youth leagues
Looks like some people are trying to defend this by arguing that kids are there to just have fun, not being outplayed. Which still completely ignores the fact, the the 3yo also was just having fun.
I’ve been going to my sister’s kids’ games since they started and there’s ALWAYS a huge skill disparity in the younger games. And honestly it’s just one thing that seems to click and instantly make twice as good: predicting where the ball will go.
Kids that age ball chase because they have no idea what’s going to happen next. They will literally stop and wait for an opposing player to make their move before deciding what to do.
It’s exceedingly frustrating to watch but also really funny to see a whole field pause to watch a player do some tippy taps before kicking the ball straight into the feet of another.
Under 5 years old, an age difference of 2+ months can already be a major advantage in any sport that requires coordination, dexterity, anticipation, and agility without even considering raw talent. There’s a documented phenomenon where leagues that start splitting kids into skill levels at a young age are split predominantly based on the proximity of the month the kids were born to the age cutoff. Being older is already a massive advantage around then because their brains and bodies are developing rapidly and a few extra months of development has a lot of effect on their cognitive and physical abilities, and their height and weight.
This kid may be an outlier in raw skill. But honestly that also may even out considerably as other kids’ motor skills develop. This shit is temporary and part of playing sports in this age range. All of the people involved need to just chill out and watch the kids play whether they are killing it or chasing the ball.
That’s true about age differences being much more significant when they’re young. And I remember reading about the disproportionate amount of January and February birthdays in hockey leagues of the 90s/2000s so that other part tracks, too.
We’re on the same page about the rest. And (aside from foot coordination) it’s not a steady skill increase, it happens in big steps as ideas click for them. The worst player in the team can become the best overnight at that age lol
My 9 year-old’s team played soccer against a team of giants. They had 3 kids at least a foot taller who manhandled them and could kick the length of the field and score. It wasn’t fun and we were annoyed, but we didn’t call the police.
Sounds like you wasted a valuable opportunity to teach your kid they can get what they want by calling the cops on anyone who hurts their feelings.
Time for lil’ Billy to learn how to slide tackle if he wants the ball!
And the other ~15 4 yearolds were not
Are people really that stupid in the usa?
They voted for trump didn’t they ? Twice. There’s your answer.
Three times
True. Only successful twice, but stupid three times.
At this point one might conclude they’re stupid all the time.
also very racist in varying degrees.
A lot of white people are.
The Karens will always do Karen shit.
The police could have used common sense but elected not to.
You expect police to not needlessly use their power? This is a country were SWATing is so easy there is a term for it and so common that it doesn’t get investigated.
At best, they’re half as stupid and twice as hateful
The article makes it (slightly) less bad. 3 year old was kicked out of a 5 year old league for being too good and ruining competitive balance. The kid’s parents took it badly and would not leave until police intervened.
Most team sports don’t ban star players
Although i have seen a show called Ted Lasso where the coach put him on the bench for hogging the ball.
The article says multiple substitutions. Wonder what the coach’s role was in the whole thing.
Most youth leagues dont do substitutions like pros do, they swap out every quarter or so. The goal is to have the kids play about equally, or else parents lose their shit that their kid sat on the bench the whole game.
It’s a toddler fun league. The league has specific rules about it not being competitive and sharing play time.
The kids parents are wannabe influencers filming everything for TikTok.
Nobody called the cops on a kid for being too good. They called the cops on the parents because they were asked to leave over their stupid social media stunts, and then they refused.
12-15 years from now we may start to hear of an up and comer in the soccer leagues, and someone will rediscover his early roots.
just kidding. we’ll have destroyed ourselves long before this delightful and skillful little boys dreams come true.
White people intuitively understanding how cops are there to protect white supremacy even though when asked directly they’ll deny it and call themselves allies of black people
Messi was like that when he was an adolescent. Theres video of him just tearing it up as the smallest kid in the game
The future looks bright for little Nevada
Or it would be if he was allowed on the pitch.
Wow, those other parents are total pieces of shit.
They are, but it’s not just them
The whole system complied. On a kid younger than them
I can’t say I’m surprised either
Hah, that’s the weird part, when the parent called, the cops didn’t just hang up.
Considering how easy it is to call a SWAT on a stranger with no evidence, I’m not surprised they went ahead with any excuse to exert their power.
If my kid was playing with baby Messi? I would still want them to have a chance to play. This is fucking kids soccer - there’s no money on it. Good for the kid at being a god, but my kid can’t get good if she doesn’t have a chance to play.
Edit: calling the cops was wrong. I cannot believe anybody thought that was a good idea.
lol
Take your kid to a different league, what are the cops even doing here?
So you’re fine with this? Just to clarify?
No. Full stop. That was potentially deadly and scary and stupid and an unbelievable overreaction. I am fully against what they did. I can’t believe these dipshit parents couldn’t talk to the coach or that kid’s parents fucking mystifies me.
I’d want my kid playing with or against
The quickest way to get gud is be outclassed
Thanks for calling me out on that. That was beyond wrong of the parents, on multiple levels.
One thing I like about this place is so much of the community are willing to own their mistake. No dramas.
we all know that playing against people of the same level makes you better… You are just teaching your kid to find the shallowest pool to play in. How dare they be exposed to the idea that someone is better and maybe this is just all for learning.
Kid was playing against other kids 2 years older. I dare say they learned. And again, bringing cops into was beyond anything imaginable and wrong. But this should’ve been a learning opportunity, not “hey, let’s endanger a kid for playing soccer while black.”
Something that can be remedied without involving armed law enforcement. Maybe the coach could do their job and make sure all the kids get at least some chance to play?
Yes, this. Fucking idiots bringing cops into it boggles the mind.
Hello 911 what’s your emergency?
…
Yeah we’re not going to attend that.
I played soccer at that age, my siblings did too, and my cousins do as well.
When you’re 3/4/5 you’re not playing soccer. There are no rules, positions, score, winner/loser or goalies. It’s “go kick the ball around time”. When the ball goes out of bounds the coaches, who are often just some dad, just give it to a player that has not had a ball in a while. No one is trying to win, there is no ‘win’, it’s all make believe for the kids to have a chance to run around for a while in the sun. If one super-player wins every match, that sucks for every other player on the field including his team since they don’t even get to “win”, there are no winners. They just have to sit around bored with the other team because there is no point.
So the league refunded the parents fee and asked them to not come back (trespassed them). They are no longer legally allowed on the field and for that matter, have no claim to participate in the league seeing as they were refunded. They weren’t kicked out on the basis of race, it was many parents complaining “Hey, I paid ~$600 for ‘go kick the ball around time’, and you are facilitating a situation where my kid doesn’t get to kick the ball”. This isn’t a competitive format it’s gym hour and they are not receiving the product they paid for.
A 3 yearold hogging the ball all game, isn’t doing anything wrong. He’s 3. He’s should be instructed to share more but he isn’t doing something that warrants the cops involvement. The parents however, that understand the situation and failed to correct it / their kids ability to share, do. The adults that received their money back, understand it. The adults that received a trespass notice, understand it. The adults, who the cops talked to not the kid, understand it. The parents of the superplayers here at being assholes and injecting their kid in a situation they already KNOW will cause problems. All the kids are just being kids and the other parents, as far as I can tell, just want their kid to receive the product they paid for.
Too many people in this thread letting their emotions control their opinion due to a scary headline about a subject they apparently know very little about.
If it was a matter and refunding and asking people to leave why was police involved? I can think of 100 ways to handle this without police starting with giving the other kids another ball.
There has been an update. As far as the reason for the call:
A league official told officers that parents were upset about their son’s playing time and that the child would no longer be allowed to participate in the league.
Another entry states that the parents were upset because they believed their child was being criticized for playing too well and was being taken out of the game.
So it sounds like the coach benched the kid at some point, maybe to give the other kids some time to kick the ball, and the parents argued with the coach about it, which led to them being refunded and asked to leave, which they refused to do until after police got there.
In a statement released Monday, the department said a league official requested police assistance with a disturbance between league officials and the parents.
The league had asked the family to leave and offered to refund its fees, according to the statement. After officers arrived, a league official asked them to speak with the family because he did not want to prolong the disturbance, police said.
The family told officers the game was over and they were leaving. Police described the family as cooperative and said officers provided an event number at the family’s request.
The department characterized the incident as a civil matter, not a criminal one. “No one was arrested, trespassed, or forced to leave the park,” the department said.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/winter-park-police-explain-response-164621178.html
Seems it was a parent that called, not i9 Sports.
Just bench the kid? Has no one here coached baby soccer?
According to the comment above yours (that cites a Yahoo article), they did. That’s why the parents were upset and supposedly caused a disturbance.
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Source? All the article says is “i9 Sports, which operates youth leagues, camps, and clinics for children ages 3 and up in sports including soccer, has not issued a public statement on the incident. Local police have also not released information confirming details of any call or escort.”
Too many people in this thread letting their emotions control their opinion due to a scary headline about a subject they apparently know very little about.
What you’re describing is not just some more reasonable interpretation of the info in the article. You’re describing facts other people have no way of knowing. It’s not “letting emotions control their opinion”. It’s simply having opinion about facts at hand.
The family states that the league banned them from the field via a trespass notice and that officers then escorted them away in front of the other children. They say they later received a refund for the 2026 fall soccer league registration.
The same article, but what I’m having trouble finding is whether they had been banned before this game or as a result of this game.
Exactly, this says they were kicked out, not that they still came back later. Those are two completely different situations.
you know what, I had assumed that naturally the ban had already occurred and that this was not the initial trespass notice that the cops responded to
if they called the cops and issued the trespass at the same time, that’s weird. if they issued the trespass and then they refused to leave, well yeah duh call the cops that’s what they’re for
Can’t speak for your jurisdiction, but around here, and most of America I think, if a private business tells you to leave and you don’t, that’s trespass. In Florida it’s trespass if you ignore certain property signage. The police don’t “issue” a trespass, it’s automatic.
right
so if everybody called the cops at the same time as initially trespassing somebody, that’d be weird. like, you tell them to leave, they don’t, then you call the cops
Because they were trespassed
Maybe you can stop repeating this now that the PD is contradicting your claims?
The family told officers the game was over and they were leaving. Police described the family as cooperative and said officers provided an event number at the family’s request.
The department characterized the incident as a civil matter, not a criminal one.
“No one was arrested, trespassed, or forced to leave the park,” the department said.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/winter-park-police-explain-response-164621178.html
The fact is the police were called and legal action was taken. Now that it has been escalated to involve the power of state force, that invites a challenge to the charge based on equal accommodations laws.
Considering the state of the society is such that John Oliver’s most recent LWT segment is about neo-nazi entrenchment in the party in power, we can’t look at this incident and not see a racism mattar. We have to consider if the response of the other parents to invoke law enforcement would have occurred if the color of the offending family was a few shades lighter.
It’s always good to check; reportedly, the team is already quite diverse, and black parents were among those filing complaints.
The father had been coaching the child who turned out to be quite skilled, and had enrolled him in a very beginner rec league. He got his viral videos out there and started tagging teams and schools. He got the publicity he was looking for, and the facility had him removed and issued a refund because the child’s advanced training and subsequent skill level/play were inappropriate for their beginner rec league.
. We have to consider if the response of the other parents to invoke law enforcement would have occurred if the color of the offending family was a few shades lighter.
This is not substianted, you can review the videos posted by the father and see the makeup of the team was not primarily white. No other kids were removed from the team.
Yes. As more details of the incident became known to me, my position has evolved. It appears the police were called regarding the behavior of the father, and the response by the police was temperate.
As more details of the incident became known to me, my position has evolved.
I love you for this comment. ❤️ The mark of a sage.
“Because police and a black person were involved, we can’t NOT assume it’s racism”
Riiiiiiiight. The fact that this bat shit insane comment is upvoted is an indictment on Lemmy
I did add context that one of the primary political parties — the one in power, in fact — is openly white supremacist and xenophobic. Hate crimes surged in 2016 by 68% and haven’t dropped since. Literal lynchings in the US have become conspicuously more frequent.
Even before Trump, police and the justice system have been demonstrably dangerous to black Americans.
So, yes?
Maybe if we wanted to take interracial tolerance in the US for granted, we shouldn’t have voted a white supremacist into office, which Americans did twice, specifically for his racist and white supremacist views. Maybe the response to Brianna Taylor and Heorge Floyd should have followed through on police reform.
I’m not claiming racism doesn’t exist, or doesn’t exist in America, or that the police force isn’t often racist (intentionally or otherwise).
My claim is after looking into all the details of the situation, it’s the unfortunate reality that the kid WAS literally just too good. It’s funny to say but it’s the actual fact. He was too good, and didn’t belong. On top of that the parents were being problematic which is the real reason the cops were called. If the parents just chilled and acted like reasonable adults then nothing would have happened.
A blanket perspective of “A bad thing happened to a non-white person, therefor, the bad thing happened because they are non-white” is barley better than the full throated maga racists and it infantilizes and removes autonomy of non-white people. Sometimes the reality is that non-white people DO deserve the cops called on them. It’s not the case that the police involvement is ALWAYS racist.
They called the police in a situation where the need for police is implausible. There were parents there, yes? I assume they were sober. Why didn’t they manage the situation as might mature adults?
No, they escalated to state intervention, and that means question of equal accommodations can be raised, if the state has laws mandating them.
But it also raises the question of racism, especially if that was the only black family in the group.
Racism doesn’t merely exist in the US, it’s the dominant culture right now. So yes, it’s entirely appropriate to expect it and catalog when it happens.
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Uriel’s view has changed, this rebuttal i provided is no longer necessary
Not a great concept, but pretty easy to scope out, not like we don’t have video evidence that it wasn’t a black kid on a white team.
“Hey, I paid ~$600 for ‘go kick the ball around time’
Just go to a park…
Yeah but when they get there, there isn’t a marked soccer field with 2 goals and 15 other kids all wearing matching uniforms.
You’re paying for the orchestration and scheduling of the games
Not fucking $600 I’m not. That’s a car payment. My friends and I were always able to make do with sticks or fence posts or whatever and organize games. That was before we even had cell phones. You don’t even need organized teams and uniforms for a bunch of little children to just fuck around.
Sports league dues for kids get really expensive. My grandson is in the local basketball league and the annual fee is over $1000, and then we’re charged $30 to attend the games.
The first year, there was a call to all relatives to pitch in if they could. I don’t know since how they’ve been affording it.
TMI, Maybe
I’m also now out of contact with Master D, since his grandma and I divorced in 2024. It was a bit of a drive to the games, and travel and cost has made it prohibitive.
Well it sure isn’t $600 a month lol. It’s $600 once and covers like 4 months of playing.
$150 a month is still insane for a 4 year old to play soccer.
Ok I’ll admit I just rolled with what you said on the price, but turns out that was just an exaggeration.
I just looked it up and soccer is $157 and covers 6 weeks. So about $26 a week that covers the organization, setting up practice, the games, the refs, etc.
That’s pretty cheap.
Yeah I was responding to someone else who gave that price. $26 is much more reasonable.
Kids are expensive…
Metal gymnastics are strong with this one
to be fair to people, the headline is just lying to us about why the police were called
I think it’s reasonable to expect headlines to be correct, and that the blame lays almost solely on the publisher who is stating incorrect information
I understand where you are coming from, but I don’t think that is a reasonable assumption in 2026.
I don’t think it’s been a reasonable assumption for a long time lol
Too many people in this thread letting their emotions control their opinion due to a scary headline about a subject they apparently know very little about.
This is my Lemmy experience in a nutshell. I really wanted this to be a good reddit alternative, but it seems kinda like maga for the left. Which obviously is better than maga, but still exhausting.
Living in a society sometimes means suffering opinions and attitudes you don’t like. I know I don’t always agree with the Lemmy consensus.
I don’t think the notions of respecting equal accommodations, and approaching potentially racist situations with an abundance of caution — especially considering the current party in power — is radically left, id est MAGA for the left.
Feel free to block people whose opinions you can’t stand.
The secret is filters. Just block the subs that are all politics, block keywords that are too culture war. Cultivate a bubble and know that it’s a nice bubble where you’re more likely to get genuine people with interesting things to share than any other bubble I know of.
I thought it would be better than corporate social media. Seeing as there has to be some reason you came here rather than the ‘easier’ options.
But no it’s mostly people just being emotional and slinging mud. I’ve already been called a bigot in this thread even before that wall of text.
You’ll be called a bootlicker any moment now. Wait and see. :)
Lots of downvotes, yet no one actually defending Lemmy.
They know. They don’t like it. But they know.
Cop could have just said “Are you for real? Did you really waste police resources on this?”
They trespassed the kid, so the police had no choice but to escort him out. Which absolutely is a waste of police resources, but is also perfectly legal and follows the process.
In more reasonable countries, nobody can trespass you from a football field, unless you give them a very good reason like repeated physical assault.
Who trespassed the kid? Like I know it says “the league” but the league obviously didn’t have any meeting or come to a consensus in time to make that decision.
The other parents repeatedly complained about their kid not being able to participate in the make-believe form of a soccer played at age 3/4/5
How would they have the authority to file a trespass in a league game? It would have to be a league representative, wouldn’t it?
Otherwise parents in that league should just file trespasses against the opposing team to get a win every match.
No, they trespassed his loud mouth wannabe influencer parents.
And followed up with a ticket. This happened at work when some teen tried to fax and couldnt figure out dialing out over 9 or 1. Somehow faxed 9911Xxxxxx so the fax called the police. They showed up and fined us for the waste of time.
they realy just dint want a black kid make a white kid look bad, plus racist parents.
Listening to the parent talking in the video it sounds like there was past history between the kid’s parents and the other parents and that there was at least an altercation between them after someone said something the kid’s parent didn’t like. This seems to be the real reason behind the parents being kicked out and the cops ultimately called. But of course, the parent who released the video edited all those parts out to make it sound they’re kicking the kid out for being too good. Feel bad for the kid though. That wasn’t his fault.
This reads like copium, a milder variant of the racism that this family was subjected to.
There may have been more to the story but nothing that warranted police involvement. There’s a league administration to deal with any such matters.
The article claims that the game was being live streamed, others could/would have reported any real infractions had there actually been anything to report.
What I can tell for sure is that the article reports the kid’s parents side of the story and their side only. They obviously make the claim that the cops were called because their kid was too good at the sport. The video they edited opens up with the father saying that. But if you read between the lines of what they tell the cop afterwards it is clear that there was a clash between the parents before the cops were called and the article fails to even mention that. If there is recorded footage of the events somewhere whoever wrote that article couldn’t find it, just like they couldn’t find anyone else who was there to tell what they see happened.
This is far from being high-end investigative journalism and I’m pointing that out.
The only thing we can deduce with some decent level of certainty is that it is the league that fucked up first. Kids are usually grouped by skill level to avoid things like that and they failed to correct that situation for quite some time it seems.
AOL Keyword: Uppity.
Look into it.
You are very articulate.
What an articulate young man! Pinches cheek
Even paw patrol shouldn’t bother for petty bench fights. But since black folks were involved, officers smelled blood.
There’s a lot of over correction in this thread.
Police breaking up a recurring altercation is 100% part of what they are there for. A party being black is just unfortunate for optics.
You don’t hide your bigotry as well as you think you do.
Yeah this thread has been… enlightening. Lemmy might be more prejudiced than I would have initially thought.
What a lazy response to a nuanced topic.
Er ad hominem or whatever
There’s no nuance involved in systemic racism and Karens weaponizing the police to protect white fragility.
That’s pretty cut and dry.
