Referee dies after being punched at soccer match

San Francisco Chronicle ^ | July 1, 2014 | MIKE HOUSEHOLDER

[artichokegrower]

DETROIT (AP) — A man who was punched in the head over the weekend while refereeing an adult-league soccer match in suburban Detroit died Tuesday, authorities and a longtime friend of the referee said.

[artichokegrower]

COEXIST

[Blue Collar Christian]

It’s just a game.

[cripplecreek]

Soccer ref killed.



Michigan legislative action thread

[super7man]

It’s just another day in Detroit.

[Red Badger]

But soccer is supposed to be peaceful, safe and non violent!.....................

[Ken522]

Religion of Peace alert!

[Red Badger]

Kill my referee!

Kill my referee!...................

[sevinufnine]

Based on the killer’s name, Baseel Abdul-Amir Saad , maybe a peaceful Muslim? The ref was simply trying to eject the guy from the game due to a red card. Naturally the filthy defense attorney is claiming the killer is innocent... Here’s something I found at another link:

Baseel Abdul-Amir Saad, 36, of Dearborn, charged Monday with assault with intent to do great bodily harm less than murder, is now expected to be charged with homicide later this week by the Wayne County Prosecutor.

Witnesses said Saad was angry about being ejected during Sunday’s match and punched Bieniewicz in the head. There were several witnesses to the attack, including 39-year-old soccer player Scott Herkes.

“As (Bieniewicz) presented the red card, the player (Saad) reeled back and swung, hitting him across the face and kind of in the neck,” Herkes told The Detroit News. “He dropped immediately.

From The Detroit News: http://www.detroitnews.com/article/20140701/METRO01/307010079#ixzz36JiyLWw5

[Larry Lucido]

Livonia, actually.

Perp is Baseel Abdul-Amir Saad, a resident of Dearborn.

The suburbs have Amish, too.

[Tijeras_Slim]

Idle hands are the devil’s workshop.

[Blood of Tyrants]

It’s so non-violent that the players have to fake being hit, tripped, or kicked!

[PapaBear3625]

Baseel Abdul-Amir Saad, a resident of Dearborn

if it's Dearbornistan, he might instead be Middle Eastern.

[latina4dubya]

to borrow from Chelsea C.:

“I’ve tried really hard to care about things that were very different from my parents. I was curious if I could care about soccer on some fundamental level, and I couldn’t,”

btw, my parents care about baseball, football, boxing :)

[PapaBear3625]

The article has his picture. He’s white, probably Arab or North African.

[glennaro]

Remember -- just like the old racist joke -- when the Democrat Party's answer to inner city crime was to "throw 'em a basketball" (i.e., when they instituted "midnight basketball"? Now it's a soccer ball -- with the same predictable result.

Sports participation isn't the answer ... good values is.

[Larry Lucido]

It’s just a game.

Remember, it's just a game.

You wrote, "The fate of the whole world rests upon this game."

I may have exaggerated, just for effect.

[coloradan]

They weren't faking it.

[Larry Lucido]

The perp isn’t a former midnight basketball player. Different breed of Amish.

[Larry Lucido]

if it's Dearbornistan, he might instead be Middle Eastern.

Baseel Abdul-Amir Saad

Ya think? :-)

[ArcadeQuarters]

It is as Allah willed.