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Referee dies after being punched at soccer match
San Francisco Chronicle ^ | July 1, 2014 | MIKE HOUSEHOLDER

Posted on 07/02/2014 6:13:48 AM PDT by 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.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: michigan; soccer; soccerkills
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To: coloradan

Cute - use a clip from Shooter. Nicely done!


21 posted on 07/02/2014 6:34:43 AM PDT by Blueflag (Res ipsa loquitur: non vehere est inermus)
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To: PapaBear3625

“He’s white, probably Arab or North African.”

Sometimes that just doesn’t seem to fit.


22 posted on 07/02/2014 6:34:54 AM PDT by vladimir998
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To: artichokegrower

A RoP member practicing what he is taught? Not a hate crime. Nothing to see here, move along.....


23 posted on 07/02/2014 6:34:55 AM PDT by DickBrannigan (When did logic become reversed, and right became wrong, and wrong became right?)
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To: Blood of Tyrants

.....and they’re pretty good at it, too!.............


24 posted on 07/02/2014 6:40:40 AM PDT by Red Badger (I've posted a total of 2,752 threads and 85,005 replies. ..)
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To: coloradan

LOL!!!.....................


25 posted on 07/02/2014 6:44:27 AM PDT by Red Badger (I've posted a total of 2,752 threads and 85,005 replies. ..)
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To: Red Badger

They should be, they practice doing it.


26 posted on 07/02/2014 6:47:53 AM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (Haven't you lost enough freedoms? Support an end to the WOD now.)
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To: PapaBear3625

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

Dearborn is Somali Central! As for calling him “white,” I think that would be a stretch.


27 posted on 07/02/2014 6:52:54 AM PDT by vette6387
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To: Blue Collar Christian
It’s just a game.

The 'knockout' game?

28 posted on 07/02/2014 7:34:48 AM PDT by GOPJ (Why no outrage over IRS targeting? Same reason Pravda didn't make a stink about gulags.FREnterprise)
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To: Tijeras_Slim

Muslim hands are the devil’s workshop.


29 posted on 07/02/2014 7:34:59 AM PDT by 'smith
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To: artichokegrower; Blue Collar Christian; Islaminaction; Hot Tabasco; PGalt; ml/nj; ExTexasRedhead; ..
The left's encouragement of soccer in the United States (as opposed to sports more rooted in the American culture), combined with massive recent immigration from countries where soccer is almost a religion and where violence associated with it is par for the course, has exposed the US to more of these incidents.

Combine this with the high level of violence associated with Arab/Islamic culture, which is geographically most prominent in metro Detroit, plus an player from an Arab background and an American-born referee, and you have a sociological milieu in this case that is most conducive to this kind of crime. In other words, a "perfect storm."

Sad to say, this is merely almost an expected result of the sociological factors at play in this case.

30 posted on 07/02/2014 7:57:33 AM PDT by justiceseeker93
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To: coloradan

In all the fuss made over the Uruguayan player who bit the Italian, I never heard any one mention that after the bite, he immediately fell to the ground as if he had taken an elbow to the mouth. He bit the guy and then tried to get a foul called on him!


31 posted on 07/02/2014 8:16:28 AM PDT by hanamizu
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To: PapaBear3625

Did the authorities recover his ISIS membership card?

America, you will experience a rude awakening that will make the 9/11/2001 event seem like a neighborly quarrel.


32 posted on 07/02/2014 8:24:04 AM PDT by 353FMG
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To: vette6387
Dearborn is Somali Central! As for calling him “white,” I think that would be a stretch.

You sure? He is definitely not Somali.


33 posted on 07/02/2014 9:49:29 AM PDT by PapaBear3625 (You don't notice it's a police state until the police come for you.)
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To: PapaBear3625

Yeah, you’re right about that! But he’s some breed of camel jockey. I suppose the fact that Somali’s are “dominant” in Dearborn (I’ll bet Henry Ford is spinning in his grave), does not mean that there are not Muzzies of different stripes there.


34 posted on 07/02/2014 10:04:07 AM PDT by vette6387
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To: Larry Lucido
Perp is Baseel Abdul-Amir Saad, a resident of Dearborn.

Middle eastern for sure but Dearborn has tons of Chaldeans living there too so we can't say if he was a muslim or not.

With that being said, Chaldeans can be pretty nasty too......

Remember a couple years back when a Dearborn highschool football team was playing a team from a Christian school and on the last play of the game, the christian QB was going to take the snap and go down on one knee. The dearborn team rushed the line and beat up the Qb........

35 posted on 07/02/2014 10:56:36 AM PDT by Hot Tabasco (By now, everyone should know that you shoot a zombie in the head. Don't try to reason with them...)
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To: DickBrannigan
A RoP member practicing what he is taught?

Can't say that for sure because the guy could be a Chaldean......they're christians

36 posted on 07/02/2014 10:58:41 AM PDT by Hot Tabasco (By now, everyone should know that you shoot a zombie in the head. Don't try to reason with them...)
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To: Hot Tabasco

Sounds like the perp attended the same Catholic school as the victim.


37 posted on 07/02/2014 1:18:18 PM PDT by cripplecreek (Remember the River Raisin.)
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To: cripplecreek
Sounds like the perp attended the same Catholic school as the victim.

No, the victim and the friend who gave the interview both attended Catholic Central together.

When I first heard the story on WJR's Frank Beckman yesterday, a first hand account said that the perp, after hitting the ref and knocking him down, then grabbed his gear and ran off. While running off, he turned around and flipped the bird........

From the little I caught yesterday, the caller said that the perp's team has a history of violence and had been kicked out of prior soccer leagues......I might be wrong on that so don't quote me.

38 posted on 07/02/2014 2:06:26 PM PDT by Hot Tabasco (By now, everyone should know that you shoot a zombie in the head. Don't try to reason with them...)
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To: DickBrannigan
Arab or Middle Eastern doesn't always mean Muslim. Most Middle Easterns in Michigan are in fact Christians. That is less true in Dearborn.

Saad is often a Lebanese name, and they can be either Christian or Muslim.

39 posted on 07/03/2014 6:21:19 AM PDT by Darren McCarty (Abortion - legalized murder for convenience)
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To: justiceseeker93

You’re right js93, and just one course of the multi-course meal being force fed to this once great nation to cause it to dissolve.

I’m afraid extreme violence is to come, whether to restore the U.S. or to be the way of life in the “fundamentally changed” world (think perpetual war zones, Mid-East, Egypt, Sudan, S. Africa, Somalia etc.) to come. One way or the other, it ain’t gonna be pretty.


40 posted on 07/04/2014 7:29:12 AM PDT by Blue Collar Christian (There's only one reason for authorities to take the arms of good people.)
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