Posted on 07/24/2024 5:53:58 AM PDT by Red Badger
ALAMEDA. Calif. (KGO) -- There is a police investigation over what is seen on video in this story. One 13-year-old basketball player stomping on an opposing player's head.
"He was down on the floor and this kid just came and just stomped on him and on his head."
Eva and Roderick Guingab's son was playing on the Tumakbo United team, which is a Filipino-American youth team based in the Bay Area, with players from all across the U.S.
The game took place Sunday at the College of Alameda versus Payton's Place, another Bay Area team. There was a scuffle to get possession of the ball, then another player reacts.
"You could clearly see the size of his shoe on his face. My son suffered a concussion for the first time he played basketball," said Eva Guingab.
The Guingabs says their son is now in concussion protocol and still dealing with headaches. The family of the other boy who did the stomping, says that he was standing up for his teammate who he believed had just been kicked and punched in this melee.
Family members tell me the player for Payton's Place is now being cyberbullied by adults online.
They also say he immediately left the gym after this because he was told to leave by an organizer.
The Payton's Place team says the boy is "seeking help to control his emotions and he is not playing with the program at this time." They also say they are saddened by what happened adding, "The behavior that was exhibited by our player is not acceptable, and is being taken seriously."
Police say this is an ongoing investigation after the Guingabs filed a report.
"I think everyone was just in shock - I think we all kind of went on the court and went to the coach of the other team to say, 'What just happened what's going on?'" said Michael Tolentino who coaches Tumakbo United.
"If we don't say anything right now, this kid will think it's OK to do it because he's young. He thinks that walking away from this situation is OK, and it's not OK," said Guingab.
There are also questions about possible attacks that happened after the stomp, involving parents and officials but nothing could be seen on video and police haven't detailed those to us.
Coaches tell us these players have played against each other several times over the years, saying that race was not a factor here in anything that happened. Once Alameda police wrap this investigation, it will be up to the Alameda County District Attorney to decided if any action should be taken.
“Filipinos are neither White nor black.”
Not “black” = “white enough”?
Still if two bullies, we don’t want the “victor” to get awy with it. The loser may rethink it after this.
Always classy.
“seeking help to control his emotions and he is not playing with the program at this time.”
...too late. I’ve had restaurants tell me...”sorry the food and service was bad”. “We will address this”. Me...”great! That helps future customers. But not me”.
Alameda is Funky Town
So how many free throws then?
And you would be right.
There’s always the hockey program.....just sayin’. ;-)
Well, Good Lord.. sign him up to play "thug ball" in the NBA!
The player whose head was stomped was Asian:
“The on-camera assault happened during a game between two Bay Area teams, Tumakbo United — a Filipino-American youth basketball team — and Payton’s Place at the College of Alameda on Sunday, ABC7 reported.
The victim, who plays for Tumakbo.”
I saw this on Salty Cracker’s YouTube channel.🙄
Satan has a lot of little fr’kn animals!
STOMPER NEEDS SERIOUS CHARGES
NO EXCUSES
Seeing that it’s Kalifornia, I doubt much will happen to him other than a slap on the wrist.................
Parents need to spend a couple of years in County. Put kid away in padded room until he is >24 years old — insanity will wear off by then.
The media has promoted incendiary extreme hyperbole commentary from the political class, the Dims entirely, which has “justified”, and helped promote uncontrolled emotional reactions, all over the culture, and people wonder why these incidents are so frequent nowadays.
You state, “Head stompings are not unusual.” In the Black community it is learned at the mother’s knee.
Negritos from the Philippines are pretty black, and have curly hair. I once met a guy I thought was black in Alameda at a late night restaurant, after a night drinking, and remarked with surprise that he spoke Tagalog. I was about to ask him how a black guy learned Tagalog, until I realized he was probably native Filipino.
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