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Coaches and players violently attack youth football referee
YahooNews.com ^ | 9-1-2011 | Cameron Smith

Posted on 09/01/2011 6:08:49 PM PDT by raybbr

In one of the most disturbing youth sports incidents in recent years, coaches of a Sarasota, Florida youth football team instigated a brawl with a referee which eventually led to both the coaching staff and a player violently attacking the referee in question during a massive brawl which embroiled both teams.

As reported by Sarasota Patch, quickly followed by a variety of Tampa Bay news outlets, details of the incident were first gleaned from an amateur video ofa game involving the Sarasota Gators and North Port Huskies on Saturday. The video in question was eventually turned over to the Sarasota Sheriff's office,which has since opened up a full criminal investigation into the proceedings from the game. While it's unknown whether charges will be filed against the coaches and player who attacked the referee, battery against a game official is classified as a felony in the state of Florida.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: civility; football; hatecrime; referee; sarasota; thecivilsociety; youthsports
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1 posted on 09/01/2011 6:08:55 PM PDT by raybbr
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I hope he sues the hell out of every one of those lowlife bass turds.


2 posted on 09/01/2011 6:10:52 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (If the Tea Party was a bunch of Islamofascist "rebels", would the state run "media" like us too?)
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To: raybbr

turd world values


3 posted on 09/01/2011 6:11:03 PM PDT by GeronL (The Right to Life came before the Right to Happiness)
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To: raybbr

Animals have no place among us!


4 posted on 09/01/2011 6:12:02 PM PDT by Cheetahcat (Carnival commie side show, started November 4 2008 ,A date that will live in Infamy.)
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To: raybbr

god, what are we turning into?


5 posted on 09/01/2011 6:12:27 PM PDT by WorkerbeeCitizen (I STAND WITH ISRAEL!)
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To: raybbr

No civility, no sportsmanship, no intelligence. Just “animals” without clue as to how to play football.


6 posted on 09/01/2011 6:14:32 PM PDT by Dallas59 (President Robert Gibbs 2009-2011)
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To: FlingWingFlyer
I hope he sues the hell out of every one of those lowlife bass turds.

he doesn't even want to press charges...

The referee who was assaulted by youth football coaches and players at a Saturday game told detectives he did not want to press charges. -heraldtribune.com 9/1/11

7 posted on 09/01/2011 6:15:19 PM PDT by Troublemaker
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To: raybbr

The Amish strike again.


8 posted on 09/01/2011 6:17:03 PM PDT by animal172 (Why can't we ban progressives?)
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Flashball!


9 posted on 09/01/2011 6:18:11 PM PDT by Gene Eric (Your Hope has been Redistributed. Here's your damn Change!)
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To: Troublemaker
If I dare hazard a guess as to why the referee doesn't want to press charges, it would have everything to do with his fear of retaliation.
10 posted on 09/01/2011 6:19:53 PM PDT by animal172 (Why can't we ban progressives?)
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To: raybbr

Future NFL players no doubt...


11 posted on 09/01/2011 6:20:01 PM PDT by VastRWCon (The Middle Class is the Tea Party)
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To: raybbr

I was raised to respect people of all colors. I was told through the years that we’re all the same inside even though we may look different on the outside.

You know what I’ve learned in the past few years? Every single time something like this happens - and it’s been happening increasingly - I just think what I was told as a kid is a big steaming pile of bullshit. I want to believe that we’re all the same, but as each passing week brings stories of black people acting like animals I...well, you get the idea.

The sad thing is there are hundreds of thousands more just like me. What am I supposed to believe? What I’ve been taught or what I see unfolding before my eyes?


12 posted on 09/01/2011 6:23:22 PM PDT by flintsilver7 (Honest reporting hasn't caught on in the United States.)
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To: raybbr

This happened in Michigan. The parents took their 7 year old to beat up another 7 year old and they attacked the elderly crossing guard who tried to break up the fight:
http://www.thegrio.com/news/parents-sentenced-in-school-crossing-guard-attack.php


13 posted on 09/01/2011 6:23:46 PM PDT by FrdmLvr (culture, language, borders)
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jackals


14 posted on 09/01/2011 6:24:57 PM PDT by Doogle ((USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated))
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To: raybbr

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TKtQOH7KFQw


15 posted on 09/01/2011 6:27:25 PM PDT by Doogle ((USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated))
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To: raybbr
Again, I never fail to be amazed by the extreme, live on the edge attitude lived by my fellow humans.

To be THE white referee at a Florida black youth football league game is up there with Pamplona or BASE jumping.

Didn't this silly cracker know that this is where NFL players come from?

16 posted on 09/01/2011 6:27:30 PM PDT by Trailerpark Badass
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To: animal172
The Amish strike again.

They looked to me like Swedes.

17 posted on 09/01/2011 6:29:09 PM PDT by sklar
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To: FlingWingFlyer

From the vid on Fox sure looked like holder’s people, no surprise and very historical.

Back in the day of “separate but equal”, we used to go watch the holder’s people high school football games and every one was just the same as this one. Helmets off used as clubs, coaches, fans and both teams out on the field NOT playing football, only thing missing were knives and guns.


18 posted on 09/01/2011 6:29:16 PM PDT by dusttoyou ("Progressives" are wee-weeing all over themselves, Foc nobama)
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To: flintsilver7

I’m right there with you flint. My entire life (well teenage on up) I was taught the same thing. Everyone is the same on the inside etc etc...and I basically carried that thought until 11/04/2008. I absolutely do not feel or believe that way any longer. Not when witnessing the events that are taking place.

Now..I’m ready to fly the bars and stars in my front yard (although that flag was a symbolism of the states rebelling and NOT racism) simply because of the implied meaning.

I am sick of all of it. We have the liberals to thank for this crap.


19 posted on 09/01/2011 6:29:43 PM PDT by Outlaw Woman (Palin/Perry, Perry/Palin, Palin or Perry, Perry or Palin. 2012 Any questions?)
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20 posted on 09/01/2011 6:31:21 PM PDT by I see my hands (Keep your sunny side up!)
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