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Police Called On 3-Year-Old Black Boy Because He Was Too Good At Soccer (blacksportsonline.com)

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cross-posted from: https://quokk.au/c/usa/p/1271268/police-called-on-3-year-old-black-boy-because-he-was-too-good-at-soccer

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[–] Earthwormjim91@lemmy.world 8 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I mean, those details are in this very article too… the rest of the article is just written with a heavy slant.

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 original video notes that the game was being live-streamed on TikTok, so other viewers saw the sequence in real time.

And

Nevada has previously drawn attention online for skill clips and goal highlights posted by the same account, with some videos circulating on accounts such as House of Highlights and ESPN FC. Family posts describe a pattern of the 3-year-old excelling against older children in the league, which they say prompted repeated complaints about fairness.

And here’s I-9s page about what their intent is. I know their goal because my kids have played in their league lol. I’ve coached in their league when my kids were little.

https://www.i9sports.com/how-we-differ

Their entire purpose is to not be a competitive league and to just give kids an organized place to play and work on teamwork and building basic sports skills. They do not want hyper competitive kids there and will ask you to take your kid to a competitive league, which this article even touched on this family getting multiple complaints. They don’t want parents inserting themselves into the games. They don’t even keep score (at least they didn’t when my kids played for them).

The league asked the parents to leave, they didn’t, the league gave them a trespass notice and the police enforced that, and the family was refunded their league costs. This article even talks about how the parents have made multiple social media posts with videos of him doing this with him going viral online.

Nobody called the cops on a 3 year old for being too good at soccer.

These shitheads put their son in a league intentionally designed to be equal playing time and non-competitive, had him out there beating up on other kids so they could video it and get him viral. Nobody gives a shit about the kid being “too good” at soccer. The whole thing is that the kid should be in a competitively league instead of his parents having him break every rule in the league so that they can put out highlight reels of him on social media.

[–] bilb@lemmy.ml 1 points 6 days ago

Thanks.