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

submitted 1 week ago by slothrop@lemmy.ca to c/nottheonion@lemmy.world

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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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[–] Ready_Player_01@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

If this is true, I have just one thing to say: context changes everything...

[–] Earthwormjim91@lemmy.world 10 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

A lot of that is directly mentioned in this article, just glossed over or spun. And I know I-9 from personal experience with my kids and coaching for them in the league. There’s always some parent that thinks their kid is the next superstar but is too cheap to put them in the more expensive competitive league.

The incident, captured in video the family posted to TikTok under the handle nevadaney10 and later shared widely, shows the child — identified by his parents as Nevada — playing in a league with kids roughly two years older.

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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.

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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.

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

Families seeking a highly competitive format with a win-at-all-cost culture will not feel at home in our leagues. Our format is unabashedly recreational as we reclaim youth sports for the millions of kids across the nation who just want to play sports as they should be… fun. That’s the i9 Sports®difference.

Its kinda funny how they hit the details while spinning them to be something else.

Even the article trying to rile people up says they were streaming to TikTok, had previously posted videos of him dominating other kids in the league, and were asked to leave by league officials.

The only thing that says the police were called on the kid is the annoying dad live streaming to tik tok saying “they really called the police on a three year old for being too good”. Like no dumbass, they called the police on YOU for being an asshole.