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'Soccer while black': White woman dubbed 'Golf cart Gail' calls the cops on African American father for yelling instructions at his son during a game.
The altercation happened at a soccer game in Ponte Vedro, Florida, on Sunday
Ginger Williams, a Black Lives Matter advocate, filmed the aftermath once police had shown up.
Maria R. Morales-Walther, another mother also filmed it.
She told ABC News she was told by the woman to leave, claiming she said: 'Ma'am, you can leave too. Videotape yourself as you're walking out.'
Both questioned why the field marshal called the cops on the black father and not a white man who had been asked to leave earlier in the game for improper behavior.
Williams later shared the footage on Facebook in an irate post titled 'SOCCER WHILE BLACK'.
In the video, 'golf cart Gail' admitted to police that the father was, it turned out, speaking to his son and not the referee but she said he became 'nasty'.
'So I go over and he does, he says: "I wasn't talking to the ref, I was talking to my son." And I said, "OK."
'And I went on to just kind of explain, you know, "I'm just trying to make sure everything's"... and then he starts, [he] gets nasty with me.
'You know, "I'm not talking to you anymore. I'm done with this,"' she told the cop.
The woman, who has not been identified, told officers she became worried when he 'got nasty' and told her he was finished with their conversation. The man was not arrested
Williams, the woman who filmed their interaction, asked the cops to promise that the man was 'safe'.
'From this entire situation from everything... I don't understand why this woman felt the need to call the police on this man.
'I've never in my life seen anything like this happen to anybody. The gentleman before him, absolutely, rude, screaming. This man said, "Hey, I'm only talking to my son."
'I felt that this woman sat there on her cart and was a very intimidating presence. It was a non-issue and then she came zooming around.
'She's sitting there just waiting to create tension. To then follow this man out when he said, "Hey, I'm going to leave. I don't want an issue."
The altercation happened at a soccer game in Ponte Vedro, Florida, on Sunday
- The woman was acting as a field marshal and was tasked with policing parent behavior
- She thought the father was yelling at the referee and confronted him
- When he explained he was in fact talking to his son, she kept arguing with him
- The woman then called the police, despite the father agreeing to leave the area
- Two other horrified parents filmed as two sheriff's deputies responded to it
- Neither the woman nor the father has been identified
Ginger Williams, a Black Lives Matter advocate, filmed the aftermath once police had shown up.
Maria R. Morales-Walther, another mother also filmed it.
She told ABC News she was told by the woman to leave, claiming she said: 'Ma'am, you can leave too. Videotape yourself as you're walking out.'
Both questioned why the field marshal called the cops on the black father and not a white man who had been asked to leave earlier in the game for improper behavior.
Williams later shared the footage on Facebook in an irate post titled 'SOCCER WHILE BLACK'.
In the video, 'golf cart Gail' admitted to police that the father was, it turned out, speaking to his son and not the referee but she said he became 'nasty'.
'So I go over and he does, he says: "I wasn't talking to the ref, I was talking to my son." And I said, "OK."
'And I went on to just kind of explain, you know, "I'm just trying to make sure everything's"... and then he starts, [he] gets nasty with me.
'You know, "I'm not talking to you anymore. I'm done with this,"' she told the cop.
The woman, who has not been identified, told officers she became worried when he 'got nasty' and told her he was finished with their conversation. The man was not arrested
Williams, the woman who filmed their interaction, asked the cops to promise that the man was 'safe'.
'From this entire situation from everything... I don't understand why this woman felt the need to call the police on this man.
'I've never in my life seen anything like this happen to anybody. The gentleman before him, absolutely, rude, screaming. This man said, "Hey, I'm only talking to my son."
'I felt that this woman sat there on her cart and was a very intimidating presence. It was a non-issue and then she came zooming around.
'She's sitting there just waiting to create tension. To then follow this man out when he said, "Hey, I'm going to leave. I don't want an issue."
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