There has to be more to the story

Metal gymnastics are strong with this one

White guys can't jump or check a ball.

Just bench the kid? Has no one here coached baby soccer?

If this is Winter Park, CO, it's basically the rich version of South Park, no black people as in, 0. If it's Winter Park, FL, more likely I think, black folk are only 4% of the population. I don't find racism to be unlikely. Were it Steve White's kid, Steve Jr., dominating, the parents would have a talk with dad.

Time for lil' Billy to learn how to slide tackle if he wants the ball!

Yes so call the police?

It’s a non-competitive league with specific rules about sharing and playing together. My kid played I-9 for flag football for a while and then we went over to a competitive league as he got better, and wanted to actually compete. I-9 is explicitly for just getting kids out to play.

Other parents complained because this kid should clearly be in a competitive league instead, and the other story I read was that the dad was filming for tik tok and loudly going on about how famous his kid was online. Other parents were fed up with the stunt and complained about it and the parent filming their kids to put online, so the league refunded the parents and asked them to take the kid to a different league if he wanted to play competitively. The parents then started losing it and arguing about it and causing a scene.

They didn’t call the cops on a black kid for being too good at soccer. They called the cops on his parents for orchestrating a stupid tik tok stunt and being assholes to all the other families there just to get their kids outside doing something as a team, and not leaving when asked.

If you want your kid to play competitively, go to a competitive league. There’s thousands out there. If you want to go have your kid dunk on non-competitive kids and ruin their fun, don’t be surprised when you get asked to leave, and don’t start throwing a little bitch fit when that happens.

hate that the article's headline goes out of its way to mention the child's race, seemingly for no other reason than to generate clicks and stir up controversy.

Do you actually think that calling the police on a black family who haven't committed a crime has no societal relevance in America?

I'm not saying in a perfect world it should, but to say that it doesn't is ignoring a long precedent of systemic racism. Especially considering that the family wasn't made aware of their trespassing by the league before the police were contacted.

Well it sure isn’t $600 a month lol. It’s $600 once and covers like 4 months of playing.

No, they trespassed his loud mouth wannabe influencer parents.

It’s a toddler fun league. The league has specific rules about it not being competitive and sharing play time.

The kids parents are wannabe influencers filming everything for TikTok.

Nobody called the cops on a kid for being too good. They called the cops on the parents because they were asked to leave over their stupid social media stunts, and then they refused.

Really puts a lot of concern for all the knee jerk comments in this thread.

"Because police and a black person were involved, we can't NOT assume it's racism"

Riiiiiiiight. The fact that this bat shit insane comment is upvoted is an indictment on Lemmy

That’s Lemmy for you lol. Not any better than Reddit was.

That is exactly what I am saying, word for word. The race of the child has no societal relevance in this particular story because race was never mentioned by either the police or the parents who called them.

Can we infer the possibility of racism? Yes. Can we speculate that the parents may have been racially motivated? Absolutely. However, inference, speculation, and supposition are not the same thing as explicitly expressed racism. There is nothing in the information presented to establish that race was a factor in this incident.

Therefore, there was absolutely no legitimate reason to identify the child as Black in the headline other than to generate clickbait and manufacture controversy, which you apparently have no issue with.

The fact that these parents called the police because they believed a child was playing soccer too well is already preposterous enough on its own. The child's race adds absolutely nothing to the story. Including it in the headline serves no informative purpose; it simply invites readers to interpret the incident through a racial lens without sufficient evidence to justify doing so.

This entire comment is complete nonsense.

Thank you for posting this. The article, as written, is quite clearly missing critical details and is biased.

Yeah that was intentional on their part.

Here’s I-9s about page. They explicitly are against this kind of shit in the first place. Parents are supposed to stay out of it because the entire point is providing a fun inclusive environment to get kids out there playing, without the pressure from overbearing parents and coaches. And at least for flag football, they didn’t even keep scores in the first place so there was no point in running up goals.

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

Everything they were doing was against the rules and purpose of the league. So naturally they were asked to leave. If your kid is so great and the next Ronaldo, go put them in a competitive league. But then they probably wouldn’t be dominating like they were and you wouldn’t have content for your stupid TikTok.

Hah, that's the weird part, when the parent called, the cops didn't just hang up.

There has been an update. As far as the reason for the call:

A league official told officers that parents were upset about their son's playing time and that the child would no longer be allowed to participate in the league.

Another entry states that the parents were upset because they believed their child was being criticized for playing too well and was being taken out of the game.

So it sounds like the coach benched the kid at some point, maybe to give the other kids some time to kick the ball, and the parents argued with the coach about it, which led to them being refunded and asked to leave, which they refused to do until after police got there.

In a statement released Monday, the department said a league official requested police assistance with a disturbance between league officials and the parents.

The league had asked the family to leave and offered to refund its fees, according to the statement. After officers arrived, a league official asked them to speak with the family because he did not want to prolong the disturbance, police said.

The family told officers the game was over and they were leaving. Police described the family as cooperative and said officers provided an event number at the family's request.

The department characterized the incident as a civil matter, not a criminal one. "No one was arrested, trespassed, or forced to leave the park," the department said.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/winter-park-police-explain-response-164621178.html

The secret is filters. Just block the subs that are all politics, block keywords that are too culture war. Cultivate a bubble and know that it's a nice bubble where you're more likely to get genuine people with interesting things to share than any other bubble I know of.

$150 a month is still insane for a 4 year old to play soccer.

Sounds like you wasted a valuable opportunity to teach your kid they can get what they want by calling the cops on anyone who hurts their feelings.

Because they were trespassed

Maybe you can stop repeating this now that the PD is contradicting your claims?

The family told officers the game was over and they were leaving. Police described the family as cooperative and said officers provided an event number at the family's request.

The department characterized the incident as a civil matter, not a criminal one.

"No one was arrested, trespassed, or forced to leave the park," the department said.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/winter-park-police-explain-response-164621178.html

Kids are expensive...

Less bots, more funny.

right

so if everybody called the cops at the same time as initially trespassing somebody, that'd be weird. like, you tell them to leave, they don't, then you call the cops

This situation should have been a sketch comedy bit.

WKUK, Gilly&Keeves, Key&Peele, somebodys

Ok I’ll admit I just rolled with what you said on the price, but turns out that was just an exaggeration.

I just looked it up and soccer is $157 and covers 6 weeks. So about $26 a week that covers the organization, setting up practice, the games, the refs, etc.

That’s pretty cheap.

Yeah I was responding to someone else who gave that price. $26 is much more reasonable.

I did add context that one of the primary political parties — the one in power, in fact — is openly white supremacist and xenophobic. Hate crimes surged in 2016 by 68% and haven't dropped since. Literal lynchings in the US have become conspicuously more frequent.

Even before Trump, police and the justice system have been demonstrably dangerous to black Americans.

So, yes?

Maybe if we wanted to take interracial tolerance in the US for granted, we shouldn't have voted a white supremacist into office, which Americans did twice, specifically for his racist and white supremacist views. Maybe the response to Brianna Taylor and Heorge Floyd should have followed through on police reform.

It's only racism in the plantation region of Southern Texas, everywhere else it's just sparkling bigotry.

Ridiculous "racism has to be proven beyond a reasonable doubt" bullshit. Get outta here with that shit.

A bunch of white parents called the POLICE to kick out a black family because the black kid was good at sports and it made their white kids feel bad. But I'm supposed to give them all the benefit of the doubt because none of the said the n-word loud enough for the camera to pick it up.

Well those sure are some important details. Thanks.

I'm not claiming racism doesn't exist, or doesn't exist in America, or that the police force isn't often racist (intentionally or otherwise).

My claim is after looking into all the details of the situation, it's the unfortunate reality that the kid WAS literally just too good. It's funny to say but it's the actual fact. He was too good, and didn't belong. On top of that the parents were being problematic which is the real reason the cops were called. If the parents just chilled and acted like reasonable adults then nothing would have happened.

A blanket perspective of "A bad thing happened to a non-white person, therefor, the bad thing happened because they are non-white" is barley better than the full throated maga racists and it infantilizes and removes autonomy of non-white people. Sometimes the reality is that non-white people DO deserve the cops called on them. It's not the case that the police involvement is ALWAYS racist.

Officers told both sides police had no control over the situation and that any refund would be a civil matter. The director told officers a refund would be given at a later date. The department’s release says the league had asked the family to leave and offered to refund the league fee. After officers arrived, the league official asked them to speak with the family because he did not want to escalate the disturbance.

The family told officers the game was over and they were leaving. Police said the family was cooperative and asked for an event number for the incident, which officers provided. Contrary to other reports, the family was not respassed from the park, according to Winter Park Police.

Where did you get these missing details?

Officers told both sides police had no control over the situation and that any refund would be a civil matter. The director told officers a refund would be given at a later date. The department’s release says the league had asked the family to leave and offered to refund the league fee. After officers arrived, the league official asked them to speak with the family because he did not want to escalate the disturbance.

The family told officers the game was over and they were leaving. Police said the family was cooperative and asked for an event number for the incident, which officers provided. Contrary to other reports, the family was not respassed from the park, according to Winter Park Police.

According to the comment above yours (that cites a Yahoo article), they did. That's why the parents were upset and supposedly caused a disturbance.

They called the police in a situation where the need for police is implausible. There were parents there, yes? I assume they were sober. Why didn't they manage the situation as might mature adults?

No, they escalated to state intervention, and that means question of equal accommodations can be raised, if the state has laws mandating them.

But it also raises the question of racism, especially if that was the only black family in the group.

Racism doesn't merely exist in the US, it's the dominant culture right now. So yes, it's entirely appropriate to expect it and catalog when it happens.

They banned him AFTER this. If he was banned before, the coach wouldn't have fielded him.

Pure copium. There is no situation where it's okay for parents to call the cops over a U5 soccer game because a kid is too good. Even if it's a "just for fun" League. Even if the kid is "breaking the rules by being too good". Even if the times say he has to share the ball. Even if you're tired of the parents cheering their kid on as he demolishes the other kids.

None of that is police shit. Calling the police over this is racist shit.

Obviously this looks awful on its face, but we definitely don’t know all the details leading up to them getting a criminal trespass notice.

They didn't, according to the articles throughout this thread and others.

This helps. Thanks for the additional context.

At 3-5 years it's more about keeping a volley going. Most kids that age are learning basic motor skills. Sure, some of them may be ahead in development, but again there are leagues for progidies like that.

You expect police to not needlessly use their power? This is a country were SWATing is so easy there is a term for it and so common that it doesn't get investigated.

I would probably buy a gun and shoot someone if they shot my cat. Humans aren't more special than animals. That's like the one thing that would get me riled up enough to commit a crime of passion is hurting my cats.

I know when I said they banned from the league over this, I'm saying this incident lead to him being banned from the league, thus AFTER, not before.

Hence why club league systems exists in the rest of the world. Kid signs up to a club and gets assigned to a team that plays in a league that suits them. Bottom kids leagues are just for fun where winning and losing doesn't really matter. If a kid is good and wants to play competitively they automatically get moved to a different team that plays in a higher league. So there is no need to kick a kid out of a football club.

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.

Lmao so it's like showing up to an average park, running around stealing everyone's frisbees out of the air all while filming yourself for tiktok talking about how insanely good you are at ultimate frisbee. In bird culture we would consider this "a dick move."