An attendant at a teen soccer game in Florida over the weekend called police on a father who instructed his son from the sidelines, in what many are saying is the latest example of a white person dialing 911 on a black person who had done nothing wrong.
Ginger Williams, who was watching the game, posted photos of the incident to Facebook on Sunday with the heading "Soccer While Black." She said a woman in a golf cart at the game in St. Johns County told a black father that "harassment won't be tolerated," even though he had been directing his son to listen to the referee.
Chuck Mulligan, a spokesman for the St. Johns County Sheriff's Department, said the woman who called police, being dubbed "Golfcart Gail," is a field marshal.
The father informed the marshal that he was only speaking to his son and not the referee, which is not allowed, but "Golfcart Gail just would not let this go," Williams wrote.
The father, whose identity has not been revealed, began to leave in an effort to defuse the situation, Williams said, but the woman in the golf cart still called police saying, "she no longer felt safe with his threatening behavior."
Maria Morales-Walther filmed the encounter in which the father tells the field marshal, "I wasn’t talking to you. ... I was talking to my son, and I still get this from you."
Morales-Walter said when deputies arrived, the woman told them that the father "was being aggressive and 'coming at' her," but "in my video, that was the most aggression he showed."
"I started filming because she would not leave the father alone," Morales-Walter told NBC News. "There was no reason for her to call the cops," she said, adding that the woman had not identified herself as a field attendant of any kind. Posted By Ghost