Black high school baseball player says fans yelled 'You should have been George Floyd' and 'Get back to the fields'

CNN ^ | 7/3/20 | Alisha Ebrahimji

[madprof98]

(CNN)Competitive banter on the field during baseball games is a norm between teams and typically stretches into the bleachers among fans, but one school district in Iowa is saying comments made during a high school game crossed the line.

A Black player for Charles City High School heard "several bigoted comments yelled from the crowd" during a game played at Waverly-Shell Rock High on June 27, according to an online statement from the Charles City Community School district and information from the school district communications director.

The school district didn't name the player. Jeremiah Chapman, who says he's the only Black player on the Charles City High team, told CNN that fans yelled "You should have been George Floyd" and "Get back to the fields."

Chapman said he was even called "Colin" at one point, which he believes was a reference to Colin Kaepernick, the former NFL quarterback widely known for kneeling during the National Anthem in an effort to protest police brutality.

[madprof98]

Comments from CNN fans indicate shock that NOBODY stopped the racist taunts--not the coaches, the umpires, nor the other fans. How could this be? Why didn't they speak up?

[dfwgator]

Hoax.

[A_Former_Democrat]

Shocking.

Hoax

[proust]

Did MAGA country throw nooses at him too?

[ClearCase_guy]

I don’t think there is any indication in the article that anyone else heard any of this.
Video or didn’t happen.

[jimfree]

Maybe. Maybe not.

[RummyChick]

If his family doesn’t farm or he doesn’t work as a farm hand then it wasn’t an appropriate type of heckle to say go back to the fields

[E. Pluribus Unum]

No video with all those phones around?

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

Doubt it actually happened.

If any part of it did those yelling were black and we know a white person can no long say anything about a black behaving badly.

[Magic Fingers]

Stop the world!

[RummyChick]

https://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/sports/high-school/2020/07/02/black-iowa-hs-baseball-player-told-go-back-fields-compared-george-floyd-during-game/5365724002/

unclear if they have identified the person

[euram]

Just another verbal noose hoax. But, as usual the media will jump all over it and push it for as long as they can.

[proust]

Any heckling of whites going on at these hundred or so statue removals?

[ClearCase_guy]

On Thursday, the Waverly-Shell Rock Community School District released a statement acknowledging that it had determined "one of our fans (made) extremely inappropriate, bigoted comments towards a Charles City player."

Hey, somebody acted like a jerk at a sports event!

There was a time when such an occurrence wasn't national news.

[rockinqsranch]

I see CNN continues to build their reputation as the leader in Bidenesque headlines.

“Fans” eh?

[Leaning Right]

> Video or didn’t happen. <

Even a video would be suspect. Here’s what I mean. I’m of Hungarian descent. If I wanted a little attention, and maybe a GoFundMe account, here’s what I’d do. I’d get a friend of mine to sit in the bleachers and yell “Dumb Hunky” when my name was first announced.

If something was really yelled out in that baseball game, a plant would be unlikely. But the times, they are a’ changing. So anything is possible today.

[JudgemAll]

Lie. No phone records of this? Lie, hearsay!

[antidemoncrat]

Even if true, don’t judge all whites by the actions of a few just like they for few bad apples on the police force .

[Steely Tom]

Did he get death threats in his voicemail too?

[JudgemAll]

Indeed, my brother in IT says the technology is out there to put your head on any CCTV camera observing crime and make it very hard or impossible to deternine if doctored or not.

He now refuses to have his picture taken by others on Christmas and what not,