Police in Winter Park, Florida, released body camera footage of officers responding to an i9 youth soccer game on Saturday amid a dispute over 3-year-old soccer player Nevada Pierre, who dominated the field, prompting concerns over other children getting to play.
Body camera video released on Monday shows the league’s athletic director telling police, who responded to the incident, that he decided to call 911 after a female parent began livestreaming their interaction on social media.
He explained that the dispute with the parent, who identified herself to ABC News as Nevada’s mother Martasia Griffin, began after the 3-year-old’s parents disagreed with his decision to “swap out” Nevada to give other children a chance to play.
“What happened is he’s very advanced compared to the other ones. So he scored a lot of goals, but he pushes the kids to do all that stuff. So I try to tell him, ‘Hey, stop! Don’t [push]. You want to play with that person, right?'”[The parents] don’t like that. They tell me I’m ignorant. I’m this. I’m that,” he said.
