quote:
ovington Police Caption Jack West told Deke Bellavia what officers say happened in the incident:

"Well, a referee asked a police officer to move some people back. The police officer moved them back. Another referee came up to the police officer and told him, 'that's not far enough.' The police officer explained....would you please handle the game, referee the game, and we will handle the crowd for you. The second referee told the police officer, nose-to-nose with the police officer, 'you're out of the game...get outta here.' And the police officer said, 'excuse me sir, just referee the game, and we'll handle the crowd.' And he says 'no, get out. Get out now.'

West went on to say, "There's several witnesses that stepped forward who stepped forward to say that's what happened. So, the two referees have been arrested for public intimidation."

That's dumb.

Stop the game.
Have the Game Administrator take care of the situation with the crowd (that's HIS responsibility).
If he doesn't, suspend the game and leave.

The handcuffs show of authority could mean no officials will accept assignments for their games; then the Mayor can get the cops to call them.

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Posted by TheRoarRestoredInBR

Member since Dec 2004

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Posted on 10/11/13 at 11:30 pm to arrakis

The Nola article description of how transcended just doesn't totally jibe with Jack West's description of "well sir, just please ref the game, we got this"..

Even if the head ref was a real ahab with an off the wall comment of "take a hike", the waving him back over to be arrested once he had already had his say and had walked away back to the field of play..

Suggests some serious Robocopping.

Sell it to the sheep Jack..I'm not buying a one-sided story..dunce caps for all is my call.

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