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.

“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

Lots of downvotes, yet no one actually defending Lemmy.

They know. They don’t like it. But they know.

I understand where you are coming from, but I don’t think that is a reasonable assumption in 2026.

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I thought it would be better than corporate social media. Seeing as there has to be some reason you came here rather than the ‘easier’ options.

But no it’s mostly people just being emotional and slinging mud. I’ve already been called a bigot in this thread even before that wall of text.

Yeah but when they get there, there isn’t a marked soccer field with 2 goals and 15 other kids all wearing matching uniforms.

You’re paying for the orchestration and scheduling of the games

One of them is the “Openly advocates for billionaires” party and the other is the “Discretely advocates for billionaires” party.

And the other ~15 4 yearolds were not

The other parents repeatedly complained about their kid not being able to participate in the make-believe form of a soccer played at age 3/4/5

I played soccer at that age, my siblings did too, and my cousins do as well.

When you’re 3/4/5 you’re not playing soccer. There are no rules, positions, score, winner/loser or goalies. It’s “go kick the ball around time”. When the ball goes out of bounds the coaches, who are often just some dad, just give it to a player that has not had a ball in a while. No one is trying to win, there is no ‘win’, it’s all make believe for the kids to have a chance to run around for a while in the sun. If one super-player wins every match, that sucks for every other player on the field including his team since they don’t even get to “win”, there are no winners. They just have to sit around bored with the other team because there is no point.

So the league refunded the parents fee and asked them to not come back (trespassed them). They are no longer legally allowed on the field and for that matter, have no claim to participate in the league seeing as they were refunded. They weren’t kicked out on the basis of race, it was many parents complaining “Hey, I paid ~$600 for ‘go kick the ball around time’, and you are facilitating a situation where my kid doesn’t get to kick the ball”. This isn’t a competitive format it’s gym hour and they are not receiving the product they paid for.

A 3 yearold hogging the ball all game, isn’t doing anything wrong. He’s 3. He’s should be instructed to share more but he isn’t doing something that warrants the cops involvement. The parents however, that understand the situation and failed to correct it / their kids ability to share, do. The adults that received their money back, understand it. The adults that received a trespass notice, understand it. The adults, who the cops talked to not the kid, understand it. The parents of the superplayers here at being assholes and injecting their kid in a situation they already KNOW will cause problems. All the kids are just being kids and the other parents, as far as I can tell, just want their kid to receive the product they paid for.

Too many people in this thread letting their emotions control their opinion due to a scary headline about a subject they apparently know very little about.

What a lazy response to a nuanced topic.

Er ad hominem or whatever

When they say “property” on the other hand…

There’s a lot of over correction in this thread.

Police breaking up a recurring altercation is 100% part of what they are there for. A party being black is just unfortunate for optics.

“resisting” while actively being harmed/injured is and always will be a sadistic joke.

“stop resisting!” while I break you shoulder. Nice.

It’s way cheaper to make an animal go blow itself up rather than build an entire robot to go get blown up.

We already “genetically engineers war dogs”. And for police work. And for individual self protection.

What about your comment do you think I didn’t comprehend lmao

So what you’re saying is your metaphor is not only unoriginal and lame, you also don’t understand it

More like 120 million voted to drive off a cliff and 100 million voted to not, and you live in a region of the bus where your vote doesn’t count anyways because they aggregate by row and your row already leans heavily in the “not off a cliff” camp.