An incident which led to a white man calling the police on a black man while playing basketball has been buzzing on the internet. The attention of the sheriff’s deputies in Virginia was called by the white man after another player reportedly knocked him to the floor with an “aggressive screen.”
The man who has now been named #FlagrantFreddy by social media, was playing in a pickup game at an LA Fitness City Sports Club in Sterling when his opponent the black man wearing two arm sleeves laid a hard screen, which resulted in him falling to the floor.
According to the witness, the man who fell was extremely upset and told the other player he was calling the police.
“Today for the first time in my life … I experienced someone call the police because they got fouled hard in basketball,” the witness tweeted.
“Everyone at the gym and dude in black with hands folded falls from a hard pick. He gets up tells everyone he’s going to call the police and walks out leaving everyone in the gym confused”
“This is my first basketball foul,” said the deputy, who says he thought he was responding to a fight. Perhaps most bizarre about the incident was that after deputies left, the two men returned to finish the game.
It’s a silly story, but let it be a lesson to us all, don’t call the cops just because you get fouled in a pickup game, or you might end up going viral.
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