White woman dubbed 'Golfcart Gail'
 

calls police on black father at soccer game
"I started filming because she would not leave the father alone," said a woman who recorded the encounter. "There was no reason for her to call the cops."

An attendant at a teen soccer game in Florida over the weekend called police on a father who instructed his son from the sidelines, in what many are saying is the latest example of a white person dialing 911 on a black person who had done nothing wrong.

Ginger Williams, who was watching the game, posted photos of the incident to Facebook on Sunday with the heading "Soccer While Black." She said a woman in a golf cart at the game in St. Johns County told a black father that "harassment won't be tolerated," even though he had been directing his son to listen to the referee.

Chuck Mulligan, a spokesman for the St. Johns County Sheriff's Department, said the woman who called police, being dubbed "Golfcart Gail," is a field marshal.

The father informed the marshal that he was only speaking to his son and not the referee, which is not allowed, but "Golfcart Gail just would not let this go," Williams wrote.

The father, whose identity has not been revealed, began to leave in an effort to defuse the situation, Williams said, but the woman in the golf cart still called police saying, "she no longer felt safe with his threatening behavior."

Maria Morales-Walther filmed the encounter in which the father tells the field marshal, "I wasn’t talking to you. ... I was talking to my son, and I still get this from you."

Morales-Walter said when deputies arrived, the woman told them that the father "was being aggressive and 'coming at' her," but "in my video, that was the most aggression he showed."

"I started filming because she would not leave the father alone," Morales-Walter told NBC News. "There was no reason for her to call the cops," she said, adding that the woman had not identified herself as a field attendant of any kind.

Another video, shot by Ginger Williams, shows two St. Johns County deputies arrive at the game.

The father explained to one of them that he did nothing wrong. "I was talking to my son, no one else ... Listen I play by the rules. I know how sports are," the father says.

"I don’t understand why this woman felt the need to call the police on this man," Williams can be heard saying in the video as she films. The officer tells her that "anybody can call the police at any time for any reason. We'll respond."

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I saw that video last night. HE was doing nothing but being black. He was talking to his son, not screaming, not cursing and not threatening him. It was a father and his son. She called the police because he raised his voice at a sporting event.

I realize people tend to ignore situations but this is another one blown waaaaay out of proportion. You couldn’t hit your kid in public anymore because people would report abuse. Now you can’t talk loud at a soccer game to tell your kid about a wrong call.

WTF?

Shameful racists should be fined for these calls and jailed without bail for 7 days :2 cents:

She felt threatened by him. That's what you do in a civilized society when you feel threatened. I love how people are made to feel that you can't call the police if someone black is committing a crime.

That's all that bullshit is about. Shame people for calling the cops on black criminals.

The video shows she didn't feel threatened at all and that she was being menacing.

There was no video of the actual event and the police said the woman who called the cops acted appropriately. You're lying.

The officer tells her that "anybody can call the police at any time for any reason. We'll respond."

i can't wait for the media to add what crime she reported :)

He was black in public. Apparently that’s now a crime.

Seriously. If it was a white dad raising his voice at the kid during soccer, would anyone have noticed? Racism, his tone, his words, his color ...?

Things that make you go hmmmm ...

It's all fun and games till the tide turns... Then it's petty reverse racism bullshit.

Ahh yes, it happens all the time. But it isn't sensational enough for the media to take notice. White people calling cops on black people is where the clicks are.

Yep. The authors know that closet racists like pamwinter will be these to share these articles and create pageviews.