FIRED Pee Wee Football Coach Apologizes After Disturbing Video Of Him Punching Child Goes Viral + LeBron James Reacts

 

A youth football coach has been fired after video of him punching a child went viral. NBA baller LeBron James blasted him over his disturbing actions and now the pee wee coach is apologizing. More inside…

Video of a youth football coach wen viral recently. In the clip, the coach is seen hitting a 9-year-old youth football player - who plays on his Savannah Gators team – and then he shoved him to the sidelines. According to TMZ, the incident took place at the American Youth Football National Championships in Kissimmee, Florida.

WARNING! The video below could be triggering to some.

No room in the game for coaches like this. I hope he is arrested and banned for life. pic.twitter.com/1B0F2cLiqH

— Coach Reed (@CoachReed314) December 9, 2020

Los Angeles Lakers baller LeBron James caught wind of the video. He reposted the clip on his IG Stories and blasted the coach for his reckless actions.

”Ain’t no way!!!,” LeBron wrote. “Couldn’t be my kid. Hell if [I’m] there and it’s not even my kid we gone have more than words for sure,” he said.

Sports analyst Shannon Sharpe also reacted to the video:

 

I’ll whip him even IF* that’s his kid. I won’t let anyone pray on the weak or vulnerable in front of me. Not going to happen https://t.co/YZ765bTdaY

— shannon sharpe (@ShannonSharpe) December 10, 2020

 

Now, the coach in the viral video, identified as Gerrell Williams, has now come forward to apologize.

His weakass apology. That wasn’t his kid and the parents forgave him? Smh couldn’t be mine. pic.twitter.com/deFKpVTYNP

— TK F. (@BornARam916) December 10, 2020

“I was wrong,” Coach Williams said in his apology that was posted to social media. “I shouldn’t have disciplined him in public. I apologize to him, to the kids, to the city. Everyone has something negative to say. I'm going to apologize for my actions and for what took place, but at the end of the day, I'm a man and I'm not going to make no excuses for what I did. I was wrong. I shouldn't have disciplined him in public. I should have waited till we got back [to discipline him] for doing what he did. He forgave me and his parents forgave me so nobody else should be bashing me,” Wiliams said.

SIR! You shouldn’t have disciplined him IN PUBLIC?! No! You shouldn’t have put your hands on someone’s child in the first place. PERIOD. No matter what he did, it didn’t warrant a grown man – who isn’t his father – put his hands on the young man.

This also makes us believe this certainly was not the first time he's done this.

After the video went viral, the team released an official apology via their Facebook page. Not only after, the team deleted its Facebook page entirely because of all of the negative comments as a result of the video.

AYF Executive Vice President Adam Laufer spoke with TMZ and confirmed that Williams had been fired and banned.

"We are of course beyond disappointed in the coach's actions, which are wholly inconsistent with the fundamental value of youth sports. The coach has been banned indefinitely from all future AYF events and activities," Laufer said.

The child’s mother decided not to file charges.

Cray.

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source: theybf