DEKALB COUNTY, Ga. — Parents are demanding more security after a brawl between adults broke out at a football game.
The fight happened at a Tucker football league game in DeKalb County.
Coach Yohan Trotter says it all started when a stranger confronted him about a player.
"A little frustrated, I guess about player time," Yohan told Channel 2's Audrey Washington.
That’s when Trotter says the man started swinging.
Seconds later the man’s friends jumped the fence and began to fight – all while the children watched.
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“It was horrible! It could’ve gotten ugly. What if someone had a gun?” said Andrica Dudley who has a son on the team.
Dudley saw the commotion and whipped out her phone, as she ran to break things up.
“Were emotional were trying to get our kids out of danger, so it’s very upsetting,” Dudley said.
Both Dudley and Trotter told Washington there was no security on site at the time of the fight.
They say that’s a clear violation of league rules.
“The police are supposed to be in plain sight uniform, at least two of them by YFA standard rules,” said Trotter.
Washington also spoke with the league’s athletic director, Jacques Barker, by phone.
He said there’s always security at the games and there were police at the game on September 9, but the director says the officers left before the brawl broke out.
“At that time, everyone was dispersing as well as probably the police officers,”
As for the adult men who started the fist throwing, Barker said they took action.
“They were banned from our park,” he said. “Since the incident we have had more security.”
Trotter says he plans to stay on as coach.
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