Unsporting Tech

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Originally Posted by Mark Padgett

This is a flagrant technical foul at any level, except perhaps the NBE. Ask yourself this - what does that gesture indicate? It doesn't matter if the player verbalizes that thought or transmits it in a gesture, it means the same thing.

Frankly, it shouldn't just be an ejection, but also a suspension at that level. If it happened in a kids game I was working and the player didn't also get a suspension, I'd raise a huge stink.

I can't even imagine how you could think it might just be a non-flagrant technical.

Do you see it as different than verbalizing it? I would have gone with non-flagrant.
10-3-6 b. covers obscene gestures.
4-19-4 defines Flagrant "...noncontact which is extreme or persistent, vulgar or abusive contact conduct."

Fixed it.