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We have all the power. There's no reason we ever need to try to demonstrate that. I don't know the circumstance, but I doubt I would finish the game after my colleagues were taken away. |
The key is to not be confrontational. I'm sure there are differing versions between the officials and the cop. Most officers are helpful but there are odd ones who are arrogant, self inflated, what have you.
What happens next will go on behind the scene- I'm sure there are attorneys who are officials who will rise to defend the two officials. It will be important not to appear too condemning of the officer publically or other officers will close ranks around him, no matter how right or wrong he was. As is usual, it will be left to the lawyers and politicians to work out. Personally, I would have had a difficult time completing that game if two of my partners were hauled to jail. It would be difficult to focus and since we're 5 man crews here, I don't think I would attempt to call a varsity level game with 3 officials. |
I would have walked off as well. No way I am finishing a game for two officials being arrested for what they were arrested for this situation. They would have had to work the game 3 man, because I would be at home before that game ended.
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One of the articles I read earlier today said they were a 7-man crew and finished with 5 officials.
I don't work football, but if I did and I was on the crew I wouldn't finish the game. Suspend it and report it to the state. Let them and the school worry about it. |
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I'm betting once the LHSAA goes involved, those records will be expunged. |
One thing I'd be interested in knowing is whether they were acting in their capacity as police, or moonlighting as private security.
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Any lawsuit gets settled quietly, as mentioned above. |
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I'm betting, however, that when the full story comes out the officials are found to be much less culpable than we've been led to believe. |
New article if you have not seen it: 2 arrested referees, police clashed over authority, St. Paul's AD says
I did not realize they had a 7 man high school crew. They decided to finish the game with 5. |
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