{"id":17505,"date":"2012-10-18T13:43:11","date_gmt":"2012-10-18T17:43:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=17505"},"modified":"2012-10-18T13:43:11","modified_gmt":"2012-10-18T17:43:11","slug":"coach-slaps-youth-football-referee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=17505","title":{"rendered":"Coach Slaps Youth Football Referee"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WEST PARK , FL\u00a0&#8211; A little league football assistant coach could be facing assault charges after he was caught on video\u00a0punching a referee during a game in West Park over the weekend, police said Monday.<\/p>\n<p>The incident happened Saturday evening during a game.<\/p>\n<p>According to the report, referee <strong>Andrew Keigans<\/strong> gave the Saints a penalty for unsportsmanlike conduct after one of the assistant coaches made a derogatory comment from the sidelines.<\/p>\n<p>After he threw the flag, <strong>Keigans<\/strong> turned around and bumped one of the players and moved the player to the side to talk to one of the other referees, the report said.<\/p>\n<p>The assistant coach, who disagreed with the penalty, barged the field and confronted <strong>Keigans<\/strong> as he was held back by head coach <strong>Antonio Lane,<\/strong> the report said.<\/p>\n<p>Because the assistant coach left the sidelines and entered the field of play to confront <strong>Keigans<\/strong>, the head referee decided to end the game, the report said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WEST PARK , FL\u00a0&#8211; A little league football assistant coach could be facing assault charges after he was caught on video\u00a0punching a referee during a game in West Park over the weekend, police said Monday. The incident happened Saturday evening during a game. According to the report, referee Andrew Keigans gave the Saints a penalty [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":210,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17505","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/210"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17505"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17505\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}