{"id":326720,"date":"2023-08-28T16:32:17","date_gmt":"2023-08-28T16:32:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=326720"},"modified":"2023-08-28T17:00:02","modified_gmt":"2023-08-28T17:00:02","slug":"hs-football-coach-in-georgia-punches-player-gets-arrested-for-battery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=326720","title":{"rendered":"HS football coach in Georgia punches player, gets arrested for battery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A high school football coach in Atlanta was arrested on Saturday for punching a player during the first quarter of a game between Benjamin E. Mays (Ga.) and Douglas County (Ga.).<\/p>\n<p>Atlanta Public Schools spokesman Seth Coleman released the following statement on the incident, per <span class=\"author |\">Talgat Almanov<\/span>\u00a0and\u00a0<span class=\"author |\">Joshua Skinner at <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.atlantanewsfirst.com\/2023\/08\/26\/video-high-school-football-coach-atlanta-strikes-player-sideline-during-game\/\">Atlanta News First.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A lay coach for Mays High School, who is not a classroom instructor, is in police custody after an incident that occurred on the sideline during the school\u2019s game this afternoon against Douglas County High School&#8230; The lay coach will be charged with simple battery and face administrative charges from the district.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">TAKE A LOOK: A football coach at Benjamin E. Mays High School punches a player in the stomach during game Saturday against Douglas County. The happened live on Atlanta News First affiliate Peachtree TV.<\/p>\n<p>An Atlanta Public Schools spokesperson tells <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ATLNewsFirst?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@ATLNewsFirst<\/a> the coach was\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Sl391kgmWX\">pic.twitter.com\/Sl391kgmWX<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Joshua Skinner (@JoshuaSkinnerTV) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JoshuaSkinnerTV\/status\/1695546328036639084?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 26, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The coach was removed from the sidelines and taken into custody by an APS police officer. Mays wound up losing the game to Douglas County, 48-42.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><strong>More<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/usatodayhss.com\/2023\/scores-live-in-game-results-around-the-nation-as-they-happen\">SCORES: Live in-game results around the nation as they happen<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nfhsnetwork.com\/?irclickid=UT%3A2XXXaMxyNR4rR9dTovRG2UkF3vdRpzQoRxg0&amp;irgwc=1&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_source=impact&amp;utm_campaign=USA%20TODAY%20Sports%20Media%20Group&amp;utm_content=1205322&amp;\">Live-Stream High School Sports on the NFHS Network<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/usatodayhss.com\/2023\/video-high-snap-led-to-a-maniacal-scramble-wild-touchdown-for-st-edward\">Watch: High snap leads to wild touchdown for St. Edward<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/usatodayhss.com\/2023\/friday-night-highlights-5-star-qb-dj-lagway-goes-off-for-8-touchdowns\">Watch: 5-star QB DJ Lagway goes off for 8 touchdowns<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>The coach was removed from the sidelines and taken into custody by an APS police officer.<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":286601,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326720"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=326720"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326720\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":326722,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326720\/revisions\/326722"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/286601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=326720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=326720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=326720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}