The newspaper described the live video depicting the events that led to the incident in the middle of the second inning:

The umpires approached Nicole Pyles after Jordan completed its at-bat in the top of the second inning of the game at Hillside.

A Facebook live video of the game shows Jordan’s first-base coach, who is white, walk to the mound to speak to the base umpire, who is also white.

That umpire then walked toward the Hillside dugout, which is partially out of the stationary camera’s view. The home plate umpire, who is Black, had previously walked toward the dugout once play stopped.

Due to bat first for Hillside when play resumed, Pyles was taking warm-up swings in the on-deck circle. Though the view of Pyles’ conversation with the umpires is not fully visible on the video, Pyles told the N&O Wednesday the home plate umpire spoke to her with the base umpire standing behind her.

That’s when she said knew she had to cut her hair to keep playing. A few seconds later, a female voice is heard yelling on the video, “Does anyone have scissors?”

North Carolina High School Athletic Association Commissioner Que Tucker released a statement saying that the NCHSAA was made aware of the incident. Tucker said the 3-2-5 rule but “empathize with the student athlete and her experience,” calling the occurrence “unfortunate.”

The statement added, “The NCHSAA expectation is that coaches will know the playing rules and ensure that their players are also aware of them prior to participating in any athletic contest.”

The NCHSAA have been open with the media last week than with the teen’s father, Julius Pyles. Pyles told the News & Observer that when he reached out to Durham Public Schools the day after the incident he got a call from Hillside High athletics director Ovester Grays Jr. telling him to contact NCHSAA supervisor of officials Mark Dreibelbis.

“In turn, whatever investigation he did he did not respond back to me but via email to contact the athletic director at Hillside,” he said. “My thing was I sent the letter to you. You should have addressed me. I shouldn’t have to go ask someone else. That makes me feel like he didn’t really care much for what I had to say.”

Nicole Pyles says the rules target Black students, and people of color.

Pyles told reporters “I want everybody else to know that you need to speak up when you’re being bullied, discriminated, any of it, because that happens to a lot of people, and people never want to talk about it.” She added, “Be strong in your own shoes, and stand for what’s right.”

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