California Father Defends Son After He Got Racial Slurs Spewed At Him During A Basketball Game Was Removed After Exchanging Words with The Opposing Team’s Coach

A Southern California high school is under the spotlight after a video of a varsity basketball game went viral, where a student can be heard saying racial slurs at a Black player on the opposing team. The father of the teen who was verbally assaulted, was removed from the game for defending his son. The video clip, shows an unidentified kid called the Black teen a “monkey” and asked him “where is his slave owner?”

The mother of the targeted player says the “family is up in arms.”

She says the Portola High versus Laguna Hills High game in Laguna Hills on Friday, Jan. 21, became a cesspool of racialized verbal violence beginning from an assistant coach and students in the bleachers.

Sabrina Little-Brown recorded part of the racist incident from the student and posted it on social media on Jan. 25. The mother says both her son and husband were verbally assaulted during the game.

She shared the exchange between a school employee and her husband, Terrell Brown.

“On Friday night my son played at Laguna Hills High School. He was subjected to verbal abuse & aggressive behavior by the Laguna Hills Head Coach, David Yates. As a result of this verbal abuse my normally calm & level-headed husband yelled at the coach to tell him not to address our son,” she wrote.

“Subsequently, the assistant coach told my husband to ‘meet him outside in the parking lot after the game’ and of course, my husband responded. His verbal response resulted in him being escorted out of the game.”

Little-Brown shared her son Makai’s experience the next day when he heard for himself what the student said about him.

The caption on the post read, “On Saturday morning before practice my son was watching game film as he always does. He came into my room STUNNED. What he heard directed 100% to him is contained in this video, but these disgusting, racist insults continued throughout the entire game footage. Needless to say, our family is up in arms.”

In the video an individual can be  heard laughing with others and tossing out insults like “Who let him out of his chains?” “Chain him up,” “Where is his slave owner?” and “He’s a monkey,” as Makai shoots free throws.