Tuskegee males’s basketball coach Benjy Taylor is contemplating authorized motion after being handcuffed and led off courtroom on the finish of his group’s loss to Morehouse Faculty on Saturday.
Tuskegee athletic director Reginald Ruffin stated Taylor had tried to verify protocols have been adopted when opposing Morehouse soccer gamers becoming a member of the basketball gamers within the postgame handshake line.
“You don’t try this … that’s a safety breach,” Ruffin instructed HBCU Gameday. “Now we have safety measures for our safety of our officers, our scholar athlete coaches and spectators.”
Videos of the incident quickly unfold on-line. Taylor is clearly animated within the footage, however didn’t seem like bodily aggressive earlier than he was handcuffed by a police officer and brought away from the courtroom.
Taylor’s legal professional, Gregory Reynald Williams, stated the coach was “involved a few group of gamers from Morehouse’s soccer group who have been appearing aggressively in the direction of the Tuskegee gamers and their dad and mom.”
Taylor was was later launched and rejoined his gamers as they left the sector. He told The Field of 68 that the incident was humiliating.
“I’m perplexed and I’m upset about how I used to be violated and handled right this moment,” he stated. “For my gamers, my household and other people of Tuskegee to witness that’s heartbreaking for me. I used to be merely attempting to get the soccer group out of the handshake line as they have been following proper behind me and the group yelling obscenities. It was a really harmful scenario.”
Williams stated Taylor and his authorized group have been contemplating whether or not to convey a civil lawsuit over the incident. “Coach Taylor is an effective man who did the appropriate factor to guard his group and deescalate a harmful scenario and this officer put him in chains for his troubles,” Williams stated.
Taylor has been Tuskegee coach since 2019. The 58-year-old has additionally coached Hawaii and Chicago State.
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