Police used pepper spray on soccer gamers from Michigan and Ohio State throughout a brawl between the 2 groups following a rivalry sport.
The Michigan Wolverines upset their longtime rivals, the Ohio State Buckeyes, in a shocking 13-10 victory in Columbus Saturday afternoon.
After the Wolverines’ win, Michigan gamers may very well be seen carrying a faculty flag throughout a midfield celebration. In a video clip circulating on-line, Buckeyes defensive finish Jack Sawyer rips the Michigan flag away, inflicting a melee to interrupt out. As gamers from each groups push and throw punches, police try to interrupt up the battle, with some officers threatening to make use of pepper spray.
The Ohio State College Police Division later confirmed in an announcement that officers “representing Ohio and Michigan deployed pepper spray” in the course of the battle.
“It’s unhealthy for the game, unhealthy for school soccer,” Mullings stated. “However on the finish of the day, some folks, they gotta learn to lose, man. You’ll be able to’t be combating and stuff simply since you misplaced a sport, you recognize. All that combating ― we’ve 60 minutes, we’ve 4 quarters to do all that combating.”