Hockey Fans Pour Beer On Native Kids, Tell Them To ‘Go Back To The Rez’

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Fans in Rapid City, S.D. poured beer on a group of Native American children and shouted racial slurs at them during a hockey game, television station KOTA reported on Monday.

The 57 children who attended the Rush hockey game on Saturday were students at the American Horse School and were invited to the game as part of a program with the hockey team, KOTA reported.

Saturday’s incident got so out of control that chaperones reportedly removed the students from the arena. And, according to the station, the incident was eventually reported to management.

One of the chaperones and parents, Justin Poor Bear, wrote about the event on Sunday in a Facebook post, according to KOTA.

“They were getting drunk and around the third quarter they were talking crap to our kids and throwing down beer on some of them, including our staff and students … telling our students to go back to the rez,” Poor Bear wrote.

Poor Bear told KOTA he was upset during the incident and was “invited” to “fight about it” by the fans hurling beer from the VIP section.

Executive Director Craig Baltzer said the civic center might take action against the belligerent fans and the company who rented the VIP suite said it was working with the Rush to invite the students back for another hockey game, KOTA reported.

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  1. Wow. Assholes at a hockey game. Who knew?

  2. Avatar for jinnj jinnj says:

    Hideous! truly Hideous!

    But this does happen - astonishing as it may be - there is virulent hatred and bigotry toward Native Americans in some parts of this country. Some people may feel that the Native Americans just suffer from the challenges of poverty and neglect - and limited access to opportunities - but on top of that, there are many areas where they are subjected to outright aggressive antagonistic hateful assaults like this and worse.

  3. Wow. You would think that in ND they would be more sensitive to Native American issues than elsewhere. And as a huge hockey fan, I would like to completely disavow and repudiate these neanderthals. What lesson will the children take from this episode?

  4. Sick lumps of cowardly shit.

  5. This was SOUTH Dakota. A lot of those SoDaks just can’t get over some Lakotas got a couple of gravel pits to live on.

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