Published 17:15 IST, December 10th 2020

ANGRY LeBron James reacts to little league football coach physically assaulting kid

LeBron James expressed his anger on Instagram after a video of a coach assaulting a nine-year-old during the American Youth Football Championships went viral.

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Los Angeles Lakers star LeBron James is never one to shy away from expressing his thoughts. 35-year-old has been always active on social media and always backed what he feels is right including his support for former NFL star Colin Kaepernick's activism. LeBron is also a family man, and his farly emotions were on display on social media on Thursday as he reacted to an ugly video where a coach assaulted one of his players. 

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LeBron James 'ANGRY' after Savannah Gators coach assaults young football player 

A Savannah Gators coach was caught on camera assaulting a nine-year-old kid in an American Youth Football National Championships game in Kissimmee, Florida. coach punches kid and mouths off of some words before again grabbing his helmet and shaking it. nine-year-old kid was visibly distraught and walked away to sidelines in tears.  disturbing video has since found its way online and fans have called for Savannah Gators to sack coach.

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club offered a meek apology for coach's actions and wrote "Please keep negative comments off this p please this organization has great coaches we understand what we all saw yesterday was disturbing to us all but let’s t blame everyone for one mans actions.  organization is t at Nationals we have only 2 groups a National 7U & 9U with only those coaches of those groups witch [sic] guy in video is our 9U he coach he is a good guy that just took it a little to [sic] far on a 9U player we understand and we are aware of what’s going on and will like to apologize to #BigPeachConference…." in a  Facebook post.  apology drew furr outr and Gators subsequently delete post after much criticism. 

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(Im Courtesy: LeBron James Instagram)

video me way to LeBron James via Shann Sharpe, and Los Angeles Laker star was visibly upset by what she saw. 35-year-old wrote that if he was here during incident, he wouldn't care if it was his kid or t, and would have taken on coach for assaulting child. And while coach wouldn't fancy NBA legend's blows looking his ripped physique, YouTuber Jake Paul is keen on getting inside ring with Lakers star. Paul recently challenged LeBron on Twitter, after his brutal kckout of former NBA star Nate Robinson. 

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17:15 IST, December 10th 2020