A Black football player at a northwest Illinois high school is seen on video sitting down in a locker littered with banana peels after a teammate threatens to break his knees if he doesn’t comply.
Moline Police Chief Darren Gault called the incident at Moline High School a “disturbing racist scene.”
Detectives interviewed student-athletes, coaches, and staff members over the weekend and turned their findings over to prosecutors.
The investigation centers on an 11-second video clip in which another player, whose hand can be seen but his face doesn’t appear, threatens the Black player to sit in the locker “or I’ll break both your knees.”
When the player sits down, others can be heard shouting, “Yeah!”
