Mother rips other coach's hair and punches her in the face as teams in 8-and-under softball game shake hands, cops say

Coaches and players astatine a Georgia younker softball crippled were shaking hands erstwhile abruptly 1 of the coaches grabbed different by her hairsbreadth and punched her successful the face, authorities say.

Meredith Haskew Grant was arrested by the Dalton Police Department connected Saturday and charged with misdemeanor battery, the Whitfield County Sheriff's Office told Law&Crime. She was booked into the Whitfield County Jail and released connected enslaved the aforesaid day.

Families were gathered astatine Heritage Point Regional Park successful Dalton, Georgia, connected Saturday, country Fox affiliate WTVC recounted. The GA Fury Platinum Harris were playing the Wreckers Fastpitch successful an 8-and-under softball game.

After the crippled ended, coaches and players were shaking hands astatine the pitcher's mound, which is often a customary sportsmanship enactment pursuing sporting events. All of a sudden, punches were thrown.

Video of the incidental shared by Chattanooga, Tennessee-based NBC affiliate WRCB shows a pistillate alleged to beryllium Grant grabbing different idiosyncratic by their hair, yanking them toward her and onto the ground, and past appearing to propulsion aggregate punches. Several different adults unreserved implicit and negociate to interruption the 2 radical up.

Dalton constabulary responded to the scene, wherever Grant told officers that the opposing squad was making unsportsmanlike remarks astir her daughter, an apprehension study states. She besides alleged that 1 of the coaches got successful her face.

Investigators, however, did not look to bargain her communicative astir the different coach, reportedly stating that the video showed her to beryllium the aggressor.

The different manager — the pistillate allegedly attacked — told WRCB that "I'm conscionable going to fto the video talk to her character. At the extremity of the day, my coaching unit and myself cognize the truth. The video doesn't lie."

The suspect has reportedly been banned from each aboriginal specified tournaments.

Dalton, Georgia, is located successful the northwest of the state, astir 30 miles from Chattanooga, Tennessee.