{"id":382486,"date":"2025-11-16T07:20:12","date_gmt":"2025-11-16T07:20:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/382486\/"},"modified":"2025-11-16T07:20:12","modified_gmt":"2025-11-16T07:20:12","slug":"lebron-james-calls-for-suspension-of-state-trooper-in-football-game-confrontation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/382486\/","title":{"rendered":"LeBron James Calls for Suspension of State Trooper in Football Game Confrontation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> NEED TO KNOW<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A Texas state trooper was sent home for the day following an incident during a Texas A&amp;M football game on Nov. 15<\/li>\n<li>A video that went viral shows a trooper seemingly bumping into and then scolding two South Carolina football players\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>The moment prompted Los Angeles Lakers star LeBron James to call for the trooper\u2019s suspension in a post he shared on X<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p id=\"mntl-sc-block_2-0\" class=\"comp mntl-sc-block mntl-sc-block-html\"> A <a href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/texas-state-trooper-army-veteran-jerry-wayne-adamick-jr-dies-in-fiery-car-crash-11812937\" data-component=\"link\" data-source=\"inlineLink\" data-type=\"internalLink\" data-ordinal=\"1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Texas state trooper<\/a> was sent home for the day after a moment between the trooper and several college football players went viral.\n<\/p>\n<p id=\"mntl-sc-block_4-0\" class=\"comp mntl-sc-block mntl-sc-block-html\"> The incident occurred during a game between Texas A&amp;M and South Carolina at Kyle Field on Saturday, Nov. 15, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/college-football\/story\/_\/id\/46977427\/trooper-pointed-players-relieved-duties\" data-component=\"link\" data-source=\"inlineLink\" data-type=\"externalLink\" data-ordinal=\"1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">ESPN<\/a>.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n<p id=\"mntl-sc-block_8-0\" class=\"comp mntl-sc-block mntl-sc-block-html\"> South Carolina players Nyck Harbor and Oscar Adaway III were walking through a stadium tunnel after Harbor caught an 80-yard touchdown pass when a Texas state trooper appeared to bump into Adaway.\n<\/p>\n<p id=\"mntl-sc-block_10-0\" class=\"comp mntl-sc-block mntl-sc-block-html\"> The trooper then turned and pointed at them, seemingly scolding them.\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p id=\"mntl-sc-block_14-0\" class=\"comp mntl-sc-block mntl-sc-block-html\"> The moment quickly went viral, prompting Los Angeles Lakers star <a href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/tag\/lebron-james\/\" data-component=\"link\" data-source=\"inlineLink\" data-type=\"internalLink\" data-ordinal=\"1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">LeBron James<\/a> to call for the trooper\u2019s suspension in an X post on Nov. 15.\n<\/p>\n<p id=\"mntl-sc-block_16-0\" class=\"comp mntl-sc-block mntl-sc-block-html\"> \u201cThat A&amp;M cop needs to suspended! That was premeditated and corny AF!! He went out his way to start some shit. Do better man,\u201d the NBA star wrote.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p id=\"mntl-sc-block_20-0\" class=\"comp mntl-sc-block mntl-sc-block-html\"> <strong>Never miss a story \u2014 sign up for<a href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/people-news-daily-newsletter-sign-up-8692701\" data-component=\"link\" data-source=\"inlineLink\" data-type=\"internalLink\" data-ordinal=\"1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> PEOPLE&#8217;s free daily newsletter<\/a> to stay up-to-date on the best of what PEOPLE has to offer\u200b\u200b, from celebrity news to compelling human interest stories.<\/strong>\n<\/p>\n<p id=\"mntl-sc-block_22-0\" class=\"comp mntl-sc-block mntl-sc-block-html\"> PEOPLE reached out to a representative for James on Saturday, Nov. 15, but did not receive an immediate response.\n<\/p>\n<p id=\"mntl-sc-block_26-0\" class=\"comp mntl-sc-block mntl-sc-block-html\"> Former NFL tight end Benjamin Watson also shared his thoughts on the moment, describing what happened as \u201cclown\u201d behavior.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n<p id=\"mntl-sc-block_28-0\" class=\"comp mntl-sc-block mntl-sc-block-html\"> \u201cThis is trash by this clown. Shoving players. Seriously. What are you doing?!\u201d Watson wrote, in part, in an X post.\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p id=\"mntl-sc-block_32-0\" class=\"comp mntl-sc-block mntl-sc-block-html\"> The Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS), which oversees the Texas State Troopers, shared that they are \u201caware of the incident\u201d in a <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/TxDPS\/status\/1989787150485725668?s=20\" data-component=\"link\" data-source=\"inlineLink\" data-type=\"externalLink\" data-ordinal=\"1\" rel=\"nofollow\">statement<\/a> shared to the department\u2019s X account.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n<p id=\"mntl-sc-block_34-0\" class=\"comp mntl-sc-block mntl-sc-block-html\"> &#8220;The DPS Trooper involved was sent home from the game. Our Office of Inspector General (OIG) is also aware of the incident and will be further looking into the matter,\u201d the statement said.\n<\/p>\n<p id=\"mntl-sc-block_36-0\" class=\"comp mntl-sc-block mntl-sc-block-html\"> DPS added, \u201cNo additional information will be released at this time.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEED TO KNOW A Texas state trooper was sent home for the day following an incident during a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":382487,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[1232,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-382486","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nfl","8":"tag-nfl","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-united-states","11":"tag-unitedstates","12":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115558168990606822","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382486","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=382486"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382486\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/382487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=382486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=382486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=382486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}