A teenage girl in Tennessee set the Internet on fire earlier this week after coming out of nowhere to tackle a middle school football player.
As WTMV reported, 16-year-old Addison Hunnicutt was attending a Middle Tennessee middle school football game Tuesday night between South Middle School and Cornersville Middle School in Winchester when she sprang into action. Her brother plays for Cornersville.
As the video below shows, Hunnicutt races onto the field following a stoppage in play due to a penalty and tackles a black South Middle School Player to the ground.
She then shoves him back onto the ground when he tries to get up.
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16-year-old Tennessee girl has been charged with assault after running onto a football field in the middle of a game and tackling a middle school player.
The girl ran onto the field following a scuffle between two players and tackled one of the middle schoolers.
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Following the incident, Hunnicutt was removed from the field and later charged with assault and disorderly conduct by the Franklin County Sheriff’s Office. She was also given a lifetime ban from Franklin County Schools properties.
Police also told Hunnicutt she was forbidden from attending any more Cornerville Middle School games.
On Thursday, Hunnicutt spoke out about her ordeal and revealed there was more to the story.
Hunnicutt explained to WTVF on Thursday that she witnessed her brother getting continuously assaulted by the South Middle School player.
He first grabbed her brother’s face mask and spun him around several times. Then, he slugged Hunnicutt’s little brother in the ribs, prompting her on-court storming.
“I wasn’t going after this kid just to go after him,” Hunnicutt explained. “That wasn’t my intention at all. Seeing what they were doing to him and no one stopping it, that kind of made me the last choice.”
“Somebody has to stop this.”
Hunnicutt’s mother, Elizabeth Chumbley, did not excuse her daughter’s actions but sympathized with her.
“I made sure she understood quickly that her behavior, that was inappropriate, and you should not have jumped over the fence,” Chumbley told WTMV.
“I’m seeing my son on the ground being attacked,” she said. “This wasn’t just a football play. This is him on the ground being physically attacked by this other player.”
The South Middle School player’s father, Brandon Taylor, praised his son’s ‘character’ and ‘restraint’ in a Facebook post following the incident.
“I was at the game. I greeted my son afterward, and even in that moment, his first response was, ‘She better be glad she’s a girl.’ That alone says a lot about his character. He had every reason to be angry, yet he still showed restraint, Taylor wrote.
“My son is a true gentleman, and he did not deserve to be tackled, pushed, or humiliated on the field. He is a 13-year-old child, and I will always stand up for him and protect him,” Taylor added.
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