Pittsburgh Pirates
Suspend Employee Over Wild Fistfight
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A Pittsburgh Pirates game day employee has been suspended by the team … after he was seen on video getting involved in an absolutely insane fistfight with a fan at PNC Park.
The violent scrum happened on Sunday — as the Buccos were taking on the Padres.
So last week the Pirates had a drunken underage idiot fall from the stands into the field. Cracked his skull.
Last night we had an usher beat up a fan in front of women and children. Then takes his belt off and proceeds to whip the fan with it.
Imagine if the usher was white… pic.twitter.com/2HoMdLS6v8
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According to CBS, the altercation went down after a Pirates employee — who was wearing a white polo and tan pants — tried to pull two men away from a tiff they had been having with a nearby concession worker.
You can see in the video from the scene — the Pittsburgh official and one of the men got nose-to-nose with one another … before fists started flying.
The Pirates supporter ate a bevy of punches … and needed a second to recover. He then took off his hat, glasses and jacket, seemingly in an effort to get a more fair fight going.
People then intervened to try to break things up … but once the fan started spitting blood on the worker — all hell broke loose again.
Check out the footage, the Pirates employee ripped off his belt and smacked the man with it repeatedly.
Mercifully, cooler heads ultimately prevailed … and police showed up to take a report.
The Pirates called their worker’s behavior “entirely unacceptable” in a statement they released on Monday … writing, “he was immediately suspended.”
“This incident is currently under further investigation,” they added.
This is, of course, the second notable incident at PNC Park this month — just last week, a fan fell from a railing and sustained significant injuries … though, thankfully, he appears to be doing better.