Children Basketball Coach Arrested For Hitting Man W/ Automotive, Caught On Video

A women youth basketball coach was arrested in Connecticut over the weekend after he allegedly mowed down a person along with his automotive following a verbal dispute … and it was all caught on video!

The loopy incident occurred in a car parking zone after a basketball sport simply after 11 AM on January 11 on the Horace Porter Faculty in Columbia, CT — roughly 10 miles south of UConn — prompting a response from Connecticut State Police.

When troopers arrived, they spoke with the alleged sufferer who claimed the coach “deliberately bumped into them, inflicting them to go over the roof and hood of the automobile earlier than falling onto the bottom.”

On the identical time, the coach/driver contacted police … and organized to satisfy with troopers, the place he instructed his facet of the story.

29-year-old Bryan Baez-Rivera admitted he was concerned in an argument after the basketball sport, however stated he did not deliberately hit anybody along with his automobile. As an alternative, Baez-Rivera instructed troopers the person chased him on foot, and finally jumped in entrance of his automotive, inflicting him to be hit.

Surveillance video reveals your complete scene … together with the second the man was struck, sending him over the hood.

Baez-Rivera instructed troopers he fled the scene as a result of he was involved for the protection of his passengers, a few of which had been youngsters.

Regardless of his story, CSP noticed issues in another way … concluding the footage proved “Baez-Rivera appeared to make no try and keep away from placing the sufferer.”

Baez-Rivera was arrested and charged with second-degree assault, breach of peace within the second diploma, reckless endangerment within the second diploma, and two counts of threat of harm to a minor.

He was ultimately launched on a $5k bond … and is due again in court docket later this month.