Several Post Falls High School football players have been suspended from school and kicked off the football team for participating in a photo that shows two students in helmets and jerseys pointing airsoft guns at the head of another player dressed as a Coeur d’Alene High School football player.

The photo, which was taken as part of a media day for the school football team, was reported on Sept. 4 on an online platform that students and parents involved with the football team had access to, Post Falls Patrol Lt. Brian Harrison said. The picture was reported to a district employee, who reported it to the Post Falls Police Department.

“As a parent of teenagers, what I wouldn’t want to see is normalizing things like what are depicted in that photo,” Harrison said. “Especially in this day an

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