‘You don’t mace kids’: Police use pepper spray on high school football players during end

ST. LOUIS (KSDK) – Football players from a Missouri high school were pepper sprayed by police at the end of a game against a school in Ohio.

Video captured police in Massillon, Ohio, using pepper spray on football players from Cardinal Ritter College Prep in St. Louis.

During the handshake line, after the game, is when it all went down.

The chief of the Massillon Police Department says after multiple fights pushing and shoving between both teams, officers were forced to intervene.

He says one of the home team’s player’s face mask was grabbed and he was surrounded and chased by Cardinal Ritter players.

After giving multiple orders for Cardinal Ritter to leave the field, he says two officers deployed pepper spray.

But parents of the Missouri players are expressing shock at the incident