{"id":197331,"date":"2020-02-04T03:29:58","date_gmt":"2020-02-04T00:29:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ww-vb.mine.nu\/w108\/flyers-mascot-cleared-of-claim-he-punched-teenage-fan\/"},"modified":"2020-02-04T03:29:58","modified_gmt":"2020-02-04T00:29:58","slug":"flyers-mascot-cleared-of-claim-he-punched-teenage-fan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hameed.nwar.uk\/sa\/flyers-mascot-cleared-of-claim-he-punched-teenage-fan\/","title":{"rendered":"Flyers mascot cleared of claim he punched teenage fan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p><h2 class=\"Article__Headline__Desc\">Police say Philadelphia Flyers mascot Gritty has been cleared of allegations that he punched a 13-year-old boy after a photo shoot<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n<div class=\"Article__Header__Meta\">\n<section class=\"Byline flex items-center\">\n<div>\n<div class=\"Byline__TimestampWrapper\">\n<p>February 3, 2020, 11:15 PM<\/p>\n<p>1 min read<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<section class=\"Share flex flex-no-wrap\"><button class=\"Button Button--default Button--active Button--icon-noLabel Share__Item Share__Item--facebook\" aria-selected=\"true\" aria-label=\"Share to Facebook\" role=\"button\"><svg class=\"Share__Icon icon__svg\" viewbox=\"0 0 24 24\"><use xlink:href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/#icon__social__facebook\"\/><\/svg><\/button><button class=\"Button Button--default Button--active Button--icon-noLabel Share__Item Share__Item--twitter\" aria-selected=\"true\" aria-label=\"Share to Twitter\" role=\"button\"><svg class=\"Share__Icon icon__svg\" viewbox=\"0 0 24 24\"><use xlink:href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/#icon__social__twitter\"\/><\/svg><\/button><button class=\"Button Button--default Button--active Button--icon-noLabel Share__Item Share__Item--email\" aria-selected=\"true\" aria-label=\"Email this article\" role=\"button\"><svg class=\"Share__Icon icon__svg\" viewbox=\"0 0 24 24\"><use xlink:href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/#icon__email\"\/><\/svg><\/button><\/section>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p>PHILADELPHIA &#8212;<br \/>\nPhiladelphia Flyers mascot Gritty has been cleared of allegations that he punched a 13-year-old boy in the back after a photo shoot, police said.<\/p>\n<p>\nChris Greenwell and his son Brandon met the hairy, googly-eyed mascot at a November event for season ticket holders. Brandon patted Gritty on the head after he and his father posed for a photo with him at the Wells Fargo Center, Greenwell has said. <\/p>\n<p>\nGreenwell said that as Brandon walked away, the person in the Gritty costume ran from his chair and \u201cpunched my son as hard as he could.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\nGreenwell, who has said he only wanted an apology and something special for his son, filed a complaint with police Dec. 21. But police announced Monday that their investigation determined that &#8220;the actions of the individual portraying the Flyers&#8217; mascot did not constitute physical assault as alleged.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\nThe Flyers said in a statement that they are pleased that police \u201cconcluded there was no merit to the alleged claim.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\n\u201cThe police department\u2019s statement confirms our thorough internal investigation that found no evidence of the described actions ever having taken place,\u201d the team said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Sports\/wireStory\/flyers-mascot-cleared-claim-punched-teenage-fan-68731873\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] Police say Philadelphia Flyers mascot Gritty has been cleared of allegations that he punched a 13-year-old boy after a photo shoot February 3, 2020, 11:15 PM 1 min read PHILADELPHIA &#8212; Philadelphia Flyers mascot Gritty has been cleared of allegations that he punched a 13-year-old boy in the back after a photo shoot, police &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":197332,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[99561,4797,102037,92218,62523,93107,125659,92523,91816,126777,101784,126776,126775,101785,815,98189],"class_list":["post-197331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tie-world","tag-assault-and-battery","tag-crime","tag-criminal-investigations","tag-general-news","tag-hockey","tag-law-and-order","tag-mens-hockey","tag-mens-sports","tag-national","tag-nhl-eastern-conference","tag-nhl-hockey","tag-nhl-metropolitan-division","tag-philadelphia-flyers","tag-professional-hockey","tag-sports","tag-violent-crime"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hameed.nwar.uk\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197331","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hameed.nwar.uk\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hameed.nwar.uk\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hameed.nwar.uk\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hameed.nwar.uk\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=197331"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hameed.nwar.uk\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197331\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hameed.nwar.uk\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/197332"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hameed.nwar.uk\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hameed.nwar.uk\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hameed.nwar.uk\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}