After Jackie Robinson West Little League was stripped of its national championship, Chris Janes' phone blew up with death threats.
Death threats have been aimed at the Evergreen Park Little League official who reported Jackie Robinson Little League’s rule breaking to Little League International.Evergreen Park police have been stationed outside the man’s house, reports DNAinfo Chicago on Wednesday:
Evergreen Park Athletic Association Vice President Chris Janes, who first called for an investigation into Jackie Robinson West’s boundary changes, says he has received several threatening phone calls, including death threats, since the team was stripped of its U.S. title Wednesday.“We got about 50 messages,” he told DNAinfo Chicago. “I only listened to a few. Some were gibberish ... saying things like ‘You’re an a------.’ A couple said, ‘You deserve to die.’”
In a press conference Wednesday, the Rev. Michael Pfleger of St. Sabina Parish on the South Side singled out Janes for criticism and said Janes was on a racially motivated “witch hunt.”
“I wonder if the same thing would’ve happened to another league, another team, another place,” Pfleger said at the press conference. “It’s most unacceptable to go after the children and target the children.”
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