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Coach: Crowd yells racial slur after youth players take knee

A suburban Pittsburgh youth football league says it is investigating reports of racial slurs being hurled at an all-black team after some took a knee during the national anthem.

Woodland Hills head coach Marcus Burkley tells WPXI-TV his team was playing Bethel Park on Saturday when two or three of his 12- and 13-year-old players took a knee.

He says that's when the racial slurs started coming from the stands. Some of his players told him kids on the mostly white opposing team also used the slur.

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