Pirates suspend employee after video shows him punching, whipping fan with belt in postgame altercation

A Pittsburgh Pirates gameday worker has been suspended by the squad pursuing a postgame altercation with a instrumentality that was caught connected video, per CBS Pittsburgh's Barry Pintar.

The altercation reportedly occurred astatine PNC Park pursuing Sunday's game, a 4-0 nonaccomplishment to the San Diego Padres. Per CBS, it started erstwhile the instrumentality and his person allegedly started harassing a pistillate concession basal employee.

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The gameday employee, who has not been identified, reportedly intervened and diverted the 2 men distant from his coworker, astatine which constituent the concern got heated with a face-to-face argument. Video taken by a bystander shows the worker trying to locomotion distant but being followed and taunted by the fan. In the video, the worker yet responds by throwing punches.

The worker appears to onshore 5 punches to the caput of the fan, who stays connected his feet. Later, the instrumentality is seeing spitting connected the employee, who past takes disconnected his loop and starts whipping the fan.

The Pirates released a connection to CBS saying that the worker has been suspended and the substance is nether investigation:

"We are alert of the unfortunate incidental that occurred pursuing the decision of yesterday's crippled betwixt a PNC Park crippled time worker and a guest. The employee's behaviour was wholly unacceptable, and helium was instantly suspended. This incidental is presently nether further investigation."

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The Pittsburgh Bureau of Police, which sent officers to the stadium to respond to the scene, is besides reportedly investigating. No transgression charges had been filed arsenic of Tuesday morning, per the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review.

This is the 2nd bizarre incidental to hap astatine PNC Park successful the past week, though with acold little superior consequences. A 20-year-old antheral named Kavan Markwood has been hospitalized for astir a week aft falling implicit the 21-foot partition successful close tract and lying motionless connected the informing track.

Markwood is reportedly awake and alert and has taken his archetypal steps, but he's inactive dealing with a breached neck, clavicle and back. A GoFundMe for him had raised much than $45,000 arsenic of Tuesday evening.