“You have to change your shirt. It’s not allowed.” Journalist Grant Wahl said he was told by security to change out of a shirt with a rainbow pattern around a soccer ball and detained for “nearly half an hour” while trying to enter the stadium.
two days before they play Canada in Group F.
After Baxter tweeted about the incident, a U.S. Soccer official came to him “very upset with the police officer's actions,” he said. He later received a call from a Supreme Committee representative, who asked about his safety, and said they would look into the incident. My friend Andrew Das, a reporter for the New York Times, walked past, and I informed him what was going on. They detained him too.“Are you from the UK?” one guard asked.
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