A soccer fan posted a video of him being kicked out of an MLS game in St. Louis for wearing a MAGA hat on July 26.
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I'm Michael Weitzel. I'm being asked to lead by the police because of Donald Trump
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Hey, I'm a Donald Trump fan. I'm a man. Yes, I am. So I just want all these coppers to deal with America
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But they don't do not put it for me. They don't want any kind of put it for me. So those flags over there, those flags over there, those are free
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So my question to you guys is, are these girls equally enforced
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A Major League Soccer fan who filmed himself getting kicked out of a Missouri stadium
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for wearing a Make America Great Again cap is now going viral
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The video, now garnering millions of views, shows fan Michael Weitzel being escorted from the St
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Louis Soccer Club's game last week. He says security approached him with about 25 minutes
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left in the game, telling him to remove his hat or leave. Weitzel tells KFTK's Mark Cox Morning
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Show the situation unfolded after another fan filed a complaint during the game
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I didn't think there'd be any issue with wearing that to the game but with about you know 25 minutes left in the game
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I was basically told that there they'd received a complaint about my hat so they told me I could either hide the hat or
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Take it out to my car or leave or my options and said well you know There 25 minutes left in the game It a close game sir I not going to going to take my hat off for anybody I live in America which is the land
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of the free and the home of the brave, I thought. And, you know, you do what you have to do, sir
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The soccer club's website says the stadium prohibits political banners, flags, images
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and signs unless pre-approved. Weitzel says he saw political messaging inside, but staff told him those were pre-approved. I'm being evicted from the premises because of
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Donald Trump, because we can't wear Donald Trump hats in public. And so now I'm being evicted from
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the premises. The first security guard told Weitzel he also supports Trump, but said he was just
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enforcing stadium rules. He gets it. He's just following the rules. It's not his fault, but this
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is the stadium's rule. So that's what happens if you wear a Donald Trump hat to a St. Louis City
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soccer club game. Weitzel says he was shocked by the response and is not hesitant to go to another
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game as he owns three years worth of season tickets. His video picked up steam after being
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shared by conservative Greg Keller of the Atlas Strategy Group over the weekend. He later claimed
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on X that the U.S. Justice Department's Civil Rights Division is reviewing the incident
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