Two Arrested After Sending Racist Tweets to Newcastle Football
Two teenagers have been arrested over racist tweets they made towards an English footballers as problems with social media and sports connect to rise in England. Samuel Ameobi, an English born athlete of Nigerian descent, logged into Twitter one day to find his page vandalized.
The Newcastle United forward was a victim of an attack by a follower who called him a racial term and proceeded to send messages and tweet a picture confronting Ameobi. The
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