Three people were ejected and one of them arrested in a dispute over the American flag at the Tampa Bay Buccaneers NFL game at Raymond James Stadium.
The fracas began when police ordered Ken Hill, 40, to take down the flag, the Tampa Tribune reported Tuesday.
Stadium and team officials said there was a long-standing policy over hanging anything from a railing in the stadium. Hill said he had been hanging the flag over the same railing in the first row of the upper deck for every Bucs game since the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks three years ago.
Hill said he and another man he doesn't know were escorted from the stadium shortly after the dispute. He said as he left he noticed a third man scuffling with officers nearby.
That man was identified as Ricky Maness, 51, of Fort Myers, a special agent with the Immigration and Customs Enforcement office in Fort Myers. He was subdued with a Taser gun and removed, witnesses said.
Steven Trent, special agent in charge of the immigration office in Fort Myers, said the incident will be investigated because there is "some dispute" about what happened.
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