Teen sues city, others after assault by ‘belligerent’ umpire

This umpire’s behavior was foul.

A NYC public high school umpire allegedly knocked down a teen who questioned the aggressive tone he was taking with players during a girls’ softball game.

Urban School for Emergency Management student Cody Jorge, 17, attended his school’s girls softball game at Coleman Playground on Market Street on the Lower East Side on May 14, 2024.

The unnamed umpire “was being belligerent and aggressive toward the softball players” throughout the game, and at one point, he stopped play to argue with one of the team’s coaches, according to Jorge’s Manhattan Supreme Court filing.

After the game Jorge confronted the ump and asked him why he treated players in a “derogatory fashion,” according to court papers.

“In response,” the ump “assaulted” him, “causing [Jorge] to fall to the floor,” according to the lawsuit.

The official “continued to assault [Jorge] while he was on the floor,” leaving him with “serious and permanent physical and psychological injuries,” according to the docs.

Jorge was treated at a hospital for a “concussion, contusions to [the] head, face and body, and lacerations to [the] body,” the suit said.

An NYPD spokesperson confirmed receiving the report from Jorge, but said no arrests had been made and the investigation into the assault is ongoing.

In the lawsuit, Jorge’s legal team argued the City of New York, the Department of Education, and the Public Schools Athletic League should have known the umpire was a risk to lash out and injure someone.

The city’s attorneys did not respond to requests seeking comment.