{"id":260216,"date":"2026-05-06T05:15:22","date_gmt":"2026-05-06T05:15:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/260216\/"},"modified":"2026-05-06T05:15:22","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T05:15:22","slug":"florida-woman-arrested-and-accused-of-kicking-a-kid-at-youth-football-game-during-on-field-brawl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/260216\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida woman arrested and accused of kicking a kid at youth football game during on-field brawl"},"content":{"rendered":"

A Florida woman was taken into custody on suspicion of kicking a boy at a youth football game during an on-field brawl \u2014 and then claiming she had no choice because “the kid hit me” first, video of the arrest showed Tuesday. <\/p>\n

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Renee Lynn Lambert, 34, was booked on suspicion of cruelty to a child without great bodily harm and resisting an officer, according to a Lee County sheriff’s arrest report.<\/p>\n

Deputies responded to the game at Brooks Park in Fort Myers on Saturday after they “became aware of a large brawl located in the middle of the field,” Sheriff\u2019s Detective Nicholas Cittadino said in an arrest report.<\/p>\n

Parents ran onto the field to intervene, and a witness reported seeing a woman repeatedly kicking a juvenile male, the report said. <\/p>\n

Witnesses “quickly identified a white female who was leaving the area to have been a suspect of a battery on a juvenile,” according to the report.<\/p>\n

\"BodyBody camera video shows officers detaining Renee Lambert in Fort Myers, Fla., on Saturday. Lee County Sheriff’s Office<\/p>\n

Lambert claimed she was hit first, and she asked deputies why they were questioning her and not the offending player, according to law enforcement video NBC News obtained Tuesday.<\/p>\n

“So are you mad at them for hitting me?” Lambert appeared to ask deputies.<\/p>\n

“I’m mad at an adult for attacking a kid,” a male voice from behind the body camera lens responded. “Stop, you’re detained right now.” <\/p>\n

“No, I’m not. Goodbye,” responded the suspect, dressed in a football jersey.<\/p>\n

Lambert could not understand why deputies were targeting her.<\/p>\n

“Get your hands off me,” she said in video. “I’m the one who got hit.” <\/p>\n

At least one witness, identified as Andre Valdes, backed up a player’s allegation that he was on the ground when Lambert kicked him in the leg, Cittadino’s report said.<\/p>\n

“You are being pointed out as being a suspect; you are detained,” the male voice said as Lambert and deputies began to scuffle.<\/p>\n

Lambert appeared to identify her attacker as a player wearing a No. 9 jersey.<\/p>\n

“So where’s No. 9, go get No. 9,” Lambert said during the scuffle with law enforcement. <\/p>\n

She was led away in handcuffs as she still argued with deputies.<\/p>\n

“She’s detained because they said you hit a kid,” the male voice behind the camera said.<\/p>\n

“And the kid hit me!” Lambert responded. <\/p>\n

Lambert could not immediately be reached for comment at publicly listed phone numbers and email addresses associated with her.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Florida woman was taken into custody on suspicion of kicking a boy at a youth football game…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":260217,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29],"class_list":["post-260216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260216","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=260216"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260216\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/260217"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=260216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=260216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=260216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}