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Footballer given conditional discharge for swearing at Police

A National Academy player was ordered to apologise to Police Commissioner Michael DeSilva after he swore at officers who caught him urinating in public.Lejaun Simmons admitted in Magistrates’ Court that he’d used offensive words to police on Sunday around 7.20pm.The 18-year-old Devonshire Cougars player said he’d just gotten off a party boat and urgently needed the bathroom.Officers found him as he was relieving himself in the cycle park at Albuoy’s Point.Simmons refused to stop and told police: “If you’re trying to arrest me for peeing in public, the joke’s on you.”He told the officers: “F***k you guys. You guys should be going after criminals; go back to your foreign country.”Yesterday Simmons told Senior Magistrate Archibald Warner he was on the Bermuda National Football Squad and would soon go away to school.“I have a future in football. I’m trying to better my life,” he said.With his mother present in court, he added that he had lost his father to gun violence within the last year.Mr Warner told Simmons: “The joke seems to be on you now.”He pointed out that there was a public toilet by Albuoy’s Point.The magistrate said: “People like you should know better. You are a role model.”Mr Warner gave Simmons a conditional discharge of 12 months and ordered him to write a letter of apology to Mr DeSilva.