ST. LOUIS – An emotional high school football game in Massillon, Ohio, on Friday night ended with police macing Cardinal Ritter College Prep players.

Video captured by Dylan Kelley, CEO of DPK.Captures, shows what appears to be uniformed officers spraying Cardinal Ritter players. The spraying continued even as players appear to be backing away from the field. Kelley said the incident began with some fighting during the postgame handshake. He said coaches were separating the players when police stepped in.

“It escalated very quickly and the cops pulled out their pepper spray a little after the fact of when they were separated,” Kelley said.

Parents say several Cardinal Ritter players were affected, including Ashley Ashburn's 16-year-old son, D.J.

“He got maced pretty bad in his eyes and

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