Ayesha Curry, the wife of Warriors and USA basketball star Stephen Curry, and Draymond Green were involved in a confrontation with Paris police on Saturday after Team USA’s gold medal win in the Olympics.
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Video emerged via social media that showed Ayesha, Green and Stephen Curry’s mother, Sonya, speaking to a group of police officers. Ayesha was holding the couple’s youngest son, Cauis, while their daughter Riley was also there walking around with a flag on her shoulders.
The group appeared to be trying to make its way back to their car but was being prohibited from doing so by the police. It’s unclear if anything happened before this to cause the altercation.
“Look, they won’t let us go back over there where we came from,” Sonya told the officers, while pointing toward a location away from the camera. “They won’t let the driver come here, and they won’t let us go back over there.”
At one point, Green interjected and accused the officers of hitting the baby in the head.
“So even after him hitting a baby in the head, there’s still nothing y’all nothing can do to get them out of here?” he said.
A man in the video who was translating the conversation told Sonya that “the president” was coming through “so nobody’s allowed to cross the street right now until he’s passed.” French President Emmanuel Macron was at the game between the U.S. and France and could have been exiting the area at the same time.
Shortly after that, a man put himself in between the camera and asked for the filming to stop. The video then ended and it’s unclear exactly what took place afterward.
Stephen Curry had a performance for the ages in leading the USA to gold with a 98-87 victory. He scored 24 points, including eight 3-pointers, and hit several clutch baskets down the stretch to secure the win.
France battled back to make it a one-possession game with an 82-79 score, but Curry walked right down to the other end of the court for a triple to extend the lead with 2:48 to go. It was the first of four 3-pointers he scored during the game’s final three minutes.
The Olympic gold medal was the first for Curry, and there was a lot of him to celebrate with his family afterward. Hopefully everything ended all right with this police encounter, which simply looks to be a minor misunderstanding.
