Soccer league ends season early, blames local Dem officials for ignoring crime-riddled homeless camp

The leader of a Seattle-area youth soccer league is blaming Democrat officials after he had to cancel the remainder of the season amid concerns about a nearby homeless encampment. (@choeshow via X/Discovery Institute)

A youth soccer league in the Seattle area is calling it quits for the season due to an expanding homeless encampment riddled with crime – a situation that is being blamed on Democrat leaders and elected officials in the area.

Valor Soccer – an athletic system that works to "provide quality and affordable soccer programming" to kids in King County – is canceling the remainder of its fall season, with the head of the youth program pointing to shootings and drug overdoses at the homeless encampment as the reason why.

Dean Aldridge, the CEO of Valor Soccer, told the Discovery Institute, a Seattle-based non-partisan organization, that the decision was made after an individual drove across the soccer filed at North Green River Park and did donuts, resulting in more than $100,000 in damage.

"We're a nonprofit – we don't have enough money to recoup these kind of losses," Aldridge told the think tank.

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Dean Aldridge, the CEO of Valor Soccer, left, told the Discovery Institute that "gangs are moving in" the nearby homeless encampment. (@choeshow via X/Discovery Institute)

"I don't know how you recover from something like this," he told reporters from the site of the field, nearly 23 miles from the heart of Seattle. "These are our most economically challenged kids. … What human being does this?"

Referring to the damages as a "massive, extraordinary financial loss," Aldridge said he was left with no choice but to cancel the remainder of the