“They told me I could either hide the hat or take it out to my car or leave. I’m not gonna take my hat off for anybody. I live in America, which is the land of the free and the home of the brave, I thought. So you do what you have to do,” he added. If he didn’t agree to leave, he would be taken out “in handcuffs,” per Mediaite.

Footage of the incident in Missouri has gone viral on social media, gaining more than 2 million views at the time of writing.

A video showing a man being removed from a St. Louis City SC soccer match has gone viral across TikTok and X (formerly Twitter), sparking outrage.In the video, the man identifies himself as Michael Weitzel and claims he was asked to leave the stadium for wearing a “Make America Great Again” (MAGA) hat,