Some in Danville cry foul over high school basketball cuts

DANVILLE – Some black community members have accused the Danville High School boys basketball head coach of racial profiling for cutting at least eight black players from an all-black team.

Now they're planning to organize a protest in an attempt to get Coach Gary Tidwell, who is white, removed.

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