Curtis Scott has revealed his family has received abusive messages and even death threats from fans.
Scott was arrested on Australia Day weekend and hit with a raft of charges including accusations he assaulted police officers and resisted arrest.
Scott faced court last week where most of those charges were thrown out after the magistrate viewed police bodycam footage of the night in question.
The vision shows an unconscious Scott being handcuffed, mocked, then pepper sprayed and Tasered by police officers.
Scott later revealed that following his arrest both himself and family members have been the targets of online abuse from gutless keyboard warriors.
Craig Bellamy took aim at the trolls' awful behaviour.
โI think itโs a disgrace. Some of the stuff that Anthony Seibold went through as well,โ Bellamy said.
โWe donโt want that. Whatever anyone does, at the end of the day, to be copping that sort of stuff... itโs bad enough players or coaches or people in the game copping that... sometimes you know thatโs going to happen.
โItโs when your family gets thrown into it thatโs when itโs really wrong.
โWe shouldnโt have to put up with that with players, but family shouldnโt have to put up with that. Any sort of family.
โThatโs crap, thatโs bulls**t.
โI donโt know how you stop that, Iโve got no idea how social media works. But when you hear stuff like that Iโm not really keen to find out.
โIf some people think thatโs OK I think some people have a warped sense of whatโs right and whatโs wrong.
โI donโt understand it, and donโt really want to understand it. Itโs hugely unfair when families get put under pressure.โ
