Several youth basketball players beat the hell out of a referee following a game in Georgia over the weekend -- and the violent punching and kicking was all captured on video.
The alarming scene went down Sunday at Stronghold Christian Church in Lithonia, Ga. ... when following a contest on the floor, multiple players from one of the teams went after one of the game's refs.
You can see in video from the scene -- a couple young men chased after the guy in the striped shirt, who for a few seconds, appeared to be defending himself well.