A school district in the area of San Diego, California, voted Tuesday night for fire the basketball coach After that they will throw tortillas yet team from a high school mostly latina.
The Coronado Unified School Board voted 5-0 in closed session to determine the dismissal of coach JD Laaperi and measures on the discipline student, reported the San Diego Union-Tribune.
The events occurred on Saturday when the team from Coronado, a school mostly of students whites, beat Orange Glen High School 60-57 in overtime during a basketball championship.
The witnesses alleged that Laaperi yelled expletives at an Orange Glen coach, saying, “Get your kids out and get the (expletive) out of here,” said the Union-Tribune.
The video shared on social media showed at least two students by Coronado throwing tortillas at the other team.
Coronado Unified School District Superintendent Karl Mueller issued a public message of excuse the sunday in which called the act “reprehensible”.
In a tweet on Saturday, Laaperi said a community member brought tortillas to the game and said that the incident was “unacceptable and racist in nature”.
“I do not condone this behavior. Coronado High School he does not approve of this behavior and is already taking the appropriate measures, ”he tweeted.
Both school districts, along with Coronado Police and the Interscholastic Federation of California, are conducting investigations into the incident.
Wayne McKinney, captain of the Coronado basketball team, said that the players and coaches had received hate messages and death threats over the incident, according to the Union-Tribune.
On Tuesday, he rated the tortilla toss What unsportsmanlike, but not as an act of intolerance.
“It wasn’t based on race or class; it was just a great play between two teams, ”McKinney said. “I think a lot of people are making Saturday something that wasn’t.”
“Even if they didn’t have the intention to be racist, we cannot ignore that our guests, these children who played with all their hearts for a championship, they felt attacked because they were Hispanic”Coronado School Trustee Whitney Antrim said during the meeting.
In a letter to the community Tuesday, the school district superintendent high schools of Escondido Union, Anne Staffieri, said that after her investigation, the district wants to reunite the students of both teams to “talk to each other and strengthen each other through honest discussions and sincere apologies“.
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