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NBC Sports: Head trainer fired over racial bullying of Japanese assistant trainer

Richie IncognitoNBC Sports is reporting that Miami Dolphin head trainer Kevin O’Neill has been fired over the racial harassment of his Japanese assistant.
 
According to the Ted Wells report commissioned by the NFL into Richie Incognito, O’Neill stood by and did nothing while Incognito, and teammates John Jerry and Mike Pouncey hurled racial slurs and insults at the Japanese trainer.
 
The report read:

On December 7, 2012, the anniversary of the Japanese attack on Pearl
Harbor, Incognito, Jerry and Pouncey donned traditional Japanese headbands that
featured a rising sun emblem (which
the Assistant Trainer had given them) and jokingly
threatened to harm the
Assistant Trainer physically in retaliation for the Pearl Harbor
attack. According to Martin,the
Assistant Trainer confided in him that he was upset
about the Pearl Harbor comments, finding them derogatory toward his heritage.
Martin and another player we interviewed both believed that the Assistant Trainer
awkwardly laughed along with some of the racial insults, even though he was in
fact offended.

The report also says:

Martin claims that a number of Dolphins employees saw how
the Assistant Trainer was humiliated but did not intervene, including
his supervisor, head trainer Kevin O’Neill, who
allegedly even laughed at some of the racial insults.
As far as we know, none of the players, including Martin, confronted Incognito, Jerry
or Pouncey about the racist comments directed at the Assistant Trainer or demanded that they cease.

 

1 COMMENT

  1. RE: Head trainer fired over racial bullying of Japanese trainer: This is the kind of behavior that, if it happened in public, that individual would be chastised and run out of town. People would call for his being fired, and the social backlash would never end. Of course, because it was an NFL locker room, none of us are supposed to understand the culture and brotherhood that exists. Typical macho BS.

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