12-year-old Massachusetts hockey player sent racist photo by teammate: ‘I’m The Only Black Kid On the Team’
An investigation has began after a 12-year-old Massachusetts hockey player says he was sent a photo with people wearing Ku Klux Klan hoods and robes to a team group chat included one Black player.
Laquan Mongo said one of his teammates sent the photo, the teammate hasn’t been identified sent the photo to the group chat after a game on Sept 19. Mongoplays for Crimson Hockey Club East, told the outlet he was shaken by the image. Crimson Hockey Club is a division of the Eastern Hockey Federation, a youth hockey league in New England WCVB-TV reported. Hockey officials in Massachusetts are investigating a racist post that was made in a team chat.
“I felt scared and sad because I’m the only Black kid on the team,” Mongo said.
“It brought tears to my eyes. I was mortified because he’s a kid and the other kid’s a kid,” Mongo’s mother, Natasha Lassiter said. “They’re kids. They’re just kids. They don’t deserve any of this.”
The Crimson Hockey Club East is a member of the Eastern Hockey Federation. The commissioner of business operations, David Turk, told WCVB that the incident has been referred to Massachusetts Hockey — the governing body of youth hockey in the state. “As a league, we have a zero-tolerance policy for this type of behavior and under the guidelines from USA Hockey, these incidents are headed by the U.S. Center for SafeSport,” Turk wrote in an email to WCVB.
Turk added that the player who sent the image is no longer a member of the Crimson Hockey Club or the Eastern Hockey Federation.
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