Carlton Davis, cornerback for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, said he would never offend a group of people after tweeting an anti-Asian failure on Sunday night.
According to ESPN, Davis tweeted ‘Gotta stop leasing g —- in Miami’ before deleting the message. He wrote that he believes that part of the message means ‘lame’.
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“I will never offend a group of people,” the 24-year-old wrote in an apology. “You reporters can look for another story to blow up. The term is aimed at a producer who claims to be ‘driving Miami.’ With that said, I’ll take the word out of my vocabulary, with the hard times ahead. our Asian family endures. “
The first tweet accompanied an internet definition.
“I used a term that always came from ‘where I come from’, but I did not realize it had a much darker, negative connotation. I learned a valuable lesson and want to apologize for it. “anyone who is offended by seeing the word, because in these difficult times we have to focus on helping each other,” he added.
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Attacks against Asian Americans have increased in recent weeks. Nearly half of the hate-related incidents targeted by Asian Americans since the onset of the coronavirus pandemic occurred in a March California study, according to a report by the Stop AAPI Hate Reporting Center.
The organization said it had received 3,795 first-hand reports of hate incidents nationwide from March 19, 2020 to February 28, 2021. Of that total, 68.1% of incidents were classified as verbal harassment, while 20.5% were cases of ‘avoidance’. of Asian Americans and 11.1% were cases of alleged physical assault.
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States in the country reported an increase in violence and hate-related incidents against Asian Americans during the pandemic. Of the reported incidents, 1,691, or about 45%, occurred in California. Another 517 attacks, or about 14%, occurred in New York and 158, or about 4%, occurred in Washington state. No other state accounted for more than 3% of the reported incidents.
Thomas Barrabi of Fox News contributed to this report.