NHL's Devante Smith-Pelly Calls for Change After Racist Taunts
2/20/2018 1:10 PM PST
EXCLUSIVE
Washington Capitals forward Devante Smith-Pelly is glad the fans who heckled him for being a black hockey player were dealt with ... but he says it ain't enough.
"I don't really have all the answers, but something needs to change," Devante told TMZ Sports.
DSP was in the penalty box during a game at the United Center on Saturday ... when a group of nearby fans starting chanting "basketball" at him.
No surprise -- he was triggered.
Those 4 fans were booted from the arena -- and later hit with a lifetime ban -- but Devante told us addressing this one incident doesn't solve the larger problem.
"It shouldn't happen anywhere -- hockey, baseball, basketball -- it shouldn't happen in the world."
FYI, black athletes facing racism is nothing new. In 2011, a fan threw a banana at NHLer Wayne Simmonds in Canada ... and just last year, MLB star Adam Jones was repeatedly called the n-word and had a bag of peanuts hurled at him in Boston.
from TMZ.com http://ift.tt/2GuwITJ
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