Hoops coach fired after racist incident

A San Diegoarea school district voted Tuesday to fire its boys basketball coach after tortillas were hurled at a team from a mostly Latino high school.

The Coronado Unified School Board voted 50 in a closed session to release JD Laaperi of Coronado High School and discussed but didn’t take action on student discipline, the San Diego UnionTribune reported.

Mostly white Coronado beat visiting Orange Glen High School of Escondido 6057 in overtime Saturday in a division championship game.

Witnesses alleged that Laaperi shouted expletives at an Orange Glen coach, saying, “Get your kids and get the (expletive) out of here,” the UnionTribune said. Video shared on social media then showed at least two Coronado students throwing tortillas toward the other team.

Laaperi did not respond to a request for comment on Wednesday. He condemned the behavior on Twitter on Sunday.

“Unfortunately a community member brought tortillas and distributed them which was unacceptable and racist in nature,” he wrote. “I do not condone this behavior.”

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