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(LOS ANGELES) — A high school basketball coach in California has been fired after tortillas were thrown at the team’s predominantly Hispanic opponents after a championship game.
The incident, which was caught on video and sparked outrage, unfolded Saturday evening after Coronado High beat Orange Glen High School in the CIF Southern California Boys Basketball Division 4-A Regional Championship.
Coronado’s head basketball coach, JD Laaperi, was fired after a 5-0 vote by the Coronado Unified School Board during an emergency meeting on Tuesday night, a district representative told ABC News.
After the incident, Laaperi issued a statement on Twitter saying, in part,
