The alleged racial slur from Hackensack City Councilmember Leo Battaglia took place as Hackensack soccer coach Shaun Holder was on the field. Hackensack Mayor…
A city councilmember in New Jersey agreed to resign, according to the mayor, amid accusations he used a racial slur to describe the town’s African-American soccer coach.
"The councilman, to keep it PG, said that the color of my skin contributed to me not being good enough to coach soccer," Holder said.The allegations of racism brought angry members of the public to the most recent city council meeting, calling for Battaglia to step down. Though Battaglia has called the allegations against him “lies,” Hackensack Mayor John Labrosse Jr. said the councilmember agreed to resign after Battaglia was dropped from the mayor's political ticket.Despite that, the Bergen County NAACP called a news conference where some accused the mayor and his allies of racial insensitivity after they dropped another lawmaker — Gerard Carroll — from their ticket. Carroll is the only African-American person on the city council.
At the last city council meeting, the deputy mayor suggested the rift with the only Black member of the council was because they feared he was blaming the entire group for the conduct of one lawmaker.
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