Jennie Garth Nancy Grace, Racist tweets that got the Boston Bruins and The National Hockey League all up in arms have a Cumberland High School student taking some heat nationally and locally.
The Bruins and the NHL quickly reacted to condemn tweeters that were making racist remarks after Joel Ward, a black hockey player for the Washington Capitals, scored an overtime goal that knocked the Boston Bruins, who won the Stanley Cup in 2011, out of the playoffs on Wednesday night.
Several tweeters took to the internet using racially derogatory terms for Ward and saying that hockey is a white man's sport. One of the tweeters was a student hockey player at Cumberland High School who tweeted, "The fact that a n-word scored the winner goal makes this loss hurt a lot more."
"I know the student has taken it down, in the initial Tweet as I have it print it is the students first name, last name, and Cumberland High School," Cumberland School Superintendent Phil Thorton told WPRO's Dan Yorke.
The student could now be in trouble school. "Students today who join sports teams they actually sign codes of conduct and in this case for hockey students do sign codes of conduct and it says in there, I believe number 15, students doing anything unbecoming, i.e. Twitter, social networking may have a consequence. So going into it student know how this works," said Thorton. Thorton said school officials have not yet decided if the student will face a punishment at school. (WPRO)
