Adam Sasser, Georgia Bulldogs baseball player, dismissed from his team on the pretext of racist insults

A Georgia Bulldogs baseball player who allegedly chanted racist remarks at the Saturday football game in Georgia was fired from the team, school announced Wednesday.

Adam Sasser, who played first base and was one of the best hitters in the Bulldogs, reportedly shouted racist language at Georgia's quarterback, Justin Fields, in an article posted on Facebook by another student, Klarisa Gulebian, a student in third year in animal sciences at Lawrenceville. , Georgia.

According to Gulebian, she and several friends were sitting in the stands near Sasser during Saturday's home game against Tennessee. She had gone to take a phone call during the fourth quarter of the contest and she had returned to a big disruption involving her friends, Africa Buggs and Sierra Buckner, as well as several other students.

Gulebian said that she had learned that Sasser had made racist comments and that other students had asked her to stop. He had initially accepted, but continued anyway.

Gulebian asked a police officer on duty at Sanford Stadium to intervene. She said that the officer had spoken to Sasser, and then watched the section for the rest of the party.

"Everyone around him said nothing, he just laughed at the situation," said Gulebian. "So, I involved the police officer and told him that there was someone who was using racial slurs."

Gulebian said that they initially did not know that the man in question was a Georgian baseball player, but another close supporter has identified himself as a member of the softball team and has stated that Sasser was a baseball player. The women had taken a picture of Sasser at the football match and compared it to the photos of the players on the Bulldogs' baseball players list and identified the man in question as Sasser.

Gulebian is said to be disappointed that the police officer did not do more to remedy the situation at that time. So she decided to publish an article about this problem on a Facebook site devoted to events taking place in the stands of football games, while Scott Strickland, coach of school and baseball.

"We had seen tweets from other students sitting next to us talking about what [Sasser] "This is not the first time that this kind of problem occurs on campus, and I did not want to let that go without being heard," Gulebian said. Nothing was done for these situations and people do not talk about it enough.

"So that's why I was appointed so people would know it was really happening on our campus." The goal was not to get him into trouble, although I feel 'It deserves a consequence, but it's not that I'm trying to ruin his career.'

The publication on Facebook was quickly picked up by local media and the school's Equal Opportunity Office opened an investigation Monday on the issue, talking with Gulebian, Buggs and Buckner, among others.

On Tuesday, Georgia coach Kirby Smart spoke about the situation.

"If what I've read and heard is true, it's really unacceptable behavior, it's not what we are in Georgia," Smart said, according to the Atlanta Journal- Constitution. "We are trying to build a program on tolerance and mutual respect, you can not control what others are saying, but we hope that the people who are part of our program and who attend our games share the same convictions as we do. .

"It's sad that something like this is happening. I'm disappointed. But that does not affect our family, our unity here and our children have been great. This is not a question I had to deal with. approached with Justin. This is the most important thing. "

In the wake, Gulebian said she was encouraged by the support her position had received and that the vast majority of responses she had received from students had been positive.

"It's exciting and frankly surprising," she said. "I thought there would be a lot more reaction than it did.I received a lot of messages from people thanking me for sharing the story because They have had similar experiences. "

Sasser, a junior from Evans, Georgia, had a batting average of .317 with 10 homers and 44 RBIs for the Georgia baseball team this season.

Fields, who was Georgia's quarterback this season, was the country's first rookie in 2018.