A sports journalist at a local Connecticut outlet has been fired for a “racially insensitive” tweet directed at a Republican senator. Fred Gerteiny, a sports reporter at News 12 Connecticut, lost his job after calling South Carolina Sen. Tim Scott an “Uncle Tom” in a now-deleted tweet on Wednesday. “After reviewing the incident, the network released sports reporter, Fred Gerteiny, as a result of a racially insensitive comment,” the network said in a statement. “News 12 Networks has a zero tolerance policy for racism or improper conduct based on race, and prides itself on being an objective and unbiased multi-platform news company.”
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