A minor league hockey player in Quebec voluntarily left the ice mid-game after fans hurled several racist taunts at him and harassed his family.
The incident occurred when Jonathan Diaby, a 24-year-old defenceman with the Jonquiere Marquis of the Ligue Nord-Americane de Hockey, received a penalty during the first period of his team’s game against the St. Jerome Petroliers du Nord on Saturday.
“Other people were saying: ‘You big n-----,’ and ‘You baboon,’ telling my dad to go back home,” Diaby told CTV Montreal on Tuesday. “At one point I was in the penalty box and I pulled my shirt over my face because I was almost crying.”
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