Community calls for resignations after cover-up of alleged horrific acts by high school hockey team

Residents of Danvers, Massachusetts stormed into a school board meeting Monday night and demanded resignations in light of a cover up of alleged disgusting and racist behaviour by the school's varsity hockey team. A recent report in the Boston Globe stated that allegations came forward in 2020, and an investigation was done, but the school only made the community aware of it 16 months later with a heavily redacted copy of a report into the incident.

The allegations from a former member of the team include players forcing others to be involved in "Gay Tuesdays" and "Hard R Fridays." On Gay Tuesdays, everyone in the locker room was forced to strip and then had to guess who touched them with the lights off. Hard R Fridays refer to the use of the n-word, where teammates pressured each other to shout racial slurs and joked about the deaths of Black people, including a Black Danvers student. There was also a group text where several jokes were made about the holocaust.

The redacted report said police were notified but they appeared to take the side of players who described the conduct as "harmless locker room hijinks" and "boys being boys." No criminal charges have been laid. The hazing allegations only came to light when the school began an unrelated probe after three players allegedly shouted racial slurs at Black workers.

The team's coach at the the time of the initial allegations was a well-known police sergeant in the community. He told investigators he knew nothing of the alleged "rituals." He resigned last summer.

There was at least one parent at Monday night's meeting whose son was a member of the team in 2020. She insisted he saw none of the rituals mentioned in the allegations and that he was "not racist, or homophobic, or part of a white supremacy group as many social media bullies have stated."

Source: CBS Boston

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