mo4ch:>Stormy days for weatherman: New York TV presenter fired for using ‘racial slur’ on air | Mo4ch News

A New York weatherman has been fired after seeming to utter a commonly used racial slur for Martin Luther King on air. In a video defending himself online, the meteorologist apologized, saying he’d simply “jumbled” his words.During a Friday evening broadcast on NBC-affiliate WHEC, chief weatherman Jeremy Kappell described a park in Rochester named after black civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. as “Martin Luther Coon Park.”Kappell quickly corrected himself, but he was unable to weather the storm and two days later he was fired following social media uproar. In a statement, the channel said using the word was “beyond unacceptable” and that there needed to be “real consequences” for the weather reporter.The meteorologist himself, however, published a four-minute-long video online in which he appeared with his wife and apologized, but claimed the incident was a “simple misunderstanding” and that he “spoke a little too fast” and “jumbled” a couple of words.Kappell said he knew he h…