Bucs' Carlton Davis Deletes Tweet With Anti-Asian Slur, Says He Didn't Know It Was One


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News Twitter Apology Miami Tampa Bay Buccaneers Tampa Bay Buccaneers defensive back Carlton Davis deleted a Sunday night tweet that included an anti-Asian slur, but many Florida residents have defended the remark as slang taken from the lyrics of a popular 2016 song about Miami. Davis, 24, issued a follow-up apology for the tweet that comes amid reports of rising hate crimes and anti-Asian rhetoric stemming from the origins of the coronavirus pandemic. Davis' since-deleted tweet read, "Gotta stop letting g***s in Miami," in an apparent reference to rapper Denzel Curry's 2016 song of the same name. The Miami Gardens,...