"On behalf of News10NBC, I apologize for our broadcast of a racial slur in a reference to Martin Luther King, Jr. WHEC's vice president and general manager Richard A Reingold issued a statement on Sunday stating the Kappell had been let go after an internal investigation into the incident. "It took the station nearly two days to apologize, and only after the station was shamed into doing so by a backlash on social media," the statement read. The mayor and city council blasted the television's response to the incident. There must be real consequences for the news personality involved and also for the management team that failed to immediately apologize and address the slur," the statement said. It is beyond unacceptable that this occurred. "It is wrong, hurtful and infuriating that WHEC Channel 10 broadcast a racial slur in reference to Dr. Warren and the city council to release a statement, urging the television to terminate Kappell. The clip of Kappell's broadcast went viral over the weekend, prompting Rochester Mayor Lovely A. If you did feel that it hurt you in any way, I sincerely apologize," said Kappell. That was not a word I said, I promise you that. "I had no idea what some people could have interpreted that as and I know some people did interpret that the wrong way. I had no idea the way it came across to many people," he said in a video posted Monday night. In my mind I knew I mispronounced, but there was no malice. So fast to the point where I jumbled a couple of words. If you watch me regularly you know that I tend to contain a lot of information in my weather cast, which forces me to speak fast and unfortunately I spoke a little too fast when I was referencing Dr. "What happened on Friday, to me, it's a simple misunderstanding. In a Facebook live video, Kappell said he hadn't intended to say that word and had been speaking too quickly. Kappell immediately corrected himself, saying "King" after using the slur and then continues on with the broadcast. WHEC-TV's Jeremy Kappell was on the air Friday night when he said "Martin Luther Coon Park," while referring to a park in downtown Rochester named after Dr. A Rochester, New York meteorologist has been fired from his job at a television station after he used a racial slur on the air during a weather report last week.
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