A television station in Rochester, New York, fired a meteorologist Sunday after he used a racial slur on air.
During WHEC-TV's Friday evening broadcast, Jeremy Kappell said "Martin Luther Coon Park," when referring to a downtown Rochester park named after slain civil rights movement leader Martin Luther King Jr.
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