A Florida politician who came under fire for berating a group of teenage Puerto Rican tennis players, telling them to speak English and go “cut the grass” last week admits to making the comment.
During an NBC News interview earlier this week, Hyde said he regretted “his boorish and inappropriate behavior” but denied making the comment. Instead, he insisted that he had simply asked the players to be quieter while his children were having their tennis lesson.
“I simply didn’t say those things, which is why they’re not in the video,” Hyde told NBC News. “I just knew they were being loud. Ethnicity had nothing to do with it.”“It was racially insensitive,” Hyde told ABC7. “From the get-go, the temptation is to deflect.” “It’s inappropriate; it’s designed to put someone down,” Hyde added about the “cut the grass” comment. “I shouldn’t be making that kind of comment. It was a stupid comment.”Javier Irizarry, an uncle of one of the players, told NBC News that regardless of the admission, he does not believe Hyde should run for the Sarasota City Commission.
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