on-air apology to Pearce. “In a moment of levity during a segment, two members of my team were tossing fruit as well as a basketball,” Isbell said during the show. “One of them threw a banana without knowing the racial implications of that action.”An edited version of the segment posted on Pearce's YouTube page shows a tangerine being thrown at him during the show by Mickey Ferguson, a weather forecaster on the show.
Pearce, 24, hands the tangerine back to Ferguson before someone behind the camera once again throws the fruit back at Pearce.
The video then shows the banana being thrown at him. “When I caught the fruit, I was so stunned and shocked that I didn’t even know how to react,” Pearce told The Associated Press.
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