A football team in Ottawa’s east end has been left reeling after a racist slur was spray-painted on the outside of its clubhouse and the inside was vandalized.The Orléans Bengals minor football team’s clubhouse was broken into and vandalized on Wednesday, Nov. 24, 2021. Someone spray-painted the N-word on the outside of the building and other offensive images on the inside. (Félix Desroches/Radio-Canada)A football team in Ottawa’s east end has been left reeling after a racist slur was spray-painted on the outside of its clubhouse and the inside was vandalized. Qasim Khan, president of the Orléans Minor Football Association, said the discovery was made Wednesday after the league was told there appeared to have been a break-in at the clubhouse. Although a number of worst-case scenarios were running through his head when he made the drive there, he said nothing prepared him for what he found. “Never in our wildest dreams did I think I’d turn the corner and see what was written on the side of our clubhouse,” Khan said. He said he was shocked to see vandals had spray-painted the N-word on the side of the building. Vandals spray-painted the N-word on side of the Orleans minor football team’s club house. (Submitted by…
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