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Nebraska Gov. Pete Ricketts piles shame on Cubs ownership family with ‘you people’ remark

“You people.”

Nebraska Gov. Pete Ricketts actually went there.

The brother of Cubs chairman Tom Ricketts stepped in it Monday during a meeting with the mayor, police chief and community leaders in Omaha, Nebraska, where a 22-year-old black man was fatally shot by a white bar owner during protests of the George Floyd killing.

According to a pastor who took the story to social media in an emotional video, Ricketts began a sentence with the words, “The problem I have with you people,” and, well, does it even matter where the sentence went from there?

In the same video, pastor Jarrod Parker called Ricketts a “racist.