Buccaneers cornerback Carlton Davis apologized Sunday night roughly two hours after he tweeted an anti-Asian slur. Davis wrote "Gotta stop letting g***s in Miami," at 6:42 p.m. ET and then deleted the post shortly after but screenshots were captured.
Davis tweeted an apology at 9:01 p.m. ET and explained he didn't know it was an anti-Asian slur but thought it meant someone who was "lame." The 24-year-old also tweeted what he thought was a word used in South Florida and said he would remove it from his vocabulary.
Davis, who went to high school in Miami, added that he never meant to hurt anyone during a time when violence and racism against Asians is high.