Red Wings prospect needed police escort after racial slurs, death threat

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Detroit Red Wings prospect and Kitchener Rangers forward Givani Smith was the subject of racial slurs and a death threat, according to multiple media outlets. Smith, 20, who is black, was suspended for Game 7 of the Ontario Hockey League’s Western Conference final series after making “an inappropriate gesture” toward the opposing team’s bench. Smith was attacked on social media with racial slurs and insults after the Game 6 incident, according to Saturday’s Waterloo Region Record, and he also received a death threat, along with needing a police escort out the building. “There were threats, physical threats after Game 6,” Kitchener general manager Mike McKenzie told The Record. “Before we went

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