“It has to happen. Any person in the game,if they get racially vilified by a spectator,they’d want to go hard at them. So I feel like this all just has to happen to the player.
“It’s hard to comprehend what happened. I’ve reached out to Ezra and the Indigenous boys are all behind him. Back in the day,our elders did experience a hell of a lot of it and that’s the hardest thing now – that old trauma gets brought up and that’s what’s really upsetting.