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Man who went viral for heckling Winsome Sears with racist comment dealt another blow after getting fired
Fox News ^ | 10/27/25 | Alec Schemmel

Posted on 10/28/2025 2:38:24 AM PDT by Libloather

The man who went viral for lobbing racially charged insults at Virginia gubernatorial candidate Winsome Earle-Sears during a college football game earlier this month, subsequently filed a police report claiming he was getting harassed after the incident went viral.

The Fairfax County Police Department confirmed to Fox News Digital that it was aware of the police report that was filed and that, ultimately, the department's threat assessment unit found that the information provided did not meet the criteria for a criminal investigation.

"Go back to Haiti!," the man from the viral video yelled at Sears, a Republican, during a James Madison University football game earlier this month. "Traitor!"

After the incident, Sears clarified on social media that she is an immigrant from Jamaica, not Haiti.

"I thought Democrats were supposed to love everyone," Sears quipped at the time.

The man, identified by local news reports as Scott Pogorelc, from Centerville, Virginia, was also reportedly fired by his employer, a subsidiary of government contractor Lockheed Martin. A JMU football player by the same last name is a redshirt senior on the Dukes' offensive line.

"We hold all of our employees and subsidiaries to the highest standards of integrity and professional conduct. Any behavior that violates our Code of Ethics will be thoroughly investigated and employees found in violation will be held accountable. Zeta Associates investigated the matter, and the individual is no longer employed," said a statement from a Lockheed Martin spokesperson, according to Fox 5 DC reporter Allison Papson.

Meanwhile, Pogorelc is also a Democratic Party donor, according to Federal Election Commission filings and the Virginia Public Access Project. Abigail Spanberger, the Democratic candidate for Virginia governor running against Sears, was among those he has donated to.

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KEYWORDS: fired; followup; heckling; racist; sears

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They're not sending their best.
1 posted on 10/28/2025 2:38:24 AM PDT by Libloather
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To: Libloather

I was at that game as was Senator Mark Warner. My wife got to meet Winsome Sears.


2 posted on 10/28/2025 2:44:57 AM PDT by AppyPappy (They don't call you a Nazi because they think you are one. They do it to justify violence. )
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To: Libloather

Or their brightest, those demonrats.


3 posted on 10/28/2025 2:56:47 AM PDT by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as )
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To: Libloather

He seems like a pretty accomplished engineer with published papers on the internet. A fifty something year old, about to lose his job, and face the plight of no one wanting to hire an older working …. Could impact his pension as well … not worth it …


4 posted on 10/28/2025 2:59:38 AM PDT by 11th_VA
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To: No name given

Just another episode of Democrats are insane.


5 posted on 10/28/2025 3:11:44 AM PDT by xp38
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To: Libloather

I think it would be safe to say the dems do not have a deep bench when it comes to deep thinking.


6 posted on 10/28/2025 3:23:28 AM PDT by exnavy (See article IV section 4 of our constitution.)
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To: 11th_VA

Being an accomplished engineer with published papers does not directly equal sanity or stability. The guy’s a Fruit-Loop.


7 posted on 10/28/2025 3:51:18 AM PDT by paulcissa (The left hates you and wants you dead.)
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To: 11th_VA

DEMOCRATS ARE PURE EVIL!


8 posted on 10/28/2025 3:55:45 AM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion.....the HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: Libloather

In normal times, I’d say “enough with the speech policing already - give the man a break”. But given all the grief that Republicans who speak out of turn have gotten, my impulse now is “sow and ye shall reap”.


9 posted on 10/28/2025 3:57:21 AM PDT by Zhang Fei (My dad had a Delta 88. That was a car. It was like driving your living room)
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To: 11th_VA
More on the company he worked for:

Since 1984, Zeta Associates has been a leading provider of Signals Intelligence (SIGINT), and Special COMMs products and services, to the Intelligence Community. Zeta Associates is a wholly owned subsidiary of Lockheed Martin Corporation.

We have more than 30 years of leadership in developing SIGINT systems in both Strategic and Tactical arenas, and are experts in cross-mission, cross-platform techniques and applications.

We have a staff of over 400 professionals in signal processing, computer science and architecture, the engineering disciplines, mathematics, chemistry, physics, analysis, estimation theory, databases, and other fields. Approximately two-thirds of our staff is at the masters or PhD level.

401K - Zeta contributes an amount equivalent to 25% of your annual salary to all full-time employee’s retirement accounts. There is no waiting period, and employees are 100% vested immediately.

Zeta encourages employees to take time off during the year for rest, recreation, and family purposes. Zeta offers all full-time employees 8 weeks (320 hours) of paid time off per year. This is all-inclusive of vacation, holidays, and sick leave.

Zeta contributes an amount equivalent to 25% of your annual salary to an Individual Benefits Account (IBA). This account is used to help cover the costs of Health Benefits and Paid Time Off.

THOSE ARE INSANE BENEFITS - he likely had a TS Clearance …

10 posted on 10/28/2025 4:02:10 AM PDT by 11th_VA
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To: 11th_VA

He screwed the pooch on that one. He lost it all because the liberal worm infected his brain. Oh well.


11 posted on 10/28/2025 4:05:21 AM PDT by Hyman Roth
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To: 11th_VA

A professionally accomplished person who personally could not control his behavior illustrates how incredibly weak and stupid he is.


12 posted on 10/28/2025 4:06:17 AM PDT by vivenne (7Come to think of it. Fact)
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To: Libloather

Scotty using his big commie mouth to lose a good job with Lockheed Martin is another opportunity to see how retarded Socialist Democrats are.


13 posted on 10/28/2025 4:25:27 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Thanks to King Hakeem "Skyhook", Amerika now has an official Socialist DemonRAT Party. )
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To: Libloather

The HAPPIEST ending would be his wife leaving him.


14 posted on 10/28/2025 4:25:50 AM PDT by BobL (Trusting one's doctor is the #1 health mistake one can make.)
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To: Libloather

Being terminated from his job is not enough. That apparently is not enough of a deterrent for these freaks to stop doing this. Something else is needed.


15 posted on 10/28/2025 4:26:54 AM PDT by MeneMeneTekelUpharsin (Freedom is the freedom to discipline yourself so others don't have to do it for you.)
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To: MeneMeneTekelUpharsin

See my post #10 - he gave up a lot; including (I assume) loss of a high level security clearance; Walmart may not even take him now


16 posted on 10/28/2025 4:34:15 AM PDT by 11th_VA
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To: vivenne

I worked in a similar field and am familiar with this type of person. They live in a bubble consisting of comic books/themes/stories, Netflix series and Leftist media. Most do not identify with America, Christianity or Western civilization or are in fact hostile to it -just as their media is.

He has a long path to recovery. It starts with unemployment. He chose the value set of personal destruction, misery and despair. Raised from birth getting what he wants (values) not what he needs (morals).

AMF.


17 posted on 10/28/2025 4:36:03 AM PDT by Justa (Our constitution was made only for a moral and religious people....)
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To: 11th_VA

Before I finished reading your post, my first thought was about if his security clearance was also in jeopardy.


18 posted on 10/28/2025 4:51:49 AM PDT by cyclotic (Don’t be part of the problem. Be the entire problem)
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To: 11th_VA

bkmk


19 posted on 10/28/2025 4:57:36 AM PDT by ptsal (Vote R.E.D. >>>Remove Every Democrat ***h)
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To: 11th_VA

People who lack impulse control suffer greatly through life. It doesn’t matter how smart you are, if you don’t learn to reign in your passions it will cause you harm. Think whatever you want. But be a bit circumspect. I have opinions that are unpopular with my extended family. But I keep them to myself unless asked. And if they do ask me I ask in return “are you really sure you want to know?” Often enough they let it drop.

CC


20 posted on 10/28/2025 5:17:21 AM PDT by Celtic Conservative (Heghlu'meH QaQ jajvam!)
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