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The man who went viral for racially abusing Virginia’s gubernatorial candidate Winsome Earle Sears He subsequently filed a police report during a college football game earlier this month, claiming he was harassed after the incident went viral.
The Fairfax County Police Department confirmed to Fox News Digital that it was aware of the police report filed and that the department’s threat assessment unit ultimately determined that the information provided did not meet the criteria for a criminal investigation.
“Go back to Haiti!” the man in 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.
“WINSOME SEARS RESPONDS TO JMU FAN WHO TELLS HER TO GO BACK TO HAITI AFTER LEFT-SHAME WEEKEND”.
The man who made racially charged comments toward Virginia GOP candidate Winsome Sears during a football game earlier this month subsequently filed a police report claiming he was harassed after the incident went viral. (Photos by Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images and the Republican Party of Virginia)
“I thought Democrats were supposed to love everyone,” Sears quipped at the time.
The man, identified in local news reports as Scott Pogorelc of Centerville, Virginia, was also reportedly fired by his employer, a subsidiary of government contractor Lockheed Martin. A JMU football player with the same last name is a redshirt senior on the Dukes’ offensive line.
“We require all of our employees and subsidiaries to adhere to the highest standards of integrity and professional conduct. Any conduct that violates our Code of Ethics will be thoroughly investigated and employees found in violation will be held accountable. Zeta Associates has investigated the matter and the individual is no longer employed,” a statement from a Lockheed Martin spokesperson said, according to Fox 5 DC reporter Allison Papson.
Meanwhile, Pogorelc is also a Democratic Party donor, according to filings with the Federal Election Commission and the Virginia Public Access Project. Abigail Spanberger, The Democratic candidate for governor of Virginia, who is running against Sears, was among those to whom he donated.
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Virginia Republican gubernatorial candidate Winsome Earle-Sears speaks at a CPAC Latino Rally for Virginia on October 25, 2025 in Sterling, Virginia. Earle-Sears, the current lieutenant governor of Virginia, is campaigning throughout the state of Virginia nine days before Election Day. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)
The Pogorelc situation wasn’t the first time Sears has been confronted with racially insensitive comments on the campaign trail in recent months. In August, while speaking out against transgender bathroom policies at an Arlington County school board meeting, a counterprotester held a sign that read, “Hey Winsome, if transgender people can’t use your bathroom, then black people can’t use my water fountain.”
Below this incident, Incumbent Republican Gov. Glenn Youngkin, who is nearing the end of his term, criticized what he called the “hypocrisy of the liberal left.”
“Winsome is so much bigger than this idiocy,” Youngkin wrote on X.
Governor Winsome Earle-Sears was the subject of a sign that was condemned by Virginia leaders as offensive and inappropriate. (Winsome Earle-Sears campaign)
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“That is wrong. [Winsome Earle-Sears] — and Virginia — deserve better,” Republican Attorney General Jason Miyares added in response to the sign. Miyares is running for re-election against Democratic Party candidate Jay Jones.
Fox News Digital’s Sophia Compton contributed to this report.
