Man caught yelling ‘Go back to Haiti!’ at Winsome Sears files police report

The man who went viral for directing racial slurs at Virginia gubernatorial candidate Winsome Earl Sears during a college football game earlier this month subsequently filed a police report 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 that was submitted, and that the department’s Threat Assessment Unit ultimately found that the information provided did not meet the standards of a criminal investigation.

“Go back to Haiti!” the man in the viral video shouted at Sears, a Republican, during a football game at James Madison University earlier this month. “traitor!”

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

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“I thought Democrats were supposed to like everyone,” Sears joked at the time.

The man, identified by local news reports as Scott Pogorelc, of Centreville, Virginia, was reportedly fired by his employer, a subsidiary of state-owned Lockheed Martin. A JMU football player with the same last name is a redshirt senior on the Dukes’ offensive line.

“We hold all of our employees and affiliates to the highest standards of integrity and professional conduct. Any conduct that violates our Code of Ethics will be thoroughly investigated and employees who violate it will be held accountable. Zeta Associates investigated the matter, and the individual is no longer an employee,” a statement from a Lockheed Martin spokesperson said, according to a Fox 5 DC reporter, Alison Babson.

Meanwhile, Pogorelc is also a Democratic Party donor, according to Federal election Commission filings and the Virginia Public Access Project. Abigail Spanberger, the Democratic gubernatorial candidate in Virginia running against Sears, was among those who donated to them.

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Virginia Republican gubernatorial candidate Winsome Earl Sears speaks at the CPAC Latino Caucus for Virginia on October 25, 2025 in Sterling, Virginia. Earl Sears, current Lieutenant Governor of Virginia, is campaigning throughout Virginia with nine days to go before Election Day. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

The case involving Pogorelc was not the first time Sears has faced racially insensitive remarks in recent months amid her campaign. In August, while speaking out against transgender bathroom policies outside an Arlington County School Board meeting, a counter-protester held up a sign that read: “Winsom, if trans people can’t share your bathroom, black people can’t share my water fountain.”

In the wake of that incident, current GOP Governor 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 idiot,” Youngkin wrote on X.

Lt. Governor Winsome Earl Sears was the subject of a banner that Virginia leaders condemned as offensive and inappropriate. (Winsom Earl Sears campaign)

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“This 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.