An adjunct law professor at the Georgetown University Law Center in Washington DC was fired after she was caught on camera making remarks about her Black students, which the institute’s dean termed as “abhorrent” and “reprehensible”, CBS reported. Another adjunct professor, who was seen on camera, nodding all along, was placed on administrative leave.

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The fired professor is Sandra Sellers, who in a Zoom call was seen having a conversation about evaluating students.

“I hate to say this … I end up having this angst every semester that a lot of my lower ones are Blacks,” she tells her fellow professor David Batson.

“Happens almost every semester. And it’s like, ‘Oh, come on.’ It’s some really good ones, but there are also usually some that are just plain at the bottom. It drives me crazy,” she says.

Hassan Ahmad, a Georgetown law student who shared the video on Twitter, which has been watched close to a million times.

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Ahmad told the New York Times that the conversation between the professors happened last month. The students had logged off but the video system continued to record and uploaded the video to a class website, he told the newspaper.

Bill Treanor, the institute’s dean, released a statement on Wednesday in which he said that the conversation between the professors “included reprehensible statements”.

“We are responding with the utmost seriousness to this situation. I … find the content to be abhorrent,” he added.

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In another statement, released on Thursday, Treanor said he was “appalled” and that he spoke to both the professors. Sellers, who had offered to quit, was fired and Batson was put on administrative leave.