In July 2020, a BBC reporter used the N-word in a report on the attack of a 21-year-old NHS worker and musician known as K-Dogg. This led to complaints to the BBC about why it didn't bleep that word out or said "the N-word". It also led to questions about why a white person was even allowed to say that word. The N-word was used in the attack. A few days later, the BBC also received criticism after airing the offensive language used by historian Lucy Worsley when quoting former American president Abraham Lincoln, on her documentary "American History's Biggest Fibs" which aired on BBC Two on 1 August 2020. The documentary first aired on BBC Four in 2019. The BBC has defended the use of the N-word in response on 4 August 2020 saying it wanted to report the word allegedly used in the attack of K-Dogg, and this decision was supported by the family of the victim, but the corporation accepted that it did cause offence. On 8 August, Sideman, real name David Whitely, has decided to leave BBC Radio 1Xtra because of the use of the racial slur and the defense of it. The next day, 9 August, the BBC apologised over the use of the N-word and said a mistake was made. Its director general Tony Hall said he now accepts the corporation should've taken a different approach.