Monroe High family pushes for action after last week's racist incident
MONROE — A student who was the target of racist slurs and an alleged threat of violence has been staying at a hotel since the incident Nov. 10 at Monroe High School.
He hasn’t gone back to school.
And the family might leave the city.
Monroe police continued to investigate the episode as a possible hate crime this week, Cmdr. Paul Ryan said.
In an interview with The Daily Herald, the boy and his mother gave a fuller account of what happened in the school parking lot just before lunch that Wednesday.
The Black student at Monroe High said he was trying to stop two white students from bullying his friend when the confrontation began. He said he wasn’t trying to start a fight, but “cancel out the drama.”
A video shows one of the white students repeatedly using a racial slur. At one point, she hits the Black student in the head with a plastic water bottle. Later, the same white student says she’s on the phone with her father, according to the video. She appears to repeat something the father said.
“You got something metal in the car? Smack the (expletive) in his mouth,” the white student says on video.
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