JENISON (WOOD-AM) - District officials are investigating after Jenison High School students were heard making monkey sounds at a black player from Wyoming High School during a Friday night basketball game.
It happened while the player was shooting free throws.
"I was disgusted," Lillian Henry, a student at Wyoming High School, told WOOD-TV. "Like, my first initial thought, I was like that’s terrible, I know that would never happen at our school."
The district has released two statements on the issue, with the first saying officials were "sickened that athletes and families were exposed to behavior of this nature."
The second statement called the incident racist.
More at WOOD-TV.