“It was such an emotional reaction that he had to be compared to a picture of a monkey that that kind of … really started his reaction toward the school district,” the student’s attorney, Nicholas ...

His class learned about racist monkey imagery that is used to belittle ... “They had no steps in place for him to go back to school to be safe,” the teen’s father said.

He said prior to the attack, the secondary school students were feeding the animal. “We believed that the monkey was terrified seeing so many children trying to feed him," added Ishak.