Fans At Highschool Basketball Game Wear Banana Suits And Shout Slurs At Black Players….”You Monkeys And Cotton Pickers!!!”

As reported by sever of Pittsburgh media outlets, the Monessen Valley Independent and WPXI prominent among them, the yearly basketball rivalry game between Pittsburgh (Pa.) Brentwood High and Monessen (Pa.) High turned extremely ugly when the two teams tried to head to their associated locker rooms for halftime:

Before the players could leave the floor, three fans from the visiting Brentwood student section ran onto the court in full body banana suits.The fans surrounded the Monessen players and allegedly began making monkey noises and hurling racial epithets at the Monessen players, with no one entering the fray to stop the horribly inappropriate catcalls from coming.
Disturbingly, other Monessen parents claim that the Brentwood players hurled similar racist epithets themselves, calling the Greyhounds “monkeys and cotton pickers,” as one Monessen fan told WPXI.
Meanwhile, Valley Independent staff writer Jeremy Sellew claimed that Brentwood Director of Security Joseph Kozarian, who was on duty at the game, refused to intervene, instead sitting back and at one point smiling and laughing with the Brentwood fans in the stands.
As more media attention has swirled around the disgusting incident, Brentwood officials have scrambled to try and alleviate pressure on the school and district as a whole. As of Tuesday the three students involved had been identified and disciplined, though their punishment was withheld from the media. Similarly, officials claimed they were “reviewing school policy to make sure a similar incident doesn’t happen again.”