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A Dallas Elementary school staffer has been placed on administrative leave after she called for calling a black boy a monkey. The mother of the student, Brittany Miner said the incident took place three weeks ago.

“He was jumping around, playing, 5-year-old kid behavior,” Miner told CBS Dallas affiliate. “As she approached us and got closer she was like ‘oh he’s running around, he’s like a little monkey’.”

Miner said she told the staff member it’s not okay to call him a monkey according to the news station.

“She then proceeded to say ‘Oh look at his little face,” Miner said. “That lets me know that she doesn’t have any regard to what she was saying to people of color.”

At first, Miner said she was willing to give the employee the benefit f the doubt but now believes commenting on her son’s appearance was racist.

Miner is now pushing for the staff member to be fired.

“We want to make sure that an employee like that is not around children of color or children in general,” attorney Justin Moore said. If the staff member isn’t fired, Moore has plans to explore a civil rights lawsuit.

An investigation has been launched and the staff member has been placed on administrative leave according to a DISD spokesperson.

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