(MILLRY, Ala.) - A white girl talking to black boys: that's what parents of Millry students say caused a father to storm the schools gym last week and a threaten black players on the basketball team.
"He said that if any contact was made to his daughter that he would kill him and his black friends," said Latisha Mitchell who's stepson is a member of the team. Mitchell says that her stepson and the young girl were only friends had been text messaging each other.
The incident, some say, has stirred long-standing racial tensions in the town, and now the NAACP is involved and hosted a meeting attended by several parents and students at the school Wednesday night.
"There's rumors in Millry that there's going be retaliation from the Klan and that they're gonna gather to come against us ...there's a lot of people backing down because their scared of what's gone happen," said Vanessa Wimble, at the meeting.
The school board has banned the father accused of making the threat from school property, but still some parents are outraged saying that more should be done and the father be arrested.
"If a black male stepped on campus and made that threat other action would have been taken it's just a matter of being fair," said Mitchell.
One Millry parent who did not attend the meeting tells LOCAL 15 News that there is no racial tension in Millry and that the incident was blown out of proportion.
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