Put The Panic Back in Hispanic Sign At Alabama HS - Trigger Warning

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ROBERTSDALE, AL (WPMI/CNN) - An Alabama high school's pep rally sign is causing controversy after a racial message went viral.

The sign said, "Put the panic back in Hispanic" and a picture shows it being held by a student next to another one with a Donald Trump campaign banner.

"That's just disrespectful," Robertsdale student Jennifer Lopez said. "That's just ignorant."

Lopez she felt like the sign was targeting her because of her ethnicity.

"I really don't see a point in why they did that because there's really not that many Hispanics really in our school," Lopez said. "They knew it was Hispanic month."

Domingo Soto, a lawyer representing one of the girls, said the sign was meant to be a pun over Robertsdale's upcoming game against Spanish Fort.

"What happened is this is a kind of sophomoric or juvenile joke that's kind of gotten out of control," Soto said. "Spanish Fort - Spanish and Hispanic - and it was a pun. The Trump thing just kind of put it in context of the actual racial slight."

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