Really? Then what DID he mean by "banana-eating jungle monkey"?

(CNN) -- A Boston, Massachusetts, police officer who sent a mass e-mail referring to Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. as a "banana-eating jungle monkey" didn't intend to express bigoted views or cause pain, his attorney said in a statement Thursday night.

Attorney Peter T. Marano wrote. "Justin Barrett ... has made a mistake -- his poor choice in words is that mistake. Justin never intended for these words to bear such a racial connotation."

Really? What did he mean? That Dr. Gates is a potassium-weilding super-hero? Like Grape Ape or King Kong, but more nutritionally-minded?