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From those champions of truth and justice at the Washington Post:
Louisiana Appeals Court Throws Out Conviction in Racially Charged ‘Jena 6′ Case
By Darryl Fears
Saturday, September 15, 2007; Page A06A Louisiana appeals court yesterday overturned the aggravated-battery conviction of a black high school student who was found guilty of attacking a white classmate after a racial incident that raised tensions in their small town.
The state’s 3rd Circuit Court of Appeal ruled that Mychal Bell, 17, should not have been tried as an adult by LaSalle Parish District Attorney J. Reed Walters, and that the trial judge erred in allowing Bell to be tried as an adult on charges of aggravated second-degree battery. Under Louisiana law, teenagers can be tried as adults for certain violent crimes but not battery, the court said.
Bell, who was 16 at the time of the incident, awaited sentencing on Sept. 20 in a case that drew nationwide attention because of the severity of the charges that had been filed against him and five other youths involved in a schoolyard fight. He faced 15 years in jail.
Thousands of protesters planned to board about 100 buses and converge in Bell’s home town of Jena to protest the case.
Organizers of the protest, including the Rev. Al Sharpton and radio personality Michael Baisden, hailed the court’s ruling but said the protest would continue because five other black youngsters who, with Bell, make up the “Jena 6″ face charges similar to Bell’s…
“This is a child. He’s been locked up in a prison for a year, and a court’s saying that he never should have been tried as an adult,” Sharpton said. “He should be compensated for that.”
This is a “child” with four prior felony convictions.
A minor detail the professional race-baiters at the Washington Post and Al Sharpton steadfastly ignore.
What is also seldom mentioned is that the “noose incident” occured in August of 2006 and the beating of the white teenager happened in December of 2006.
Moreover, according to an article in the Town Talk (Alexandria-Pineville, LA):
Out of the 40-plus statements, including those from the black students and some of the students charged in the fight, none suggested that the Dec. 4 [beating] incident was imminently caused by the nooses, although many now are claiming that one could not have come without the other. There was no mention of the nooses at all in any of the statements, [US Attorney] Donald Washington Washington said.
But this is a fact-free storyline for our watchdog media.
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September 15th, 2007 at 11:34 am
Wait’ll the ACLU takes their case.
I don’t mean that sarcastically, either. This Bell yag-off is going to sue, and the ACLU is going to back him, and the next time six black kids set upon and beat a white kid, he’s going to get off with a slap on the wrist so they don’t get sued again.
And I still love how the media calls it a “Schoolyard Fight.” If six white kids had set upon and beaten a black kid–including one who continually kicked the guy while he was down until he was dragged off–do you think they’d call it a “Schoolyard Fight”?
September 15th, 2007 at 1:54 pm
This punk will commit a murder before he is 21. Anybody wanna bet?
September 15th, 2007 at 2:37 pm
“Anybody wanna bet?”
Against you? No.
September 15th, 2007 at 2:43 pm
Darn Mussette, I guess nobody will 8-(
September 15th, 2007 at 8:01 pm
Now he can be re-tried as a vicious juvenile racist thug instead of a vicious adult racist thug, but Mr. Bell is still by all counts a vicious racist thug. Forty-four years ago I heard Dr. King proclaim “I have a dream that my four children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.” Mr. Bell assaulted his white victim due to racial intolerance, and the hate crimes litmus test fervently urged by the Clintons and then-acting Attorney General Janet Reno must be applied.
September 16th, 2007 at 12:52 am
I don’t think its right to charge a 16 year old as an adult in most cases. Being a convicted felon multiple times for violent crimes means that you need to be treated as an adult because you obviously think that you are one and but deserve the kiddy justice of a slap on the wrist and a month in reform school. The punk obviously thinks that because he was under 18 and is black that he should be given a free pass on everything. Also it great how at the time people were stating that the nooses were not part of the reason for the attack but now with Sharpton and the rest claiming racism and baiting of the black students that people now are stating the nooses help to cause the fight. I also would like to know if these punks just picked some white kid walking down the street and decided he was the cause of all their problems so therefore he had to get beat up. Thankfully the kid wasn’t killed but what message does it send when a group of people assault another person and get away with it, whats next, a group of blacks beat some old white person walking to the store to death and claim racial tensions caused them do it. And then demand payment for the time they spent in jail or if one of them injured themselves in the attack, sue the victim for medical costs.
September 17th, 2007 at 1:25 pm
No mention of the fact that most murders in this country are black males between the ages of 16 and 25 being murdered by black males between the ages of 16 & 25–it would paint the black male as being violent or something. Consider that the specific demographic is less than 2% of the population, yet commits around half of the murders–and is the victim in half of the murder cases.
Al Sharpton should do something about that.
By the way, did you hear that the voting age is being reduced to 14 in some proposed laws? Or that people between the ages of 18 and 25 are classified as “adult children” by the FBI and national health bureaucrats? When does childhood officially end? When an arbitrary number of days have elapsed since birth? When the child begins acting like an adult? When the child commits adult crimes? 18 isn’t old enough in Nevada to enter into contracts–except with the federal government (enlistment in the military)–and that might require signatures from parents or guardians.
September 17th, 2007 at 2:35 pm
It’s because this thug is getting off……that will encourage him to do more crime, thinking of course that he wont have to pay the consequences….all he has to do is scream…”I’m black! I am the victim of racism!”…..just because he killed another black youth over a stolen X-box game….well, that doesnt matter!
This gentleman will die before he is 25…..after he has cost others their personal possessions, their livelihoods, or their lives….and been let free to do it again because of that pesky “racism” that keeps him on the streets to do whatever he pleases.
Sharpton? That fat f*ck is a joke. If it werent for morons like Bell, and the trolls who were on lately, Sharpton would be out of his free money. Bell and mofo just make sure his unbelievable ability to shame minorities about their color, and then sue others for it continues unabated. He needs morons more than the democrats.