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Sharpton says that this is "revenge." Haha, yeah Al, why don't you
organize 20,000 niggawhiners and pay a return visit to Jena.
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On Fri, 12 Oct 2007 07:23:37 -0500, "Byker" <byker@do~rag.net> wrote:
>"pres" <afamreport@hotmail.com> wrote in message
>news:1192190066.435246.34240@e34g2000pro.googlegroups.com...
>> Mychal Bell, the teen at the center of the case of six black students
>> charged with beating a white student in Jena, La., was back in jail
>> Thursday night. A LaSalle parish judge sentenced Bell to a secure
>> juvenile facility for 18 months for two prior cases.
>
>You call that news? Hell, that's to be expected...
>------------------------------------------------------------------------
>Mychal Bell of the `Jena 6' Back in Jail
>
>Judge Sends `Jena 6' Teen Mychal Bell Back to Jail for Probation Violation,
>Attorney Says
>
>By MARY FOSTER Associated Press Writer
>NEW ORLEANS Oct 12, 2007 (AP)
>
>A judge decided the fight that thrust a teenager into the center of a civil
>rights controversy violated his probation for a previous conviction and
>ordered the boy back to jail, the teen's attorney said.
>
>Mychal Bell, who along with five other black teenagers is accused of beating
>a white classmate, had gone to juvenile court in Jena on Thursday expecting
>another routine hearing, said Carol Powell Lexing, one of his attorneys.
>
>Instead, state District Judge J.P. Mauffrey Jr. sentenced Bell to 18 months
>in jail on two counts of simple battery and two counts of criminal
>destruction of property, Lexing said.
>
>"We are definitely going to appeal this," she said. "We'll continue to
>fight."
>
>Bell had been hit with those charges before the Dec. 4 attack on classmate
>Justin Barker. Details on the previous charges, which were handled in
>juvenile court, were unclear.
>
>Mauffrey, reached at his home Thursday night, had no comment.
>
>"He's locked up again," Marcus Jones said of his 17-year-old son. "No bail
>has been set or nothing. He's a young man who's been thrown in jail again
>and again, and he just has to take it."
>
>After the attack on Barker, Bell was originally charged with attempted
>murder, but the charges were reduced and he was convicted of battery. An
>appeals court threw that conviction out, saying Bell should not have been
>tried as an adult on that charge.
>
>Racial tensions began rising in August 2006 in Jena after a black student
>sat under a tree known as a gathering spot for white students. Three white
>students later hung nooses from the tree. They were suspended but not
>prosecuted.
>
>More than 20,000 demonstrators gathered last month in the small central
>Louisiana town to protest what they perceive as differences in how black and
>white suspects are treated. The case has drawn the attention of civil rights
>activists including the Revs. Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson.
>
>Sharpton reacted swiftly upon learning Bell was back in jail Thursday.
>
>"We feel this was a cruel and unusual punishment and is a revenge by this
>judge for the Jena Six movement," said Sharpton, who helped organize the
>protest held Sept. 20, the day Bell was originally supposed to be sentenced.
>
>Bell's parents were also ordered to pay all court costs and witness costs,
>Sharpton said.
>
>"I don't know what we're going to do," Jones said. "I don't know how we're
>going to pay for any of this. I don't know how we're going to get through
>this."
>
>Bell and the other five defendants have been charged in the attack on
>Barker, which left him unconscious and bleeding with facial injuries.
>According to court testimony, he was repeatedly kicked by a group of
>students at the high school.
>
>Barker was treated for three hours at an emergency room but was able to
>attend a school function that evening, authorities have said.
>
>Bell, Robert Bailey Jr., Carwin Jones, Bryant Purvis and Theo Shaw were all
>initially charged as adults with attempted second-degree murder and
>conspiracy to commit the same. A sixth defendant was charged in the case as
>a juvenile.
>
>Bell, who was 16 at the time, was convicted in June of aggravated
>second-degree battery and conspiracy to commit that crime. LaSalle Parish
>prosecutor Reed Walters reduced the charges just before the trial. Since
>then, both of those convictions were dismissed and tossed back to juvenile
>court, where they now are being tried.
>
>Charges against Bailey, 18, Jones, 19, and Shaw, 18, have been reduced to
>aggravated second-degree battery. Purvis, 18, has not yet been arraigned.
>
>http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=3721370
>
>
>
organize 20,000 niggawhiners and pay a return visit to Jena.
_________
On Fri, 12 Oct 2007 07:23:37 -0500, "Byker" <byker@do~rag.net> wrote:
>"pres" <afamreport@hotmail.com> wrote in message
>news:1192190066.435246.34240@e34g2000pro.googlegroups.com...
>> Mychal Bell, the teen at the center of the case of six black students
>> charged with beating a white student in Jena, La., was back in jail
>> Thursday night. A LaSalle parish judge sentenced Bell to a secure
>> juvenile facility for 18 months for two prior cases.
>
>You call that news? Hell, that's to be expected...
>------------------------------------------------------------------------
>Mychal Bell of the `Jena 6' Back in Jail
>
>Judge Sends `Jena 6' Teen Mychal Bell Back to Jail for Probation Violation,
>Attorney Says
>
>By MARY FOSTER Associated Press Writer
>NEW ORLEANS Oct 12, 2007 (AP)
>
>A judge decided the fight that thrust a teenager into the center of a civil
>rights controversy violated his probation for a previous conviction and
>ordered the boy back to jail, the teen's attorney said.
>
>Mychal Bell, who along with five other black teenagers is accused of beating
>a white classmate, had gone to juvenile court in Jena on Thursday expecting
>another routine hearing, said Carol Powell Lexing, one of his attorneys.
>
>Instead, state District Judge J.P. Mauffrey Jr. sentenced Bell to 18 months
>in jail on two counts of simple battery and two counts of criminal
>destruction of property, Lexing said.
>
>"We are definitely going to appeal this," she said. "We'll continue to
>fight."
>
>Bell had been hit with those charges before the Dec. 4 attack on classmate
>Justin Barker. Details on the previous charges, which were handled in
>juvenile court, were unclear.
>
>Mauffrey, reached at his home Thursday night, had no comment.
>
>"He's locked up again," Marcus Jones said of his 17-year-old son. "No bail
>has been set or nothing. He's a young man who's been thrown in jail again
>and again, and he just has to take it."
>
>After the attack on Barker, Bell was originally charged with attempted
>murder, but the charges were reduced and he was convicted of battery. An
>appeals court threw that conviction out, saying Bell should not have been
>tried as an adult on that charge.
>
>Racial tensions began rising in August 2006 in Jena after a black student
>sat under a tree known as a gathering spot for white students. Three white
>students later hung nooses from the tree. They were suspended but not
>prosecuted.
>
>More than 20,000 demonstrators gathered last month in the small central
>Louisiana town to protest what they perceive as differences in how black and
>white suspects are treated. The case has drawn the attention of civil rights
>activists including the Revs. Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson.
>
>Sharpton reacted swiftly upon learning Bell was back in jail Thursday.
>
>"We feel this was a cruel and unusual punishment and is a revenge by this
>judge for the Jena Six movement," said Sharpton, who helped organize the
>protest held Sept. 20, the day Bell was originally supposed to be sentenced.
>
>Bell's parents were also ordered to pay all court costs and witness costs,
>Sharpton said.
>
>"I don't know what we're going to do," Jones said. "I don't know how we're
>going to pay for any of this. I don't know how we're going to get through
>this."
>
>Bell and the other five defendants have been charged in the attack on
>Barker, which left him unconscious and bleeding with facial injuries.
>According to court testimony, he was repeatedly kicked by a group of
>students at the high school.
>
>Barker was treated for three hours at an emergency room but was able to
>attend a school function that evening, authorities have said.
>
>Bell, Robert Bailey Jr., Carwin Jones, Bryant Purvis and Theo Shaw were all
>initially charged as adults with attempted second-degree murder and
>conspiracy to commit the same. A sixth defendant was charged in the case as
>a juvenile.
>
>Bell, who was 16 at the time, was convicted in June of aggravated
>second-degree battery and conspiracy to commit that crime. LaSalle Parish
>prosecutor Reed Walters reduced the charges just before the trial. Since
>then, both of those convictions were dismissed and tossed back to juvenile
>court, where they now are being tried.
>
>Charges against Bailey, 18, Jones, 19, and Shaw, 18, have been reduced to
>aggravated second-degree battery. Purvis, 18, has not yet been arraigned.
>
>http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=3721370
>
>
>
