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[ QUOTE ][*]White students/townsfolk beat black students at a party day(s) before white student is beaten = no action taken

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A few more details...the black victim was beaten with beer bottles by his white attackers, and the DA declined to press charges against all of them except one offender.

He was charged with MISDEMEANOR SIMPLE ASSUALT...for beating a black kid with a beer bottle.

Days later, black teens beat the white kid up, using NO WEAPONS, and are charged with aggravated assault and attempted murder.

Same DA, same town, same groups of people flaring up over the same racial tension that bore out of the noose incident.

Only they are treated vastly different on the basis of the color of their skin.

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White man pulls gun on black students = theft of a fire arm by the black students

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This one was particulary ridiculous. A white adult, a Jena High alum, confronted three black Jena students with a shotgun and attempted to scare and harass them....they fought back, subdued him, disarmed him, and then fled.

The DA considered filing charges against the three youths for "stealing" the firearm.



Ludicrous.

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He CLAIMED he was beaten with beer bottles, hit in the head, etc, yet never went to a hospital or a doctor. No marks of stitches. You get hit in the head with a beer bottle, you need stitches.

And the gun situation is so clouded, the way I've been hearing it, it's hard to know exactly what happened there. But the police made their charges based on eye witness testimony.