Re: Incident in Jena,La.
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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.
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The white victim in the "attempted murder" case CLAIMED to have been beaten within inches of his life, despite showing up at a school dance 2 hours afterwards.
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You get hit in the head with a beer bottle, you need stitches.
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Touche...if you get beaten to within inches of your life, you don't be going to school dances two hours later.
Beer bottle or not:
White attackers + black victim = misdemeanor simple assault
Black attackers + white victin = felony attempted murder
Same DA, only days apart, stemming from the same racial tensions....wildly different results, based solely on skin color.
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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.
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Why doesn't the same "cloud" of doubt or reliance on eyewitness testimony exist for the Jena 6?
No one knows for sure what happened during the beating either, but since they are black, it doesn't matter.
Only when the attackers are white, the police have to be certain?
Of the 44 eyewitnesses interviewed on the beating, none of them could agree on who the attackers even were...only that they were black.
That was good enough for the cops, and good enough for the DA, and apparently good enough for you.
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