Incident in Jena,La.

[RedBean]

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I have to say, it seems to me that when one guy (who hadn't been proven to be involved in ANYTHING, be it putting up nooses or the party incident or anything else) gets jumped by 6 guys, knocked unconscious, and receives injuries that require a hospital visit, whether you want to mitigate it because he still wanted to go to his school's one-night-only "ring ceremony" or not, there needs to be repercussions.


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Totally agree here. Simple assault is a slam dunk, and there is a plausible, albeit shaky cause to pursue felony aggravated assault.

I don't see the merit in the attempted murder charge, nor trying the juveniles as adults.

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This is simply Al Sharpton's next big TV grandstand. That is all I can actually say based on the evidence at hand.


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No argument here. Sharpton is an opportunistic attention whore.

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Think about it, if 6 white guys beat up a black guy, you don't think there would be a HUGE outcry around the country?


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That happened in the events leading up to this, and the only outcry was why the white kids were not charged at all......until finally the DA gave in and charge one of them with simple assault.

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The gun incident seems to have not led to any charges against the white guy because they don't have any concrete evidence of who started anything or why he got his gun out in the first place.


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Um....I agree about there not being enough evidence to figure out what happened....but the DA figured they had enough evidence to charge the black youth with 3 felony counts, including robbery, for disarming the white guy of his firearm during the confrontation.


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I hate racism and I hate that its going on, but it seems to me like this is a case of "well, there's all this racism is going on down here, so let these kids walk when they ganged up to beat the [censored] out of a random white kid". That doesn't fly with me.

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Me either, but overzealousy charging them in comparision to the actual crime, trying juveniles as adults, and attempting to putting the black youths in prison for 15 years....while on the other hand charging white youths in similar incidents with simple assault and giving a few months probation is not equitable and only grows the problem.

Give them all misdemeanor assualt in juvenile court, white and black attackers alike, and the news cameras goes away, and fair and equitable justice is meted for all.