Incident in Jena,La.

[RedBean]

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What I'm starting to see is a group of hoodlums, with a history of conflict with the police,

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Are you similarly looking into the juvenile records of the white youths involved?

The white victim who testimony shows was shouting racial slurs to goad the black youths into fighting?

If you did bother to check his record, you'd see he was arrested the same year for bringing a firearm to school.

He was given probation.

He wasn't lucky enough to be disarmed by a black youth, in which case the black youth could be charged with robbery. [img]/images/graemlins/wink.gif[/img]

But, like you say, you see it as a group of hoodlums with a history of violence.....despite the possibility they might not even be the right six guys who attacked the victim as he shouted racial slurs......but what I see is a racist DA who told the black students prior to this event that "with one stroke of the pen, I can end your life."

And when simple assault occurred with questionable circumstances surrounding the identity of the attackers, the DA set out to do just as he originally promised, and he set out to convict them of attempted murder and conspiracy to commit murder.

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...seeing an opportunity to use racism as an attempt to get their rocks off beating the [censored] out of some white kid.

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I'm not condoning the assault, by any means, but when you start dropping the N-bomb in a room full of brothers, you are neither the sharpest tool in the shed, nor can you be said to be a sympathetic victim if they deliver you the business.