The South Shall Be Risible Again!
posted by The Sailor @ 1:30 PM Permalink Update: Some good news for justice and Mychal BellLouisiana's 3rd Circuit Court of Appeals, acting on an emergency defense appeal, reversed the aggravated second-degree battery conviction of Mychal Bell, 17, ruling that the youth had been tried improperly as an adult in a case that has raised allegations of unequal justice in the small, mostly white town.Bastard!
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[Prosecutor] Walters later reduced the charges to aggravated second-degree battery, contending at Bell's trial -- the first case to go to court -- that the tennis shoes Bell was wearing constituted a dangerous weapon.
Walters said in a statement Friday that he intended to appeal the reversal of Bell's conviction to the Louisiana Supreme Court.
Below the graphic are some lowlights from the original post.
Via Pursuing Holiness we bring you the latest noose:
Racial demons rear headsBoy, we're gonna give you a fair trial ... and then we'll hang you.
JENA, La. -- [...]One morning last September, students arrived at the local high school to find three hangman's nooses dangling from a tree in the courtyard.
The tree was on the side of the campus that, by long-standing tradition, had always been claimed by white students, who make up more than 80 percent of the 460 students. But a few of the school's 85 black students had decided to challenge the accepted state of things and asked school administrators if they, too, could sit beneath the tree's cooling shade.
"Sit wherever you want," school officials told them. The next day, the nooses were hanging from the branches.
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Three white students were quickly identified as being responsible, and the high school principal recommended that they be expelled.
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But Jena's white school superintendent, Roy Breithaupt, ruled that the nooses were just a youthful stunt and suspended the students for three days, angering blacks who felt harsher punishments were justified.
"Adolescents play pranks," said Breithaupt
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But the LaSalle Parish district attorney, Reed Walters, opted to charge six black students with attempted second-degree murder and other offenses, for which they could face a maximum of 100 years in prison if convicted. All six were expelled from school.
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Black teen convicted in beating of white student
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Those charges could lead to a sentence of more than 20 years for Bell
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The five-woman, one-man jury started deliberating around 11 a.m. Thursday and returned around 2 p.m.
(Cross posted at SteveAudio)
Labels: civil rights
2 Comments:
I hate to say it, but when a government becomes, from the top down, incompetent, racist, and bigoted, and then the Supreme Court allows the gov't to not only discriminate, but places their imprimatur on the right of government, religious organizations, and now schools to discriminate, we can expect much, much more of this in the future.
Especially in the South, which is precisely why my wife (a Filipina) and I would never live there, even though I am a Southerner. The discrimination, insults, and bad things that would have happened if we had prohibited it. (And I've lived in a vast majority of the Southern states. Some hide their prejudice well, but sooner or later prejudice rears its ugly head.)
But hey, at this rate America will soon become inhabitable and we won't have to worry any longer.
I think that the fat guy in the back is my ex husband....
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