Don't usually hang out in the D&D but this article sparked my interest. I don't condone violence at all, but hanging 3 nooses from a tree where black kids sit doesn't seem like a prank to me.
It sounds like the school district let a relatively small matter escalate by not being more forceful in the beginning. It seems everywhere else, we've got no-tolerance policies that get people booted for the smallest infraction.
I hope this blows up and they make an example out of the "justice" system there. Towns like Jena make me ashamed to be an American.
noose prank...what bullcrap. racist ass pricks piss me off. i would have beaten those ***** with more than just shoes. i sure do hope this gets put in the spotlight so people can see what kind of POS town would put a kid in jail 20 years for hurting a kid that got out of the hospital the next day.
twisted double standard. I don't agree with the punishment. No witnesses and the kid got released after one day? The weapon was the shoes? Pitiful ruling. Definitely smells of racial bias. However, I don't think the hanging of the noose is a prank. Nor is it protected by free speech, since the intent was to intimidate and oppress and spur violence.
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I've been waiting for a while for this to get any recognition. Like the Rockets would say, it's time. 22 years and from what it looks like they don't even know for sure if they have the right person/people?!?! Charging him as an adult with an all white jury??? What kind of "jury of peers" is that!
Attempted murder probably isn't the right charge, sounds more like battery. The kid that caught the beating should probably be able to make out pretty well from this. The nooses, which the victim may or may not have had anything to do with, don't really enter into it.
So how would you ensure a "jury of peers" seeing as jury panels are randomly selected from voter registration (in most states) or driver's licenses (as in Texas)? Not saying that this situation doesn't suck because it does. It's just easy to say "OMG an all white jury" without knowing what goes on to put those 12 people in the box.
Let's just say we THINK we know what goes on, however, we will will never know. All we do know is what's written in the law and the final result, and the final result is the jury selected for the trial of a 16 yr old black kid (at time of crime) in segregated Louisiana has a jury of all white people. I'm merely making a statement on the result as that is all I know is fact
Come on. Don't defame Texas like that. That's not remotely true. They ended up trying and convicting him on aggravated battery and conspiracy. And, he's facing up to 22 years, because 22 years is the maximum the law will allow. Will it still be an outrage of justice if he gets 2 years? I can understand the concern about the all-white jury. It makes you wonder about the process that produced it. And, it gives the proceedings the appearance of illegitimacy. But, it is not necessarily the case that a black man can't find justice with a white jury, and his conviction is not necessarily a sham because they are white.
1. White people are Mychal's peers too. It seems to me to be racist and the height of hypocrisy to assume that the jurors can't deliver justice because of the color of their skin. Give them the chance to prove me wrong. 2. All the jury has done so far is find Mychal guilty. Which he may well be. They have not yet decided how long he will spend in prison. You can't say the punishment doesn't fit the crime, because the punishment has not yet been determined. It can be up to 22 years. It might be no prison time at all, for all we know. Why don't we hear the decision before we hang the jury?
Drudge and Glenn Beck have been talking about it. I don't know why the traditional media is so slow to cover it.
Not a single witness called? C'mon, that's a sham. The jurors have proven that they can not deliver justice. Unfortunately, you can't play dice with people's lives, those on trial deserve to have everything done to ensure a fair trial for them, it's not about being fair to the jury's. That's not how justice works.
