Supprised no topic about this.Are AL & Jessie there today?I think they should push for fair justice for the kids,not no justice.All I keep hearing is "free bell,free bell"don't free him but give him the right justice,not backwoods justice.
IMO, the original charges were over the top. I know they tried to say the white kid was badly beaten, but he went to a school function that same night. I'm sure all of us can remember fights at school where no legal charges were ever filed and handled by the school. Times are different I guess, so charge them with battery or whatever if you must, but attempted murder is crazy. And if Bell's conviction was overturned, why is he not allowed out on bail until a new trial? Don't get that either.
Boy isn't that the truth. We used to just walk to an alley at dismissal and settle it there with a crowd making a circle and getting all loud and chit. After the fight, picked up stuff and went home, no authorities involved. Hell, I had a friend who was a little older and a police officer who gave me a ride to a predetermined place, in the police car, to go fight this guy he didn't like either. It was after a victory dance following a football game. Only in Mamou, I guess. :hihi: I only learned of the Jena thing this morning at coffee.
The charges are crazy over the top, but maybe next time those fools beat someone's a** they'll fight one on one instead of getting six people to beat one dude up.
what I heard was that bell caught the guy from behind in a school hallway knocking him unconsous(not spelled correctly)then the other 5 held a door closed so that nobody could get to the assailant while he proceded to kick the knocked out kid in the head.Sounds alot more primal,and violent than anything I ever witnessed in my school days.Maybe it's the UFC era that's making people act this way.I do beleive the noose incident needs to be addressed in the court system also,but haven't heard anything more about that.The most amazing thing about all this is that the court that originally charged bell as an adult,has since then reduced the charges and are proceding to try him as a juvenile but AL & JESSIE are still showing up in Jena today.I hate those guys.
Oh I thought that all six took shots at the kid while he was on the ground. Still pretty chicken sh!t to go six on one IMO. why does the noose incident need to be addressed in court?
Well, you have a small redneck town that allowed a whites only tree at the school for years and white kids hung nooses on it. And the Bell kid is still sitting in jail and no bail for him. Sounds like the 60s and 70s all over again. I'm no fan of Al, Jesse and the boys, but that's what you get when some people are living like it's the 60s.
The attempted murder charges have already been dropped and reduced to second degree battery, but the Reverends now want them thown out altogether. This is just a publicity stunt by the Revs. There were several fistfights at the school and both parties were suspended. But this was a planned gang beating of a single white student who was unconcious and kicked in the head on the ground by six thugs. It is certainly assault and battery and charges are unlikely to be reduced further. The Revs claim justice is unequal because six months before the assault, a couple of white students hung a noose on a tree at school. It was a thoughtless and junenile prank and the students were suspended for it. The Revs think they should have been expelled and jailed for it, as the gang assaulters were. Trouble is . . . it wasn't a crime. I could hang a noose from a tree at LSU and probably get fired for it, but it's not a violation of any law that I'm aware of. The DA is a dumbass. If he had never overreached with the original attempted murder charges, then this incident would have never made the papers outside of LaSalle Parish.
If they were innocent, they wouldn't need a rally. They should file charges on anyone that attends the rally for disturbing the peace. The idiot white kids that hung the noose should be in jail too. Sounds to me like they are all a bunch of punk ass kids that went way to far on both sides.
That's what I'm saying. What they did was wrong & needs to be addressed by the school, but it wasn't illegal. I see no unfairness in how this is being handled except that the original charges were over the top, but now that they've been reduced I don't see an issue at all.
