April 28, 2008...9:19 pm
Jena 6: finally, a measure of justice
Caught a quick blurb that a man from the Jena, LA, area plead guilty to federal charges related to the hanging of nooses on September 20, 2007.
At first, I thought it was related to the hanging of the nooses on the tree reportedly reserved “for whites only” at the Jena high. That incident resulted in a school-yard brawl that itself resulted in the filing of ridiculous charges against 6 black Jena students but none against the white kids who also were involved in the brawl or against the racist assholes who hung the nooses from the tree (which has since been cut down because the high school administrators felt it was “divisive”).
But my initial impression of the incident resulting in the guilty plea was incorrect. The guilty plea of Jeremiah Munson, of Colfax, LA, was the result of nooses hung from the back of a pick-up truck that Munson and an unidentified juvenile from Dry Prong, LA, then drove around while threatening marchers during the Jena 6 protests in Alexandria, LA, on September 20, 2007.
Munson faces the possibility of a year in prison plus a 100k fine. Sentencing is not until August 15. But sentencing is likely to take place before those same federal prosecutors ever move against the jackasses who hung the nooses on the tree at the high school.
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