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National Lawyers Guild: National Lawyers Guild Calls for Release of Mychal Bell (9/24/07)
Listing some facts readers didn't learn from Jena District Attorney Reed Walters' September 26 op-ed in the New York Times—in which he was afforded the luxury of defining his critics' arguments, and then getting to rebut them. Even before the DA "stated that he could take away the black students’ lives with a stroke of his pen" when they protested "the fact that the white students that hung the nooses received only a three-day, in-school suspension," Waltersalso failed to file charges against a white teen who pulled a shotgun on three black students in the parking lot of a convenience store in December 2006. In a startling twist, the three black teens were arrested and charged with aggravated battery and theft when, exercising their right to self-defense, they managed to take the weapon from the gunman. In December... a white man, Justin Sloan, attacked Robert Bailey with a bottle at a party. Robert Bailey is, coincidentally, one of the Jena 6. DA Walters charged Sloan with simple battery and released Sloan on probation. Yet... after a schoolyard fight erupted later that December where a white student was beaten, DA Walters charged six black students with second-degree attempted murder and conspiracy to commit murder. The student who was beaten was released from the hospital after two hours, and attended a school function that same night.
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