| Re: Two of 'Jena Six' defendants present BET award
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Originally Posted by jamesrage  I think that is the part that cracks me up the most.The noose incident had nothing to do with the 6 black kids beating the living **** out of the one white kid but yet they keep bringing up like it had something to do with the incident. | There was a series of incidents. In one incident, a black student was allegedly hit over the head with a bottle by a relative of the victim. According to some witnesses, the victim was taunting one of the Jena 6, with his middle finger in his face, about the beating his relative gave him. Witnesses heard an attacker say, "This is what you get for running your mouth." There are two sides to the story, and too many variations to make a judgment. However, it sounds absurd to call a student's tennis shoes a lethal weapon, and 22 years in prison sounds like harsh punishment for injuries that were minor enough that the victim was able to attend a school function that evening.
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