[tivodan1116]

Quote by: ruksak If the prosecutors wanted to prosecute the white kids for hanging that noose, they most certainly could have. At the very least they could have charged them with vandalism or defacing public property..

No, they couldn't have. There are no statutes in Louisiana for vandalism or defacing public property. Vandalism is contained in a few other statutes including criminal mischief, but in all of them an element of the crime is causing damage to property that costs money to fix.


I've said it enough: The DA was correct.
THERE
IS
NOTHING
THE
NOOSE
HANGERS
COULD
BE
CHARGED
WITH.

Period.

The honest truth is, the prosecutor probably found it amusing and just laughed it off. Racism does exist, ya know. In a county of only 3,000 people, only 13 percent are black. Over 1,500 of the residents of Jena are unemployed. This is a hot bed of white trashiness.

White trashiness? What a double standard. Excuse my language, but would you say Harlem is a hot bed of niggers? Why is it acceptable to use terms that connote a negative image of one race but not another?

20 years for kicking a kids ass? Thats way too severe.

Nobody got 20 years. Nobody is getting 20 years. They were initially charged with the highest crime possible, and as evidence was collected the charges were lowered. That is the policy of almost every District Attorney in the United States. There is a huge difference between being charged and being convicted.

Quote by: Mia One thing that you overlooked, Tivodan, is that hate crimes are Federal. It's irrelevant that there is not a LA statute that covers it.

Almost all states have hate crimes statutes. They are not merely federal, although there is a federal hate crimes statute.

The US Attorney said he would have been able to charge it as a hate crime if the participants had any kind of record of violence, or other racial incidents.

What's your point? They are protesting against the county DA, who correctly said there was nothing he could charge them with. That the US DA couldn't charge them with anything either only strengthens my argument that the situation is being handled properly.