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Old 10-02-2007, 01:19 PM
 
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What is his family doing to help him change his ways?? Nothing, apparently. So now "private funds" are being thrown his way. Sheesh.
Where ever he was he showed right back up when Al Sharpton and the "private funds" started getting thrown Bell's way.
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Old 10-02-2007, 02:05 PM
 
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Attempted murder no.... Charged as an adult because of his priors??? IMO yes, but charge him with assault and battery which is what this was.
Assault & battery, yes.........I don't know the laws in Louisiana but I still don't think you charge as an adult. In Miami they have a procedure where repeat juvenile offenders get charged as an adult, but if they are convicted/sentenced their time is served in a juvenile prison rather than in a facility with adults.

I think their punishment should be to force each group to live in each others' shoes, learn each others history in an effort to curb this racist attitude (wishful thinking)!
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Old 10-02-2007, 02:42 PM
 
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Assault & battery, yes.........I don't know the laws in Louisiana but I still don't think you charge as an adult. In Miami they have a procedure where repeat juvenile offenders get charged as an adult, but if they are convicted/sentenced their time is served in a juvenile prison rather than in a facility with adults.

I think their punishment should be to force each group to live in each others' shoes, learn each others history in an effort to curb this racist attitude (wishful thinking)!
But that wouldn't be justice. Barker was brutally beaten and Bell should have to pay for his violent crime. Remember, this was no school yard fight. It was an extemely brutal racist beatdown by the Jena Six Predators.
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Old 10-02-2007, 03:09 PM
 
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Barker was brutally beaten and Bell should have to pay for his violent crime. It was an extemely brutal racist beatdown by the Jena Six Predators.
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He was knocked unconscious during the fight and bled from both ears. But Barker spent a little less than three hours in the hospital and was healthy enough to attend a school ring ceremony that same night..
Please don't take this the wrong way but let's keep it REAL here. I hardly agree that this was an "extremely brutal beatdown".
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Old 10-02-2007, 03:24 PM
 
Location: Huntersville/Charlotte, NC and Washington, DC
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It was an extemely brutal racist beatdown by the Jena Six Predators.
I live near DC, i'll can show you extremely brutal beatdowns. None of them walk out after 2 hours in the hopsital, if they walk at all.
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Old 10-02-2007, 08:02 PM
 
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Old 10-02-2007, 08:07 PM
 
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Please don't take this the wrong way but let's keep it REAL here. I hardly agree that this was an "extremely brutal beatdown".
Of course it was. He was attacked from behind and knocked unconscious, then stomped over and over again. This is exactly the type of situation where someone could have died.
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Old 10-02-2007, 08:14 PM
 
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Of course it was. He was attacked from behind and knocked unconscious, then stomped over and over again. This is exactly the type of situation where someone could have died.
People can die from a whole variety of strikes, many of which are not intended to kill someone.

That's the crux of the charge - the burden is on the DA to prove the intent of the attack was to kill the kid, no?

Can they prove that, and if so, how?
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Old 10-02-2007, 08:46 PM
 
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Of course it was. He was attacked from behind and knocked unconscious, then stomped over and over again. This is exactly the type of situation where someone could have died.
Hawkeye, if you want to reach that far, then the white kid who pulled the rifle should have been charged with Attempted murder, right? Who's to say that his plan was not to kill those kids, but they were able to disarm him and leave with the gun. Better yet the kid who got hit over the head with the bottle and jumped at the party - that was attempted murder (by your definition). They probably hit him from behind with the bottle and their fists

The issue is this, one group of kids hit harder than the other. One was able to get away and walk away and the other was knocked unconscious. It doesn't make for a strong case of "attempted murder" and would be very difficult to PROVE with an unbiased jury. But in Jena, who knows, there's so much racism and hate instilled in the town, that the charge probably would have stuck had the spotlight not been put on them.

Either way, all these children are wrong and should be punished across the board EQUALLY. It's obvious that this town is a tale of two cities, with whites on one side and blacks on the other and there's a lot of hatred and resentment going back for generations and generations. These children have been engrained with hatred and dislike of each other because their parents probably went through the same sorts of things growing up (both the white and black parents).

We can't change their way of life, nor their thinking. We can only hope that all people learn something from this situation, especially the school administration, so that NOTHING like this EVER happens again!
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Old 10-02-2007, 09:11 PM
 
Location: Hernando County, FL
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People can die from a whole variety of strikes, many of which are not intended to kill someone.

That's the crux of the charge - the burden is on the DA to prove the intent of the attack was to kill the kid, no?

Can they prove that, and if so, how?
He was convicted of aggravated battery.
Aggravated battery is a battery with the use of a DEADLY weapon.
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