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Jena, Louisiana Really in the Big Time Now!September 20th Rally
We recently reported how city officials made some critical mistakes when the school board and the district attorney determined they should pull out all the stops to punish some tenn black males and their families for an incident that amounted to a school yard fight.
Well J. Reed Walters, Mr. District Attoryney for LaSalle Parish Louisiana, because you were overzealous in your desire to “with one stroke ” of your pen make their lives disappear, you thrust your little back water country town onto the world stage. You have proved that education in Louisiana is substandard.
It’s not by coincidence you issued your statement just moments before the Third Circuit Court of Appeals judge handed down his ruling. We’re betingt you had a heads up so you could try to backpedal, but alas we fear you just too ding-dang late!
While you were quickly trying to save face with lies and denials in your statement issued on Friday afternoon, September 14, 2007 a judge in the Third Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that the June conviction of Mychal Bell, one of the group of teenaged black students known as the “Jena Six” charged in connection with the December 4, 2006 alleged attack of white student Justin Barker, be vacated, reversed and set aside.
In his ruling the judge stated the trail judge made a mistake when he kept the case in adult court, since the defendant, Bell, was a juvenile when the offense occurred in 2006. This means the conviction against Bell has been tossed.
District Attorney Walters stated on Friday afternoon he had received notice from the Third Circuit Court of Appeals of the case being ordered to junvenile court. Walters says after he has thoroughly reviewed the decision he will ask the State Supreme Court of Louisiana to review the decision of the court of appeals.
We think Mr. Walters appealing this decision is a bad idea. If you are not careful you gonna make another mistake. You’ve already brought the American Bar Association, the National Bar Association, ACLU and other legal organizations to your door questioning whether your actions constitute an abuse of power. We think they do.
We think you should resign from the case before the case is tried again in the juvenile court; you should either resign from the case or be removed from the office you hold because of extreme prejudice…and we do mean extreme racial prejudice.
You’ve used the race of these teens against them just because that’s the way it’s always been done in Jena, Louisiana.
Well, J. Reed Walters, you and all of your kind in Jena have put your foot in it so to speak. You’re really in the big time now.
There is nothing you can do to change what has been done. You’re getting your fifteen minutes plus. You’re in the big time now. The rally will take place on Thursday September 20th in your town, Jena Louisiana. Be there!
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