Rally in Jena for Six Teens Charged with Battery
Some call it a "second civil rights movement"
One of the biggest stories in Louisiana right now took place this morning in a small town. The town of Jena is seeing an influx of people who came for a demonstration this morning, protesting battery charges against six black teens. They retaliated against a white teen for a noose that had been hung in a tree. The white teens were not charged with any crime. The Reverend Al Sharpton helped organize the demonstration, and The Advocate reports on his words:
that we’ve seen," Sharpton said Thursday. "You can’t have two standards
of justice. We didn’t bring race in it, those that hung the nooses
brought the race into it."
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