Teen Pleads Guilty To Jena 6 Nooses…
Source : Associated Press
A teen has plead guilty to trying to intimidate protesters by hanging nooses on the back of his truck at a Jena 6 Rally. Read below:
On Sept. 20, Munsen and a juvenile from Dry Prong hung nooses off the back of a pickup truck and drove around downtown Alexandria near a crowd waiting for buses that would take them back to Tennessee after one of the nation’s largest civil rights demonstrations.
Some 20,000 people demonstrated in Jena against what critics called the overly harsh prosecution of six black teenagers in the beating of a white classmate. Many of the protesters stayed in the towns and cities surrounding the tiny town, including Alexandria.
Munson “admitted today that he displayed two large nooses from the back of his pickup truck with the intent to frighten and intimidate the demonstrators,” a news release from Washington’s office said.
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