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Jena Six Update

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Remember the Jena Six? Almost a year and a half after the school fight that set this national scandal in motion, and more than half a year after an estimated 20,000 civil rights protesters descended on the small Louisiana town to demand justice for the black defendants, only one of them has faced trial. In a certain sense, given the brand of Jim Crow justice that has prevailed in Jena, that’s a good thing. District Attorney Reed Walters, working in open coordination with his tag-team partner Judge J.P. Mauffray Jr., undermined generally accepted rules of procedure in order to throw the biggest book at Mychal Bell as quickly as possible.

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