The Case of the Jena Six: Black High School Students Charged with Attempted Murder for Schoolyard Fight After Nooses Are Hung from Tree
Six black students at Jena High School in Central Louisiana were arrested last December after a school fight in which a white student was beaten and suffered a concussion and multiple bruises. The six black students were charged with attempted murder and conspiracy. They face up to 100 years in prison without parole. The fight took place amid mounting racial tension after a black student sat under a tree in the schoolyard where only white students sat. The next day three nooses were hanging from the tree
Her captors, all of them white, choked her with a cable cord and stabbed her in the leg while calling her a racial slur, poured hot water over her and made her drink from a toilet, according to criminal complaints.
It wasn’t until an anonymous tip led Logan County Sheriff’s deputies to the property on Saturday that her ordeal ended and she was able to limp to safety, arms outstretched as she cried, “Help me!”
“I don’t understand such a horrific crime being committed here,” said Johnny Meade, pastor of the community’s Apostolic Church of God in the Name of Christ Jesus.
The FBI is now looking into possible civil rights violations, agency spokesman Bill Crowley said, authorities in West Virginia said they were investigating the case as a possible hate crime.
At one point, an assailant cut the woman’s ankle with a knife and used the N-word in telling her she was victimized because she is black, authorities said.
Investigators are still trying to determine how the woman ended up at the property and whether she knew any of the six people arrested or the two others, suspected of driving her to the home, who are being sought, said Logan County Chief Sheriff’s Deputy V.K. Dingess.
Police tape now surrounds the entrances to the beige-and-brown mobile home where Megan Williams, 20, was found. An extension cord runs from the home to the cramped shed, which authorities say she was held in with a portable stereo, a locker and a power saw.
The Associated Press generally does not identify suspected victims of sexual assault, but Williams and her mother agreed to release her name. Carmen Williams said she wanted people to know what her daughter endured.
“I don’t understand a human being doing another human being the way they did my daughter,” Carmen Williams said Tuesday from her daughter’s hospital room. “I didn’t know there were people like that out here.”
The suspects in the case have prior arrest records going back several years, according to records from Logan County Magistrate Court. Logan County Prosecutor Brian Abraham said, “I have some familiarity with all those individuals.”
Since 1991, police have filed 108 criminal charges against the six. Frankie Brewster, 49, had the most with 33; Alisha Burton, 23, of Chapmanville had 20.
The most serious of the previous charges was filed against Brewster, the owner of the Big Creek mobile home. She was charged in 1994 with first-degree murder, but pleaded guilty to lesser charges of manslaughter and wanton endangerment. Brewster was released from prison in 2000 after serving five years in the death of 84-year-old Polly T. Ferrell, court records show.
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www.clintlenard.com seems to be a liar and snake oil sales man. He says I am a CON-ARTIST, I dont sale seo tapes, like him before they was made.
“I am interested but my question would be what credentials do you have to back up the fact you are well versed in all the topics included in the package? What sites have you driven to success and what references can you give me?”
http://forums.phpfox.com/showthread.php?t=7245&page=2&highlight=phpfoxsecrets<<< proof of his con, how you going to sale something and its not ready before hand and dont have any proof?
clintlenard.com likes to use my name damian dunlap and call me a thug, cause i ask him a simple question , what sites have you help? Ask him that. What sites have he help? My hoodtube.com/Hoodblog is out doing his blog, my other blog which I dont want him to know about is out doing his blog and his a SEO expert ???
“DAMIAN DUNLAP — YOU’RE A CON ARTIST AND IT’S ALREADY BEEN PROVEN. YOU’RE NOW MAD THAT YOU GOT PUT OUT ON BLAST FOR THE WORLD TO SEE. GET OVER IT. YOU DO NOT OWN ANYTHING BUT A FALSIFIED LIFE”.
This is what clintlenard post on his blog, who have a con, i am no seo expert, I dont sale packages, I just ask him a simple question. Clint Lenard, look at my videos. I think i will do a special on for you. You say i have a false life, lets see.
Do not fall for his bull shit. Clint Lenard is pushing AbleSpace, under bestsocialnetworkingscript.com and buyablespace.com, this is the same man that push a seo package and wanted people to pay before it was done, now it vanish phpfoxsecrets.com. If you dont know phpfox kick Clint Lenard out as forum moderator for doing shit to harm the phpfox community. So he turns to this product ablespace, has he tested? I think not, u need alot of members to test a script or program, looking at his blog he gets a few views aday, so he has no pull. If you want to be safe join money357.com and ask real people about seo and good scripts, dont let this snake oil salesman get you too.
The bottom text was taken from a phpfox member on ablespace.
Try joining their forum and see what happens….when I tried, they told me their moderators were on holidays.
They also told me there were way too busy making upgrades to handle some custom work for me….
And check out the sites they list as members….in their portfolio:
You will see that many of them are dummy sites and a number of them are not actually their clients any more.
I contacted one client from France and they had nothing but complaints, said the software does not work properly and support is almost non-existent. They gave up trying to get the video thing to work.
I could not even get the chat thing to work properly, although 3D chat worked ok, but that is of interest to kindergartners maybe.
Come on..wake up!
If it seems too good to be true……IT ALMOST ALWAYS IS!
What kind of company can’t be bothered keeping their forum able to sign up new members?
They even admitted that the Italian site they claim uses their software publicly states he does not…..But they stated he is just lying because he does not want all his competition to use this great software.
Pfffttt…..If you believe that, I have a phpFox license I can let you have cheap.
Have you not noticed that the famous Clenard is now flogging this software publicly as an affiliate, and stating that he retracts every good thing he ever said about phpfox?
I was blown away initially too, and almost plunked down the cash.
It is true, I have wasted far more trying to get a functional phpfox site running than this software costs….but I will just look elsewhere, I think….and there is something that seems far superior to me, but -again - it is expensive….BUT if it works, then so what?
