Mychael Bell is Free on Bail!
Mychal Bell has finally been released on bail. If you've been following the news, you know that Mychal Bell is one of the "Jena 6" defendants, who were overcharged for beating up a White classmate. Mychal Bell was being held without bail and had been imprisoned for months. He is out on bail and will now face lesser charges in juvenile court, which should always have been the case.
Whites have been acting as though Blacks were asking for the teens involved to walk away scott-free, but the reality is that most school fights or "jumpings" don't end with teens facing adult charges in court. Heck, most don't ever get to the point where they are prosecuted. Regardless, Blacks were demanding fair treatment for the teens. A protest was held last week demanding the release of Mychal Bell, who was wrongly denied bail. In fact, the judge and prosecutor intentionally failed to appear at a bail hearing, last week, as a means of keeping the teen locked up. Anyway, this isn't the last of the story.
For more on Mychael Bell's release, go to: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070927/ap_on_re_us/jena_six
Whites have been acting as though Blacks were asking for the teens involved to walk away scott-free, but the reality is that most school fights or "jumpings" don't end with teens facing adult charges in court. Heck, most don't ever get to the point where they are prosecuted. Regardless, Blacks were demanding fair treatment for the teens. A protest was held last week demanding the release of Mychal Bell, who was wrongly denied bail. In fact, the judge and prosecutor intentionally failed to appear at a bail hearing, last week, as a means of keeping the teen locked up. Anyway, this isn't the last of the story.
For more on Mychael Bell's release, go to: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070927/ap_on_re_us/jena_six
posted by S. Mary Wills at 6:03 PM
2 Comments:
I'm very happy for him and his family.
DOLPHINFAN
He should have never been locked up in the first place. I grew up in Brooklyn, New York. I have seen many drag down/knock out fights in school yards, in front of schools, on school buses, etc. NEVER was anyone arrested.
At most the school would issue a suspension for one or both parties engaged in the fight or possibly one party would be expelled--depending on the circumstances. But, no one EVER did a day behind bars. That a school fight ended up with attempted murder charges is unheard of...for me.
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