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RamboLiberal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-24-08 09:57 PM
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Feds Indict Teen for 'Threatening' Noose
Source: ABC News

It was one of the few blights reported by the organizers of a 20,000-person civil rights demonstration held last year in a Louisiana town at the center of a national race debate.

As a group of marchers waited for a bus to transport them from Alexandria, La., to Tennessee, a pickup truck allegedly cruised slowly by, a pair of nooses hanging from the back of the truck. Local police officers took notice and arrested the teen driver and his passenger.

Four months later, federal prosecutors have announced the indictment of Jeremiah Munsen, 18, on a federal hate crime, and civil rights conspiracy charges, for "his role in threatening and intimidating marchers" as they attempted to cross a state line.

Munsen and his 16-year-old passenger, who has not been identified by authorities, allegedly fashioned a pair of extension cords into nooses and discussed the Ku Klux Klan as they drove repeatedly past a group of marchers gathered at a bus stop, while they waited for Tennessee-bound transportation.



Read more: http://abcnews.go.com/TheLaw/BlackHistory/story?id=4184706&page=1



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BarackBucks Donating Member (141 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-24-08 10:06 PM
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1. Stupid is as stupid does
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tabasco Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-24-08 11:16 PM
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5. You seem like one who would know. n/t
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Quantess Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-24-08 10:19 PM
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2. What a moron! And he wasn't alone.
This was on page 2: On Monday, roughly 50 white supremacists gathered in Jena to demand severe prosecution of the Jena Six, and an end to the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday.

Who are these backwards, ignorant jackasses?
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evilkumquat Donating Member (363 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-24-08 10:20 PM
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3. I Think You Just Answered Your Own Question
Evil Kumquat
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7 of 11 Donating Member (174 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-24-08 10:28 PM
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4. If he was rich and well connected and
hired a fancy lawyer(s) that law would be declared unconstitutional. (IMHO)
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bitchkitty Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-25-08 04:25 AM
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6. ???
Edited on Fri Jan-25-08 04:25 AM by bitchkitty
What the hell does that mean? Are you sympathetic to the poor oppressed racist trash of the nation? Free speech is one thing, death threats are another.
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