First of all the Tree incident was in Sept? or something?

And from the court transcript from the first convicted (overturned?) young man’s case revealed the white students (two or three) were sent to alternative school for some time and then returned to school with in-school suspension. The three day thing may not be correct.

This timeline seems the most accurate, but there are other timelines.

What I don’t understand is that a simple thing like THREE versus TWO nooses is always mixed up and even the date is wrong. These things don’t really matter, but I find it is important to not allow any distractions to the veracity of important stories. (the what else did the get wrong syndrome)

Why does the media always leave out the black kid that got beat up at a party, then group of black kids confront one of the attackers from the party at a Quicky Mart and the white kid gets a shotgun from his truck, which is wrestled out of his hands (I have read cops charged the black kids with theft?). The following day was a parking lot fight where a taunting white kid got beat. (And somehow a school fire is involved)

This account seems more concise, but is different that other stories.

The three White students where found and the school board suspended them for a few days and later negated the suspensions calling [the nooses] just a prank.

White man Justin Sloan attacked black students who tried to go to a White party and was charged with battery and put on probation.

A White boy pulled a gun on three black students in a convenience store, (ED: I thought this guy was at the White party and involved in the fight, but probably not since Sloan was charged) one black student wrestled the gun away and took it home. (ED: that explains the theft charge) The black student was charged with theft of a firearm, second-degree robbery and disturbing the peace while the white student who produced the gun was not charged.

A group of six black students attacked Justin Barker after they heard him bragging about a racial assault his friend had made. He suffered a concussion, his eye was swollen shut, he spent a few hours in hospital and then went partying.

Intranets, didn’t you have the feeling that the summary explanation by the Jena paper was definitely from a white point of view? Note how it emphasizes that white students remained unaware that anything was going on, and that there was nothing “bad” happening until the media stirred things up.

It also contains such distortions as the statement that the FBI found there were no racial motivations to the noose-hanging incident. The FBI said only that the incident didn’t rise to the level of a Federal hate crime. The piece also casts doubt on whether or not there was a demonstration by black students under the tree. The point of that seems to be to distract from the performance of the DA at the assembly called at the high school, in which the DA made the statement that he had the power to snuff out the lives of students, presumably “bad” students with a flourish of his pen, something not included in their summary.

The reasons that hard facts are hard to establish is that this was a highly charged, fluid situation that went on for weeks with the participants divided in their perceptions by race, although I would not assign fuzziness to the perceptions equally to both sides. What does it mean to black kids when the librarian in that southern town can’t imagine that a noose hanging from a tree might have racial implications?

I’m working on a longer piece in which I’m comparing the media and grassroots response to the Jena Six to the rather different response by those who took up the cause of the Duke LaCrosse players with an emphasis on what it tells us about 21st racism in this country.

You’re right it is interesting on all the news and blogs I’ve read on Jena, no one has uttered Duke LaCrosse. It is interesting, in both cases you have what appears to be prosecutorial misconduct, or at least improper bias.

Are there similar cases of high school fights being turned into attempted murder by shoe?

Especially when the victim walks out of the hospital after two hours.

Also how is it theft if you obviously had a gun pointed at you, and you wrestled it from someone. Did they white kid say they stole it out of his truck? And if it was simple theft, how was it disturbing the peace.

Our niggers are good niggers, except when the media stirs them up. And where’s your sense of humor? It was just a prank.

That timeline is comprehensive, but it’s only a starting point, and I’d want to check it against timelines developed by other protagonists.

We. Are. Going. To. Die. We must restore hope in the world. We must bring forth a new way of living that can sustain the world. Or else it is not just us who will die but everyone. What have we got to lose? Go forth and Fight!—Xan

With the amount of time that has passed, and the first court case, why all these errors?

Why do I keep reading three nooses and occasionally two? Why are the dates and time that passed all off a few days? Why was the suspension three days, two days, cancelled, etc?

I just don’t understand other than blame it on local reporting that got into blogs and echo chambered.

I think it was three on the tree, and two in the car.

But for the rest of it, I have no answer, since I don’t know the detail. We’re into building a record; maybe that wasn’t a focus, or we just haven’t linked to the right people, yet.

We. Are. Going. To. Die. We must restore hope in the world. We must bring forth a new way of living that can sustain the world. Or else it is not just us who will die but everyone. What have we got to lose? Go forth and Fight!—Xan

the credible source I read said two nooses both cut down by 7:15am before school and before most people saw them. I did find this little nugget: “three nooses (in school colors)”
117 google news hits for two nooses (many are for “red truck that had two nooses”)
827 google news hits for three nooses

What is interesting is MSM coverage. And the Bushie loyalist USAs strike again. I wonder how much damage has been done by the partisan hacks running the DOJ.

While critics contend the nooses and the beating are two sides of the same problem, U.S. Attorney Washington said a direct link would be hard to prove.

There was “no connection that a prosecutor could take into court and say, ’You know, judge or jury, we’re prosecuting these white kids for these nooses, and look at all the damage they caused downstream, all the way down to the fight at Jena High School on December 4,’” he told CNN’s Kyra Phillips on Tuesday.

LaSalle Parish District Attorney Reed Walters, who oversaw the local investigations into both incidents, rejected the idea there was “a direct linkage” between the hanging of the nooses and the schoolyard attack.

“When this case was brought to me and during our investigation and during the trial, there was no such linkage ever suggested,” Walters said in a news conference Wednesday in Jena. “This compact story line has only been suggested after the fact.”

Washington said FBI agents who went to Jena in September to investigate the noose report, and other federal officials who examined what happened, concluded it “had all the markings of a hate crime.”…

Washington said federal officials examined the way the school handled the infractions, and whether black students were being treated differently than whites. The officials found it was not unusual for the school superintendent to reinstate students after the principal recommends expelling them.

So Mr. USA head of DOJ gets a report from FBI saying it looks like a hate crime, but, gee, we can’t go to a judge with any of that.

You gotta love CNN, compare these two sentences in the same story.

“Racial tension in the town increased after the noose incident.”

“Washington noted that after the noose-hanging incident at the start of the school year in August, school routines went forward as usual; there was no apparent lingering anger.”

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Can someone explain this me: “Investigators from the LaSalle Parish Sheriff’s Office have gathered statements from more than 40 people — a number of them students — who told investigators they saw everything that happened. Many of these statements were included in court documents.”

So 40 people standing around watching a fight at a high school.. sounds normal to me, but WTF? How is this attempted murder if no one helped out? If they were beating a kid to death high school kids would jump in. If it was a normal ass whooping, I’m assuming people just stand and watch.

“On Dec. 1, Bailey said he was jumped by six to seven white men at the Fair Barn and that only one was arrested and charged with simple battery.”

This was new and explains the one man charged with the “White party” fight. And the confrontation at the GottaGo.

“Justin Barker was taken by ambulance to LaSalle General Hospital’s emergency room, arriving at 12:25 p.m., according to court documents. A report from the ambulance company stated Barker “denies any pain other than his eye.”

Barker was discharged about 2½ hours after being admitted to the ER. Later that night, he attended a ring ceremony at the school…”

What is your thinking on the incident? What are you looking for? Where did you first see the two/three disparity?

It doesn’t matter, I was just reading a lot of Jena coverage, and it seemed to me a lot of facts were all over the place. I found it odd such a well blogged, not-breaking story had an urban legend quality of facts. There was no dkospedia or presentation of all the facts, and everyone telling the “Jena” story seemed to pick and choose what facts to leave out.

There are little tibdits of this story scattered across a thousand articles, like the fact the nooses were school colored, or taken down before school and almost no one has seen them, or the kid taking the shotgun home after they wrestled it from white pick-em-up dude, or that the white kid they attempted to murder was alert and had no pain other than his eye on the way to the hospital.