While some in the media will portray the Jena 6 as all about Mychal Bell and how much he deserves to be punished, we shouldn’t forget the other injustices which have been occurring in the past couple of weeks:
Gary King Jr, of Oakland CA shot in the back by a police officer while fleeing and was left to die on the sidewalk for 15 minutes. http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2007/09/23/18449224.php
Pleajhai Mervin, a 16 year old girl who had her wrist broken by a security guard for not picking up all of the crumbs of a cake on the ground. He told her “hold still nappy head”.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21034611/
And of course, Megan Williams, tortured in West Virginia. Prosecutors in her case are not pursuing hate crimes charges. http://aapoliticalpundit.blogspot.com/2007/09/megan-williams-was-sexually-assaulted.html