[news] "I Can End Your Life with the Stroke of a Pen": Teens Facing 80-100 Years Without Parole

[Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed]

...[T]he morning after 3 black students attempted to integrate Jena High School's playground by sitting in the traditionally all white area under a tree...three nooses were left hanging from the tree's branches...When the boys who hung the nooses were caught and the superintendent brushed it off as a "harmless prank," every black student in school crowded under the tree in protest. The District Attorney was called...to end the protest...[H]e held a pen in the air and told them all "I can end your life with the stroke of a pen." A week later he tried to make good on his promise.

  


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