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Jena LA: Drug bust or racist revenge?

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Drug bust or racist revenge? Criminal Justice, Talk About Race ? By Jordan Flaherty May 14, 2010 Race-Talk At four am on July 9 of last year, more than 150 officers from 10 different agencies gathered in a large barn just outside Jena, Louisiana. The day was the culmination of an investigation that Sheriff Scott Franklin said had been going on for nearly two years. Local media was invited, and a video of the Sheriff speaking to the rowdy gathering would later appear online. The Sheriff called the mobilization ?Operation Third Option,? and he said it was about fighting drugs. However, community members say that Sheriff Franklin?s actions are part of an orchestrated revenge for the local civil rights protests that won freedom for six Black high school students ? known internationally as the Jena Six ? who had been charged with attempted murder for a school fight...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on October 04, 2010 (boomark / email).