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Mychal Bell
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The angel who saved [Mychal Bell] was a Black doctor who lives about 135 miles away from Jena. Dr. Stephen Ayers, 42, of Lake Charles in southwestern Louisiana, told the Associated Press that he wasn't "politically active" and has never met Bell. But a patient whose feet hurt after the September 20 march gave him a report on the event. The local newspaper in Jena, The Advocate, said that [Al Sharpton] told them the first thing Bell wanted to do upon his release was "to pray" and the "second thing he wanted was to eat some ribs. It was a very disappointing meeting," [Jesse Jackson] told the AP. The leaders say they were asking for federal hate crimes charges to be brought against the white teens in Jena responsible for hanging the nooses. They [DOJ] said the investigation arising out o...
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They [the guards] kept asking me why all of those various organizations and leaders were coming to Jena to support me. I told them to go and ask them for themselves," [Mychal Bell] said. He added that the prison guards "increased their negative attitudes" and "actions towards [me]" the more people on the outside demanded justice. "On Oct. 16, there [is] a meeting scheduled to take place in Camden, New Jersey, where those participating were to talk about how the situation in Jena, reflects on what is happening in one of New Jersey's poorest cities," stated activist Colandus "Kelly" Francis. The call for the Camden meeting revolved around the spirit coming out of their Jena 6 mobilization. He said about 100 elementary school students who attend school on the campus of Prairie View Univer...
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My name is Mychal Bell and I was one of the Jena Six who were charged with attempted murder in Jena, Louisiana, in 2006. As of now, seeing that we have a Black president, and with the anniversary of the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr., I wanted to share with you my dream, like Dr. King shared his dream with everybody. I even had the chance, although I was in shackles and handcuffs, to meet Martin Luther King III when he came to visit me in prison. So I feel like I have a connection to the King family. [...] my life hasn't been easy.
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So what do you make of Bell's decision to plead guilty to second-degree battery?" [Roland Martin] asked. "It is not sitting well with some folks. The issue was never if they did it, but the malicious treatment in the case. [Louis Scott] added that USA Today had erroneously reported that Bell would testify against the remaining five members of the Jena 6. "In court it was announced that testifying against the others was not part of the agreement," he said. He could be called upon to testify for or against. His testimony is to be truthful and during his plea statement he did not implicate anyone else," Scott stressed. "People have learned different things," he said. "Number one, there is a movement in the U.S. to 'Jenocide' our young people. By killing the spirit of young African-Americ...
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Mychal Bell, one of the teenagers at the center of the Jena Six civil rights case, shot himself Monday night because he worried his Christmas Eve shoplifting arrest would ruin his dream of playing college football, a lawyer said Tuesday after speaking with the teen's family. - The Associated Press
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On June 26, 2007, the first day of trial for defendant Mychal Bell, District Attorney Walters agreed to reduce the charges for Bell to aggravated second-degree battery and conspiracy to commit aggravated second-degree battery. A charge of aggravated battery requires the use of a "deadly weapon", therefore District Attorney [Walters] argued that the tennis shoes that Bell was wearing and used to kick [Justin Barker] were deadly weapons, an argument with which the all-White jury agreed. Despite conflicting witness accounts on whether he was even involved in the attack, Bell was found guilty and had face the possibility of up to 22 years in prison. There has been national outrage and objection to the wrongful conviction of Mychal Bell for aggravated battery and conspiracy for the following...
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Upwards of 60,000 persons went into Jena, La., on September 20, screaming, "Free Mychal BeU!" Afterward, Mychal Bell remains behind bars even though an appeals court tossed out his conviction by an all-white jury in adult court for aggravated assault and battery. BeU was a minor when he was indicted for the attempted murder of a white classmate. Upward of 60,000 people went to Jena without leadership having put a single demand on Louisiana officials. A demand sounds like this: "Free Mychal Bell-or else." On September 20, Bell was being held in violation of law. Thousands of people went to Jena on September 20 and left, without Bell. This all happened on the same day. What happened to filing a writ of habeas corpus? These marchers, wittingly or unwittingly, complied with Jim Crow law. Of...
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For each speaker, the crowd cheered in approval after every statement. They led the crowd in chants of "Free the Jena Six" and "Free Mychal Bell," the only member of the six still incarcerated. Mychal is a good man. He doesn't deserve this," she said, each word covered with sobs as the crowd applauded and resumed their chants of "Free Mychal Bell!" with renewed vigor. As we left the high school and walked the long road back to the buses, we met up with 14-year-old Shabray [Rosey Simmons], another one of Mychal Bell's cousins. She shared that Mychal was the type of kid who would only take insults so much before reacting and when he was called the "n"-word the day of the fight; he just couldn't take it any more. Ignited by syndicated media force Michael Baisden, whose efforts on his prim...
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Mychal Bell, the lead defendant in the high profile "Jena Six" case, pled guilty to second-degree battery Monday (Dec. 3) and agreed to serve 18 months in juvenile custody. He could, nowever, be released within six months. Bell s attorney, Robert Nowell, said he aavised Bell to accept the plea bargain because the district attorney's office had "overwhelming evidence to convict him. I am pleased to have reached a resolution of this case that is fair to the victim, fair to the state and fair to the defendant," he said. "I hope Mychal Bell's admission resolves some of the ongoing questions about the case. My goal and intention has always been to find appropriate justice for [Justin Barker] arker, and I believe this plea accomplishes that."
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See: www.reinstatealton-maddox.net for "Letter to the Daily News re Stanley Crouch," "Pioneers in the Brawley Struggle, "UAM Petitions A.G. Andrew Cuomo," "Civil Rights and One-Night Stands," "The Early Years: Remembering Friends of the Brawley Struggle," "Double Jeopardy and [Mychal Bell]'Bell," "[Sean Bell]: Cops 'Walk' While Blacks March" and "[Tawana Brawley]: November 87February 88. A Louisiana appeals court ruled on September 14 that the prosecutor in Jena had failed to present sufficient evidence to sustain the charges against Bell and that the adult court had also lacked jurisdiction over Bell.
