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Originally Posted by peragro
Ok, here are the articles cited in what I posted:
Where are you getting your information from?
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Did you read those links?
#2, " Consider the last year in Jena.
First, a black student asked an assistant principal at Jena High School whether he and his friends could sit under an oak tree, a favored meeting spot for white students. He was told to sit wherever he liked.
The next morning, three nooses were discovered hanging from the tree.
Two days later, black students staged an impromptu protest under the tree, prompting school administrators to call the student body into an assembly. Flanked by police officers, LaSalle Parish District Attorney Reed Walters stood before the student body and told them any further problems would be treated as a criminal matter.
"I can make your lives disappear with a stroke of my pen," he said. Black students said the white DA was looking directly at them when he made the remark, an accusation Mr. Walters denies.
Soon after, principal Scott Windham recommended the three white boys responsible for hanging the nooses be expelled from school, but a committee and Superintendent Roy Breithaupt disagreed.
Punishment for the incident was reduced to three days' in-school suspension.
That decision, according to Alan Bean, founder and director of Arlington-based Friends of Justice, set in motion a series of racially tinged fights that culminated with mirror-image gang-type assaults in December.
In an off-campus attack on a Friday night, one of the Jena Six – Robert Bailey – was attacked with beer bottles by a group of white men at a party.
The next Monday, white student Justin Barker taunted Mr. Bailey about the beating. Moments later, six black students knocked Mr. Barker unconscious and kicked him for more than a minute while he was lying in a school hallway. He face was badly swollen and bloodied, but he was able to attend a school function that night.
Five of the black students, including 17-year-old Mychal Bell, were charged with attempted second-degree murder with bail amounts ranging from $70,000 to $138,000. The charges eventually were reduced to aggravated second-degree battery. In the attack on Mr. Bailey, one white man was charged – with simple battery. "
#5,
"Bell is one of six black Jena High School students charged in an attack on fellow student Justin Barker, and one of five originally charged as adults with attempted second-degree murder."
#6
"The story goes that a year ago, a black student asked at an assembly if he could sit in the shade of a live oak, which, the story goes, was labeled "the white tree" because only white students hung out there. The next day, three nooses dangled from the oak — code for "KKK" — the handiwork of three white students, who were suspended for just three days.
Much of that is disputed. What happened next is not"
Note that there is no mention of what exactly is disputed
"Consider:
_The so-called "white tree" at Jena High, often reported to be the domain of only white students, was nothing of the sort, according to teachers and school administrators; students of all races, they say, congregated under it at one time or another.
_Two nooses — not three — were found dangling from the tree. Beyond being offensive to blacks, the nooses were cut down because black and white students "were playing with them, pulling on them, jump-swinging from them, and putting their heads through them," according to a black teacher who witnessed the scene. _There was no connection between the September noose incident and December attack, according to Donald Washington, an attorney for the U.S. Justice Department in western Louisiana, who investigated claims that these events might be race-related hate crimes. "
Note that none of these assertions is backed up by any source
#7
"He lifted his fountain pen and said, "With one stroke of my pen, I can make your life disappear."
That evening, black students told their parents that the DA was looking right at them. Walters denies that. Billy Fowler, a member of the school board, doesn't
believe it, either."
Bolded by me
#8
"He fell to the ground and hit his head on the concrete, suffering bruising and concussion.
He was treated at the local hospital and released, and that same evening felt able to put in an appearance at a school function. District Attorney Reed Walters, to the astonishment of the black community, has upgraded the charges of Mr Barker's alleged attackers to conspiracy to commit second degree murder and attempted second degree murder. If convicted they could be 50 before they leave prison."
#9
"LaSalle Parish School Board member Billy Fowler said Monday that he thinks all of the media attention, and in some cases inaccuracies about the case, have painted LaSalle Parish District Attorney Reed Walters "into a corner."
Fowler said that the boys would have received much lighter charges without all the attention, although the only attention on the case before the charges were bumped from battery to attempted murder was from local media including The Town Talk and The Jena Times."
"When Walters spoke to the students, he said they weren't paying attention to what he was saying or being respectful, Washington said. Washington said the information he received confirmed that Walters made statements about being able to affect the students' lives with the stroke of a pen, but said that reports that the speech was directed toward black students after peacefully demonstrating aren't true."
"On Dec. 1, there was a private, invitation-only birthday party at the Fair Barn. Around 11 p.m., five black students tried to come into the party but were told by a woman that they weren't allowed inside without an invitation. The boys persisted, saying they had friends inside. A white man then jumped in front of the woman, and a fight started.
A group broke the two up, and the woman asked the white man, not a student, and the black students to leave the party. Once outside, another fight started between a group of white men, not students, and the black students. Police were called, and a white man was arrested. He pleaded guilty to simple battery."
Note that none of that is sourced. There is a similar unsourced review of the gas station incident.
I'm a little bored right now, but it appears that most of what you quoted from wikipedia is from one or two unsourced articles.