Teens Arrested with Noose on Pickup Truck Near Jena

Two teens are behind bars and authorities in Alexandria, Louisiana are questioning other suspects after they drove near black protesters with several nooses hanging from the back of a red pickup. The arrest report is quite colorful.

As police were questioning the driver, he said he had an unloaded rifle in the back, which police found. They also found a set of brass knuckles in the cup holder on the dashboard, according to the police report.

The passenger told police he and his family are in the Ku Klux Klan, the police report said. He also said he had tied the nooses and that the brass knuckles belonged to him.

Mayor Jacques Roy says the young men were not from his town—a staging point for the protesters—and lived closer to Jena which is an hour south. Up to 15,000 people protested against the treatment of six black teens charged with attempted murder for a schoolyard fight that followed a series of racially charged incidents. Not ironically, the Jena tensions started after white students hung a noose from a tree.

Authorities in Alexandria say the young men were driving near "a crowd of about 200 people, mostly African-Americans" who were awaiting to board buses home. The suspects face charges of inciting a riot, disturbing the peace and DUI. Hate crimes charges are being investigated.

Money quote from the eyewitness who took the photos: "People need to see this. It's 2007, and we still have fools acting like it's 1960."

Two Arrested in Noose Incident [CNN]

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Thousands Protest in Jena [R20]

Comments

[Dex123ter]

I had not heard about this. That is just ignorant as hell. But it goes to show that people still have hate in their hearts.

[LaRufus]

Whew, this out of control racism that has been endorsed for years by the Grand Old Party in the South and the rest of this country with complacent Democrats and that has been simmering below the surface needs to be exposed. Jena is just one small town of thousands, and more bigger ones.

Those in Jena and the rest of this country who claim not to be racist, just need to let up off of their racist ways.

Disgusting, yet a fact of life in the good old US of A.

[ca]

>>>Those in Jena and the rest of this country who claim not to be racist, just need to let up off of their racist ways.

How true.

[JD]

Applauding you Rod! Thank you for keeping alive the reporting of this ignorant and ugly truth when the main stream has already tired of reporting citizen on citizen hatred!

[LaNorris]

Seeing these events transpire is a real eye opener. It is a harsh reality to believe that these events could still occur in our society today. Do I think that this is a perfect society to begin with? Of course not. I am aware of my surroundings, but one must wonder what exactly is going on through these people's minds. The worlds that the likes of great civil rights leaders have pour into this country and now generations later disgusting acts such as the Jena Six manifest. How tribalistic are these views of a mundane society.