U.S. attorney: Nooses, beating at Jena High not related
ENA, Louisiana (CNN) -- There is no link between the nooses hung by white students outside a Louisiana high school and the alleged beating of a white student by black teens, according to the U.S. attorney who reviewed investigations into the incidents.
Some residents say nooses hung from a tree on campus sparked the violence that landed the Jena 6 in jail.
The events, though likely symptoms of racial tension, were separate incidents, said Donald Washington, U.S. attorney for the Western District of Louisiana.
Washington said FBI agents who went to Jena in September to investigate the noose report, and other federal officials who examined what happened, concluded it "had all the markings of a hate crime."
The incident wasn't prosecuted as such because it didn't meet the federal standards required for the teens to be certified as adults, Washington said. A court makes the final decision on whether to drop their juvenile status.
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Not race related.....
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The town of Jena seems to have had a number of race related incidents over a long period and didn't handle them very well. My bet is there will be few white residents attending the demonstration today.
