We just learned that the Louisiana Third Circuit Court of Appeals has granted a writ filed by Mychel Bell’s legal team which vacates his conviction. The details are still sketchy, but it seems likely that Mychal will be able to bond out and return to the free world. I assure you that events like this only happen when the court of public opinion trumps the court of law. Friends of Justice is overjoyed for Mychal, his family, the other Jena 6 defendants and all the people who have worked so hard over the past nine months. We will have updates on this story as they become available.
Alan Bean
Friends of Justice
3415 Ainsworth Court
Arlington, TX 76016
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It is truly amazing when we stick together ,the mighty powerful force we become it is sad that it takes something like this to bring us together but I am glad that everyone in the free world can see we do love each other and care what happens to one another
the hooray goes out to everyone who participated and prayed for this young mans freedom job well done black people.
Job well done ALL PEOPLE!!! Congrats to you Alan and the Friends of Justice. From Day One to now, you have been there for these kids and I appreciate and applaud that kind of dedication. As I understand it, the march is still on for the 20th. While I don’t need a way to get to Alexandria, I am still trying to find information on buses from Alexandria to Jena. Do you have any info on that at all?? Still waiting on the Baisden site to be updated and I just want to make sure I can get on one of the buses that are being provided. I’m driving in on the18th arriving late that day or early morning on the 19th. Any assistance you can lend in getting that information would be greatly appreciated.
I know it’s not quite over for the “kids” but the light at the end of the tunnel sure is easier to see!!
Peace to The Family,
All praise is due to Allah(God), for intervening onbehalf of injustice, inequality and oppression. This is only a sign Brother’s & Sister’s of what can be done when we come together in unity around a common cause. My prayers go out to Mychal Bell and his family and to all those who struggled and will continue to struggle for freedom, justice & equality. We still have a long way to go, so let’s not give up the struggle and remember the race is not to the swift, but, to those who can edure to the end!
Peace to The Family,
Brother Muhammad
As a family member I am soooooo very grateful to freinds of justice, Color of Change, Al Sharpton (say what you want about him he is there in a real way) and sooooo many countless others who rallied this cause.
But don’t be at ease just yet. These people are like bull dogs, when they get a grip you nearly have to beat them to death to make them let go. However I know that God can do anything.
Yes their is power in the the #’s of people. Please continue to keep talking about it and keep it in the public view until the end .
I AM SOOOO VERY DISGUSTED with mainstreat media none of them have picked up this case. None of them have reported it or talked about it.
greetings from nashville, tennessee. i will be happy to pass this great news to my friends. congratulations. power, peace and love, san rucker
The overturning of Mychal Bell’s conviction is wonderful news. I hope that he can go free now and go on with his life, pursue his dreams and put this horrible experience behind him.
Tina
I am happy about the vacating of the conviction. Should not have ever happen. Blacks are subject to all kinds of injustices.
As a white man that has grown up during the years that we lost John F. Kennedy, Robert F. Kennedy, malcom X and the Reverend Dr. martin Luther King, it si so gratifying to see all peole that beleive in the ideal of equal and temperate law for ALL of our citizens, be wielded insuch a dramatic way as we are witnessing at thsi moment in history…I became aware of the Jena 6 thanks to Mr. Warren Ballantine and the Reverend Al Sharpton. I then researched the incident, finding the best descritption on the AFP website (Agence France-Presse – yes, a French news website – Viva la France!)
When I read that three nooses had been hung in the tree on a high school campus I was appalled and imediately sickened by the images it conjured in my miind of hangings that were rampant in our country until only the very recent history of the US…I could and can, onlhy imagine what images this brought to mind for our black community, especially the older citizens who were alive during those horrendous and barbaric times.
We must mark this date as a new turning point, an epiphany so to speak, fo rall of the young people out there who are concerned about injustices such as this and felt helpless and impotent to fight these ignorances. Know now that you can do it…the gauntlet has been thrown and it is up to your generation to pick it up and wear it in the spirit of the original Freedom Marchers who braved so many indiginties and horrors.
The Selma march, the Lunch Counter Boycott, Rosa Parks and the Tuskeegee Airmen…Tom Brokaw spoke of “The Greatest Generation”…It wasn’t monochromatic, it was in Technicolor!!!
Again, wonderful news, congratulations to all that were a part of this. Let us hope and pray that this second chance is not wasted or has left them embittered because that would be a pity. I wish them all well…kp
We are thrilled and ecstatic over this news.
We did something great, and I know there are thousands or millions who are
celebrating this. One CAN make a difference, and justice CAN prevail.
We are so happy and proud for Mychal Bell and his friends and family,
and we still await and will work for the vindication of the others.
AND, there are many many more examples we need to dedicate ourselves to…
All I can say is wow! When I heard the news, I could not believe it. To see people coming together for the planned march on September 20 was amazing enough, but to see justice at work . . .
Power of the people. Just goes to show there is power in numbers. Job well done
I have been following this story here in Canada, I have visited the US many times and met many wonderfull people there. This travesty of justice is an insult to all Americans black and white who have fought and are still fighting for equal rights for all. My thoughts and prayers will be with all involved.
I think some of the white people should go to jail as well. Because that tree should of been for every one to sit under.
Michael Bell deserves some hard time in a jail cell right next to OJ Simpson.
You guys are the real racists.
Mychel Bell was released today on $45,000 bond. I know his mother is thrilled and now this case can go back to the Juvenile Courts where it should have been all along.
Well, Mychal wasn’t out of jail very long, which is sad to say. It did go back to Juvenile court where it should have been all along, BUT with the same prosecutor and same judge as he had in the adult court, where is the justice there? I’m not saying what he did was right, far from it…violence is never the answer and Mychal should have been charged and punished as a juvenile in the beginning. Now he’s served 10 months in an adult facility, time which is NOT credited towards his juvenile crimes, and since he DID violate the terms of his probation, he is sentenced to 18 months in the juvenile facility. The injustice isn’t that he was sentence for parole violation, the injustice is that he’s wasted 10 months that if he had been tried in the CORRECT COURT IN THE BEGINNING, he could be looking at getting out in 10 months from now. This really needs to be investigated. The same with James Arthur Johnson in Wilson, North Carolina…that poor man served THREE YEARS in adult prison without a trial and only when all of us called attention to the injustice was he allowed to go free, pending investigation of the case. This is AMERICA, why is there such disparity in treatment of young people, varying from state to state?