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August 31 2006 - A black student asked 'permission' from the school administration, if he could sit under the "white tree". They said he could sit anywhere.
September 1 2006 - The very next day, three nooses, in the schools colors, hung from "the white tree". Three white students were identified as being responsible and the principle recommended they be expelled from school. However, the white superintendent said, Adolescents play pranks," the superintendent told the Chicago Tribune, "I don't think it was a threat against anybody," and gave them a three day suspension instead. The black students protest.
November 30 2006 - A fire burned down the main academic building of Jena High School. This incident is still unresolved.
December 1 2006 - A black student was beaten by a group of white students at a "white party".
December 2 2006 - At the Gotta Go convenience store, the black student who was beaten up the night before, along with his friends, ran into one of the white students who beat him. A confrontation broke out and the white student went to his vehicle to get his shotgun. The black students wrestled the shotgun away from him and brought it to the police department and told them of the incident. The black students were arrested for stealing the gun. The white student was not charged.
December 4 2006 - A white student, Justin Barker, was attacked at school by a group of black students for taunting them with racial slurs and verbally supporting the nooses that were hung on "the white tree" and also supporting the white students who beat up the black student at the party. He was treated at a hospital and released the same day, attending a social function that evening. Six black students were arrested for beating Barker, and charged with attempted second-degree murder and conspiracy to commit murder.
17-year-old Robert Bailey Junior - bail was set at $138,000
17-year-old Theo Shaw - bail was set at $130,000
18-year-old Carwin Jones - bail was set at $100,000
17-year-old Bryant Purvis - bail was set at $70,000
16 year old Mychal Bell - bail was set at $90,000 (a sophomore in high school, was charged as an adult)
There remains another unidentified minor
June 26 2007 - Mychal Bell is found guilty of second-degree battery and conspiracy to commit aggravated second-degree battery which was a reduced sentence.
September 20 2007 - Mychal Bell will be sentenced
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