Jena 6's Bell Back in Jail
| By Kay Steiger - Oct 12th, 2007 at 4:57 pm EDT |
| Also listed in: Campus Progress Blog |
Mychael Bell--the young man who thousands organized around just last month--is back in jail for violating probation of old drug charges:
"We feel this was a cruel and unusual punishment," said [Rev. Al] Sharpton, who was instrumental in organizing the protest held on Sept. 20, the day Bell was originally supposed to be sentenced in the case.
Activists organized around Bell's cause. Read Eliza Krigman's piece on how students at more than 100 campuses organized walkouts to protest inequal charges for blacks in the justice system.
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Mychal Bell may have tried on grossly unfair charges with regard to the six-on-one beating attack, and it's good we fought that injustice, but he's still a really, really awful person.
And he's still guilty of all the other crimes he's committed.
Good for them for revoking his probation, and let's hope he doesn't get his leniency in serving out this *entirely appropriate* sentence because of the important politics surrounding his other legal troubles.
Bell's criminal record previous to the infamous fight and his continuing illegal behavior are a big reason that many people who have followed this story feel he is an unfortunate poster child for a movement that does have a very legitimate cause.