By The Admin on August 16, 2008
- Grace Chung Becker, Acting Assistant Attorney General for the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division, and Donald W. Washington, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Louisiana, today announced that Jeremiah Munsen, 19, of Pineville, La., was sentenced to four months in prison for his role in using nooses to threaten marchers who participated in [...]
Posted in Louisiana, Race | Tagged Jena 6, Jeremiah Munsen, nooses
By The Admin on August 14, 2008
MICHAEL KUNZELMAN (AP)
- A former police officer accused of repeatedly jolting a handcuffed man with a Taser before he died was indicted on a manslaughter charge Wednesday by a grand jury in central Louisiana.
The Winn Parish grand jury also indicted former Winnfield police officer Scott Nugent on a charge of malfeasance in office stemming from [...]
Posted in Louisiana | Tagged Baron Pikes, Jena 6, Scott Nugent
