Jena 6: More on US Attorney Donald Washington
July 28, 2007 by Laura | Trackback URI
I posted on a recent forum in Jena conducted by the DOJ, specifically US Attorney Donald Washington, in Jena 6: Sentencing Delayed, DOJ Conducts Forum.
[Washington] mentioned and addressed each of the complaints he thought community members have raised in recent months — selective and malicious prosecution, the fact that some students have been suspended and others expelled, hate crimes and patterns or practice of racism.Many questioned whether there was prosecutorial misconduct on the part of LaSalle Parish District Attorney Reed Walters. He did not attend the forum, citing a judicial gag order.
Washington said selective prosecution is very hard to prove, and in order to do so he would have to have to “dig in his head” to determine if Walters was treating black and white people differently.
In fact, neither extrasensory perception nor brain surgery are methods used to determine selective prosecution.
The tool used to determine selective prosecution is investigation - and no investigations (so far) have been conducted with regard to LaSalle DA Reed Walters, or arrest records and sentencing in Jena or in LaSalle Parish.
One Black Man’s Blog has more background on Donald Washington in Bush Appointee Swayed To Call Noose Hanging Incident A Prank.
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