1st

way to embarrass all the people that stood up for your stupid ass.

MAMMA I MADE IT 1ST

AWW DAMN LOL

Why did I read on yahoo that he was arrested again because he was shoplifting? SMH. I hope that isn’t true.

I’m glad he’s ok. At least he was cleaning it and not playing with it… be careful next time.. dumbass

Who the f*k cleans a loaded gun? Duh.
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The real question here is WHAT is he, a teenager, doing with a loaded gun in the first place? Whatever really went down in Jena, shouldn’t this kid be careful about his image?

all over the news the story is he shot himself in the chest trying to commit suicide because he was caught shoplifting and was back in the media and could not handle the pressure…..somebody needs to get their story straight….

SMDH – When will these kids learn!

This story is very troubling. . .It seems like a possible attempted suicide.

And does anyone know why this young man is in foster care?

what an idiot, after all that happpened. and i bet he was playing with it. some people just dont get it. he’s a clown, plain and simple

suicide??? lol c’mon now sydney, who’s aim is that bad? i doubt it was that

@max

According to the AP story I read this morning, there’s more to this story:

Mychal Bell’s wound isn’t life threatening, said Monroe Police Sgt. Cassandra Wooten. The 18-year-old used a .22-caliber firearm in the shooting around 7:40 p.m., she said.

Wooten believes Bell was upset over media coverage of the arrest last week.

“I think he was upset over the incident … and didn’t want to be in the news again,” she said.

Also, I’m puzzled over why Bell is in foster care when he has two parents (and I vividly recall their interview on Larry King Live when this story hit the national news).

The Atlantic has an article on the Jena 6 in its January/February issue that may shed some light. Excerpt below — This young man obviously comes from a very troubled background:

http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200801/jena6

In the year leading up to the attack on Barker, Bell had punched a girl, physically assaulted a man, and committed two acts of vandalism—four offenses he was found guilty of in juvenile court. (His father called it “kid stuff” and complained about “Uncle Toms” running to whites at the courthouse.) Fowler, a jowly white man of 56 who says he was “like a granddaddy” to his players, told me of other incidents that he had heard about involving the crowd Bell ran with, which included some of the Jena Six. In the summer of 2006, for example, that crowd had attacked a black ex-convict who had himself once been feared in the neighborhood.

As a child, Bell was “scared of everything,” his mother says—fire engines, police sirens. But as he grew up, his temper began to scare others. “He was hotheaded a lot—that was his only flaw, I believe,” McPherson says, along with “hanging out with the wrong people.” Bell also had a father who believed that no slight should go unanswered—that if you were in the right, as Jones put it, “you have the right to be a man.”

Bell’s volatility became evident in dramatic fashion when he assaulted a female student, LaTara Hart, on Christmas Day, 2005. She got in the middle of Bell’s long-running dispute with her cousin, and ended up at the hospital with injuries—to her eye, jaw, and chest—that her family describes as more serious than Justin Barker’s.

what a moron.. unfortunately not surprising.

According to The Atlantic, Mychal Bell’s father hasn’t been in the picture for some time (despite his frequent interviews in the past year) and his mother also has had past legal problems.

I personally don’t believe that Bell’s problems are all self-created.

those jena 6 boys are an embarassment

Why does he even have a gun in his possession…is he on some type of police force?

i’m not buying it.

it could have been attemped suicide or something.

I can see why he would carry around a gun. THose whites down there are still running around.

I dont see why he would “clean” a loaded gun

UMMMM you guys may want to make sure your reporting the right thing…..On every other website I have read today (Yahoo, Cnn, AP, MediaTakeout, etc.) they have said that he shot himself after being arrested for shoplifting. He attemped suicide….GET IT TOGETHER!!!

@ sydney

hhmmm thats interesting. guess there is more to the story. hope he makes wiser choices in the future with his life. he’s probally going thru alot that we have no clue about so we including me shouldnt be so quick to judge like our lives are so perfect. cause we aint angles either.

What’s embarrassing is this country has a president and a ruling class which doesn’t include Jay Z or Beyonce who pit each and every follower against the other and they get away with it. What makes him any different than the KILLER Laura Bush who killed her high school sweetheart in a car accident or Ted– i can’t hold my liquor Kennedy he’s got blood on his hands just like Bush & co. who are pillaging Iraq Afghanistan and any GOTTDAMN place ELSE they wanna steal from. How is he any different? He’s at the bottom of the totem pole surrounded by much worse f**k ups. He’s not the only N.O. resident ready to blast his brains out. Many of those people are suffering from post traumatic stress disorder. The lack of LOVE and Compassion reminds me of the people caught in the secret war in Somalia…Who CARES?

lol silly rabbit, gun are for hunting. but dont get near dick cheney, he might think ur an animal and busta cap in ya lol!

Just another example on why most black people should not be allowed to procreate.

@max

“he’s probally going thru alot that we have no clue about so we including me shouldnt be so quick to judge like our lives are so perfect.”

Exactly. His problems weren’t created inside a vacuum. There’s a lot more to this story and the causes of his problems. I hope he gets some help soon because at this rate, he will possibly wind up in prison or worse.

Has anyone stopped to think this story is a cover up for him really attempting suicide? Just maybe this child (yes, he’s still a child) is depressed and feeling hopeless, like millions of other black youth. This child need psychological help and soon. God Bless!

THIS IS BARACK’S FAULT

C’mon young man! You had thousands of people marching for YOU…You gotta make better decisions..
Where is his father?

US? When you say US you’re not talking about ME. I use my BRAIN more than 6% of it I might add at least 5 out of 7days a week. Don’t group me with the mentally ILL, I exist around YOU nuts.

This young man needs help. Its clear that he is disturbed and needs some guidance and a firm kick in the ass. He is on a path of self distruction and jail if he keeps this up.

HE SHOULDN’T BEEN BREAKING THE LAW AND SHOPLIFTING! DAMN SOME PEOPLE NEVER LEARN! JUST WAIT AND SEE IF ALL SIX OF THEM JENA SIX MOFO’S DON’T CONTINUE TO GET ARRESTED! THEN THEIR DAMN FAT MAMA GONNA COME ON THE NEWS CRYING, MY POOR BABY IS A GOOD THUG! I MEAN SON!

You can actually tell by his body language in the picture that he felt he was not worthy of all the attention. What a damn clown. I feel bad for all those people who took time off from their busy lives to go hundreds & thousands of miles to protest for his stupid ass.

Wow….Is he even old enough to own a firearm? I blame his parents….

Sharpton is a disgrace.

This is exactly why I wasn’t trying to wear black go to La and march for his thug ass.

I knew he was no innocent when I found out about his prior assaults and charges. Then the fact that he’d knocked some kid out–along with 5 of his cronies–then tried to blame it on kids sitting under a “white tree” and nooses (incidents that had happened months if not a year prior)told me he was someone who looked for trouble.

Then after all the help he and his family was given, he gets out and tries to steal from a store! WTH???

Black people need to stop jumping on every bandwagon. Racism does exist in our country, but some people make a judge want to throw them under a jail with their long juvenile records.

There are a lot of black kids out there working hard in school and staying out of trouble while holding down jobs. Where are the marches for them? THOSE are the black youths I’ll put my time, energy, and money behind.

What did I miss? Who said he was cleaning the gun? Anyway, the boy is a career criminal at the tender age of 18. It ain’t his fault permed up Al and Messy Jesse used them for publicity by staging marches and demonstrations for these idiots.

That’s just It! There are millions of upstanding Black young men going to school. working being responsible, but the thug messes it up for all of us because we are associated with them by color. It is like the bible states,”that the wheat will be gathered up with the chaff.” This story is on all the news online sites and people are shaking their heads all over the country about it. This man made a choice to shoplift and he got caught. Now he is depressed because of the publicity coming his way after so many people rallied around him. It’s nuts! We need to stop running to protest and defend these thugs everytime that hustlin pimp opens his fat mouth to rile people up. Thugs have been endangering decent, hardworking Black folks for years and yet none of these processed headed, jacklegged preachers run to the good folks defense to take on the thugs and the thugs know it too.

Im trying to imagin this fool cleaning the gun and then shooting hismself by accident. SMH,

@CLAUDE, Did you say “processed headed jacklegged, preachers”???

That’s one thing black folks forget: Those same thugs they went marching for were the same thugs who would’ve had NO PROBLEM at all jacking them for all they got or knocking them out cold.

I don’t care about race. Bad behavior is bad behavior and I’m not going to defend you just because “Da White Man” got sick of seeing you in his court, realized what a threat you are, and decided to throw the book at you.

That judge and DA (as wrong as they may have been) likely felt they needed to finally teach that child the lesson that his parents failed to: nobody’s going to put up with thuggish criminal behavior.

Then to even invite them to the BET Awards…SMH…We can be some real shucking and jiving clowns.

Those “white folk” down there knew he was going to mess up and make people regret supporting them.

i’ve been cleaning my gun since the day i was born

Damn, damn, DAMN, I applaud all of y’all on this topic,

@ Pitiful aint it, Karen71, Odetta, Clayton, I can’t list all of y’all.

I remember my college peers trying to get me to wear some green ribbon for the Jena 6 protest. I had each one of them explain to me why I should wear the ribbon, what happened that day and where they got their sources from. And I knew from that moment, along with the mention of AL SHARPTON’s name that it was all bull ca ca. No, I am not going to rise up for some youth who are looking for trouble and found it. I know better than to go to certain areas in the neighborhood where crazy WHITES and even BLACKS congregate. I can call attention to it be filing a complaint if I am harrassed, but thats it. These troublemakers were looking for trouble and they found it. Plain and simple.

Its not a lost cause my people. We still have Black people doing great things around the world. Lets not forget that. This is not a hopeless society we live in. Black people are coming up as we speak. I am one of them, best believe. College is taking too long (LOL) but I will finish and make a difference and will not be another statistic. You will do well too…

LOVE Y’ALL!

Oh and shout out @ Sydney, too

CLOWNS like THIS
are precisely why
I find out ALL THE
FACTS before I buy
into the b-s that the
Michael Baisdens and
all the rest of the
media pimps try to
peddle to keep their
ratings up.
When this idiot decided
to take it upon himself
to fight for the right
to sit under a damn tree,
any SANE adult should have
looked into his background
THOROUGHLY.
This wasn’t Rosa Parks
refusing to move to the back
of the bus — Rosa Parks
lived an EXEMPLARY life and
was worth marching for.
These morons have records
that take up reams of paper,
and media pimps like Baisden
want everybody to get behind
their B-S.
I won’t buy into that SCAM
AGAIN.
Idiots like this will embarass
you EVERY TIME.

I love it when some random negro does something dumb dumb all the trained self-hating coons moan about how “we” look. Please I don’t know done of y’all ni@@ers

Hey Christmas

Just came across more details on the shoplifting charge, FYI:

http://www.thenewsstar.com/article/20081229/UPDATES01/81229038

Police said Bell and an unidentified male were spotted Wednesday by store security after they placed $370 worth of merchandise in a Dillard’s shopping bag. After the two separated, Bell left the store, was followed by a security officer, and began running through the parking lot.

Police said Bell was discovered under a vehicle in the Sears parking lot. Lt. Jeff Harris said Bell began “swinging his arms wildly” and delivered a glancing blow to the security officer with his elbow.

Bell was booked into Richwood Correctional Center and released on $1,300 bond. He will be arraigned at a later date. Each of the charges carries a possible penalty of up to six months in jail.

Louis Scott who has represented Bell in the past said that preconceived notions on the part of Dillard’s employees may have played a role in Bell’s arrest.

“Dillard’s has a tradition of being overly suspicious of young black males,” Scott said.

More from Bell’s attorney:

http://www.13wmaz.com/article/20081230/NEWS04/81230027

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A lawyer in Louisiana says one of the teens in the Jena Six case shot himself yesterday out of despair.

Attorney Louis Scott says Mychal Bell was worried that his recent arrest for shoplifting would ruin his dream of playing college football.

Unfortunately, something similar happened with that 12 year old black boy who accidentally killed his cousin with a wrestling move. Anyone remember his name? He got LIFE. Everyone fought like hell to get him out of jail. Within a year he was back in jail for robbing a pizza delivery guy at gunpoint.

Now, it could be argued that had he not been thrown in jail for an accidental death he might not have had that thug/felon mentality. However, it could also be argued that he was just a bad kid from the start. The same way it could be argued that the Jena 6 boys could have been troubled from the start.

Did I agree with giving him life when I first heard about it? NO. Did I agree that the Jena 6 ruling was unjust? Yes But just because someone is black and given an unfairly harsh sentence doesn’t mean they were COMPLETELY innocent. Time will tell whether or not these young men do something with the lives that so many people fought to give them back. For their own sake, I hope so.

CNN Is now reporting that he ATTEMPTED SUICIDE AFTER BEING FRUSTRATED WITH ALL THE MEDIA ATTENTION SURROUNDING HIS STEALING $370 WORTH OF CLOTHING LAST WEEK.

http://www.cnn.com/2008/CRIME/12/30/jena.shooting/index.html

#1 People should’ve looked more carefully when they realized MICHAEL BAISDEN was leading the call to arms. He is not the most responsible, respectable black person I know. Mr. Michael “I Support Swinging, Hookers, Marriage-Is-A-Form-Of-Prostitution-So-Why-Bother” Baisden.

#2 His lawyer is a disgrace with all of his excuses and spins. He needs to realize he’s not helping this young brother at all.

the fcuk you callin mini bro?

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Just because Michal Bell had an altercation with a racist doesn’t mean he himself is a good person.

From what I’ve read Mr. Bell had a troubled past before the noose incident. He reaction to that pathetic racist is just what those racists like. They agitate us, we react violently and then they get to take us through a ride in the justice system.

I’m not blaming Bell for the racists’ behaviour, but, he was responsible for his reaction to it. We should have never lauded him as a hero for physical violence that’s no different than violence committed against us.

The Al Sharptons of the world-if they want to really do anything-should fight to make racist graffitti-swazstikas; nooses and any paraphenalia that can incite hate illegal.

That’s true victory when you can affect the behaviour these hateful people represent and force them to go underground and never dare to reveal their hate in public. We should work to make them afraid-financially, to reveal their thoughts and ideas for fear of losing every penny they have or will ever earn.

You can’t legislate people into liking you but, you can damn sure make them pay for doing something to incite hateful behaviour by others.

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