Jena-6er Made Near Fatal Boo-Boo
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Posted by Bossip Staff
Livesteez reports that Mychal Bell accidentally capped himself recently:
One of the teenagers arrested in the “Jena Six” case has been taken to the hospital after shooting himself in the chest police say. Monroe, Louisiana, police Sgt. Cassandra Wooten says Mychal Bell’s wound isn’t life-threatening.
Wooten says the 18-year-old wounded himself around 7:40 p.m. in Monroe. He’s been staying with a foster family there, reports The Associated Press. Wooten believes Bell was upset over media coverage of his arrest last week on a shoplifting charge. Bell was arrested Christmas Eve and booked on a shoplifting charge, police said Monday, Dec. 29, 2008. He was freed on $1,300 bond following his arrest at a mall in Monroe, La. He also was booked on charges of resisting arrest and simple assault.
He was one of six black teens charged with beating a white classmate at Jena High School in December 2006. The case aggravated racial tensions in the central Louisiana town and led to a massive civil rights demonstration. Bell pleaded guilty in juvenile court to a charge of second-degree battery for the self-inflicted gunshot wound.
Well, we’re glad to hear that young blood is ok. But seriously, this cat is obviously not too bright. Who the f*k cleans a loaded gun? Duh.
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grillfixer
12/30/08, 09:15:am
1st
pm
12/30/08, 09:15:am
way to embarr***** all the people that stood up for your stupid *****.
mojojojo
12/30/08, 09:15:am
MAMMA I MADE IT 1ST
mojojojo
12/30/08, 09:16:am
AWW DAMN LOL
KMBPYT
12/30/08, 09:16:am
Why did I read on yahoo that he was arrested again because he was shoplifting? SMH. I hope that isn’t true.
grillfixer
12/30/08, 09:17:am
Sure he was!! n i got a nice new bridge 2 sell U!! y make excuse’s 4 sum 1 cause there black! this nig%a stupid, aint learned *****!!!
Nina Knows
12/30/08, 09:19:am
I’m glad he’s ok. At least he was cleaning it and not playing with it… be careful next time.. dumb*****
This I Know
12/30/08, 09:20:am
Who the f*k cleans a loaded gun? Duh.
————————————-
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?
MS. P.R.O
12/30/08, 09:24:am
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….
kahmmillion
12/30/08, 09:26:am
SMDH – When will these kids learn!
laney28
12/30/08, 09:29:am
Wow… They won’t learn until their six feet under and by then it’s too late.
Sydney
12/30/08, 09:32:am
This story is very troubling. . .It seems like a possible attempted suicide.
And does anyone know why this young man is in foster care?
mAx
12/30/08, 09:32:am
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
mAx
12/30/08, 09:35:am
suicide??? lol c’mon now sydney, who’s aim is that bad? i doubt it was that
Sydney
12/30/08, 09:41:am
@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. C*****andra 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.
STEFANY
12/30/08, 09:42:am
*****ing loser, what the hell was he doing with a gun in the first place..I think some people are just destine to do the wrong thing, if that incident in Jena didn’t wake his dumb ***** up nothing can save him.
Sydney
12/30/08, 09:45:am
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 *****aulted 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 *****aulted 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.
Ultimate Hustla
12/30/08, 09:47:am
what a moron.. unfortunately not surprising.
Sydney
12/30/08, 09:47:am
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.
PhillyGrownWoman
12/30/08, 09:48:am
those jena 6 boys are an embar*****ment
Afiya - GO EAGLES
12/30/08, 10:04:am
Why does he even have a gun in his possession…is he on some type of police force?
ha ha
12/30/08, 10:05:am
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
WorkingWoman
12/30/08, 10:14:am
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!!!
mAx
12/30/08, 10:19:am
@ 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.
BlackLADYDoctor
12/30/08, 10:25:am
What’s embarr*****ing is this country has a president and a ruling cl***** 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 Comp*****ion reminds me of the people caught in the secret war in Somalia…Who CARES?
Yahh Trick YaaHH!!!
12/30/08, 10:25:am
lol silly rabbit, gun are for hunting. but dont get near ***** cheney, he might think ur an animal and busta cap in ya lol!
Opie Taylor
12/30/08, 10:31:am
Just another example on why most black people should not be allowed to procreate.
Sydney
12/30/08, 10:33:am
@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.
Aubrey
12/30/08, 10:49:am
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!
Hannibal
12/30/08, 11:07:am
THIS IS BARACK’S FAULT
ronica
12/30/08, 11:10:am
***** him he just let white folks prove theirs point about us,
Redd Tony
12/30/08, 11:20:am
C’mon young man! You had thousands of people marching for YOU…You gotta make better decisions..
Where is his father?
If I had a dollar for every TOKEN NEGRO I could make CHANGE
12/30/08, 11:40:am
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.
Pitiful ain't it
12/30/08, 11:46:am
Please I am done with these dumb ***** colored boys doing stupid *****. What was he shoplifting for in the first place? Yeah, shooting his dumb self because he knows what a *****up he is after all yall ran down there trying to help him and his dumb ***** boys jumping on one white dude. Since when do black guys fight so dirty?
jandsmama
12/30/08, 11:48:am
This young man needs help. Its clear that he is disturbed and needs some guidance and a firm kick in the *****. He is on a path of self distruction and jail if he keeps this up.
MELVIN
12/30/08, 11:49:am
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 *****’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!
SOMER
12/30/08, 11:52:am
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 *****.
Nicole
12/30/08, 11:54:am
Man I’m mad I wore f-ing black that date to rep for these thug azz *****s!
John
12/30/08, 11:54:am
Wow….Is he even old enough to own a firearm? I blame his parents….
Sharpton is a disgrace.
And.....(with 5 dots)
12/30/08, 11:58:am
Bossip, ya’ll need to stop trying to re-write what really went down. *****ody other than this site is saying anything about an “accidental” shooting and a cleaning a loaded gun. This boy attempted to kill himself. And HOW IN THE HELL is the court going to charge him second-degree battery for the self-inflicted gunshot wound. That’s some major bull***** right there. He tried to commit suicide, and they slam him with more charges????? This whole Jena Six incident is going to haunt these boys forever, and they need to get out of Louisiana.
Karen71
12/30/08, 12:17:pm
This is exactly why I wasn’t trying to wear black go to La and march for his thug *****.
I knew he was no innocent when I found out about his prior *****aults 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.
Mrs. Rance
12/30/08, 12:29:pm
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.
Claude
12/30/08, 12:36:pm
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 *****ociated 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.
Odetta
12/30/08, 12:40:pm
Karen71, I have been saying that for years. The sheep who bleep and march in time behind Sharpton all fall back in silence when Black thugs kill good Black folk. but let a white person look at them cross-eyed and they go to marching and screaming racism. You know what? Tough *****! Keep your stupid *****es in school, learn a trade, stop reproducing more babies that you don’t take care of who will grow up to be thugs like you. This fool and all the ones just like him love to give the media fodder to throw on the flames about the stories of no-good Black men.
***** A Thug in 09
12/30/08, 12:44:pm
Me neither. When I heard about the rally and Sharpton and Jackson organizing those busses to move people down there and then Jackson and Travis *****ting all over president Obama because he didn’t go, I knew something wasn’t right the way they tried to tell it. And then seeing those other two Jena 6 *****wipes at the BET and on the internet flashing all those stacks of money and thug posing, I knew I was right all along.
Mrs. Me
12/30/08, 12:50:pm
a big fat LOL to all the black folks who were jumping up and down trying to defend this hooligan, wearing black and marching…carrying on, creating scenes and such…and for what? people, do your homework! black folks are so quick to yell INJUSTICE and try to get some publicity and half the time it doesn’t matter who its for. what about megan williams? did she get a march? how about some black-wearing? nah…but let’s jump behind some thug knuckleheads because their actions caught up to them.
then this fool has the audacity to not only be shoplifting…but also in the possession of a gun? he should have stayed in jail…it seems thats the only way certain people like him learn. i don’t feel sorry for him…child or not. he is very cognizant, capable of logic and knows right from wrong….so spare me the whoas-him stories. can’t save folks who don’t want to be saved! learn that people! just because someone is black doesn’t make them your brother….cuz he would have robbed or shot you in a split second under different cir*****stances.
way to go!
Doc
12/30/08, 12:52:pm
Im trying to imagin this fool cleaning the gun and then shooting hismself by accident. SMH,
Clayton
12/30/08, 12:58:pm
Yeah right cleaning a loaded gun. Yall believe that ***** then you crazy. Most likely he going off to shoplift again this time packing heat. I’m glad it was him that got shot instead of some innocent clerk in a store trying to make a living. My uncle ran a store in Detroit but he was robbed so many times by thugs and shot the last time but survived, he closed his store down ten years ago. So naw, I don’t march for *****ody, especially when Sharpton is involved becuz that fool loves to be on display. He learned that trade from being James Brown (RIP) road manager. I am sick and finished with the thugs destroying the image of Black men.
Karen71
12/30/08, 13:31:pm
@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: *****ody’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.
bogman1
12/30/08, 13:52:pm
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The one
12/30/08, 14:14:pm
No where in the article does it say how he shot himself. What did Bossip read that we didn’t. You guys are the worst news reporters EVER!!! Yall never get nothing right!
Alaskan Baby
12/30/08, 15:11:pm
i’ve been cleaning my gun since the day i was born
Christmas Jones
12/30/08, 15:16:pm
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 harr*****ed, 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!
Christmas Jones
12/30/08, 15:17:pm
Oh and shout out @ Sydney, too
Ms. Savala
12/30/08, 15:18:pm
If he wants to commit suicide because the media is covering all his bad acts then let’s get his ***** Dr.Kevorkan! All those people came miles to support the unjust that was done to him and fellow young African-American men in that town and all he wants to do is be a thug! I live in Texas and trust it is alot of prejudice things that happens here that are never told, so for him to act like that is stupid. Let those chicken ***** rednecks handle him they wanted they wanted at first and I bet he’ll see how the ***** feels.
gofigure
12/30/08, 16:39:pm
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 embar*****
you EVERY TIME.
Jody
12/30/08, 17:17:pm
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
Sydney
12/30/08, 17:19:pm
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.
Sydney
12/30/08, 17:21:pm
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.
Pazzion
12/30/08, 17:34:pm
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.
nelwebb
12/30/08, 18:16:pm
I wore a ribbon to support the case for equal justice for all in the eyes of the law. Now, I feel embar*****ed. People of all races came out to Jena to support his *****. And how does he re-pay them? By shoplifting and then shooting himself to take the cowards way out! Next time, we need to be careful who we support.
KEMI AT HIPHOSSIP CANADA
12/30/08, 18:33:pm
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
anton
12/30/08, 20:29:pm
Overly suspicious? Why dammit? Because so many of these no-good Black thugs steal that’s *****in why and make it bad for the rest of us. You can stick your excuse up your ***** fool.
BKLYNZ OWN
12/30/08, 22:36:pm
***** WRONG WITH MINI PLAXICO
Karen71
12/30/08, 23:13:pm
#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.
Plaxico Baby
12/31/08, 00:21:am
the ***** you callin mini bro?
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ThinkFirstGirl
1/1/09, 13:48:pm
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.