While the race hucksters have been able to muddy the waters in Jena, Louisiana with their calls for justice, the one person who has received no justice in the case is 18-year-old Justin Baker, the victim of a brutal, unprovoked hate crime by six thugs who were just out to get a white boy because of his race.

The family of a white student allegedly beaten by six black classmates in rural Louisiana has filed a civil lawsuit against the teens' parents, the adult teens, an additional student and the local school board.

One teen, Mychal Bell, pleaded guilty to battery in juvenile court on Monday in the attack. Five other teens face criminal charges in the case and are awaiting court appearances.

Justin Barker, 18, and his parents, David and Kelli, allege in the suit that seven Jena High School students attacked Justin on Dec. 4, 2006, as he left the school gym.
The suit names the attackers as the "Jena Six" students — Bell, Bryant Purvis, Robert Bailey Jr., Carwin Jones, Theo Shaw and a juvenile — as well as a second juvenile.

Law enforcement officials have not named the second juvenile as one of the attackers.

"Petitioners show that Justin was singled out by Mychal, Bryant, Robert, Carwin, Theodore (and the two juveniles), and that the malicious and willful attack of Justin was of such extreme nature so as to require emergency medical care and treatment for the harm inflicted by the attack, and resulting in extensive and permanently disabling injuries," the lawsuit states.

Barker was hit by Bell, knocked unconscious and then repeatedly kicked and stomped by a group of students, according to testimony and court documents.
The beating was preceded by racial incidents, including three white students hanging nooses from a tree.

Now let’s for the moment presume that all the claims of the Jena mob are true, and that there was some sort of unequal treatment of black students and white students by both the school and law enforcement. That STILL does not justify the attack on Justin Baker, who was not one of the three students who hung the nooses – unless, of course, you want to argue that lynching the first available victim of the proper race is an acceptable response to cross-racial crime. For that matter, the attack could not be justified legally or morally even if Justin Baker had been one of the three students from the tree incident, any more than a revenge assault upon Mychal Bell by a group of white students would have been acceptable.

Given the unaccounted-for cash the Jena thugs have received from “admirers” and well-wishers, I think it only reasonable that their victim get a share of the pie.

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