Louisiana Man Pleads Guilty to Federal Hate Crime
Grace Chung Becker, Acting Assistant Attorney General for the Civil Rights Division, and Donald W. Washington, United States Attorney for the Western District of Louisiana, today announced that Jeremiah Munsen, 18, of Colfax, Louisiana, pled guilty to a federal hate crime for his role in using nooses to threaten marchers who participated in the “Jena Six” civil rights rally.
On September 20, 2007, in an incident that garnered national media attention, Munsen and another person allegedly attached the nooses to the back of a pickup truck and repeatedly drove slowly and menacingly past a large group of African American individuals who had gathered at a bus depot in Alexandria, Louisiana, after attending the civil lights rally in Jena.
The defendant admitted today that he displayed two large, life-sized nooses from the back of his pickup truck with the intent to frighten and intimidate the demonstrators. He and the other person with him hung the nooses in a manner so as to be clearly visible to the gathered demonstrators, and Munsen then drove past the group two or three times while the other person glared out the window at the demonstrators. Munsen further admitted that he and the other person had previously discussed the Ku Klux Klan and how they thought the Klan would have responded to the rally in Jena, and he acknowledged that the Jena Six rally followed extensive public discussion regarding, among other things, the history of racial lynching in the United States and the perception that a noose, when displayed in a racial context, constituted a symbol of racial violence.
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