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PRISON FOR TEEN WITH NOOSES IN TRUCK: Feds said 19-year-old used intimidation during civil rights march in Jena.
*A Louisiana teenager was sentenced to four months in prison Friday for using nooses to intimidate a group of black civil rights demonstrators protesting the Jena 6 court case, reports the Associated Press.
Federal prosecutors said 19-year-old Jeremiah Munsen, of Colfax, had nooses hanging from the back of his truck when he drove past a crowd of people who had attended a massive civil rights march in Jena.
Munsen had faced up to one year in prison after he pleaded guilty in April to a misdemeanor charge of interfering with the marchers' federally protected right to travel.
His victims were waiting in Alexandria for a bus home to Tennessee after protesting the criminal cases against six black teenagers charged with beating a white student at Jena High School.
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