"Jena 6" Defendant Arrested In Texas

(AP)  A defendant in the Louisiana "Jena Six" case was arrested after allegedly slamming a student's head into a bench at his new school in Texas, police said.

The defendant, Bryant R. Purvis, 19, was arrested on a charge of assault causing bodily injury Wednesday after an altercation at Hebron High School. It began because Purvis believed a student had flattened his tires, Sgt. John Singleton said.

Purvis was released from jail Thursday morning.

According to a police report, the student felt Purvis come behind him and "grab his neck with one hand and begin to choke him." Purvis then said, "Don't you ever mess with my car again" and slammed the student's head into the bench of a table and walked away, the report said. The student's left eye was injured, but Singleton didn't know whether he needed medical attention after seeing the school nurse.

School district declined to comment on details of the incident.

Purvis was one of six black Jena High School students initially charged with attempted murder after a 2006 assault on a white student. Charges were reduced, but the original counts caused complaints of harsh, racially motivated prosecution that led to 20,000 people marching in Jena.

Purvis faces aggravated second-degree battery and conspiracy to commit battery charges in the Jena case and is set for trial in March. If convicted of both charges, he faces up to 22½ years in prison.

The Texas case had nothing to do with race, Singleton said.

"We don't believe there's any racial motivation behind it," he said. "It was basically a misdemeanor assault that occurred during an altercation."

Purvis couldn't be reached for comment Thursday because there's no listed number for the uncle he lives with in Texas, Dallas Cowboys defensive lineman Jason Hatcher. No one answered the door at the home Thursday afternoon. Soon after Purvis' arrest in Louisiana, his mother sent him to live with Hatcher to keep him out of trouble and out of the spotlight.

Purvis' mother, Tina Jones, told the Alexandria Daily Town Talk newspaper that she wished her son could avoid such situations.

"I understand he gets frustrated," she said. "But he needed to walk away from this situation, being that he's already in a situation. It's very frustrating and upsetting to have to go through so much."

[a605441]

from the comments on this situation,most or all this people were intimidated at one time or another,because
their mouths overrun their a//,and they feel their comments counts,maybe this kid is trouble,maybe this kid needs help,apparently he does.but who here is willing to walk up to him and fingerpoint his flaws,without getting a serious of right and left blows to the body.were quick to judge,quick to decide,
without stepping back to overlook your own flaws.hey,your kid never does stupid things,he subscribes to KKK weekly,he never hit another person in his life,god help us,do yourselves a favor,get a large 20 oz.bottle of get a life,and super size it with upgrade your self-esteem,stop being a judge,that s what a courtroom does,correct the problems,and add
solutions to remedy such actions,so it won t happen in
your town,city,etc.

[a605441]

i ve read this wannabe racist comments,from the sharpton/jackson issue to the kid s a criminal comments,and this is what i think about it,these people are sick,no general idea of how serious this situation is or can be.there is no ordain organization like the KKK still mulling around calling
out the race card?rallies,marches,their rights are violated,the whole nine yards,yet the jena 6 has pitted black against white,instead of law and justice
to me the real criminals are people who type such stupid and nonsense in here.i say to you,welcome to the united states of america,you have rights here,if you feel you reached this comment with hatred,then go back to the hole you came out of,and let justice and
the laws that govern this country prevail.go renew your subscription to KKK weekly and leave the leaders
of this world to lead,for short,you are not judges,stop acting like one.losers.

[kailumego1]

And I just love it how some white folks like to throw around the "noose" issue, when if my mind serves me correctly, originally it was whites that hung other whites during the Puritan period, for crimes, e.g. witchcraft, theft, murder, etc.

The whole "noose" issue was not created to keep black folks in line, but to punish criminal white folks.

[kailumego1]

Just love cases like these, where young black males behave badly, so the white masses can "project" their inadequacies, through blabbering racist rhetoric.

And individuals like achtung, crzmeat, wolverb, etc. can show what they''re really made of, the backwater contaminate of defecate and Neanderthalism.

Certainly, this young man had problems dealing with his anger even before the Jena Six episode.

And Sharpton, Jackson, and others should have never gotten involved with this incident, if only to address the "hanging of the nooses", as a federal hate crime.

Because although you "backwater contaminates" like to spew your racist rhetoric about blacks, Arabs, etc., you are certainly in no position to pontificate, considering the millenniums, centuries, decades, etc. of brutal violent behavior at the hands of Greeks, Romans, Western Europeans etc., so, considering crawling back to that cave in the Lagros and Caucasus Mts.

[facts6]

Cowboy mentality poster(s): the cowboy culture is to judge what a person is based on their character not who their family is or how much/little money they have. That is the difference between the West and the South. The South is very lineage fixed, nothing wrong with that, just part of the culture. I believe someone with a rational mind mentioned the character issue as recently as the ''60''s.

[dylanxxv]

He isn''''t a piece of ***. He''''s a good looking kid with a promising future being harrassed with constant and continuous racism--by white students with parents who teach racism.

Posted by BlondMadison at 06:50 PM : Feb 08, 2008
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A person can take only so much bullying and harrassment. The teachers are to blame at the first school. Hanging nooses should not have been ignored by white teachers teaching black students.

This kid needs support and to be removed to a place where no one knows who he is to be able to mess with him. He didn''''t go off for no reason. Someone at the new school flattened his tires.

Where are the video cameras at this school? Why is he being bullied and his car vandalized?

Posted by BlondMadison at 06:47 PM : Feb 08, 2008
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At the risk of being labeled racist, Maybe they should show this "good looking" "victim" exactly how that noose is used...

[Krazcarl]

MARYMCQ....Well spoken...This is the side of the coin no one looks at...I encourage you to move for the benifit of your children there not learning proper social skills and it will hamper them later in life. I''m not a racist I know black folk that I love like family but see your point of view...MOVE.

[Krazcarl]

Why all this talk about Al and Jessie thet made there money and fame off racism the black folks don''t take them serious. The more you talk about them the more power thay just dismiss them most of the blacks have I like a desciption a black man told me once about Jessie "you got a preacher that has never led a church a poliction that mever held office and thinks he''s a legend"...They got cash and fame you can''t hate them for that we all try to make a buck.

[mmalfi]

ONCE A PUNK, ALWAYS A PUNK. POINT PROVEN AGAIN.

[mmalfi]

ONCE A PUNK, ALWAYS A PUNK. POINT PROVEN, AGAIN.