Villagers may recall the arrest of Jeremiah Munsen on the night of Sept. 20, after the civil rights rally in Jena. Munsen had been drinking when he and a juvenile accomplice decided to fashion nooses from electrical extension cords, hang them from the truck and buzz past protesters.
Munsen had pleaded guilty in April to a misdemeanor federal hate cri
me of interrupting protesters' federal rights to travel for driving with the nooses draped from the back of a pickup truck.U.S. District Judge Dee Drell sentenced Munsen to four months in prison. [SOURCE]
"It's a shame that there is not a federal statute for terminal stupidity, because this was a stupid, stupid thing to do," Drell told Munsen as he handed down the sentence.
