by Associated Press
Published: Mon, January 21, 2008 - 4:06 pm CST
Last Updated: Mon, January 21, 2008 - 11:09 pm CST
JENA, La. (AP) - Small groups totalling about 50 demonstrators,responding to a call from a Mississippi-based segregationist,
assembled in Jena, Louisiana today.
Members and supporters of Richard Barrett's "Nationalist
Movement" protested against the Martin Luther King Junior holiday
and a group of black teenagers known as the Jena Six.
They were met by resistance and dozens of state police forced
the counter-demonstrators back before Barrett spoke.
They arrested one man who broke away from the crowd.
State police identified him as William Winchester Jr., of New
Orleans. He was described as a member of the New Black Panthers and
was booked with battery on a police officer and resisting arrest.
Race relations in the town of 28-hundred have been in the news
ever since six black teenagers were arrested in the beating of a
white classmate in December 2006.
About 20,000 people peacefully marched in support of the
so-called Jena Six in September, and Monday's demonstration was
organized in opposition to both the teenagers and the King holiday.
(Copyright 2008 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)
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