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Thousands of protesters - most dressed in black - filled the streets of Jena, Louisiana as promised Thursday to support six black teenagers initially charged with attempted murder in the beating of a white classmate.
Chants of "Free the Jena Six" erupted as Al Sharpton and syndicated radio host Michael Baisden made their way to the local courthouse with family members of the accused teens.
Sharpton said he will join Reps. Maxine Waters, D-Calif., Sheila Jackson Lee, D-Texas, and William Jefferson, D-La., to press the House Judiciary Committee next week to summon the district attorney to explain his actions before Congress. Also, a march in Washington is being organized for November.
"What we need is federal intervention to protect people from Southern injustice," Sharpton told the Associated Press. "Our fathers in the 1960's had to penetrate the Kennedy and Johnson administrations, we have to do the same thing."
As coverage of the protest was carried throughout the day on CNN, MSNBC and international media outlets, President Bush said a few words about the Jena situation during a press conference yesterday at the White House.
"The events in Louisiana have saddened me," he said. "All of us in America want there to be, you know, fairness when it comes to justice."
