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The reports came amid a rash of incidents around the country involving nooses and their grim symbolism.
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The school's principal recommended expulsion for those behind the nooses, according to the local newspaper in nearby Alexandria.
CNN: Residents: Nooses spark school violence, divide town
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On December 4, about three months after the nooses were discovered, six teens, dubbed the Jena 6, were accused of beating classmate Justin Barker.
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Walters has said there was no direct link between the hanging of the nooses and the schoolyard attack, and defended the prosecutions ahead of last Thursday's peaceful march.
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Her documentary about race relations and tensions in Jena, Louisiana, following the appearance of nooses at the town's high school, earned her the top documentary award from the Society of Professional Journalists.
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Several buildings in Odessa are adorned with reliefs of two young girls with nooses round their necks: they hanged themselves, legend has it, after falling prey to white-slave traders.
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Instead, The Town Talk reported, a school district committee overruled the recommendation and suspended three white students for three days for hanging the nooses, a gesture written off as a prank.
CNN: Residents: Nooses spark school violence, divide town
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LaSalle Parish District Attorney Reed Walters, who oversaw the local investigations into both incidents, rejected the idea there was "a direct linkage" between the hanging of the nooses and the schoolyard attack.
CNN: U.S. attorney: Nooses, beating at Jena High not related
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Many said they were angry that the students, dubbed the Jena 6, were being treated more harshly than three white students who hung nooses from an oak tree on Jena High School property.
CNN: Mychal Bell of 'Jena 6' released on bail