Imagine that -- an unprovoked, race-based violent assault upon an innocent kid violates the terms of Mychal Bell's probation!

What was that? What probation?

This probation.

A teenager at the center of a civil rights controversy was back in jail Thursday after a judge decided the fight that put him in the national spotlight violated terms of his probation for a previous conviction, his attorney said.

Mychal Bell, who along with five other black teenagers is accused of beating a white classmate, had gone to juvenile court Thursday expecting another routine hearing, said Carol Powell Lexing, one of Bell's attorneys.

Instead, after a six-hour hearing, state District Judge J.P. Mauffrey Jr. sentenced him to 18 months in jail on two counts of simple battery and two counts of criminal destruction of property, Lexing said.

He had been hit with those charges before the Dec. 4 attack on classmate Justin Barker. Details on the previous charges, which were handled in juvenile court, were unclear.

"He's locked up again," Marcus Jones said of his 17-year-old son. "No bail has been set or nothing. He's a young man who's been thrown in jail again and again, and he just has to take it."

You see, Bell is not some innocent kid caught up in a racist system out to get him because of the color of his skin. He is a violent thug, whose adult charges that were a cause celebre were clearly warranted.

Race-baiter Al Sharpton, however, disagrees.

Sharpton reacted swiftly upon learning Bell was back in jail Thursday.

"We feel this was a cruel and unusual punishment and is a revenge by this judge for the Jena Six movement," said Sharpton, who was instrumental in organizing the protest held Sept. 20, the day Bell was originally supposed to be sentenced in the case.

I call bullshit. Al Sharpton, you would be outraged if Bell were white and his victims black. Why can't you apply the same standard here and be outraged because a black thug was allowed to get away with a violent, racist assault -- and is being forced to live up to the terms of his probation by going to jail. Heck, I don't remember any outrage when one of the Duke players had his probation revoked and was jailed because the false charges (which you supported on the word of a lying whore ) brought by a corrupt prosecutor. Indeed, I don't recall you apologizing for your defamation of those young men. Your hypocrisy is showing, sir, and your credibility in this case is shot as a result.

And I predict that we will see Mychal bell in and out of jail for the next several years, constantly playing the race card -- until he kills someone and is executed for that crime.

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