JENA La.
Martin Luther King III, the oldest son of the famed civil rights leader, urged a crowd Tuesday night to use the ballot box to change a local justice system where six black teenagers face the possibility of decades in prison for attacking a white classmate.
King spoke at what was billed as a town hall meeting to back the teens labeled by supporters as the “Jena Six.” He chastised the mostly black audience for failing to vote.
“We have to come together, white folks and black folks, and elect a new district attorney if it’s found that he has misappropriated power,” King said.
