FBI investigating A Virginia man who posted names and addresses of Jena 6 students online The FBI says it is investigating a Roanoke, Virginia man who posted the personal information of the
"Jena 6" students on his website, urging white supremacists to "deliver justice" by lynching them.
Bill White, who calls himself the Commander of the American National Socialist Workers' Party, posted the names, apparent addresses and phone numbers of the 6 students the same day thousands descended on the Jena. Louisiana to protest against what they call injustice in the court system. The FBI is reviewing the website for any possible federal violation, Special Agent Sheila Thorne, of the New Orleans FBI office said in an email to WAVY.com. Thorne would not say if the agency has spoken to White or if the information on the site is accurate.
Rev. Al Sharpton told reporters families of the Jena 6 students have received harassing and threatening phone calls around the clock.
Hampton Roads residents who traveled to Jena for the protests call White's website
"ignorance at it's best.""He wants to threaten these young kids' lives and he's asking somebody to do the work that he won't even do; he's such a coward that he's going to ask someone to go do his dirty work and he sits on his hind-parts and won't step forward and do it himself," said Tony Lee who organized a bus trip to the small Louisiana town.
One of the Jena 6 students, Mychal Bell, remains jailed after a judge denied him bond on Friday. Bell and 5 other black students are charged in connection with the beating of a white student in December 2006.