Louisiana teen indicted for displaying noose at Jena civil rights march

WASHINGTON (CNN) - A Louisiana teenager has been indicted on federal hate crime and conspiracy charges for allegedly threatening and intimidating civil rights marchers in Jena last year by displaying hangman's nooses from the back of a pickup truck.

Federal authorities announced Thursday that Jeremiah Munsen, 18, had been indicted by a federal grand jury for repeatedly driving slowly past a group of marchers gathered at a bus depot in Alexandria, which is near Jena, as they awaited buses to return them to Tennessee.

Authorities said Munsen and an unnamed conspirator had attached nooses to their pickup on September 20 and drove to Alexandria specifically to threaten and intimidate the marchers.

–From Justice Producer Terry Frieden