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A doctor who had never met Mychael Bell posted his bond to get him out of jail. Bell is just 17 years old. Bell’s lawyer says a few other had offered to pay the bail as well. Bell returned home to Jena, La.

So now because a strnger paid his bail he was able to return home for the first time in over 10 months. He is a defendant, along with 5 others in a brutal attack on a white child.

The person who paid his bail was a 42 year old doctor named Stephen Ayers. Dr Ayers paid 10% of the 45,000 dollar bond. The doctor, also black, says he is nt motivated by race, but only in the interest of fair play.

Dr. Ayers thinks the District Attorney is too harsh, and that its overkill.

The case is quite controversial, and seen as symbolic of the “racist justice system” and has generated civil rights protest and of course the “white backlash”.