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Witnesses Trace Brutal Killing of Gay Student

By JAMES BROOKE

Published: Saturday, November 21, 1998

 

Before savagely beating Matthew Shepard with a pistol butt, one of his tormentors taunted him, saying, ''It's Gay Awareness Week,'' a police investigator has testified at a hearing in Laramie, Wyo., for one of two men accused of the murder of the gay college student.

 

That testimony, by Sgt. Rob Debree, came at a daylong proceeding where on Thursday evening Robert Denhardt, a visiting county judge, ordered Aaron McKinney, 22, to stand trial on charges of first-degree murder, robbery and kidnapping. The other suspect, Russell Henderson, 21, a friend of Mr. McKinney, has waived his right to a preliminary hearing and is to be arraigned on the same charges on Dec. 2.

 

Throughout the hearing, Dennis and Judy Shepard, the parents of the slain student, sat stoically in Albany County Court as police witnesses provided new details about a crime that brought a national wave of anger at antigay violence.

 

Matthew Shepard, a 21-year-old freshman at the University of Wyoming, in Laramie, was fatally attacked a few hours after he had attended a planning meeting for Gay Awareness Week events on campus.

 

Sergeant Debree, the lead investigator for the Albany County Sheriff's Department, testified that he conducted a tape-recorded interview with Mr. McKinney on Oct. 9, two days after the beating and three days before Mr. Shepard died in a hospital in nearby Fort Collins, Colo. In that interview, Sergeant Debree recalled, Mr. McKinney said he and Mr. Henderson had identified Mr. Shepard as a robbery target and had then lured him out of a Laramie bar and into their truck by pretending to be gay.

 

By Mr. McKinney's account, the detective said, the attack began after Mr. Shepard had placed his hand on Mr. McKinney's leg as they drove through Laramie. ''Guess what, we're not gay,'' the detective quoted Mr. McKinney as saying he had told Mr. Shepard. ''You're going to get jacked. It's Gay Awareness Week.''

 

The detective said Mr. McKinney had admitted hitting Mr. Shepard three times with fists and six times with a stolen revolver.

 

An autopsy found that Mr. Shepard had been hit 18 times in the head. He was also bruised on the backs of his hands, indicating he had tried to protect himself, and around the groin, indicating he had been kicked repeatedly.

 

About 18 hours after the beating, a bicyclist found him still alive, tied to a ranch fence. Reggie Fluty, an Albany County sheriff's deputy, testified on Thursday that Mr. Shepard's wrists had been so tightly bound that it had been difficult to cut the rope and that his head had been covered in blood except for a clean spot ''where he'd been crying and the tears went down his face.''

 

A Laramie police officer, Detective Ben Fritzen, testified that he had interviewed Kristen Price, Mr. McKinney's 18-year-old girlfriend. Detective Fritzen said that in explaining the violence, Mr. McKinney had told Ms. Price, ''Well, you know how I feel about gays,''

 

Ms. Price and Chasity Pasley, Mr. Henderson's girlfriend, waived their right to preliminary hearings and are to be arraigned on Dec. 9 as accessories after the fact.

 

A public defender for Mr. McKinney, Dion Custis, told Judge Denhardt at the hearing that the state had failed to prove that the slaying had been planned, as is required for first-degree murder, or that Mr. Shepard had been kidnapped. Mr. Custis also said a watch and other belongings left at the crime scene showed that robbery was no factor.

 

But Cal Rerucha, the Albany County Prosecutor, said Mr. Shepard's wallet had been found in a dirty diaper in the kitchen of the Laramie apartment shared by Mr. McKinney, Ms. Price and their 4-month-old son, Cameron.

 

Addressing the judge, Mr. Rerucha said: ''They beat him for $20, your honor. That was the contents of the wallet.''

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If there was a Wiki entry for "American Terrorism", you'd not find an entry coming from the Left for nearly thirty years. How does historical reality jive with your statement above? Or is your criticism based on the fact that liberals don't act on their "wishes"?

 

Typically, they wait until they have political power to start killing in earnest...

 

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If you were to chart the rise in domestic terrorism and violence linked to the Right in the last 10-15 years, you be hard pressed not to say it has already started "in earnest". Then again, y'all was killin' lotsa Irakkies, too.

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I've given you several examples now--including one who wrote a manifesto which closely matches your own--and still you deny any association and claim your hands are clean. The warped psychology of the leftist never ceases to amaze...

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"Typically, they wait until they have political power to start killing in earnest..."

 

That's a picture of Waco, the Branch Davidian compound. So that's your idea of what Big Gummint wants to do to us all and only you brave, right wing, clear seeing, outspoken patriots stand between us and a librul totalitarian police state? Paranoid much?

 

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"Typically, they wait until they have political power to start killing in earnest..."

 

That's a picture of Waco, the Branch Davidian compound. So that's your idea of what Big Gummint wants to do to us all and only you brave, right wing, clear seeing, outspoken patriots stand between us and a librul totalitarian police state? Paranoid much?

 

Hey. Aren't you one of the 9/11 Truthers?

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Come on Prole, TTK, Choad, EVERYONE! Let's sing together! We are the world...

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We are the world, we are the children, we are the ones who make a brighter day.... Come on now! Don't be shy! This is your show! Sing!

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This kind of 'bloodthirsty liberal' rhetoric is straight out of the Nazi playbook regarding those evil Jews. It's tried and true shit that really gets the crackers stirred up for a good lynchin'.

 

Only there aren't no more lynchins to blow the stem off at anymores, Crackers. So git yer limp dicks down to the next town hall meeting to squeel with the rest of the castrada while the rest of us move the fuck on with real life in the real world.

 

Cue FW's TTK-as-anti-semite comment. Shit, he should have a control character on his keyboard for that by now.

 

Let's hear your Clarence Thomas imitation again, TTK... for "illustrative purposes" of course.

 

And what was that you posted on this forum about W... and a "bullet in his head"...

 

I can't imitate Thomas. Nobody can. The guy never opens his mouth. No one's even sure he's awake most of the time.

 

As for Bush, I don't remember what I said, and of course don't give a fuck, but yes, a bullet in his noggin certainly would have done all of us a whole lot of good had it been delivered at the right time...like before his first election.

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Touche.

More of a skeptic, actually. I don't see how even Darth Cheny could have pulled that off, but then again, WTC7 is pretty hard to comprehend as a normal building failure. There are so many weird parts to the 9-11 story that just don't jive with the official version. And really, I know righties hate Clinton, and he DID lie about some nookie, but he did kinda' believe in the Constitution and all that. Unlike some other administrations.

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Touche.

More of a skeptic, actually. I don't see how even Darth Cheny could have pulled that off, but then again, WTC7 is pretty hard to comprehend as a normal building failure. There are so many weird parts to the 9-11 story that just don't jive with the official version. And really, I know righties hate Clinton, and he DID lie about some nookie, but he did kinda' believe in the Constitution and all that. Unlike some other administrations.

 

I'd say the nookie isn't really the issue. Ordering the killing of US Citizens is. Clinton's version of Due Process:

 

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I've given you several examples now--including one who wrote a manifesto which closely matches your own--and still you deny any association and claim your hands are clean. The warped psychology of the leftist never ceases to amaze...

 

I thought it went without saying that all US Presidents are mass murderers. But anyway, even if I gave you the Unabomber (and all my understanding about liberalism and the Left tradition places him squarely outside of that frame) you've got him...and Bill Clinton. Wow. As usual FW, you end up looking like the elementary school kid that peed his pants and has to wear the ones teachers keep behind the desk for the rest of the day. Except in this case Kojak peed on your pants.

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THere's a whole lot of standard conflating going on here:

 

Waco with the liberal movement

 

Liberals with Russian communists

 

Pretty inane stuff, but standard procedure from the Right, which does suffer from a dearth of credible copy.

 

Let's take Waco and the ATF, for example. Now, the latter, as an agency, has historically been one of the most incompetent, right wing federal assclown fests in our history, followed closely by the FBI (who also, as I recall, played prominently in the affair). These yahoos swooped in from outside, in complete ignorance of the relationship between the Branch Dividians and local law enforcement (which was cordial), and thought they'd be going on a lark...until the Branch Dividians opened up with 50 calibers and managed to kill 4 of these idiots on opening day.

 

And Janet Reno? Yeah, not a good job there, Janet, but then, you're not spokesperson for the liberal movement.

 

SO here we have a morons conflation of the Waco incident with the liberal movement, which actually supports the Branch Dividian's right to free worship and abhors excessive use of force by the government, in addition to the over militarization of law enforcement. Contrast that with the Far Right, which avidly supports both, and (large parts of it, at least) shove a very specific brand of Kristian Kookiness down the rest of our throats.

 

Apparently, it's not comprehensible for certain posters to imagine that a person such as Reno, or an agency such as the ATF, under a democratic administration, to NOT represent the liberal movement, or to act against its principles. Nor is it comprehensible to the same posters, apparently, that agencies have histories and staff that span far beyond the short half lives of presidential administrations and their appointees; that the FBI and ATF's culture might actually be anything BUT liberal. But these higher concepts require a certain capacity, and, well, yeah. Nuff said there.

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Limbaugh is not my "opponent": He and his ilk are vermin worthy of extinction, and I mean that literally. Consider it a preemptive strike in the coming ignorance and stupidity fueled civil war.

 

Hmmm. Your rant sounds all too familiar...

 

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TTK: Take note of your fellow libtard's final solution.

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We need a bounty on Limbaugh's head.

 

Limbaugh is not my "opponent": He and his ilk are vermin worthy of extinction, and I mean that literally. Consider it a preemptive strike in the coming ignorance and stupidity fueled civil war. It would be like shooting Hitler in 1935. And I'm so left of liberal I like black people.

 

This is total bullshit. You can rant all you want, but at the point you start threatening to actually kill people- no matter if it's Alan Berg (left winger radio host Denver Colorado) or Rush Limbaugh (whom you know), you have broken the law. It only displays your own ignorance, impotence and stupidity at being able to argue intelligently and rationally against FACTS. So knock off the crap cause it's sounding a lot like a little yap yap dog going off.

 

BTW, Alan Berg was murdered by right wing Nazi type asswipes who called themselves "The Order". They started out sounding yapping and sounding remarkably identical to your post. Look it up.

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Jay_Mathews

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Wow, Prole, that "stopping Hitler" claim is an identical statement on that video which Choda just made. Yet you don't think he is out of order? Or your silence on his threats of violence is acceptable and fine with you....? What?

 

Frankly I shocked at everyones casual acceptance of that....shocked. Choada thinks it's fine that he or us should be murdering talk show hosts that think different that us? Is it now time to start killing each other as we think so different as well?

:shock:

 

That's some real REAL FUCKED UP stuff. REAL FUCKED UP.

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We need a bounty on Limbaugh's head.

 

Limbaugh is not my "opponent": He and his ilk are vermin worthy of extinction, and I mean that literally. Consider it a preemptive strike in the coming ignorance and stupidity fueled civil war. It would be like shooting Hitler in 1935. And I'm so left of liberal I like black people.

 

This is total bullshit. You can rant all you want, but at the point you start threatening to actually kill people- no matter if it's Alan Berg (left winger radio host Denver Colorado) or Rush Limbaugh (whom you know), you have broken the law. It only displays your own ignorance, impotence and stupidity. So knock off the crap cause it's sounding a lot like a little yap yap dog going off.

 

BTW, Alan Berg was murdered by right wing Nazi type asswipes who called themselves "The Order". They started out sounding yapping and sounding remarkably identical to your post. Look it up.

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Jay_Mathews

 

 

:yawn: :yawn: :yawn: :yawn: :yawn:

 

...huh, what? I must have fallen asleep. Did you forward my post to the Secret Service yet?

 

Regardless, I'd gladly give up my freedom of speech if it meant living in a world without Limbaugh or Beck. I'd even sign myself into one those "Death Panel Camps" Obongo is building in empty salt mines of Utah, guarded by black helicopters and Ghurka mercenaries, all pawns of the Elders of Zion and the Star Chamber Glitterati, as long as I never had to listen to those douche nozzles again.

 

Point is, arguing with you right-wing fools is a waste. Carry on.

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:yawn: :yawn: :yawn: :yawn: :yawn:

 

...huh, what? I must have fallen asleep. Did you forward my post to the Secret Service yet?

 

Regardless, I'd gladly give up my freedom of speech if it meant living in a world without Limbaugh or Beck. I'd even sign myself into one those "Death Panel Camps" Obongo is building in empty salt mines of Utah, guarded by black helicopters and Ghurka mercenaries, all pawns of the Elders of Zion and the Star Chamber Glitterati, as long as I never had to listen to those douche nozzles again.

 

Point is, arguing with you right-wing fools is a waste. Carry on.

 

Then you must be happy and 100% supportive that "The Order" did exactly what you are recommending happen to Limbaugh and Beck and killed Berg? He was a left wing talk show host, but they didn't want to listen to him any more either. Just like you don't want to listen to Beck and Rush.

 

As far as you thinking I'm a right winger - LOL! Look, I have political issues, but I've never said I like either of those guys, in fact just like you I can't stand listening to Limbaugh or Beck. Can't stand it. Rush can be entertaining though, I'll give him that. The reality is that I support their right to trash talk our President all they want. It makes for a good end product when everyone gets to have their say, and as a country it makes us stronger. But can you imagine what I do when I'm channel surfing in my car and the Beck talk show button gets punched so he's spewing out my speakers?? It's probably a shock to you, but there is a button right next to that button and I press it. It it were to then land on RUsh, guess what? Yeah, I press it again! Shock!

 

Seems to me that anyone who would want to murder another to silence them and in so doing freely and gladly give up there own freedoms has some big time Fucked Up issues. You really need to spend some time both reading the constitution AND considering what is truly important to you. For myself, freedom and what accompanies it, is paramount. I have considered it over many many hours, and recommend it to you as well. Meantime, JUST CHANGE THE FUCKING CHANNEL!! It's an easy thing to do, and you get to stay a free man. Alan Berg would still be ranting his left wing spew to counter Limbaugh's right wing spew had the right wing Nazis White Power pricks who thought just like you had just done this.

 

Good luck.

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Gotta say, this is one the best little invention in the world. It's like being able to turn off the radio when Rush comes on!

 

 

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Gotta say, this is one the best little invention in the world. It's like being able to turn off the radio when Rush comes on!

 

Speaking for myself, I'm glad to see you are capable of growth...now, just follow through and turn that dial when you hear Village People, Rue Paul, Rush or Glen Beck and you've made some real progress. I'm proud of you son. Please don't read this as being condescending here either. Seriously, life is already but an eyeblink, no reason to get so totally cranked up over little things or things one can't control.

 

Take care of yourself eh?

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