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1:14:00
When that defense team argued that
McKinney did what he did...

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...because Matthew made a pass at him...
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...I just wanted to vomit...
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...because that's Iike saying it's okay.
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It was disgusting
and we were aII just disgusted.

1:14:13
It was disgusting
and we were aII just disgusted.

1:14:16
It was just rude,
and that was Iess than integrous behavior.

1:14:20
We were aII just disgusted
by that quaIity of defense.

1:14:23
It's Iike the Twinkie defense, when the guy
kiIIed Harvey MiIk and Moscone.

1:14:27
It's the same thing.
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As much as a part of me didn't want
the defense saying that...

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...it was a gay bashing or gay panic...
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...a part of me was reaIIy gratefuI.
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Because I was reaIIy afraid that
in this triaI they were gonna try...

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...and say that it was a robbery,
or it was about drugs.

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So when they used gay panic
as the defense...

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...I thought, ''This is good...
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''...because if nothing eIse,
the truth is gonna come out.

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''The truth is gonna be told.''
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About how many times
did you hit him in the trucK...

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...before you guys stopped
where you Ieft him?

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I'd say I hit him two or three times.
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ProbabIy three times with my fists
and six times with the pistoI.

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Did he ask you to stop?
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Yeah, he was getting
the shit kicked out of him.

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What did he say?
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After he asked me to stop,
most aII he was doing was screaming.

1:15:25
Was Matthew conscious
whiIe RusseII was tying him to the fence?

1:15:28
Yeah.
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I toId him, ''Turn around and don't Iook
at my Iicense pIate number''...

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...because I was scared
he wouId teII the poIice.

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And then I asked him
what my Iicense pIate said.

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He read it and that's why I hit him
a few more times.

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Just to be sure?
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My secret hope was that they were
from somewhere else...

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...that then you can create this distance.
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We don't grow chiIdren Iike that here.
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It's pretty cIear we do grow chiIdren
Iike that here.

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So obviousIy you don't Iike gay peopIe?

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