By Ricardo C. Ainslie
ISBN-10: 0292705743
ISBN-13: 9780292705746
ISBN-10: 0292721439
ISBN-13: 9780292721432
ISBN-10: 0292797729
ISBN-13: 9780292797727
On an extended darkish street in deep East Texas, James Byrd Jr. was once dragged to his loss of life in the back of a pickup truck one summer season evening in 1998. The brutal modern day lynching surprised humans throughout the US and left all people at a loss to give an explanation for how this sort of heinous crime may be able to take place in our extra racially enlightened instances. Many ultimately came upon a solution within the incontrovertible fact that of the 3 males convicted of the homicide had ties to the white supremacist accomplice Knights of the United States. within the ex-convict ringleader, invoice King, whose physique used to be coated in racist and satanic tattoos, humans observed the final word monster, somebody so inhuman that his crime will be simply defined because the act of a racist psychopath. Few, if any, requested or cared what lengthy darkish highway of lifestyles reports had became invoice King into anyone able to committing one of these crime. during this gripping account of the homicide and its aftermath, Ricardo Ainslie builds an unparalleled mental profile of invoice King that gives the fullest attainable clarification of the way a guy who used to be no longer raised in a racist family members, who had African American acquaintances in formative years, may turn out on dying row for viciously killing a black guy. Ainslie attracts on unique in-prison interviews with King, in addition to with Shawn Berry (another of the perpetrators), King's father, Jasper citizens, and legislation enforcement and judicial officers, to put naked the mental and social forces--as good as mere chance--that converged in a homicide on that June evening. Ainslie delves into the total of King's existence to find how his volatile kinfolk relationships and emotional vulnerability made him particularly vulnerable to the white supremacist ideology he followed whereas in detention center for lesser crimes. With its intensity of perception, lengthy darkish highway not just solutions the query of why this type of racially prompted homicide occurred in our time, however it additionally bargains a daunting, cautionary story of the pressing have to interfere in younger lives and to reform our violent, racist-breeding prisons. As Ainslie chillingly concludes, faraway from being an inhuman monster whom we will be able to easily brush off, "Bill King could be extra just like the remainder of us than we care to believe."
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Everyone else—Louis Berry, Shawn Berry, or Russell Brewer—had to sleep in the living room, where the accommodations con- The Arrests 39 L O N G D A R K R O A D 40 sisted of a couch and a couple of mats on the floor. The dining room had been converted into a weight room, with a workout bench in the middle and weights distributed around it on the floor. The place had all of the homeyness that one might expect from the average bachelor pad. While it had originally been King and Greeney’s apartment, the arrangement also allowed King to be in control, relegating others to satellite positions.
Frame had started the process of obtaining a “voluntary statement” from the suspect (in current law enforcement parlance the term “interrogation” is no longer used) by simply asking Berry about his pickup truck, where he kept his keys, and his whereabouts on the previous evening. Berry was also asked to identify some of the evidence found at the crime scene. He identified a watch as Kylie Greeney’s and the Zippo lighter as Bill King’s. It was Frame’s way of warming the suspect up, a way of laying the groundwork, setting the tone by alerting Berry to the fact that they had evidence, yet keeping him in suspense as to just how much they had.
To Chambers this was typical behavior, “like the guy with fifty pounds of marijuana consenting to have his car searched,” he said. ” Chambers told King that he would need to be handcuffed for officer safety, since their vehicle did not have a prisoner cage. King readily agreed, and Chambers cuffed his hands tightly behind his back. On the eight-minute ride over to the sheriff ’s office King and the officers exchanged small talk. It was a strategy that Chambers liked to use to keep suspects at ease.