Demonic (47 page)

Q:
Were you holding her arms?

A:
Yeah.

Q:
Were you holding them over her head or to the side?

A:
I had her like this.

Q:
Was she trying to pull her hand away?

A:
Um-hum.

Q:
Was somebody holding her other hand? Who?

A:
This kid, Puerto Rican kid.

Q:
Was somebody holding her feet?

A:
Yeah.

Q:
Who?

A:
I don’t know.

Q:
Did somebody take her clothes off?

A:
Yes.

Q:
What was she wearing?

A:
I think a white T-shirt, something like that.

Q:
Who took off her shirt?

A:
The tall black kid.

Q:
Who took off her pants?

A:
I think it was him.

Q:
Did somebody have sex with her?

A:
Yeah.

Q:
Did a lot of people have sex with her?

A:
Yeah.

Q:
Who was the first person to get on top of her?

A:
The tall black guy.

Q:
Did he take his pants off or just open his fly? What did he do?

A:
He didn’t take down his pants.

Q:
By this point, though, she wasn’t dressed anymore, right? Her pants were off?

A:
Yeah.

Q:
Did you touch her breasts?

A:
No.

Q:
Did somebody else get on top of her then?

A:
He grabbed one of her arms, this other kid got on top of her.

Q:
Who was that?

A:
This Puerto Rican guy.

Q:
Did you have your fly open?

A:
Yeah, but my penis wasn’t in her.

Q:
What happened?

A:
I just like, my penis wasn’t in her. I didn’t do nothing to her.

Q:
When you got on top of her, you got on top of her so you could have sex with her, right?

A:
Not really, I was just doing it so everybody, so … I didn’t do anything.

Q:
You said you were doing it so everybody what?

A:
Everybody would just like, would know I did it.

Q:
When you got on top of her, you had your penis out of your pants?

A:
Yes.

Q:
And it was between her legs?

A:
No.

Q:
It was against her?

A:
Yeah.

Q:
Did you rub against her?

A:
Yeah.

Q:
Did you have an erection?

A:
No.

Q:
How long did you do that for?

A:
I don’t know, a couple of minutes.

Q:
What happened after Kevin was done?

A:
Then we left her then, then this guy hit her in the head. Then we left.

Q:
Who hit her?

A:
I don’t know. I just, the pipe, I think the tall skinny kid.

Q:
After you were all done, somebody still hit her in the head?

A:
Yeah.

Q:
She wasn’t moving anymore by this time, was she?

A:
No.

Q:
What did you do then?

A:
We all left.

Q:
Where did you go?

A:
We was walking down, down to the reservoir and then we seen a jogger.

Q:
Who was that?

A:
He had on a green army jacket, some pants and he had on a Walkman.

Q:
And he was running?

A:
Um-hum.

Q:
What happened when you saw him?

A:
We was gonna let him go ’cause we thought he was a cop, he was jogging kind of slow. We was gonna let him go.

Q:
Did you catch him?

A:
Yeah.

Q:
When you saw him, what happened?

A:
We thought it was a police officer, so we were gonna let him go, he said something smart.

Q:
You said you were going to let him go, did somebody grab him first?

A:
Nah, we was gonna let him pass by and he said something smart.

Q:
What did he say?

A:
I don’t know. I know he said something smart, though.

Q:
When he said whatever he said, what did it mean to you?

A:
He was acting like he was bad.

Q:
So that pissed you off?

A:
No.

Q:
Somebody else?

A:
Yeah, and then when we let him go and he said something.

Q:
OK, so he goes by and he says something to try and sound bad, what did you guys do then?

A:
We came, and this kid with a pullover, goose-down jacket, he grabbed him and threw him down, and that’s when we all started charging him.

Q:
What were you all doing to him?

A:
Kicking, punching him.

Q:
Did you kick him?

A:
Yes.

Q:
Did anybody have a weapon?

A:
That pipe.

Q:
The tall black guy, did he hit him with the pipe?

A:
Yeah, we didn’t hit him in the head.

Q:
Where did he hit him?

A:
The back and the legs and then, like, it kinda slipped out, right? And I hit him in the leg, and I think somebody was hitting him with a piece of wood over the head, ’cause it hit Steve in the leg, and he got hurt.

Q:
Where did it hit him in the leg?

A:
I don’t know, like down here, like on the shin or something.

Q:
And what did you do when you got home?

A:
I told my mother we was playing tag and that’s why I was so dirty.

Q:
When you guys went into the park, what were you going into the park for?

A:
Just to have fun.

Q:
Did you have a good time?

A:
Nah, not when we was getting chased.

Q:
Before you got chased?

A:
Not when we was hitting that man, and everything wasn’t fun then.
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*
“Emily Sachar Jogger Jury Sees a Confession,”
Newsday
(New York), July 19, 1990.

NOTES

ONE.
THE LIBERAL MOB

1.
Erik Durschmied,
The Blood of Revolution: From the Reign of Terror to the Rise of Khomeini
(Arcade Publishing, 2002), 30.

2.
George Monbiot, “Why the Police Provoke Crowds,”
The Guardian
(London), June 20, 1996.

3.
“Hay Festival: George Monbiot Calls for Citizen’s Arrest of John Bolton,”
Guardian Unlimited
, May 25, 2008.

4.
Gustave Le Bon,
The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind
(Dover, 2002) (1895), 69.

5.
Ibid., 74.

6.
Ibid., 77–78.

7.
Ibid., 21–22.

8.
Live With Cenk Uygur
, MSNBC, February 22, 2011.

9.
Live With Cenk Uygur
, MSNBC, February 23, 2011.

10.
See, e.g., Baird Helgeson, “In Pension and Benefits, Wisconsin Tops Minnesota,”
Minneapolis Star Tribune
, February 24, 2011.

11.
See, e.g., Jake Tapper, “Obama Says Republicans Cannot Have the Keys Back to the Car: ‘No! You Can’t Drive,’ ” ABC News’s
Political Punch
, May 13, 2010.

12.
Kenneth P. Vogel, “Wall Street Invested Heavily in Obama,” Politico, January 20, 2009.

13.
Barack Obama (D): “Top Contributors,”
OpenSecrets.org
, available at
http://www.opensecrets.org/pres08/contrib.php?cycle=2008&cid
00009638.

14.
Carl Hulse, “The Blackout: Legislation,”
New York Times
, August 16, 2003.