49 year-old James Craig Anderson from
Mississippi was killed by two truckloads
of white teenagers in Mississippi the
it's a horrible situation CNN did a
report on this in fact Anderson Cooper
talked about it on his show we have a
little bit of the video for you guys
later but essentially what happened was
these teenagers were at a party they
were getting drunk they're very much
into white power and they decided after
getting drunk that they were just going
to get into their cars and look for the
first black man that they can find and
literally beat him up to death mm-hmm so
in this case they found a black man they
beat him up and then they got in their
car and I ran over him he died we have a
video surveillance of them doing so it's
a little graphic so you know just I'm
warning you before we watch the video
and now let's watch according to witness
statements at first James Craig Anderson
was beaten and taunted with racial slurs
surveillance video shows white teens
going back and forth in what prosecutors
say was a continuous beating of the
victim as one of the teens walks back to
the cars after beating Anderson he pumps
his fist in the air and shouts white
power according to a motel security
guard then some of the team's got in the
white SUV and drove away leaving
Anderson beaten and lying on the ground
Deryl Dedmon apparently wasn't through
he had two girls in his truck as he was
leaving this parking lot a big f250
pickup truck James Craig Anderson the
man who was beaten almost to a pulp was
stumbling down this curb that's when
police say Deryl Dedmon hit the gas
jumped the curb and ran right over his
victim smashing it okay so that's a
little more detail into what they did
how they did it so one of the trucks did
leave
however eighteen-year-old Deryl Dedmon
stayed because he wanted to finish the
job so now let's watch and see what he
did this is what was caught on
tape obtained exclusively by CNN we warn
you it is disturbing a video capturing
what prosecutor Robert Schuller Smith
says is pure racial hatred and murder
here you see James Craig Anderson in a
hotel parking lot as he first comes into
view in the lower right corner of the
screen this is after he was beaten
according to law enforcement officials
he staggers into the headlights of mr.
Dettman struck the truck backs up and
surges forward suddenly running right
over the defenseless man take a look
again as the approaching headlights
below Ron Anderson shirt then disappears
under the truck that's hideous so two
thoughts about this now we don't believe
in the death penalty so I believe those
kids should go to prison for life all of
them okay I think it's a no brainer so
now people will bring up this is a race
related crime hate crime etc well
obviously it is the young white power
itself but to me I've always thought
that that's not as relevant as other
people think it is okay if they had not
yelled white power and they yelled
anything else you know I would find it
even I would still want all them to
serve life sentences because how do you
beat this defenseless guy for whatever
reason random reason racism whatever it
might be and then run them over with a
car alright well you're all going to
prison forever okay that's my take on I
don't know what you can do to them on
top of that because I believe they
should get the maximum but the second
part that I find interesting is how
small the story is like so we're
covering it obviously CNN covered it to
their credit and they found the footage
etc I feel and I might be wrong about
this but did have a bunch of black
teenagers went and found a white guy and
then you know murdered him like this
and beat him up to a pulp and ran him
over their car that it would be the
largest story in the country all over
the place can you imagine if a group of
Arab kids did it Oh or or undocumented
immigrants if Mexicans at car
the border and a bunch of them had gone
and killed a white guy in Arizona like
this and then run him over
would that not be the largest story in
the country I mean I you tell us but it
to me on first place I would think that
would be an enormous story right this
one is a small story that we're covering
again credit to CNN etc but it's not
making national headlines look our
country has a huge race issue that I
think is underestimated I I think that
people truly believe that racism doesn't
exist anymore especially in the south
people believe that hey if you're flying
the Confederate flag it doesn't mean
that you're racist you know people have
these crazy ideas that we've completely
moved on from it and look I grew up with
the inner generation and especially in
the in Los Angeles where it's completely
diverse I haven't had to deal with any
type of racism I haven't seen racism
personally but I wouldn't deny the fact
that we still have a huge race problem
and I think the fact that we're kind of
turning our backs to it and pretending
like it doesn't exist that's the most
negative part about it because we can't
fix it if we don't acknowledge it