The two white guys and the black guy were high school friends out drinking together. Not a hate crime.
If they ran over him because they were mad about something then give them an injection of KCL and let justice prevail.

BTW of the three men who dragged James Byrd to death, two were sent to death row (that actually means something in TX) and the third got life in prison.
In my opinion if you kill someone because you need their money, your a murderer. If you kill someone because you hate their race, your a murderer. Lethal Injection either way. Anyone who says it cost’s more to execute someone than it does to keep them in prison for life, since when do liberals care about costs.

Also “Dirty Harry” is a product of San Francisco so don’t think your city is clean.

1 more thing, Lamar county is the only county in TX before the Civil War to vote overwhelmingly against seceding from the union.

By Bill Hankins
The Paris News
Published May 1, 2009

Investigation into the death of Brandon McClelland this week took a dramatic turn with a deposition taken from a gravel hauler who said the truck he was driving may have hit something on the road the night McClelland’s body was discovered.

The truck driver was on Farm Road 2648 shortly before McClelland’s body was found by passers-by shortly after 4 a.m. on Sept. 16, 2008.

Two other men, Shannon Finley and Ryan Crostley, have been charged with murder in McClelland’s death.

Finley’s trial is scheduled to begin Monday, July 20, in Sulphur Springs on a change of venue.

Crostley’s trial is scheduled to begin Monday, Sept. 21, also in Sulphur Springs.

Defense attorney Ben Massar said the driver of the truck told investigators he thought he had hit something, looked back and saw nothing, stopped at one point to inspect his truck then went on.

The two witnesses who found McClelland’s body told authorities they passed a gravel truck going the opposite direction shortly before finding the body.

Finley and Crostley were charged with McClelland’s death in part because of acquaintances who told police the two men talked about his death and were the last people to be with McClelland on the night he died.

Since McClelland’s death, theories have swirled about how he died, who struck him and whether it was a hate crime or not.

The New Black Panthers came to Paris pushing for convictions of Finley and Crostley and demanding the crime be categorized as a hate crime. When McClelland’s body was found, first responders first believed it was a hit-run death, but investigators soon developed a different theory when they learned McClelland had been seen with Finley and Crostley in the evening before the body was discovered. U.S. Marshals, Texas Rangers and Texas Department of Public Safety troopers handled the investigation and determined McClelland’s death was “likely intentional.” Investigators seized Finley’s truck and put it through a series of tests. “I truly believe in this case,” Massar said Thursday. “If it goes through to trial, I believe Finley will be fund not guilty. The burden of proof will be on the prosecution, but there is a significant amount of information indicating the two defendants are not guilty in McClelland’s death.” Massar said: “Speaking with the gravel truck driver, I believe it was an accident, and I don’t think it was his intent to injure or kill anybody.” Special prosecutor Toby Shook of Dallas said: “We are trying to follow up with the new information on the gravel truck driver. Testing on the truck is beginning today (Thursday), and I don’t know when the results will be in. I know he has given a deposition and in it said he though he hit something, but I have not had a chance to speak with him as yet.” Massar said his team of investigators have determined the road where McClelland’s body was found is a common route for gravel trucks, and McClelland’s partially dismembered body was consistent with having been struck by a gravel truck. Early in the investigation, Finley’s truck was tested and came up negative for DNA evidence. It was later retested with the same results. “I don’t know what they will find on the gravel truck,” Massar said. “It has rained several times since McClelland’s death seven months ago, and the truck has had maintenance done on it.” “Obviously, at this point we are getting close to finding all the particulars about this case,” he said. After McClelland’s body was found, Finley fled to Wichita, Kan., where he was arrested. Both Finley and Crostley have denied they had anything to do with McClelland’s death, but said the three had been out drinking on the night of the death and an argument ensued over who was sober enough to drive. At that point, the defendants said McClelland got out of the truck and began walking along the farm road.

So, thankful, I researched before I moved myself and family into such a pit of degradation and danger for AFRCIAN AMERICANS!!

Sincerely proud to be an AFRICAN AMERICAN not living there!!!!

john.conyers@mail.house.gov, senator_leahy@leahy.senate.gov ,john.whitmire@senate.state.tx.us , polunsky@mortgagelaw.com,judgeadabrown@yahoo.com renata.strause@mail.house.gov, stanley.clark@txdps.state.tx.us, ,..mike.lathan@txdps.state.tx.us , greg.abbott@oag.state.tx.us, Conyers and Leahy are the head of the House and Senate Judiciary Commitees respectfully and Strause is who the messages go to first. The state people should be questioned about this matter. There are three basic questions:
1. Why were the highway patrol under Mike Lathan following black people out of Paris after the rally?2. Why were there body parts still being found a MONTH after Brandon was killed.
3. While the legislature is in session, are there going to be hearings into this matter by the judiciary committes of each body? You think of something else, add it.

STATE OF TEXAS HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
P.O. BOX 29 1OAUSTIN, TEXAS 78768-2910(512)463-0598FAX: (5 12) 463-2297
5787 SOUTH HAMPTON RD. SUITE 447
DALLAS, TEXAS 75232

(214) 941-3895

FAX: (214) 941-6859

Yvonne Davis

DISTRICT 1 1 1

January 14, 2009 Dear Colonel D.X. Fagan-McHenry I am writing to acknowledge and thank you for contacting my office regarding the Brandon McClelland dragging death and allegations of harassment to those individuals who attended the protest rally in Paris, Texas by Texas Department of Public Safety officers. I have on your behalf, contacted the Texas Department of Public Safety and was informed that this case is currently under investigation. The Texas Rangers’ Division is working with the local district attorney to prosecute this case fully. My office has been informed by the Department of Public Safety that it is unable to provide any comments or information on this matter while under investigation. Consequently, my office is unable to comment on this matter further until after the investigation has been completed. Sincerely,

Now, lets move on to Shacaunda Cotton….that is a bully pure and simple—-that girl bullied her way through school and will continue to do so because she believes that being black earns her some kind of rights that whites certainly are not entitiled to……she wants to be a lawyer????
She needs to speek English, not trash, first.

About 6 mos. ago, I was walking into Brookshires. There was an old trashy lookng car in front of the store that I probably would not have noticed. However, as I was walking up to the store a young child..about 6 …started yelling at me–”Old white woman, I’m gonnna kill you…Old white woman, I’m gonna kill you—he kept screeming this while what appeared to be his grandparents sat complacently in the front seat…LOST MY COOL–Said “you lil” black bastard, I work at a prison and I’ll probably kill your ass

Paris might have problems with race, but this case is not one of them.

SS

http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/local/broward/sfl-1027coralsprings-dragging,0,5814778.story

Thanks again to the SF Bay View for bringing this unreported story out in the open. And yes, I think I would like to see Barack Obama and John McCain shut up about Joe the Plumber and address the murder of Brandon McLelland in Paris, TX, painful though it may be, but I don’t believe either will. I think this would stir up more than they’re willing to respond to.

(please excuse any mispellings)