Christian Hillman Video

:00And you need to grow up, young man.

0:01

1 secondSir, can you please stop raising your voice?

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3 secondsNo, I will not. You are not going to tell me what to do.

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6 secondsI want your right to right now.

0:10

10 secondsThe specimen you see here is 18-year-old Christian Hillman. Right now, this teenager is having a meltdown. All because he realized he will be spending

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18 secondsthe rest of his life rotting in a jail cell. If I go in like a jail cell tonight, damn,

0:25

25 secondsthat’s just whack, bro. So he will beg the only person in his life who can try and help him.

0:30

30 secondsWell, right now I am in the Kent County Police Department. I am chained to the floor and they were refusing me to give me an attorney. Please come down here.

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39 secondsBut Christian is completely unaware of the kind of evidence he has left behind.

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43 secondsBecause with every clue that comes to light, his story will begin to fall apart. [music]

0:48

48 secondsThese are church folks that believe in a church. You guys didn’t realize that they’re standing watching this thing go down. So, your story is not even close to what these four folks saw.

1:01

1 minute, 1 secondWe’re doing a search warrant at your house right now. The blood all in the garage, everything. We have it all.

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1 minute, 9 secondsOn a chilly evening in September 2016,

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1 minute, 11 seconds64year-old William McFarland was driving home to Calonia Township, Michigan after a fishing trip. Nothing unusual for the

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1 minute, 19 secondsretired military veteran. William was a husband, father, and grandfather. the kind of guy his loved ones described as

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1 minute, 26 secondsa bright light, goofy, warm, always cracking jokes, and always trying to make people laugh. He was loved and

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1 minute, 34 secondsdeeply cherished by his community. But somewhere along that rule or road,

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1 minute, 38 secondsWilliam crossed paths with someone riding an off-road vehicle, and what should have been nothing more than a brief argument turned into something

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1 minute, 45 secondsviolent. The two ended up pulling into a church parking lot on Whitneyville Avenue, and that’s where William was brutally assaulted by the person on the

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1 minute, 53 secondsbike, who was wearing steeltoe boots and a thick skull ring. By the time drivers passing by noticed something was wrong

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2 minutesand called 911, things were already dire. William had suffered severe injuries to his head and ribs, and although he was rushed to the hospital

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2 minutes, 8 secondsand stabilized, doctors concluded that any long-term survival was unlikely.

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2 minutes, 13 secondsNow, detectives had two questions. who was the person on the bike and what happened between them and William.

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2 minutes, 19 secondsFortunately, witnesses were able to point cops in the right direction. They identified an 18-year-old teenager,

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2 minutes, 25 secondsChristian Hillman, as the attacker. And soon enough, he was brought into an interrogation room where detectives quickly realized they weren’t dealing with a scared kid who made a mistake,

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2 minutes, 35 secondsbut someone hostile, aggressive, and openly racist. The following footage was provided by the Kent County Sheriff’s Department.

2:44

2 minutes, 44 secondsAll right, buddy. Like I said, I’m Marcus Jason. Yeah. Okay. Uh, how do you spell your first name?

2:53

2 minutes, 53 secondsChristian as in like the religion. Christian. What’s your middle?

3:01

3 minutes, 1 secondYes, sir. Uh, William. As Christian is read his rights,

3:05

3 minutes, 5 secondsdetectives get right into what happened that night. And the story he will tell is so entitled it barely sounds real.

3:12

3 minutes, 12 secondsWe’ve been doing this a long time. All I’m asking, and I say this to everyone,

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3 minutes, 16 secondsand I expect you to come in here and lie to us. Just be honest. Okay. Oh, yeah. I’m going to be 100 with you, bro.

3:22

3 minutes, 22 secondsOkay. All right. Um, you know why you’re here, right? Oh, yeah. For sure.

3:27

3 minutes, 27 secondsSo, so we don’t have to, you know, jump through that for an hour and a half. Tell us what happened tonight.

3:34

3 minutes, 34 secondsOkay. So, I was riding my four-wheeler and I was riding my dirt bike. You know,

3:41

3 minutes, 41 secondsit’s like late at night out in the country, you know, like we live on some gravel roads and everything. So, we just What’s your address? So, you say you have a four-wheeler?

3:50

3 minutes, 50 secondsYes. And uh just a four-wheeler? I have a Do you know much about bikes?

3:58

3 minutes, 58 secondsNot really. I mean, no. No. I know what a dirt bike is. You know, you know about bikes?

4:05

4 minutes, 5 secondsI hate to brag here, bro, but I love my my bikes. I got a 1972 Harley Sportster. I got I got a Suzuki RMZ250.

4:14

4 minutes, 14 secondsI got a Harley 1450 uh Superglide.

4:19

4 minutes, 19 secondsLet’s see. Yamaha TTR230. And I got a 1985 Kawasaki. Wow.

4:27

4 minutes, 27 secondsI love my motorcycles, man. So, where do you store them?

4:30

4 minutes, 30 secondsH Where do you Where do you store all these bikes?

4:33

4 minutes, 33 secondsWell, I I live in like a decent sized house. So, my parents just built a shed outside just to keep all the bikes in and everything. Oh, wow. And do you work on them, too,

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4 minutes, 40 secondsor you just Oh, yeah, for sure, man. They they take a lot of work.

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4 minutes, 48 secondsSure. I bet. I bet. A lot of money, too.

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4 minutes, 50 secondsYou got a job working anywhere right now?

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4 minutes, 52 secondsYeah. And the the thing was there, like the atmosphere and everything there, it was just really upsetting to me cuz the

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5 minutesmanager there actually asked me like he I thought he was joking. But like a really well-dressed black man walked

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5 minutes, 8 secondsinto the store and he started walking around and he was just he was just doing his own thing, you know, just getting groceries. And my supervisor just he

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5 minutes, 18 secondssaid, “Hey, I want you to go follow that black dude around to make sure he doesn’t ski anything for a while.” I quit that job real quick. Right. Right.

5:25

5 minutes, 25 secondsCuz I’m not putting up with that [ __ ] bro. Sure. So tonight you were riding what? I mean, you named off like five or six.

5:34

5 minutes, 34 secondsWhat were you riding tonight? I was riding my ArchiCAD 250 four-wheeler and my Yamaha TTR230 because all my other

5:43

5 minutes, 43 secondsbikes are broken right now and need to be fixed. Articat what? The Articat 250. 250. Articat DVX 250 as a matter of fact.

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5 minutes, 51 secondsWhat color is it?

5:54

5 minutes, 54 secondsUm it’s blue.

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5 minutes, 59 secondsDefinely fenders missing off it and everything. It’s not the best bike, but it’s John. The Articat.

6:06

6 minutes, 6 secondsYeah. Oh, yeah. The Articat 250, the four-wheeler is red. Okay, that’s red. Okay.

6:11

6 minutes, 11 secondsMr. Bike Enthusiast here pretends to know a lot about bikes, but he doesn’t seem to know the first thing about riding one safely. Because according to

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6 minutes, 19 secondswitnesses, Christian was riding his Yamaha with no headlights at a busy intersection, which pretty much explains why William most likely had an argument

6:27

6 minutes, 27 secondswith him in the first place leading up. So, were you home all night tonight?

6:32

6 minutes, 32 secondsNo. Okay. I got I got home for a little while and you know like I live way out in the country. Sure.

6:39

6 minutes, 39 secondsSo like bas basically out there like I’ve seen police officers out there. I ride my dirt bike down the road. They just wave to me and everything. Oh yeah. Absolutely.

6:46

6 minutes, 46 secondsYeah. It’s so it’s so far out in the country. Everybody rides dirt bikes out there. Right.

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6 minutes, 51 secondsBut now let’s get to the actual story of what happened tonight. Um me and my buddies

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6 minutes, 59 secondswe were riding and all of a sudden this guy in this truck just pulled up behind me and he’s like you were on what? What were you driving?

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7 minutes, 8 secondsWhat was I driving? Yeah. I was driving the um 230. Okay.

7:16

7 minutes, 16 secondsYou got to look that bike up. Nice, man.

7:18

7 minutes, 18 secondsIt’s nice, man. But anyhow, um, the guy in a truck pulled up behind me. He started blaring his horn at me, and I had no idea why.

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7 minutes, 26 secondsLet me ask you this. Where were you at when you were riding, this guy pulled up behind you? Where were you at?

7:32

7 minutes, 32 secondsWell, I don’t know if you guys know the area I I do. I used to work years ago when I worked the street. I used to work there.

7:38

7 minutes, 38 secondsOh, yeah, for sure. But, um, do you know like 52nd at Whitneyville?

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7 minutes, 41 secondsI know where 50 where the railroad types are there. Yes. Okay. You’re an OG, bro. You know,

7:47

7 minutes, 47 secondsright? Right. But um yeah, we were taking this.

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7 minutes, 51 secondsSo were you on Whitneyville coming south or were you on 52nd? Which way were you going? Which way is south from there?

8:00

8 minutesCascade runs this way. 52nd come south on you know what I mean?

8:06

8 minutes, 6 secondsYeah, but you have to take a right to get on the Cascade. So I took a left and pass the railroad tracks cuz there’s usually like this dirt road we like to ride down. It’s a lot of fun.

8:16

8 minutes, 16 secondsOkay. So you’re near 52nd in Whittingville.

8:18

8 minutes, 18 secondsYeah. Oh, yeah. Like right a few houses in town. The police already had stopped by my house today. Okay. Okay. Why? Some detectives.

8:26

8 minutes, 26 secondsOh, why?

8:27

8 minutes, 27 secondsI don’t know. I was really mad at my mom though because she just let him right in the house and everything. I wasn’t there. Sure. Yeah.

8:35

8 minutes, 35 secondsYeah. I know nothing about that. Um I don’t know why that would be, but Yeah. I was frankly irritated with that.

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8 minutes, 42 secondsWas that before this incident or after? After. Oh. Oh. After the incident. Okay. I thought you meant earlier in the day.

8:50

8 minutes, 50 secondsAll right. Let’s let’s get with it. So, you’re 52nd in Whitneyville area. Yeah. You’re on the dirt bike.

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8 minutes, 58 secondsATV. Yes. Okay.

9:00

9 minutesThe muted segment you just heard was about Christian’s friend Noah. That night, Christian wasn’t riding alone.

9:06

9 minutes, 6 secondsNoah was with him on another ATV, and the two were cruising around together.

9:10

9 minutes, 10 secondsAt one point, they get separated, and that’s when Noah gets a call from Christian. And we’ll let Noah explain what happens next. I

9:18

9 minutes, 18 secondsget a call from Christian. All I hear is like frantic like moving and stuff like that. I’m like, “Christian, are you still driving? Like, stop. Like answer your phone.” And he’s like, “This dude’s

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9 minutes, 27 secondsunconscious.” I was like, “What? This dude’s [clears throat] unconscious.” So,

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9 minutes, 32 secondsI’m like, “What?” So, I pull up some more and I see this like truck with it,

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9 minutes, 35 secondsyou know, hazards going off. And I finally saw the truck. So, I pulled up and he was like right there and this dude’s like laying there unconscious. And I’m like,

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9 minutes, 44 seconds”Dude.” And he’s like, “Dude, he choked me.” And I was like, “What?” I was like,

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9 minutes, 50 seconds”We need to go, bro. You just knocked him out. Let’s go, bro.” And he’s like,

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9 minutes, 53 seconds”All right, bro. Let’s go.” And he was like trying to like pick up his dirt bike and like people started showing up and he started like talking to all these people and everything. And I was like I

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10 minutes, 2 secondswas just like sitting on the the ATV like he got out and we just jed back to his group. Okay.

10:09

10 minutes, 9 secondsThis is a pretty traumatic event. Yeah.

10:12

10 minutes, 12 secondssitting talking about. Yeah. What did he say? Christian said that he was driving and the guy like got really close to the

10:19

10 minutes, 19 secondsback of them and he’s always told me that it’s like scary when someone gets to really close to the back of you on like a you know two wheeler like it’s

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10 minutes, 26 secondsyou know they they touch that back wheel you’re going to fall. So true. He says flown over and the guy pulled over with him and I believe him in that part

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10 minutes, 34 secondsbecause his bike was parked right in front of his um his truck and I’m like so I was like all right whatever. And

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10 minutes, 41 secondsthen so Christian gets off the bike and the guy must have gotten out of the car too and Christian said he laid hands on him and Christian just beat the out of him.

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10 minutes, 50 secondsNoah tells investigators that he did see Christian kick William at least once.

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10 minutes, 54 secondsBut Noah isn’t the only friend willing to be honest about what happened that night because after the assault,

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11 minutesChristian and Noah head back home and they start calling people over. And one of those friends eventually sits down with detectives and gives a statement that would blow this case wide open.

11:10

11 minutes, 10 secondsRight. I think I had some information that wasn’t mentioned through all of this. How do you know that?

11:16

11 minutes, 16 secondsHe told us or he told me. So Christian told you he was on two bars of Xanax.

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11 minutes, 24 secondsAnything else?

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11 minutes, 25 secondsAnd then I witnessed him take two more that night when I told him not to. So when he came in this office, that means he was on it. Oh, he was tripping when he was here.

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11 minutes, 34 secondsYeah, it was clear. I think that’s what started the fight.

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11 minutes, 40 secondsHe felt like he was invincible because he was on Zen. You ever taken it? No.

11:45

11 minutes, 45 secondsArrogance, entitlement, and being under the influence is a dangerous mix. And Christian’s version of events is about to fall apart fast, especially compared

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11 minutes, 54 secondsto what his own friends already told detectives. Keep in mind that any audio you hear muted out is usually a name being mentioned. Most of the time, it’s

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12 minutes, 2 secondsNoah, the other friend, or a family member.

12:05

12 minutes, 5 secondsYeah. and he pulls up behind me and and you it’s more for like people who like ride motorcycles and people are tailgating someone on a motorcycle. One

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12 minutes, 14 secondsflip up and you’re dead because that next car is going to run you over, right?

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12 minutes, 18 secondsSo I I kept stopping. I kept asking like, “Hey, what are you doing?”

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12 minutes, 22 secondsWhat do you mean you stop and ask like you talk to him or you’re just kind of giving emotions?

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12 minutes, 26 secondsYeah, I I was like, “What are you doing?” She was trying like he wouldn’t go by me. He just kept riding my So

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12 minutes, 33 secondsbasically I stopped for a second and he started getting all mad getting out of the car and everything and I was like I

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12 minutes, 41 secondsdon’t want trouble and anything and he he put his hands around my neck and um and there was a thorough after that.

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12 minutes, 53 secondsOkay.

12:56

12 minutes, 56 secondsHonestly, I feel like I was in self-defense, though. You feel like what?

13:01

13 minutes, 1 secondSelf-defense, though, because he really did attack me first. Okay. Yeah. Okay. So, what did I do?

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13 minutes, 10 secondsOh, no. He he he was already down the street. He didn’t see it happen, but he pulled right up at the last second. Oh, okay.

13:18

13 minutes, 18 secondsYeah. So, he really didn’t witness anything, as a matter of fact. Who else was with the gay?

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13 minutes, 26 secondsIt was three of you.

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13 minutes, 29 secondsIt was like and then um my came and picked us up and then driver.

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13 minutes, 42 secondsWhat was he? What?

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13 minutes, 43 secondsThe witnesses saw three people on ATVs and and dirt bikes. Um,

13:51

13 minutes, 51 secondsthere was only two of us. Okay. Witnesses saw three. So,

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13 minutes, 59 secondswhite.

14:01

14 minutes, 1 secondHe’s a good dude. You know what? What does he look like? Is he Is he a Is he a black guy, white guy? Is

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14 minutes, 10 secondsreal quick is like, how do I explain him? He’s a white dude.

14:17

14 minutes, 17 secondsGot really long hair. Yeah.

14:21

14 minutes, 21 secondsI just want you guys to know that he had absolutely nothing to do with that. Explain that. Look that I wasn’t there, man. So, he is really long hair.

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14 minutes, 30 secondsYeah. What color? Uh, it’s like darker brown.

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14 minutes, 45 secondsIs he taller than you or shorter than me? Not by like a really long ways,

14:51

14 minutes, 51 secondsbut can I put these handcuffs on? No.

14:57

14 minutes, 57 secondsThat’s what I like to call subtle foreshadowing.

15:00

15 minutesThose aren’t handcuffs. Those are ankle cuffs. They go around your ankle. Hell yeah.

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15 minutes, 9 secondsSo, you’re you’re you’re riding the ATV. this truck pulls up behind you and is just kind of following.

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15 minutes, 20 secondsYeah. Like he turned his brakes on. He was he like tried to run me off the road. Like I to it’s a small dirt bike.

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15 minutes, 27 secondsHe pulled up the side and he started pushing me off to the side of the road.

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15 minutes, 30 secondsLike I almost crashed a couple times and that’s when I was starting to get irritated because I mean that’s just disrespectful. Mhm.

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15 minutes, 37 secondsLike I he like I had lights.

15:40

15 minutes, 40 secondsMhm. and he clearly could see that I had lights, but um I don’t know what he was so Was it already dark at this point?

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15 minutes, 48 secondsYes, it was dark out.

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15 minutes, 49 secondsYeah. And he basically what happened is I I asked him like, “Why are you following me?”

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15 minutes, 58 secondsLike, “Why are you Cuz I pulled over into a church parking lot and let him go by and he stopped.”

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16 minutes, 4 secondsAnd then I I honestly think he was intoxicated. Mhm.

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16 minutes, 10 secondsbecause he got out and he was slurring his words and everything.

16:13

16 minutes, 13 secondsPretty pathetic, especially considering he wasn’t exactly sober that night, isn’t it?

16:18

16 minutes, 18 secondsThis church parking lot. Where? Where is that? Do you know what church it was? Church parking.

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16 minutes, 25 secondsYou said you pulled over. You tried to pull over in your church parking lot.

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16 minutes, 31 secondsI got what church is um further down 52nd Street.

16:42

16 minutes, 42 secondsHonestly, I do not remember the name of the church. Okay.

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16 minutes, 45 secondsSo, you pulled over and and you said he got out of the truck.

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16 minutes, 48 secondsYeah, he he got out of the truck and he was like, “What are you going to do?”

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16 minutes, 52 secondsAnd I What does this guy look like? Is he like young dude or No, he was like maybe 35, 40. Okay.

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17 minutesAnd he got out of the car and he put big guy or small guy.

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17 minutes, 2 secondsOh, he was a big dude. But he he got out he got into the car and he put his hands around my neck like he was trying to strangle me.

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17 minutes, 10 secondsDid he say anything?

17:12

17 minutes, 12 secondsYeah, he was he was talking a lot of stuff. Was anyone around besides you?

17:23

17 minutes, 23 secondsUh yeah, some other people pulled up. Who who pulled up? I have no idea who those people were.

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17 minutes, 29 secondsThey were just uh bystanders. Did they say anything or? Not really. They just looked.

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17 minutes, 38 secondsThey they saw him put his hands around your neck.

17:42

17 minutes, 42 secondsUm who could have Okay. But these bystanders, I mean,

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17 minutes, 50 secondsup after everything was over.

17:54

17 minutes, 54 secondsYeah. You said he wasn’t involved in in the beatdown. So, how would he see when he put his hands around your neck?

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18 minutes, 1 secondWell, he was there at first, but as soon as the fight started, that’s when he wanted to shoot out.

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18 minutes, 8 secondsOkay. So, he put his hands around your neck and it was like a really hard It wasn’t just like a plate. Like, he was trying to strangle me.

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18 minutes, 17 secondsAnd then what did you do?

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18 minutes, 20 secondsWell, like I used I used to be an exheavyweight boxer. So he basically he

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18 minutes, 26 secondshit me in the face once and then I just lost my [ __ ] Okay.

18:32

18 minutes, 32 secondsLike I just I don’t know. I really feel bad about it.

18:39

18 minutes, 39 secondsLike I really don’t like resorting to violence. Like I hate violence, man. But I just lost my temper. Okay.

18:44

18 minutes, 44 secondsWell, what did you do? I mean you lost your temper. Did you yell at them? Did you spit on them? I don’t know what that means. I wasn’t there. So you lost your

18:52

18 minutes, 52 secondstemper. What? What did you do when the Explain the beatdown. What was the beatd down?

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18 minutes, 57 secondsWell, basically he he tried to pick me up. He was like,

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19 minutes, 2 seconds”Oh shit.” He like And I can guarantee you he was intoxicated. Okay.

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19 minutes, 6 secondsAnd he got out of the car and he was like, “What are you what are you going to do?” Tried to put his hands on my neck and everything. Grabbed my neck. So

19:13

19 minutes, 13 secondsI got him off me and I hit him in the face a few times. He started to like stumble down with what? With what?

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19 minutes, 20 secondsWhat? What’ you hit him with? Okay. Okay.

19:25

19 minutes, 25 secondsAnd then um basically after that I I kept hitting

19:34

19 minutes, 34 secondshim. I was telling him to please stay down for I have to hurt you more. Like I really don’t like hurting people, but he was going to hurt me if I didn’t stop it.

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19 minutes, 43 secondsOkay.

19:44

19 minutes, 44 secondsSo I I just had to completely make sure like he was immobilized. He couldn’t hurt me. He couldn’t hurt my friends. Your friends? Who is your friends?

19:53

19 minutes, 53 secondsJust if any other one of my boys would have pulled up like I don’t want him freaking out and hitting me either. Like I I caused the situation I take like full responsibility for my actions.

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20 minutes, 5 secondsMhm.

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20 minutes, 6 secondsSo all you did was punch him and when he was on the ground you kept punching him? Yeah.

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20 minutes, 12 secondsThat’s all. Were you punching him in the face, in the foot? In the arm? I I don’t Where was you hitting him?

20:19

20 minutes, 19 secondsWell, I kind of lost control for a second to be honest with you, officer. Okay. But um like see,

20:30

20 minutes, 30 secondsso then it sounds like you, you gave him a beatdown is the way you described it,

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20 minutes, 38 secondsright? Yeah.

20:39

20 minutes, 39 secondsAnd then what how did it end? What what happened at the end? Well, he was he was just laying there cuz I really knocked

20:46

20 minutes, 46 secondshim out cold cuz I didn’t want him to get back up. Okay.

20:50

20 minutes, 50 secondsAnd so after that, me and my buddies just took off and went back to my house and sat down for a minute, contemplated what happened.

20:56

20 minutes, 56 secondsWhat Christian leaves out is that this wasn’t just one attack. After the first beating, he actually walked away and left the parking lot only to come back moments later and beat William again.

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21 minutes, 7 secondsSo, this wasn’t self-defense in the slightest. It’s someone who had time to stop and chose to keep going.

21:13

21 minutes, 13 secondsYou guys left, got out of there, and you contemplated on what had took place. What were you guys talking about? Like afterwards?

21:22

21 minutes, 22 secondsMhm.

21:23

21 minutes, 23 secondsNothing. We’re just trying to forget about it. Like I lost my temper. I didn’t I I really hate being angry.

21:30

21 minutes, 30 secondsSure. Like it’s it’s one of the worst things,

21:33

21 minutes, 33 secondsthe worst feelings. But what uh how long? So what time is it by now? Do you know? Right now?

21:41

21 minutes, 41 secondsNo. When you when this incident happened and when you left and got back home? Oh man.

21:47

21 minutes, 47 secondsUm what time is it right now? It’s like 1:00 in the morning now. Oh, for real?

21:54

21 minutes, 54 secondsYeah. 1:20, man.

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22 minutes, 4 secondsI’m just wondering just look at the stuff to be honest.

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22 minutes, 7 secondsWhat time did you guys get back from after riding? Do you know? I don’t know. You don’t know.

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22 minutes, 13 secondsOh, like No, right after all that stuff happened. We Do you know what time all that took place or No.

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22 minutes, 19 secondsOh, I was riding my bike so I didn’t really have time to look at my phone.

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22 minutes, 23 secondsSo then you where do you where do you put these bikes and ATV and where did you put them? in the shed or where where did you put them? Oh, they’re in my garage.

22:31

22 minutes, 31 secondsOkay. So, then you put those in the garage and then what did you guys do?

22:35

22 minutes, 35 secondsJust same thing as usual. Just shut the garage door. Shut the ATV and the dirt bike in there. Then went inside, smoked

22:42

22 minutes, 42 secondsa couple cigarettes. Um really, we didn’t do much else to be honest. Then where’d you go?

22:50

22 minutes, 50 secondsWell, I went to and my be down here. Okay.

23:01

23 minutes, 1 secondNo. Where’s he? Yeah.

23:12

23 minutes, 12 secondsAll right. Well, you all about to lock me up?

23:19

23 minutes, 19 secondsNo. Well, we need you to be completely honest with everything. Oh, I I’ll be completely honest with you guys.

23:27

23 minutes, 27 secondsOkay, I’m not being completely honest with everything, okay? You know, and you know, I don’t want to I appreciate you

23:35

23 minutes, 35 secondsyou you’re trying to come up with a story that, yeah, it was self-defense and this guy grabbed me by the neck and I don’t have the forms with me, but do

23:44

23 minutes, 44 secondsyou realize there was an event at the church when this whole thing took place? You were so

23:51

23 minutes, 51 secondsangry. You did not realize who was around, who was watching, who was listening. So,

23:59

23 minutes, 59 secondsyou know what I said earlier, and I know you’re concerned. You said, you know, I don’t want to go to You got to be honest,

24:06

24 minutes, 6 secondsokay? And and I’m not yelling,

24:10

24 minutes, 10 secondsscreaming. I’m being just giving you straight up. You’re being cool, bro. I’m just You got to be honest. You know,

24:17

24 minutes, 17 secondsI I’ve done this job way too long to know one, you’re not giving us certain names because I think this might be your

24:26

24 minutes, 26 secondsboy. You don’t want to tell him your boy. Blah blah blah. We’re going to find out. So, that’s not going to help you

24:32

24 minutes, 32 secondsout when we find or if it was another couple. I don’t know. We’ll we’ll figure it out. But the thing is, you’re not being 100% honest.

24:45

24 minutes, 45 secondsOkay? Because there’s two sides to the story. Okay? One is yours,

24:50

24 minutes, 50 secondstwo and three is your buddies, four is the victim. So then you kind of look,

24:55

24 minutes, 55 secondsall right, is the victim’s story going to match up to your story? But in this case is easy cuz we can take your story

25:02

25 minutes, 2 secondsout and the victim’s story out and we can talk to witnesses who don’t know you and don’t know the victim. So for a case

25:09

25 minutes, 9 secondslike this, it’s simple. I mean, we just talk to the witness. What’ you see?

25:14

25 minutes, 14 secondsWhat’ you hear? Who did what? Who did what next?

25:19

25 minutes, 19 secondsIt’s it’s it’s better than catching it on video because you have witnesses who don’t even know you and don’t know. It’s

25:27

25 minutes, 27 secondsdifferent if I say, “Christian, yeah, we got two witnesses.” Well, who are they? Well, it’s the victim’s cousins. Well, then that doesn’t make sense. Of course,

25:34

25 minutes, 34 secondsthey’re going to say, “You did this.”

25:37

25 minutes, 37 secondsThese are church folks just leaving a church,

25:40

25 minutes, 40 secondsdriving off, and witness this whole thing go down. And you guys didn’t realize that they’re standing watching

25:48

25 minutes, 48 secondsthis thing go down. They watched what you did, what you guys did. They heard what was said and what happened. And

25:57

25 minutes, 57 secondsthat’s how we ended up there is cuz they were the ones that called 911. I just understandable.

26:03

26 minutes, 3 secondsSo your story is not even close to what these witnesses, these poor folks saw.

26:10

26 minutes, 10 secondsIt’s not true. Can I get an attorney in here? What the heck? Can I get an attorney in here?

26:19

26 minutes, 19 secondsIt’s up to you. I’d like one right now. Usually once someone asks for a lawyer,

26:24

26 minutes, 24 secondsthe interrogation is basically over. But not in Christian’s case. Because as detectives leave the room, Christian launches into a racist entitled meltdown that’s honestly embarrassing.

26:36

26 minutes, 36 secondsOh, hell yeah. I never had the down before. Yeah, you’re going to have them on now.

26:43

26 minutes, 43 secondsYou think that’s cool? What’s cool? Having those on? I No, it’s it’s just a new experience. Okay.

26:51

26 minutes, 51 secondsBut I But I mean, you almost like think it’s like cool. Do you think it’s cool to be here right now?

26:57

26 minutes, 57 secondsI mean, no, I don’t think it’s cool. I I don’t think it’s cool somebody put their hands on my neck, too, and threaten me.

27:03

27 minutes, 3 secondsThat’s not That’s not cool. But But here’s the other thing I want you to realize, okay? You asked for an attorney, so I’m not asking you any questions. I’m just going to talk for a second.

27:12

27 minutes, 12 secondsOkay. All right. How old are you? Yeah.

27:17

27 minutes, 17 secondsOkay. And you walk up in here and you’re talking to my partner calling him bro.

27:25

27 minutes, 25 secondsHe’s over twice your age. You should be calling him sir.

27:29

27 minutes, 29 secondsI do. What what I’m sitting here listening to while I’m sitting here in my chair is listening to

27:36

27 minutes, 36 secondskid who thinks that he’s just talking with two guys instead of understanding the gravity of why he’s sitting in this room. Okay.

27:47

27 minutes, 47 secondsOld and you need to grow up, young man.

27:50

27 minutes, 50 secondsSir, can you please stop raising your voice? No, I will not because you know what? You are not going to tell me what to do.

27:56

27 minutes, 56 secondsI will file a complaint on Go do it. Go ahead. Go give this early see what I mean.

28:07

28 minutes, 7 secondsLook sitting there calling. I never my partner here. I never called.

28:14

28 minutes, 14 secondsReally? What did you just say? That’s your problem. That’s why you don’t understand the gravity of why you’re sitting in this chair at 1:30 in the morning.

28:25

28 minutes, 25 secondsKid who thinks he’s a tough guy. And you want us to sit there and believe that you’re just driving down the road on your ATV and this guy’s honking his horn

28:33

28 minutes, 33 secondsand you didn’t do nothing wrong. You got an attitude and it shows by the way you’re talking to my partner on the end.

28:39

28 minutes, 39 secondsHe was a year old man and he also put his hands around. Okay. So, you’re gonna say that to all these other witness that

28:47

28 minutes, 47 secondssaw what happened? And when we talk to your boys, I guarantee you their story isn’t going to be the same because they’re going to look up cuz they’re not going to tell you [ __ ] cuz Okay.

28:57

28 minutes, 57 secondsAnd we’ll get all the evidence out of your garage and everything else. Y’all going to want We’re doing a search warrant at your house right now.

29:06

29 minutes, 6 secondsOh, you are? Huh? Yeah. All right. We’ll get my attorney here. We have no idea who you’re playing with.

29:11

29 minutes, 11 secondsOh, believe me. Yeah. The ATV, the bike is coming out of the garage right now. The blood all in the garage, everything. We have it all.

29:19

29 minutes, 19 secondsThere’s no blood in the garage, cuz Okay. All right. Okay. You slipped up, buddy.

29:24

29 minutes, 24 secondsYou got a lot of growing up. You get me an attorney in here. Oh, yeah. Really?

29:33

29 minutes, 33 secondsattorney. We’re not we’re not I have your right to do you and you can get one and then you go

29:40

29 minutes, 40 secondsover to the jail and then you can call and get an attorney. Okay.

29:48

29 minutes, 48 secondsYou know all the answers, bro. Bro.

29:53

29 minutes, 53 secondsAnd that’s just freakout number one because when the detective comes back 20 minutes later, Christian decides to run it back. What’s good? Can I have a glass of water, man?

30:02

30 minutes, 2 secondsYeah. All right, cool.

30:04

30 minutes, 4 secondsUh, just so you know, we’re we’re doing a search warrant at your house right now. So, my boss is out there at the house. I got a search warrant magistrate find it. So, um,

30:14

30 minutes, 14 secondslook, I got nothing to hide in my house, man.

30:16

30 minutes, 16 secondsI I I I know. I I hear you, but I’m just letting you know what’s what’s going on.

30:21

30 minutes, 21 secondsI mean, I don’t want you to think that I’m bullshitting you anything. I’m I’m not Yeah, you’re keeping 100, bro.

30:27

30 minutes, 27 secondsAnd uh you know, there is blood inside of that inside of that garage. And in my garage,

30:36

30 minutes, 36 secondsChris. Okay.

30:40

30 minutes, 40 secondsI I I don’t know how what else what other way to tell you, man. I’m I’m not making this up. Okay.

30:46

30 minutes, 46 secondsOh, yeah. I know you’re not making up your garage. Yes, there’s blood inside of your garage. Okay.

30:55

30 minutes, 55 secondsSo,

30:57

30 minutes, 57 secondsthat’s what we’re dealing with right now. Okay.

31:01

31 minutes, 1 secondAnd we’re in the process of Thanks, man.

31:18

31 minutes, 18 secondsOkay. Oh, yeah. I understand. So, what’s going on with the attorney situation?

31:23

31 minutes, 23 secondsWe don’t get you. You ask for an attorney. That’s on you to get an attorney.

31:28

31 minutes, 28 secondsOkay. But I’m supposed to be publicly appointed one.

31:33

31 minutes, 33 secondsYou don’t understand how the process works, do you? It’s not our job.

31:38

31 minutes, 38 secondsWell, who whose job is it? Cuz I’m not your job. I’m not about to answer a bunch more questions. I know my We’re not asking you any questions,

31:45

31 minutes, 45 secondsChristian. What question have we asked since you said you want an attorney?

31:49

31 minutes, 49 secondsWell, I mean I mean the thing is he put me in these for absolutely no damn reason. I’m just sitting here cooling. Okay.

31:57

31 minutes, 57 secondsI I don’t understand it. You’re being detained right now. Okay.

32:01

32 minutes, 1 secondWe’re not asking you any questions and it’s not our job to call to get you an attorney. That’s not our job.

32:08

32 minutes, 8 secondsThen whose job is it? yours. Okay. Well, I need my phone to do that.

32:18

32 minutes, 18 secondsJust hang tight, Christian. We’re going to get this search war done and we’ll kind of decide what’s going to happen next. Okay.

32:27

32 minutes, 27 secondsHow can we get a really? You guys don’t need to contact them. They had nothing to do with it.

32:34

32 minutes, 34 secondsWell, here’s the thing. You’re not running this investigation,

32:38

32 minutes, 38 secondsso it’s not your decision on who we’re going to talk to.

32:43

32 minutes, 43 secondsWell, yeah, but they’re not going to talk to you.

32:45

32 minutes, 45 secondsHow do you know? You don’t know what somebody else is going to do. Oh, but damn, I’m sure I do. Okay.

32:55

32 minutes, 55 secondsHey yo, get my attorney, too. Hey yo, we don’t do that. All right. Well,

33:02

33 minutes, 2 secondsso I can call my lawyer.

33:13

33 minutes, 13 secondsLater, detectives would find out that it wasn’t just Christian’s garage covered in blood. His social media was, too. One of his friends posted a photo of

33:21

33 minutes, 21 secondsChristian’s hands smeared in blood with the caption, “My boy just came out victorious.” And so far, we’ve seen that if there’s one thing Christian loves,

33:29

33 minutes, 29 secondsit’s acting tough. Whether that’s online or while he’s literally shackled to the floor in an interrogation room. But the moment he gets his phone, that act is

33:37

33 minutes, 37 secondsabout to fall apart as Christian immediately calls his mom and starts begging her to help him. Hello.

33:44

33 minutes, 44 secondsWant to come down to the police station?

33:47

33 minutes, 47 secondsWell, I have the um the detectives here right now.

33:51

33 minutes, 51 secondsAll right. Well, what are they saying to you and why? What are they searching? Um for the clothes that you wore. The clothes that work?

34:00

34 minutesWhy’ you let them in the house? They have a warrant. Oh, they had a warrant. Yeah.

34:09

34 minutes, 9 secondsI’m sure they don’t want to wear your dirty underwear. All right. No, this is not a laughing matter. I know. I’m sorry.

34:16

34 minutes, 16 secondsYeah. Like I’m really pissed. They had me chained to the floor.

34:24

34 minutes, 24 secondsThey changed it to the floor? Yeah. I pitched. Why would they change? They changed it to the floor.

34:31

34 minutes, 31 secondsYes. If you come down here like right now and settle this [ __ ] out, said I’m not having it. They refuse to give me an

34:38

34 minutes, 38 secondsattorney. They will not have a publicly appointed attorney come in here so I can talk with them.

34:45

34 minutes, 45 secondsAnd that’s my rights. Yeah.

34:49

34 minutes, 49 secondsSo they’re breaking my rights. So basically, I’m coming back and I’m suing them for everything they had.

35:00

35 minutesChristian to the floor.

35:07

35 minutes, 7 secondsYou’re laying on the floor with your chain. Yeah. Please come down here.

35:15

35 minutes, 15 secondsWell, I I got the guys here right now, so I can’t leave.

35:20

35 minutes, 20 secondsI need help. I I need a lot more help than what they do. They’re doing right now.

35:24

35 minutes, 24 secondsYeah. But I can’t leave. Um I can’t even go downstairs in the basement or anything. Why?

35:32

35 minutes, 32 secondsBecause they’re doing a search. Where are you anyhow?

35:40

35 minutes, 40 secondsI am at the Kent County Jail right now. Is that the one?

35:50

35 minutes, 50 secondsUm, how are you?

35:55

35 minutes, 55 secondsLike I I don’t I I don’t knock on the door.

35:59

35 minutes, 59 secondsSo the train can’t even reach the door to knock on it.

36:04

36 minutes, 4 secondsWell, I’d rather not. I’d rather have I’d rather have you come. I’m going to I am going to. You’re coming down here?

36:10

36 minutes, 10 secondsYes, I am. As soon as I get a chance, I will. All right. Love you.

36:13

36 minutes, 13 secondsEverything down here and you’re at the Kent County.

36:17

36 minutes, 17 secondsK County with the sheriff’s department. Um, like what’s the like precinct? King County Sheriff’s Department.

36:24

36 minutes, 24 secondsK County Sheriff’s Yeah, I’m at the Kent County Sheriff’s Department,

36:28

36 minutes, 28 secondsbro. Can you please get this [ __ ] off my policy? I I understand, bro. This shit’s uncomfortable as hell, man.

36:36

36 minutes, 36 secondsYeah, sure. It’s not made for comfort. All right, man. Yeah,

36:41

36 minutes, 41 secondsI do have to phone my phone in somewhere.

36:44

36 minutes, 44 secondsOkay. Well, I I really I really need you all to come down here and bail me out. I will.

36:50

36 minutes, 50 secondsNot too excited about those ankle cuffs now. Are we? And he’s about to get even less excited because the same detective he was just screaming obscinities at

36:58

36 minutes, 58 secondswalks back into the room. This time with the results of a search warrant at his home.

37:02

37 minutes, 2 secondsLook, Christian, I get it, man. I I’m not I’m not mad at you, man. You ain’t apologize to me about nothing, okay? Just trying to do my job, that’s all.

37:11

37 minutes, 11 secondsOh, I understand that. All I’m trying to do. I understand that completely, man.

37:14

37 minutes, 14 secondsSo, I mean, you you requested an attorney. I didn’t ask you any more questions. That’s that’s that’s my job.

37:21

37 minutes, 21 secondsIf you want to talk, we can talk. But if you want an attorney, I can’t talk to you. But it’s not my job to get you an attorney right now. I’m not asking you

37:29

37 minutes, 29 secondsany questions. Now, if I’m asking you questions, you need to have an attorney here. I mean, this is your choice. And if you want to talk without an attorney,

37:37

37 minutes, 37 secondswe can talk. If you want one, I’m not going to ask you any questions. But right now, we’re doing a search at your house.

37:45

37 minutes, 45 secondsSo, right now, we have to detain you until we figure out what’s going on.

37:50

37 minutes, 50 secondsThat’s all. That’s right. That’s what it’s all about.

37:52

37 minutes, 52 secondsThat’s right, bro. That white dude coming in here, bro. Why is he being so reckless, bro?

37:56

37 minutes, 56 secondsYeah. He He He’s big on respect. He’s big on, you know, and you know, fortunately,

38:04

38 minutes, 4 secondsyou’re not 52. So, it that gets under his feathers that, you know, kid just kind of I say kid, young man.

38:13

38 minutes, 13 secondsYeah.

38:13

38 minutes, 13 secondsThat gets under his feathers. So, it’s just, you know, it’s understandable. So,

38:21

38 minutes, 21 secondsI just want to go home, man. These ankle cuffs, man.

38:31

38 minutes, 31 secondsI always started getting into this line of work. To be honest,

38:40

38 minutes, 40 secondsjust seems like being able to help people and everything, save people from situations and everything. That’s always like something I’d like doing, you know?

38:48

38 minutes, 48 secondsIt’s like whenever I have the opportunity to do something nice for somebody. Mhm.

38:52

38 minutes, 52 secondsSick cuz I believe in karma, too. talk to you. Yeah.

38:57

38 minutes, 57 secondsI try to do as many nice things as I can for people. Don’t you love when you see cringe,

39:07

39 minutes, 7 secondsdisbelief, and pure agony hit a detective’s face all at the same time?

39:11

39 minutes, 11 secondsHow long do you think I’m going to be in here for, man?

39:14

39 minutes, 14 secondsI don’t know. Right now, I’m waiting for my boss to do what he’s got to do at the house. That’s what I’m waiting on.

39:21

39 minutes, 21 secondsReally?

39:23

39 minutes, 23 secondsBut I can’t talk to you cuz you want an attorney, remember? Oh, man. You can take it with me, man. Okay. All right.

39:29

39 minutes, 29 secondsYeah, we can we can just talk about your regular stuff, man. I don’t care. I I ain’t got much else to do, right?

39:40

39 minutes, 40 secondsDon’t take my cigarettes out of my pocket. No, don’t ask to smoke in here.

39:48

39 minutes, 48 secondsWhat? I said, “Please don’t ask the smoke in here cuz unfortunately it’s against policy.”

39:52

39 minutes, 52 secondsWell, I got to come out. I wouldn’t let it square in here. So, so can I ask you a question?

39:58

39 minutes, 58 secondsYeah, go for it, man. As long as it’s off the record, bro, cuz I feel like I can trust you. So, here’s my question. Yeah.

40:06

40 minutes, 6 secondsYou live Yeah.

40:11

40 minutes, 11 secondsYou said to yourself, “Man, I live out in the country. I live out in a rural area.” Yeah.

40:17

40 minutes, 17 secondsYou talk like you live on wealthy and division. What what where is this? You know, I am black, so I I get it. But I

40:25

40 minutes, 25 secondsmean, you talk like you have a different skin tone.

40:28

40 minutes, 28 secondsI’m trying to figure out where is this coming from? I I’ve been in the hood my whole life, bro.

40:36

40 minutes, 36 secondsNo, I haven’t lived out there. I only lived out there for like 3 years.

40:40

40 minutes, 40 secondsYou came down here for us to talk to you. That’s why we came we brought you down here.

40:44

40 minutes, 44 secondsYeah. I know, but I actually should be like a friendly talk, bro. And then he starts getting all up in my face and everything.

40:50

40 minutes, 50 secondsThat happened after you said you wanted an attorney and you didn’t want to talk to us anymore. That was all after. Prior

40:58

40 minutes, 58 secondsto that, no one was yelling, no one was screaming. We’re just talking to you. No one said anything. We’re just talking to you.

41:08

41 minutes, 8 secondsI was your tone changed when I started saying, you know, it’s what my what I do. your tone changed when I said I mean

41:16

41 minutes, 16 secondsyour story doesn’t make sense and then you’re like I’m done talking that’s your business you can do that. Yeah.

41:22

41 minutes, 22 secondsSo I mean prior to that no one yelling screaming you treating you like a grown man that you are. The only problem is

41:30

41 minutes, 30 secondsthough like that I’ve had with like problems with police in the past is they’ll really try to book you on anything. Like they’ll catch like a slight like mix up of words.

41:41

41 minutes, 41 secondsOkay.

41:43

41 minutes, 43 secondsI I can respect hearing that. I’m not those other dudes.

41:47

41 minutes, 47 secondsYeah, I feel I feel you a just getting your side of the story. Yeah.

41:53

41 minutes, 53 secondsBut unfortunately, I get to call you out cuz some some of what you said isn’t true. So, I sorry. No different than if

42:01

42 minutes, 1 secondif we’re out in the streets and we’re not in this situation and I’m just some dude and if I say, “Hey man, here’s uh such and such and you know it’s not

42:10

42 minutes, 10 secondslegit. You ain’t going to you going to call me out on it. It’s just Yeah.

42:14

42 minutes, 14 secondsYou know, and and this isn’t the crime of the century, but it is what it is,

42:20

42 minutes, 20 secondsyou know. I’m thinking y’all have been like high school sweethearts or something. I like black girls, bro.

42:28

42 minutes, 28 secondsShe ain’t black. I I know, but she she makes it.

42:33

42 minutes, 33 secondsYeah, she’s Yeah.

42:34

42 minutes, 34 secondsYeah. I just thought it was funny. I’m just messing with you. I just thought it was funny. Like I just met him. You all need to start putting some fuzzy [ __ ] on these, bro.

42:46

42 minutes, 46 secondsDon’t do fuzzy stuff, dude.

42:52

42 minutes, 52 secondsOr like some like padding on it or something.

42:55

42 minutes, 55 secondsWell, this made for you to just be steel, not crawling all over the place. That’s fair enough. That’s fair enough.

43:02

43 minutes, 2 secondsYou know what I mean? Oh, happy.

43:06

43 minutes, 6 secondsShortly after this, Christian was arrested and charged with assault with intent to do great bodily harm. But tragically, William would pass away in

43:13

43 minutes, 13 secondsthe hospital on October 31st, 2016 from the injuries he suffered in the attack.

43:19

43 minutes, 19 secondsWith William gone, Christian’s charges were upgraded to seconddegree murder.

43:23

43 minutes, 23 secondsAnd by 2017, a judge sentenced him to 22 1/2 to 100 years in prison. By the time he’s even eligible for parole, Christian will be nearly 42 years old.

43:34

43 minutes, 34 secondsOur thoughts go out to William’s family and loved ones because his bright life was taken far [music] too soon. Thank you for watching today’s video.

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