Expert says white supremacist ideology primary reason California teen killed gay classmate

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Expert says white supremacist ideology primary reason California teen killed gay classmate

Hate crime?

By Randall Gross

US News • July 2011 • Views: 1,435

washingtonpost.com

A prosecution expert says a California teenager’s white supremacist ideology is the primary reason the murder defendant shot to death a 15-year-old gay classmate.

Simi Valley police Detective Dan Swanson, a white supremacy expert, testified Thursday that now-17-year-old Brandon McInerney embraces white supremacy and that led him to hate Larry King and kill the gay student in 2008.

McInerney is being tried as an adult for murder and hate crime allegations.

King was shot in the head at E.O. Green School in Oxnard. The trial was moved to Los Angeles County because of pretrial publicity.

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7 comments

jvic Sun, Jul 24, 2011 12:40:29pm

I wondered how a police detective in a small-to-medium city became an “expert” on white supremacism. This blogger, who seems to be trying to describe the trial fairly, shares my bemusement.

After reading the WaPo headline & AP story, I thought of the atrocity in Norway. The connection was suspiciously easy to draw, so I looked up the Wikipedia article on the case. As of this writing, it has 42 references; as of this writing, text searches for ‘white’ and ‘suprema’ came up empty.

theheat Sun, Jul 24, 2011 2:33:36pm

re: #1 jvic

So you don’t think being a fan of, or part of group, that espouses hatred might directly contribute to someone acting on their beliefs?

I think it has a lot to do with it.

jvic Sun, Jul 24, 2011 7:53:48pm

re: #2 theheat

I see no indication that you’ve read the second paragraph of my post, let alone clicked the hyperlinks.

goddamnedfrank Mon, Jul 25, 2011 12:20:25am

re: #1 jvic

I wondered how a police detective in a small-to-medium city became an “expert” on white supremacism. This blogger, who seems to be trying to describe the trial fairly, shares my bemusement.

After reading the WaPo headline & AP story, I thought of the atrocity in Norway. The connection was suspiciously easy to draw, so I looked up the Wikipedia article on the case. As of this writing, it has 42 references; as of this writing, text searches for ‘white’ and ‘suprema’ came up empty.

Yes, because wikipedia is the end all be all of modern research. I live in Ventura County so I’ve been following this shit for along time, and I lived in Montecito (in neighboring Santa Barbara County) when the shooting happened, but the information was a simple Google search away jvic.

In McInerney’s notebooks, there were dozens of doodles of swastikas and logos of the Silver Strand Locals beach group that use the same imagery as Hitler’s SS. Along with historical books on Nazis, there were images of white power symbols and ones McInerney seemed to create himself that combined Germanic eagles, swastikas, white power images and symbols from an Oxnard punk music scene.

McInerney also shaved his head, and once yelled “white power” at the same teacher whose class he murdered King in. The Ventura County Star and the Santa Barbara Independent have a plethora of articles documenting this tragedy.

goddamnedfrank Mon, Jul 25, 2011 12:38:24am

One more thing.

re: #1 jvic

I wondered how a police detective in a small-to-medium city became an “expert” on white supremacism.

What the fuck does the size of Oxnard have to do with anything? It’s a city of almost two hundred thousand people. Only thirty thousand people live in all of Neshoba County, Mississippi, but I’ve heard that they know a thing or two about white supremacism. Oxnard is also majority Hispanic & Latino (73.5%), so the non Hispanic & Latino whites are outnumbered, and some of them do in fact have a chip on their shoulder about that.

OhCrapIHaveACrushOnSarahPalin Mon, Jul 25, 2011 12:40:46am

re: #1 jvic

I wondered how a police detective in a small-to-medium city became an “expert” on white supremacism.

You should learn more about southern California, then.

theheat Mon, Jul 25, 2011 1:43:05am

re: #3 jvic

I did read your link, and that’s precisely why I’m stumped you’ve more or less skirted the issue and chose to blame the police testimony instead of the influence cited in the testimony.

Gang mentality. Ever heard of it?

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