CNN CNN Presents August 12, 2012
teenagers saw him. james, a black man, alone. it is hard to imagine what happened next without using the term hate. the teenagers were mostly white in rankin county were being led by an 18-year-old named daryl dedmon, according to police. dedmon had a history of harassing teens at his high school by several accounts from parents and students who knew him, he hated blacks, hated white people who had black friends. he hated anyone he thought was gay. and on this sunday morning, after a night of drinking, he and his friends, witnesses have told police, were out to the act on that hate. ...