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'''Brandon McInerney''' is a 17 year old who has plead guilty to to second degree murder, voluntary manslaughter and use of a gun and has been sentenced to 21 years for the shooting of Lawrence "Larry" Fobes King. At his trial, he was was accused of committing a [[hate crime]] in connection with his murder of the older [[gay]] student, after the older student "had been dressing in women's accessories and wearing makeup, and was flirting aggressively with male students on campus who did not want the attention"<ref name="LA Times">http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2011/11/brandon-mcinerney-school-criticized-by-both-sides-in-gay-teen-slaying-case.html</ref> at a [[public school]] in [[California]].  

'''Brandon McInerney''' is a 17-year-old who has plead guilty to second degree murder, voluntary manslaughter, and use of a gun and has been sentenced to 21 years for the shooting death of Lawrence "Larry" Fobes King, age 15. McInerney, who was 14 at the time of the murder, shot King twice at point-blank range<ref name="LA Times">[http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2011/11/brandon-mcinerney-school-criticized-by-both-sides-in-gay-teen-slaying-case.html Brandon McInerney gets 21 years: School faulted in gay teen slaying] Catherine Saillant, L.A. Now blog at latimes.com, November 22, 2011.</ref> in the back of the head.<ref name="now">[http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2011/09/gay-slaying-jury.html Jury unable to reach verdict in killing of gay student Larry King] Catherine Saillant, L.A. Now blog at latimes.com, September 1, 2011, retrieved November 22, 2011</ref>

In McInerney's much-publicized jury trial, '''''all 12 jurors rejected the politically driven claim of prosecutors that he had committed a hate crime'''''.<ref>http://abcnews.go.com/Nightline/video/execution-style-killing-classroom-14669728</ref> The trial resulted in a hung jury, and he later pled guilty to the reduced charges and a shorter prison sentence.  The [[lamestream media]], however, continued to falsely portray the murder as somehow having been a hate crime, failing to include the view of the jurors.

At his trial, he was accused of committing a [[hate crime]] in connection with his murder of the older [[gay]] student, after the older student "had been dressing in women's accessories and wearing makeup, and was flirting aggressively with male students on campus who did not want the attention"<ref name="LA Times"/> at a [[public school]] in Oxnard, [[California]]. The defense "appeared to reach out for jury sympathy by calling several of McInerney’s relatives to the stand to testify to the abuse the young boy suffered at the hands of his drug-abuser father."<ref name="now"/>

After the trial and after McInerney agreed to a plea bargain, the mother of the victim:<ref name="LA Times"/>

 

After the trial, and after McInerney agreed to a plea bargain, Dawn King, the mother of the victim:<ref name="LA Times"/>

{{cquote|revealed for the first time Monday that she had contacted school officials four days before the shooting in an effort to solicit their cooperation in toning down her son's behavior. ... She said she was told that her son had a civil right to explore his sexual identity.}}

{{cquote|revealed for the first time Monday that she had contacted school officials four days before the shooting in an effort to solicit their cooperation in toning down her son's behavior. ... She said she was told that her son had a civil right to explore his sexual identity.}}

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