top officials who were behind and promoted the killing. >> bennie hays was the second or third highest ranking klansman in the state at the time of the murder. >> bennie, he gave the orders. he manipulated these young people. tiger knowles was 17 years old at the time. bennie hays was just as culpable and should have been held just as accountable. >> and all of that together went to show the pattern of violence that this group had encouraged around the time the michael donald lynching took place.