thinks of kunkel as his cousin. look, there s my cousin. hey! is cecil a racist? i can t really answer that. i m not sure. because of his tattoos? yeah, he s got a huge swastika on his head. yeah. yeah. no. i mean, that doesn t mean you re a racist, you know what i mean? that doesn t signify that you re a racist. what does it signify? that i can t talk about. unfortunately can t talk about that. tell me why. it s like kind of like our thing, you know what i mean? as far as being a convict. while pike wouldn t say what kunkel s tattoos signify, he has an unlikely ally in his claims that kunkel is not a racist. i know some real white boys are real racists. he s not one of them. real skin heads, they don t get hot, know what i mean? he s a nobody. you know? what do you think when you see a swastika on his head and all that stuff?
i m going to investigate it, you want me to review cameras or film, i ll go ahead and do that. i don t want an extension. well, that s what you re going to get. an officer is saying one thing, you re telling me you know nothing about it. i ve got a guy down there that s telling me he s a victim. okay? that s up to you. what i m saying, why you got to go interview tapes or keep me in here longer? you re looking at 30 days in here. i know. you re not helping me out in this situation. i m here to help you and listen to what you ve got to tell me. what you re saying has nothing is not even jiving with this thing here. you ve got nothing else to add to this thing? nope. okay. i ll have a determination made by the end of the day. a short time later, kunkel asks to speak with shamrock again. when i came back and spoke with him, he told me, he said, i was involved in a fight. i asked him where he got the scratches from his face. he said the other guy hit me a couple times
is what i m saying. nothing else, judge. i ll go over the jury questions. thank you very much. thank you. after kunkel s testimony, brian boreli makes his closing arguments to the jury. good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen. some of you may believe cecil s no angel, he sold the checks. i don t care what the officers did. but remember what the judge told you. you can believe the law is wrong but you must follow the law. the law says if it was the officer s idea, which it was, if the officer urged or induced him, which he did, and unless cecil was predisposed to commit this crime already, you must find him not guilty. ladies and gentlemen, i ask that you follow the law. i ask that you find cecil not guilty. all right. thank you.
he s in the middle of a 20-day lockdown for having fought with another inmate. it was a one-on-one fight, and it s a dead issue now, you know what i mean? it is what it is. it s no big thing. it s something that always happens. it ain t nothing, you know what i m saying? that s all there is to it, you know? kunkel claims his conflict with inmate robert hurd was just a run-of-the-mill jailhouse fight. but hurd says kunkel sucker punched him to avoid a fight with a bigger inmate. who was angry kunkel was flaunting his tattoos. when he got caught up with the big guy he was nervous to fight the person, so he s looking for a plea bargain, a way out, so the way to sign out is to run up in the middle of a pod where there s cameras at and
kunkel s tattoos led to serious trouble. jail security cameras pick him up at the bottom of his housing pod staircase. he has words with an african-american inmate and suddenly violence breaks out. the two men exchange numerous blows as other inmates gather around them. the brawl seems to last for an extended period of time. but it s actually only 41 seconds before security staff can assemble enough officers to not only break up the fight but to safely secure the pod in order to prevent other inmates from getting involved. i believe that the tattoos is basically the main reason for the fight and that the blacks were disrespected by it. when an inmate that has tattoos, such as that gentleman did, they