norton. but this is no hollywood movie and what makes these fight tapes so shocking is that the teens appear to be well cared for kids from anywhere, usa. clark county district attorney chris lawrence. i was really struck by the just the abject disrespect and disregard for human life. we saw people being stomped, people being hit with hammers. [ bleep ]. people being kicked in the head. it was horrific. and it terrified me. get this. [ bleep ]. these are kids who are addicted to violence. get him! get him! and who are fighting for the sake of the high that it brings watching that fight. what gets the d.a. s attention that summer is a horrifying story about tanner hanson and the night he encounters the 311 boys. this is where it all started. july 18th, 2003.
anything to do with it, and he insists he s never heard of the 311 gang. until i was charged with this, until i was being charged and labeled and accused of 311 gang members, i never i don t even think i ever heard twice about 311 before i was even charged with it. as for connecting the fight tapes with what happened to tanner hanson, that, the defendant s claim, is an invention, created by the district attorney and overblown by the media. they say the fights were arranged and staged. angelo the italian stallion and tuna against random mexican man. three, two, one! but the d.a. says the fighting, the videotapes and the attack on tanner hanson are all tied together, that the 311 boys created atmosphere of violence that escalated into the car chase and the punches and the
whole gamut. i have never seen a case where the people glorified in violence more than this case reflected in the tapes. they just lusted after it. such a fix for them. you tried to jump on me that s [ bleep ], dude. he studies the teens behavior in the tapes and is surprised the case involving the 311 boys hasn t landed in his office sooner. it s not surprising what happened to tanner hanson. i m not surprised it escalated to that. in fact, i m surprised we don t have a dead body. i m surprised someone wasn t killed. and with that the d.a. makes a serious decision. he has nine boys at the party arrested as 311 gang members and charges each of them with attempted murder. is your plea not guilty to all 13 counts? yes, sir. all plead not guilty to all 13 accounts. the suspect prosecutors describe as the instigator steven, who recently graduated from high school stands accused of being the ringleader in the violence. he vehemently denies he had
tanner hanson has just wrapped up his junior year in high school and is enjoying all the graduation parties with his friends. on a warm saturday night, tanner drives to this park where he meets his best friend craig. some girls show up. and one of them suggests going to a party. another friend winces at the idea. but the group decides to go anyway. that s a decision tanner now wishes he had never made. tanner s friend craig. a lot of kids were coming in. some of my friends that i knew, and i was just like, oh, we don t have to worry about that. there are no problems. the group seems to be having a good time. but then without warning, says craig, the mood at the party changes. people they don t know are staring at them. one in particular. i ve never been stared at like that. they decide to leave but as craig and tanner head for craig s truck, that intense stranger and a whole group of boys follow them. he came up to the window. we would ask him if he could