By Nicholas Stix – “Fuck that white girl!” said defense attorney Steven Johnson in his opening statement to the jury Monday, in the seventh Knoxville Horror trial, for the racially-motivated, January 7, 2007 rape-torture-murder of Channon Christian and Christopher Newsom, by a crew of up to seven blacks led by Lemaricus Davidson.
“That phrase, ‘Fuck that white girl!’ is being used for one reason, and one reason at all: To engender an emotional response. To distract you.”
Johnson insinuated that Thomas had never used the phrase at all, and that a detective had just made it up, 17 months after the fact.
There’s just one little problem with Johnson’s statement: The prosecution did not bring the racially-charged statement into the courtroom. Lead prosecutor Takisha Fitzgerald (“TK”) never said, “Fuck that white girl,” in her opening statement, which preceded Johnson’s. Rather, she quoted the detective as saying Thomas had told him, “Fuck that girl.”
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