"We"re at war, and you"re not listening." was the rallying cry for many teens in Amarillo, Texas. Since the days when Cain and Abel's sibling rivalry came to a bloody end, humans have made themselves for their intolerance and narrow minds. We have murdered millions in the name of a god that we all have different names for; we have wiped out entire races for it. Humanity hasn't evolved much since the days of witch trials and public torture. The world around us has become automated and mobile while we stay the same. We have managed to learn to walk upright, and communicate, and send men to the Moon, still, we cannot seem to even begin to learn how to accept one another. In America, the majority definitely rules. At around 11:30 on the night of December 12th, 1997, in Amarillo, Texas, Brian Deneke was killed in the parking lot of a shopping center by Dustin Camp, he was nineteen years old. At the time, Camp was a seventeen year old junior varsity football player driving a 1983 Cadillac. .
A timeline of the events leading up to Brian's death were pure high school rivalry gone very, very wrong. Punks and jocks were fighting because they looked and acted different from one another. Rumors of planned brawl between the punks and jocks floated around school, finally coming to fruition on the night December 12th, around eleven that evening, kids from both groups found their way to the local IHOP, some hoping to see a fight, some hoping to break up the monotony of a Friday night in Amarillo. In the parking lot, the arguing had begun. Within minutes it moved across the street to a shopping center. That is where things began to get ugly. As the fight ensued, Dustin Camp ran his Cadillac in the crowd striking Deneke and pulling his body under the car. There were no skid marks, or any other signs, that Camp had tried to stop. Camp then drove away with a couple friends, saying; "I"m a ninja in my caddy, I bet he liked that.
