American History X Page #2
SWEENEY:
Captain Rasmussen?
DESK SERGEANT:
Briefing room. Down that hall...third
door on the left.
INT. BRIEFING ROOM - A MEETING
Cops and detectives sit attentively and a few sip coffee.
The clock on the wall above reads 7:38 AM. Middle-aged
with slicked-back hair, CAPTAIN JOHN RASMUSSEN finishes a
thought. He spots Sweeney as he enters and aimlessly
reaches for a file.
RASMUSSEN:
All right. Moving on--
(acknowledging)
Good Morning, Doctor.
The group looks over and meets Sweeney's hard glare.
SWEENEY:
Good morning.
RASMUSSEN:
Gentlemen, this is Dr. Bob Sweeney.
He's Principal over at Venice High and
for some time now he's done a load of
outreach work with gangs...in and out
of the can.
Sweeney nods as Rasmussen cough. He sips water and
continues.
RASMUSSEN:
Three years ago a local kid named
Derek Vinyard gets sent up for
murdering a couple of Crips who were
trying to jack his car. Bob taught
Vinyard back in high school and has
followed the case closely.
YOUNG COP:
He was a skinhead, right?
SWEENEY:
Derek was more like...the skinhead.
He and Cameron Alexander.
COP #2
Who?
Rasmussen opens a FILE in front of him. There rests
Derek's mug shot. He flips it over and reveals
CAMMERON'S MUG SHOT. Front and side view.
RASMUSSEN:
Cammeron Alexander is probably the
biggest writer and distributor of
white power literature in LA County.
He promotes white power bands, writes
reviews, columns, all at the ripe age
of forty.
YOUNG COP:
(smiling)
He's forty? Jesus.
RASMUSSEN:
Pretty clean record...runs everything
out of his house down by the beach.
SWEENEY:
There weren't any organized white
gangs around Venice before those two
hooked up. Very few, if any. It was
mostly just black and Mexican. But it
was tiny. They hit it off though...
and Alexander hit the jackpot with
Derek.
Rasmussen reaches over and pushes play on a VCR.
RASMUSSEN:
We got some uncut footage here.
Courtesy of NBC.
ON THE TELEVISION--
REPORTER:
Earlier this evening...LA County
Firefighter Dennis Vinyard was shot
and killed while putting out a fire in
RASMUSSEN:
(to the group)
EXT. VINYARD HOUSEHOLD - A LIVE BROADCAST - VIDEOTAPE
A YOUNGER DEREK, short haired with no tattoos, stands
next to the reporter. Derek wears a Venice High
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