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00:00We still had half a keg left, and we wanted to get rid of it.

00:08Called him up, and I was like, hey, let's have a get-together.

00:11They said I was going to a party, and I was just like, okay, you know, let's go, so we

00:16went.

00:17All right.

00:18Brittany was asked to have Gus Benjamin and Gerald Banton, the only two black males, at

00:26this party.

00:27She was asked to have them leave.

00:29You motherfuckers got 10 seconds to get out of here.

00:3310.

00:34Jurors in Santa Rosa County heard opening statements in the murder trial of Robert Floyd.

00:38Nine.

00:39They were making other people uncomfortable.

00:41They wasn't dressed like a normal human being would dress.

00:44Eight.

00:45He would get along with anybody.

00:47If you're having a down day, it won't be down for long when he come around.

00:51Seven.

00:52So I run to my truck, and I grab my gun.

00:53As we was going, we heard a gunshot.

00:54First thing you know, it's Robert Floyd in the corner.

01:0110-7.

01:02I just shot somebody.

01:07They used to say that in the town of Jay, Florida, there used to be a sign.

01:19If I give a direct quote for it, it said, no bullshitting allowed.

01:25We played games down there, and the coaches would let us know that it's known for a racist

01:29town.

01:30The whole community was affected by this.

01:32Robbie was never racist.

01:33I've seen two black males walk up.

01:35It's always been a very friendly community.

01:37Two black males, having a white predominant county.

01:42I did hear about a lynching in Jay.

01:45You can hear all kinds of rumors.

01:46I'm sure it's just stories.

01:48A long time ago, colorful state over there.

01:52I was stunned when I first saw that census data.

01:55We're talking about infants, children, teenagers, young families.

02:00My husband was born in Jay.

02:02In 1930 census, they're just gone.

02:06I know there was a stir.

02:07I know black people lived in the area.

02:11In the newspapers, there's a story of a black man named Albert Thompson who kills a white

02:16man named Sam Eccles.

02:18You know, when they had the uproar over there, they had to come out of Jay.

02:23What they've been taught and what they've been told, it's not true.

02:27They come across that river, swim or die.

02:32One of my uncles told me about this.

02:34It was a massacre way back.

02:37And he said, bones were turned under.

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