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A Case That Shocks the Conscience.

Jack and Peg Kenney raised their family to be generous and adventuresome. In the picturesque White Mountains of New Hampshire there was a generous abundance of land

for the Miller-Kenney family if not money.

And as Liko Kenney grew up on that land exploring and learing every hidden crevice of it with his friends on foot and four-wheeler, he became the kind of young man who would ultimately be referred to as "Our Native Son."

WHAT HAPPENED

Corporate Norman Bruce McKay came to the North Country as a flatlander from New York. He had personalized license plates that read: GOTCHA.

He made the Town of Franconia a substantial amount of money as a prolific ticket-writer. There were many complaints regarding his gruff, abusive manner up to and including a complaint by "Ms. B," a woman who carries advanced degrees in psychology and who was married to a cop.

In a scathing 13-page complaint issued to the State Attorney General she described how McKay held her in the back of a squad car on a failed DUI attempt and cut her seatbelt off with a “penis-shaped knife” pointing it toward her privates.The seatbelt was functioning fine, according to Ms. B.

A firefighter and other citizens and children complained of McKay’s threatening conduct, including inappropriately OC (Pepper) spraying people at will.

His nickname was “Officer Pepper.”

The neighboring town of Lisbon removed him from their frequencies for his incessant trolling for tickets and commanded that he turn in his equipment to them.

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In 2003 McKay demanded to see Liko Kenney’s license while Kenney was seated lawfully in his mother’s car in Fox Hill Park. The park did not have a curfew. Liko was not drinking or doing drugs. Liko gave McKay the license. The license was valid at the time; co-writer King verified that.

Liko – an intelligent young man surviving with Dyslexia and ADHD, properly tells McKay “You don’t have a right to keep me here without a good reason. You can’t just pick people up, put them in squad cars and drive them around for no reason.”

Rather than let him go, McKay detained him for unknown reasons after illegally blocking his egress from the park without Probable Cause. Other cases from Fox Hill Park were dismissed because of this issue.

Be that as it may, Liko asks for backup and inquires if a State Patrol Officer will be coming. McKay shrugs and says “I dunno….”

Whereupon Officers Cox and Ball -- his friends from neighboring jurisdictions show up and they, along with McKay beat the crap out of Liko, who complains that McKay stuck his groin in Liko's face. Remember this.

No Use-of-Force Report can be found in the file, which is incongruous with him charging Liko with Assaulting a Police Officer. It is also contrary to established protocol. Liko’s lawyer, on his way to becoming a Judge, takes a plea bargain. The Court tells Liko “No further contact with Bruce McKay.” Exactly what that means is up to interpretation, as Liko Kenney never sought out any contact with McKay in the first place.

During this time period McKay would deploy OC spray on several occasions in this small town, including an interior shot at Profile School that injured people in adjacent classrooms as it wafted through the ventilation system.

He also OC Sprayed and forcibly detained a young lady in an escalated situation in front of the town grocery store. As noted elsewhere, co-writer King sued the State and Town and won that lawsuit to obtain release of this video.

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In 2007 Liko and his friend Caleb Macaulay are driving home up Route 116 with an expired inspection sticker. McKay ignores at least one speeding car (Liko’s Aunt) and hones in on Liko’s aging Toyota Celica Supra.

Liko and Caleb pull to the small cutaway loop near Coppermine Road when signaled by McKay. Liko begins to get anxious and telephones his Uncle Mike Kenney, who lives near the rest of the family just up the road about half a mile. Mike Kenney is a well-respected businessman in the area who served as Bode Miller’s trainer and who builds and maintains tennis courts. He has no violent history to my knowledge.

Pardon us for going out on a limb here, but presumably Liko did not have any intent to arrive at his Uncle's home in order to then slay Corporal McKay.

Liko and Caleb drove up 116 at a moderate clip, at or near the speed limit “They grey car was not going fast” says the AG report.

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Please allow Susan Thompson, a town elder and witness from across the street to describe what she saw:

"The grey car was not going fast. I thought [McKay] was trying to get around it [for something else]. He made several movements (her daughter called it a "10-point turn" in her interview) to come nose to nose now facing north.... [McKay] pushed him and kept pushing him down (into the gravel area) dirt flew back the police car pushed him so strongly and just kept pushing and pushing and pushing until the grey car was beyond my view."

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But alas, this allows McKay, in a 6,000lb Tahoe, to catch them just before Mike Kenney’s house and the town line of Easton. Liko backs into a lot, and McKay turns around and bashes Liko out of sight nose-to-nose, with 35 feet of tire tracks to show for it.

Liko and Caleb raise their hands in the air and then motion to a pickup truck parked by the side of the road for them to stick around and help.

McKay then alights from his vehicle and without warning or directive, OC sprays an entire canister into Liko’s face.

Liko reacts and shoots McKay and tries to drive away as McKay runs across the street.

Greg Floyd by that time has somehow got McKay’s gun and has it trained on Liko’s car before Liko and Caleb can even get out on the road.

[Liko tried to go forward but the OC Spray was taking effect. Contrary to circulated rumors, he did not twice run Bruce McKay over. His car struck McKay once; see below.]

Floyd fires a shot into the lower windshield, then “within about four seconds shot that driver,” according to Floyd’s first statement to police. He did so by walking to the side of Liko's car and shooting Floyd, a multiple felon, also claims to have been in Vietnam and that it was his “44th kill.”

Review of Floyd’s military record reveals that he never went to Vietnam and that he was AWOL at least once from his basic training in the States.

Floyd, who once threatened that he would send a school administrator “home in a body bag” would subsequently change his story such that he stopped and told Liko to put the gun down. “I told the idiot to put the gun down” he says on WMUR.

However Attorney General Kelly Ayotte’s own police photos clearly show the shattered glass on the inside of Liko’s car on Caleb’s side and the report indicates “the window was in the fully up position.”

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So the AG suborned a lie during a police investigation. According to the AG files Greg Floyd's son said this:

[Also as noted on 91-A pdf page 745]
"They had stopped in front of his arm the first time. They didn't actually hit the officer. Then they backed up to here and at that time my dad got out and tried to pull him to prevent him from running him over again" [KingCast says wait a minute: Run him over again??? There was absolutely nothing to keep Liko from running McKay over the first time -- but he didn't. Liko was just trying to get the hell out of there.] They backed up to here and the car went rushing forward and my dad shot at the driver and it hit him and made him stop. The front end of the car ended up over the officer's chest."

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Remember the groin issue? Come to find out that Liko's Toyota undercarriage came to rest on Bruce McKay's undercarriage. Perhaps in life, there are no coincidences.

Bolstering that belief is the fact that one year later Floyd – who already had pending prison time for other offenses over his head -- is convicted of threatening his neighbor with a gun.

AJ Boisvert telephoned Christopher King to tell him all about it, and she filed charges that later resulted in Floyd’s conviction.

As Floyd is hauled away he gets into fisticuffs with Court staff and is forcibly restrained against an elevator as he responds to King’s statement:

“You murdered Liko Kenney dude.”

“Yeah.”

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When a young man with his whole life ahead of him shoots a cop, the World takes notice.

When the town twice denies attempts to name a roadway after a cop allegedly shot in the Line of Duty, the World stops spinning about its axis as people ask, "Why."

New Hampshire Law Enforcement told their story for years.

Ten Years.

The True story of Liko Kenney has not yet been told.

The True story of the Town of Franconia has not yet been told.

Circle of Stones is the first viable attempt to reach production.

And it is the only attempt made with the express approval

of the Miller-Kenney family.

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