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At one point the Durham H-S reported, according to Defense lawyers, that it was the two strippers who first started calling racial slurs

Do you happen to have a link? I remember reading the quote, something about "you LD white boys gotta pay for it" or something to that effect. I'd love to add a link to the quote to my timeline next to the "slap" reference in Ekstrand's statement.

Unfortunately I do not. Your recollection about the substance of the comment is the same as mine. However, there is an exchange between me and the N&O's Melanie Sill on her blog where I berate her for refusing to report this. Her response was that they couldn't properly source it because the H-S attributed it only to "defense lawyers". Sill claimed that using such "anonymous sources" does not meet the N&O's journalistic standards. Yes, yes, very sad.

I don't know if the H-S keeps online archives. If you really want it you might find the date of my exchange with Sill in the N&O's blog archives. I just did a quick search and couldn't find it. It may be one of the posts that "disappeared". I think I may have given a link there or at least that would give you an approximate date for you to do your own search of the H-S archives.