The issue is human cruelty. The purpose in slashing these birds to death in front of these crowds is for the gambling and entertainment of people.

She was built for crowds. She has never come any closer to life than the dinner table.

She had forgotten about this, the narcotic of the crowd. This is why you came to hear music. To stop being yourself, to let that thing that you supposedly were go, and just be part of a mob, synchronized by the heavy beat, mesmerized by a singer with big smeary red lips, her spooky chant.

They have this blade that slashes through the rooster, pokes out eyes, punctures lungs and slashes into vital arteries. Blood spurts and the animals die in the ring based on blood loss. Whichever one gets hacked to death is the loser.

Michael hated this, it was the worst thing he could imagine, disappearing into the mass- he didn't know how to submerge himself, he was the puzzle piece that fit nowhere.

We would allege in the indictment an act of cruelty to a child took place ... that caused the child's death without ever necessarily intending the death.