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| “ | Uh, I shot the two Jew kids and the porch monkey. | „ |
| ~ Redding admitting to the shooting he committed. |
Brannon Lee Redding is a supporting antagonist in the Law & Order: Special Victims Unit episode "Raw". He is a member of the neo-Nazi group Revolutionary Aryan Warriors (RAW) who is paid to murder a young Black boy and shoots two other children to make it look like a hate crime.
He was portrayed by Joel Garland.
Early life[]
Redding is a white supremacist skinhead who is a member of the neo-Nazi group Revolutionary Aryan Warriors (RAW), which is led by Brian Ackerman. He served time in prison for assault and robbery, and he made the acquaintance of corrections officer Mark Whitlock.
After Redding was released from prison, Whitlock and his wife Janice paid him to kill their eight-year-old adopted son Jeffrey so they could collect on the life insurance they took out on the boy. They instructed Redding to shoot up Jeffrey's school, P.S. 74, and to kill him and two other children to make it look like a hate crime.
"Raw"[]
Redding stakes out P.S. 74 with a sniper rifle during recess and opens fire. He shoots and kills Jeffrey first, and then shoots his classmates Danny Koehler and Annabelle Paoletti because they "look Jewish"; they both survive, however.
The NYPD's Special Victims Unit investigates the shooting, with Detective John Munch tracing the rifle to a gun shop called Gun Ho. Munch and his partner, Detective Fin Tutuola, arrest Ackerman's son and RAW acolyte Kyle and his right-hand Star Morrison for complicity in the shooting, while RAW's financial records lead them to Redding. Munch, Tutuola, and their SVU colleagues, Detectives Olivia Benson and Elliot Stabler, arrest Redding in his apartment, and while he denies committing the shooting, he makes several racist remarks about the children, particularly Jeffrey.
Ackerman gets Redding a lawyer, Heshi Horowitz, assuming that a "Jew lawyer" will be more effective in court, even though he and Redding personally hate him. Horowitz dislikes his new clients, as well, but nevertheless ably represents Redding, getting him a plea deal in which he will serve 25 years in prison rather than a life sentence for murder and attempted murder.
During his plea hearing, Redding nonchalantly admits to shooting the children while demeaning them with racial and ethnic slurs. The trial judge, disgusted by Redding's behavior, rejects the deal and rules that he will stand trial for the shooting, for which he will face the death penalty if convicted. Enraged, Redding shouts racial slurs at the judge and the entire court. He later fires his lawyer and negotiates with Novak alone, agreeing to testify that Ackerman gave him the gun and Jeffrey Whitlock's school picture in order to avoid a life sentence.
At Ackerman's trial, Redding takes the stand over the objections of Ackerman's lawyer Barry Moredock, testifying that Ackerman met him after he was released from prison and persuaded him to kill Whitlock's son in order to prove his worth as a defender of his race. However, just then Ackerman's son Kyle, who has smuggled a gun into the courtroom, screams that Redding is a race traitor and opens fire on the court, killing Redding, the judge and one of the court officers before being shot by Morrison, who is really FBI agent Dana Lewis and is working to bring down RAW. Benson and Lewis later discover that Redding was actually hired by the Whitlocks and arrest them for their role in the shooting.
External links[]
- Brannon Lee Redding on the Law & Order Wiki
