04-27-2008, 02:27 AM
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Sr. Correspondent
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Join Date: Apr 2008
Age: 49
Posts: 778
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Originally Posted by Qwerty
Maybe you forgot the racist police force that caused this incident
Not guilty? The riots would not have happen if justice was served. Everyone has a breaking point.
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Has anyone seen the full video, not just the edited version meant to inflame?
Have you forgotten Reginald Denny?
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When officers were later acquitted in the beating, the rioting soon began. Truck driver Reginald Denny, unaware of the rioting, was driving a load of sand through the intersection of Florence and Normandie -- ground zero for the riots -- and was pulled from his truck by rioters. In the sky above was Bob Tur, piloting a Los Angeles News Service helicopter. Tur captured footage of several men beating Denny with a claw hammer and concrete slab (fracturing his skull in 91 places), and Damian Monroe Williams doing a victory dance over Denny's unconscious form (Williams, by the way, was only in prison until 1997 in the Denny attack, but murdered a man in 2000 and is now serving a life sentence). The live broadcast also showed a man spitting on the unconscious Denny, and others throwing beer bottles at him. Another stopped to steal his wallet; another tried to shoot the gas tank on Denny's truck. But that horrific live video would also save Denny's life: local resident Bobby Green saw the attack on TV, slipped out of his house, found other helpers to lift Denny back into the truck, drove the truck to the hospital, and then returned the truck to the company.
http://journalism.about.com/b/2007/04/29/97.htm
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