Reginald Denny , Description of what happened ..
On April 29, 1992, at 5:39 pm, Denny loaded his red
dump truck with 27 tons (25.5 t) of sand and began driving to a plant in
Inglewood, where the sand was due. He left the
Santa Monica Freeway and took a familiar shortcut across Florence Avenue to get to his destination. His truck had no radio, so he did not realize that he was driving into a riot. At 6:46 pm, after entering the intersection at Normandie, rioters threw rocks at his windows, and he heard people shouting for him to stop, forcing him to do so in the middle of the street. Antoine Miller climbed up and opened the truck door, giving an unidentified man the chance to pull Denny out and throw him on the ground. Henry Watson stood on Denny's neck to hold him down as a group of men surrounded him and Anthony Brown kicked him in the abdomen. Miller searched Denny's back pockets before climbing into the truck and running off with a stolen bag. As Watson walked away, two other unidentified men joined in the attack: one hurled a five-pound
oxygenator stolen from Larry Tarvin's truck at Denny's head, and the other kicked him and hit him with a
claw hammer. As Denny tried to stand up, Damian Williams threw a piece of brick at the side of his head, which knocked him unconscious.
[2] Williams pointed and laughed at Denny, did a victory dance in the road, and flashed gang signs at news helicopters, including that of
Robert Tur and his wife, Marika Gerrard, who were televising the events live from above. Brown joined Williams in flashing gang signs and spat on Denny. One man stood over him, filming Denny as he lay bleeding on the ground but did not try to help him.
[3]
Denny remained on the ground next to his truck, bloodied and unconscious as some residents threw bottles at him. Gary Williams approached Denny and rifled through his pockets before fleeing. As Denny slowly came to and got up to his knees, the man who had earlier assaulted him with a hammer ran up and gave him a
flying kick to the face. On the other side of the truck, Lance Parker stopped on his motorcycle and attempted to shoot the
fuel tank with a
shotgun but missed, before driving off. Bobby Green Jr., Lei Yuille, and Titus Murphy and Terri Barnett (boyfriend and girlfriend), who had been watching the events on television, came to Denny's aid. Denny eventually dragged himself back into the cab, and drove away from the scene slowly and erratically.
[4] Green (also a truck driver),
[5] boarded Denny's truck and took over at the wheel and drove him to the
Daniel Freeman Hospital in Inglewood. Those who helped Denny were recognized by the City of Los Angeles,
TRW trucking, and
Washington Mutual Bank (now Chase Bank).
Paramedics who attended to Denny said he came
very close to death. Soon after Green brought Denny to the hospital, he suffered a
seizure. His
skull was fractured in 91 places and pushed into his brain. His left eye was so badly dislocated that it would have fallen into his
sinus cavity had the surgeons not replaced the crushed bone with a piece of plastic. A permanent crater remains in his forehead despite efforts to correct it.
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He got so scared, he drove his car into the middle of a crowd of "leftists?"
