Posted on 11/26/2014 10:01:57 AM PST by Adam Taxin
"... Who knows what could have happened to you? On that note, I take you back 22 ½ years … wow it’s really been that long … to the L.A. Rodney King riots. Let me refresh you with this clip of the white truck driver, Reginald Denny, who somewhere that was not safe for white people to be. ..."
"... who happens to be something of an expert in self-defense. Here’s what he wrote in regard to what happened in Minneapolis: He wrote: 'one word of advice … if they block your car and threaten your family and life … push gas firmly … this is self-defense … as given an opportunity … ie (you stopping), they will kill you!' That is exactly what the driver in Minnesota seems to do. ..."
(Excerpt) Read more at youtube.com ...
Bookmarked for later viewing. I remember Reginald Denny. It is a miracle that he survived.
You have to go through 6 minutes of stuff to get to that part!
Thanks for the warning. I always appreciate the heads up given by fellow Freepers.
here’s a link directly to the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T2bkt9aLBBI
The one on this post is really tough to sit through.
Video from Minnesota comes in at 0:52, of Reginald Denny comes in at 2:14. So basically yeah 6 minutes, give or take 5+ minutes.
I remember Reginald Denny too who happened to be just a white guy driving a dump truck doing his job.
Damian “Football” Williams, a 19-year old with a criminal record together with a few others pulled Reginald out of his truck and bashed his skull with a brick causing his skull to break and cave in; all this while Reginald was on his knees begging for help. Yes, it was a miracle he survived. Damian did a victory dance around Reginald who laid dying on the ground. All of it was caught on tape from a helicopter.
And later when Reginald recovered he had forgave his attackers because he had a Christian spirit.
LA Police Chief Daryl Gates arrested Damian Williams himself (with a 200 police officer backup) as Williams was hiding out. I remember reading what was reported that Williams said to Chief Gates:
” ... that at the moment of Mr. Williams’s arrest, the young man taunted him about that. “He said, ‘Chief Gates, you’re going,”’ the Chief said, “And I said, ‘Yes, Football, but you’re going first.’ “
It should be noted that the Black community in LA helped Chief Gates find Williams and the others. I remember well the black community in LA as being very spiritual and God-fearing and terrorized so much so that Churches needed bars over the windows.
Wow!
Looked like a fire-ant mound after getting disturbed.
Indeed. BTW it’s an excellent advertisement for whatever type of vehicle that was!
Just had a conversation with someone who had to drive a semi right through that same intersection later that day. The truck was prepped to make it more difficult to climb onto. And they were prepared to shoot a hole in the head of whoever climbed up onto the cab.
It appears to me that the driver started into the intersection BEFORE his car was mobbed. People jumped on his car when he started into the crowd, whether because they were angry at him or to get out of the way is not clear.
After someone fell off under the wheels, the crowd mobbed the car, forcing it to a temporary stop.
Then the driver starts up again, striking more people.
I don’t believe I am on the driver’s side. It looks like he inflamed an already angry crowd, endangering other people as well as himself.
I have no sympathy for anyone run over, stupid should hurt.
I hear ya...got two 17 rd and one 33 rd mags for my glock 19 with me these days. May never be able to hear again but at least I expect to be around. Each loaded with Winchester ranger 124gr JHPs.
You, sir, are very wise. And safe!
That is a perfect description of ghetto looting...that is exactly what it looks like.
The driver is stopped behind a car in the right lane, not surrounded by the crowd. Then he pulls right around the car in front, and creeps into the crowd, when people get on top of his car.
He could have turned left, as other cars are shown doing. He could have made a U-turn. He chose to drive into the crowd. You may think the people blocking the intersection deserves whatever happens to them, or at least the ones who first jump on the car, but what about other people they might attack if the situation escalates?
I agree, when you watch the other link that shows the incident from beginning to end, the driver could have turned to the left and gone around the crowd. Instead, they swing around the car in front of them and try to press their way through the crowd, which incited them further.
This was a person who’s emotions of frustration got the better of them. They should be arrested, fined, and jailed for reckless endangerment of pedestrians.
The same thing happened to my sister back after the verdict was read for the officers in the Rodney King case. She was working in a soup kitchen that was on W. Main St. in Rochester, NY, and it’s a dangerous neighborhood. She got out of work and pulled onto Main St. and a gang of thugs surrounded her car and without hesitation, she gunned it and got the heck out of there! Somebody hit her car with a brick too. She called me when she got home and warned me because my family and I lived only a couple of miles from where it happened.
As a member of hussein's party, he was so wrong on so much but that quote from him is admirable.
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