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.
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.
After that attack on Reginald Denny, “Football” Williams was convicted and sentenced to 10 years but got out after five for “good behavior”—and then committed a murder. He now sits in the state pen down in Calipatria.