Poor guy. I really wasn’t trying to put Mr. Denny in a bad light. I’m just trying to learn the right tactics in an incredible situation.
I imagine that any of us could be taken unaware.
But that was then - a different age, a different time.
Me? I expect it. Especially with a Romney win - or loss.
Most people don’t know that smaller elements of race rioting took place in many cities around the nation that week, because of the video.
On a small scale, those kind of attacks happen in certain areas of some cities, at any time, and are unrelated to rioting, they are just racial attacks at stop lights and such.
There are no tactics in that situation. Denny was simply delivering a load of sand, when he drove into a bad situation where people were yelling at him to stop. He didn't have a clue what was happening at the time.
90 percent of people are not prepared for a sudden violent event where they're totally outnumbered. Even trying to shoot your way out, you'll possibly still be overwhelmed.
Denny should have floored it, even though it would mean running over dozens of people, even then he might not have made it.
He was caught totally off guard and was too nice of guy to begin with. Some years late, he shook hands with one of the attackers on some talk show.
Bottom line is ya don't want to be in the wrong place during an event such as this. Problem is, ya don't know when or where it's going to happen.
I was there in 92. It was total chaos.
Something that is very difficult to find, is the first 13 seconds or so of the video before the beating started, it shows King getting up and lunging for Powell’s throat with both hands.
The media cut that portion and it keeps getting pulled from youtube.