Re: 1992 Los Angeles riots
Never Forget Maxine Waters Embraced the Thug Who Slammed Concrete on Reginald Denny’s Head
by M. Dowling, May 13, 2017“Maxine Waters embraced Damien Williams, the infamous thug who hurled a chunk of concrete at truck driver Reginald Denny and performed a victory dance over this innocent man’s battered body. Maxine Waters even visited Damien Williams’ mother to offer her support.
Williams was sent to prison on a single felony charge of mayhem, but when his accomplices got off, Waters joined in the celebration.
Damien Williams was released a few years later and went on to [commit] murder...
Also, no surprise, he was a member of the Crips.”
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“Reginald Oliver Denny (born 1953) is a White former construction truck driver who was pulled from his truck and severely beaten during the 1992 Los Angeles riots by a group of Black men who came to be known as the “L.A. Four”. The attack was captured on video by a news helicopter, and broadcast live on U.S. national television.
Four other Black L.A. residents who had been witnessing the attack on live television came to Denny’s aid, placing him back in his truck, in which one of the rescuers drove him to the hospital.
Denny suffered a fractured skull and impairment of his speech and ability to walk, for which he underwent years of rehabilitative therapy.
After unsuccessfully suing the City of Los Angeles, Denny moved to Arizona, where he worked as an independent boat mechanic and has mostly avoided media contact.”
-—Wikipedia
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“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 Black men surrounded him and Anthony Brown kicked him in the abdomen.[8][3]
As Watson walked away, two other unidentified [Black] men joined in the attack: one hurled a five-pound oxygenator stolen from Larry Tarvin’s truck at Denny’s head,[9] and the other kicked him and hit him with a claw hammer.[8]
News footage showed Damian Williams throwing a cinder block at Denny’s head, then doing a football-style victory dance in the road and flashing gang signs at the Los Angeles News Service helicopter of Robert Tur and Marika Gerrard.[3][10]
After the beating ended, some men threw beer bottles at the unconscious body and a man searched Denny’s back pockets, taking his wallet.[8][3]
Tur and Gerrard reported that there was no police presence in the area.[4]"
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Maxine Waters on the Los Angeles riots of 1992 (Rodney King riots):
"In defense of the people that looted stores and damaged property, [Maxine] Waters said 'If you call it a riot it sounds like it was just a bunch of crazy people who went out and did bad things for no reason. I maintain it was somewhat understandable, if not acceptable. So I call it a rebellion.'[5]
She also said it was 'a spontaneous reaction to a lot of injustice' and 'The anger in my district is righteous. I'm just as angry as they are'. "
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maxine_Waters#Los_Angeles_riots_of_1992