GROVER TINNER JR. WOULD BE ALIVE TODAY IF FOOTBALL WILLIAMS WAS STILL IN PRISON (L.A. Riot story)

NCTIMES ^ | 4-28-02 | staff (and DFU commentary)

[stboz]

You're right. I was being no better than what I called him. I apologize.

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yes and (surprise) he moved out of L.A. to a basically all caucasian neighborhood

can you blame him??!!

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except to "peppy" couric on her morning rag today.

[doug from upland]

Thanks for the response. :)

[kstewskis]

I have a friend who is a reservist with the County Sheriff. He told me once the hardest busts he ever had to do was with people on PCP. They don't feel pain; they don't comply; they don't respond to tasers (except to occasionally seize and die on the spot). The good news is that PCP is no longer the drug of choice.

Mr. King was known to do PCP and appeared to be on it, or a similar drug, the evening of his arrest.

Yes, that is very good news. Especially on a count of the arresting officer(s) safety. King is a big fellow, and he could've seriously hurt either himself, or the officers had they just "sit back" and not restrain him with force. I believe the jurors in Simi Valley understood this, and voted accordingly.

[kstewskis]

yes and (surprise) he moved out of L.A. to a basically all caucasian neighborhood

can you blame him??!!

He was living in the Santa Clarita/Newhall area around '94 or so, sometime after he was getting along "on his own". My friend was a waitress at the time, and he came into the local resteraunt she worked in often.

Can't say I do blame him.

[sneakypete]

It Doesn't Seem Like 10 Years .. WoW!!! Where does Time Go :-?

I remember having a LOT of fun with all this back then. I would go on the aol political discussion boards,and see the posts there of radical blacks and leftist whites who kept whining about how "da system and da man" done kept them down. I kept telling them they were stupid to burn their own neighborhoods down,and that they should head for the neighborhoods where all the rich white and Jewish leftists lived,like Malibu,Brentwood,Beverly Hills,etc and burn down THEIR neighborhoods instead. Boy,the left went ballistic over that! All the gun-controll yahoos I had argued self-defense and gun control with started screaming about how they were going to have me arrested for inciting riots,etc,etc,etc. Somehow,they suddenly weren't as understanding about the justification for riots as they had been. Go figure.

[sneakypete]

Mr. King was known to do PCP and appeared to be on it, or a similar drug, the evening of his arrest.

Not only that,but he is a BIG,strong man,and too stupid to really feel much pain on his best days. I seriously doubt two average cops would have even been able to beat him down all by themselves,given the fact that he was on PCP AND adreneline.