[SamKeck]

Williams, 28, spent four years in prison after he was convicted of mayhem for beating Denny with a brick at a South-Central Los Angeles intersection during the 1992 riots.

I vividly recall the tv pictures of Chief Gates, wearing a bulletproof vest, personally arresting "Football," and and placing him in the back of a LAPD squad car. Great drama, but Williams was let off easy by the racially biased LA court system on what should have been a first degree murder charge for what he did to Reggie Denny. That Williams was eventually going to kill somebody if he ever got out of the pen again after the Denny incident was a foregone, and evenutually accurate, conclusion.

[doug from upland]

Denny actually survived. He was really messed up, but he survived. Did they even charge him with attempted murder? Or was it aggravated assault?