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On April 29, 1992, Reginald Denny was driving his truck through the part of Los Angeles known as South Central. Protests following the acquittal of Rodney King had begun around 3:15PM that afternoon, shortly after the acquittal of the four Los Angeles Police Department officers who had been on trial for the beating of Rodney King.

Mr. Denny’s truck was stopped at the corner of Florence and Normandie Avenues shortly before 7PM —it was still daylight. The truck was attacked and Denny pulled from it and savagely beaten.

A television news helicopter beamed the brutal beating live to tens of thousands of televisions tuned in throughout the region, and while most were horrified, some took the extended absence of a police respons

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