Defendant in Reginald Denny beating killed in LA shooting (Antoine Miller)

Associated Press (via San Jose Mercury News) ^ | 11 February 2004

[CounterCounterCulture]

LOS ANGELES - Antoine Miller, one of four men prosecuted in the beating of truck driver Reginald Denny during the 1992 riots, was killed in a nightclub shooting, police said Wednesday.

Miller died Sunday after being shot Feb. 1 in Hollywood, said Los Angeles police Officer Lucy Diaz. He was 31.

[international american]

I wonder how the news media would have reacted, if the color lines were reversed? Let us just remember that if it weren't for 2 incredibly brave black men, Denny would be dead.

[river rat]

"Despite being beaten nearly to death, Denny showed little anger toward the men prosecuted in his attack, even as they were acquitted of the most serious charges."

The predictable and obligatory ignorant comment by the Murky News.....

I'm amazed the turd lived this long....Should have been killed years ago...

Turds like this getting shot, makes drive by shootings look like urban renewal projects..

Semper Fi

[MEG33]

I recall they literally did save him.I saw on article not long ago on these unsung heroes.

[EUPHORIC]

Good. Hope it HURT too.

[international american]

Yes they did! One held back the crowd, while the other put him back in his truck, and told him to move away, and lock the doors.

[international american]

Denny sustained major brain damage. Anything he said ex post facto should be taken with a grain of salt. I don't even know how he survived!

[reagan_fanatic]

Another turd flushed from society's toilet bowl.

Good riddance.

[Elliott Jackalope]

Speaking personally, those riots changed me forever, and not for the better. I won't go into details, but let's just say that my attitude towards certain groups of people is much, much different now than it used to be.

[fso301]

Surprized he lasted this long.

[international american]

It was the mayor of LA...Bradley, who stirred the riots...then BONEHEAD Bush said he was greatly disturbed....then the riots started. Thankd GHWB....you bonehead!

[Clemenza]

He who lives by the sword...

[Clemenza]

If LA burns, the worst thing we would lose would be that coffee shop shaped as a donut.

[JimRed]

Actually, I just did a Google search on Damian "Football" Williams and he is serving 30 years to life for killing a drug dealer.

That's probably the only GOOD thing he's done in his worthless life...

[international american]

I have driven by that joint often but never went in....gonna try it the next time I drive to LAX:)

[Clemenza]

Its not too bad, as long as you stick to the coffee and donuts. Now if only I could remember the name...

[Heyworth]

I was in L.A. in 92 and fairly near the frontlines of the riots, in the Miracle Mile area. I was basically just a few blocks beyond the high tide mark of the real devastation. Twelve years later, the 54 or so hours, from the time of the verdict on Wednesday until they instituted the curfew Friday night, were the craziest of my life. The night of the verdict, everything bad was still happening down in South Central, although the reports had it coming closer. But when we woke up on Thursday, it was like you'd been transported to Beirut. Columns of smoke coming closer, ash in the air, the streets empty except for people hell-bent on something, whether escape or mischief.

Most people had disappeared, either fleeing the city or hiding under their beds. We could come out of our apartment building and watch the looters make hourly attempts to break into the appliance and electronics store half a block down, then scatter when a squad car would come by and blast its siren (no cops were actually getting out of their cars that day that I could see). The looters would pile back into their cars and take off up our street, making the residents (the ones outside taking in events) scatter. We'd duck into doorways or behind cars in driveways. As we were doing this for the third time or so, one of the looters' cars squealed to a stop and a young, seemly well-dressed black gentleman yelled from it, "What are you running for? What are you afraid of?" And my wife stopped dead in her tracks, turned around and said directly to him, "Why are you here?" "F*** you, bitch," said the nice young man, and the car squealed away again.

[vetvetdoug]

This is good news. I cannot wait till O.J. gets gang banged and murdered at a Gay convention.

[gatorgriz]

What goes around, comes around...

[Heyworth]

One more anecdote of the riots: On Saturday, the only place you could buy beer in our neighborhood (and believe me, you wanted a beer), was the little liquor store next door to a gun shop. At the first sign of trouble, the gun store owner called all his employees to come in. They loaded for bear, with guys on the roof and everyone sporting bandeliers of ammo, and prepared for a siege. The story is that some gang guys drove up and told the guys to walk away, and one of the gun store guys, a huge Latino guy who had some street cred, basically said, "Can't do it." They got cruised a few times, but the gangs and looters stayed away, and the liquor store was the extra beneficiary.

[international american]

Randy's Donuts on Manchester Blvd in Inglewood!!!!