Talk:Reginald Oliver Denny
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BACKGROUND:
Perhaps a better background would be:
"On March 3, 1991, Rodney King, an African-American parolee,".
After all, if the riots have a background with King, the King incidents also have background. Though one might reasonably infer from the Wikipedia article on King that, apart from his driving on the night, his career criminality found its genesis in the confrontation with the police. However, King was already a wife beater and robber. Try http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/lapd/kingarrests.html for one of many other views.
Given the propensity in your country to resort to the use of weapons with alarming alacrity, it's perhaps King's good fortune that the local constabulary didn't "fill him full of lead", as they would have said in celluloid LA.
A further insightful background might have been references to the racial strife between blacks and Latinos particularly acute in California, or between blacks and the burgeoning Korean shopkeeper class. Though of course, the racism weapon starts to look a little puny then.
Another background would have been the far greater likelihood of Reginald Denney being a victim of assault by someone of another race than Rodney King even in the absence of full scale civil disturbances.
Or...change the word "background" to "excuse". Now there's a thought.
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This page neglects to address the blatant racism involved in the incident. Most likely this is due to leftist/PC bias which suggests that only minorites can be victims of hate crimes, a position which I find to be personally offensive. Would someone please ammend the article to actually mention (and not in a passing, dismissive way) that Reginald was targeted based on his race (does anyone truly deny that fact?) -- antireverseracist
[Partisan comment removed - Wikipedia is not a soapbox --kudz75 04:52, 14 Dec 2004 (UTC) ]
[edit] Sources?
This is a really good article in terms of flow and content; however, it cites virtually NO sources. Could we maybe add some in the future?
Moreover, there is NO mention that King ATTACKED police officers!!! The tape showed the police repeatedly beating King. Yes. But it was ONLY a portion of the tape that showed the beating. And the media played ONLY this over, and over, and over. If you watch the FIRST PART of the tape, you see King pull himself up off the ground, and charge the police, scattering them like bowling pins. King is a large, powerful man allegedly high on angel dust and Crown Royale -- and what are the police supposed to do -- kiss him until he complies with their commands as any law abiding citizen should do?
[edit] Cleanup and Larry Tavin
I tried to overhaul the article, improving the flow a little and adding a bit of backround.
The information about Larry Tavin failed a simple Wikipedia:Google_test, searching his name turned up literally zero results. If anyone has transcripts or media accounts of the event, please cite them and include the information.
I pointed out the race of the involved parties because that was a major issue surrounding Rodney King, the riots, and Denny's beating.
--Uncle Bungle 01:19, 19 Mar 2005 (UTC)
[edit] NPOV removal
I removed the tag, if anyone thinks it should go back, please state your case here. --Uncle Bungle 01:12, 26 Apr 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Rodney King meeting?
Was Denny present when Rodney King gave his famous "Can't we all just get along" plea to the media? I feel like they met at some point, but that might have been an In Living Color sketch. --feitclub 20:02, Apr 29, 2005 (UTC)
Correct, it's the sketch you remember. At the time Rodney King made his famous plea, Reginald Denny was near death in the hospital. --ProhibitOnions 13:49, 2005 Jun 15 (UTC)
[edit] NPOV Hypocrisy prevents mention of racism
This article is a perfect example of Wikipedia censorship, political correctness, and NPOV hypocrisy preventing a clear description of the subject. Nowhere was it stated that racism is the key factor. The victim and assailant's race was explicitly not mentioned, yet rhe race of those who helped is. The Wikipedia soapbox dogma can be taken to ridiculous, if not downright stupid, extremes. User:user
There is also no mention of Reginald Denny and his family receiving constant death threats from gang members during the trial of the L.A. 4 which was probably why they got off so easily.
[edit] Spelling
The title name is spelled wrong per[1] should be Reginald Denney.--Dakota ~ ε 23:18, 16 January 2006 (UTC)
- The name is correct as is. A Google search of "Reginald Denny" brings about 175,000 hits. One of "Reginald Denney" results in less than a1,000. In addition, "Reginald Oliver Denny" has nearly 200 hits and "Reginald Oliver Denney" 0 hits. OverlordChris 21:50, 23 March 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Where Did the Photo go?
The photo is not appearing!!!!!!!!!!!!
