Reginald Denny redux?: BLM supporters beat man in Portland
If you’re as old as I am, you understand the Reginald Denny reference – one of the most horrific and widely-covered moments of the deadly Rodney King riots in 1992:
Reginald Oliver Denny (born 1953) is a white former construction truck driver who was pulled from his truck and severely beaten during the 1992 Los Angeles riots by a group of Black men who came to be known as the “L.A. Four”. The attack was captured on video by a news helicopter, and broadcast live on U.S. national television.
Four other Black L.A. residents who had been witnessing the attack on live television came to Denny’s aid, placing him back in his truck, in which one of the rescuers drove him to the hospital. Denny suffered a fractured skull and impairment of his speech and ability to walk, for which he underwent years of rehabilitative therapy.
Note that the incident involved a man originally driving a truck, the video was captured by newspeopole and broadcast widely, and several other black people in the neighborhood heroically rescued Denny. In addition, the “L.A. Four” were tried for the crime and although they were convicted they got light sentences.
Which bring us to the present, and this incident, which happened in Portland last night (see also this.)
I haven’t seen the man’s name reported yet, but the story is that he was aiding a trans woman that the group was robbing and/or beating up, then the crowd turned on him, then he got into his truck and tried to drive away but had a minor accident, then the crowd dragged him from the car and he and his wife were beaten. There’s more; read the links.
These days, as opposed to when Denny was beaten, there are plenty of cell phones to record the proceedings; no need to rely on news helicopters. Reports are also that the identity of the main aggressor has been discovered, as in the Denny case. The victim is reported to still be unconscious and hospitalized.
Oh, and the beating has barely been covered by the MSM, except for the right such as the NY Post, and the British Daily Mail. That’s a huge difference from 1992. The only non-right MSM article I can find is this one in the WaPo, which emphasizes the rioters’ charges that the man supposedly tried to run people down with his vehicle, and leaves out the antecedent that he was aiding the trans woman who was being attacked before he got into his truck and drove away.
It’s also interesting to see the comments at the WaPo, which are not (at least, the ones I read) in favor of the rioters. Here’s one of them:
This isnt even close to what happened. BLM/ANTIFA were beating and robbing a transgendered woman. The man in the truck was attempting to help her when the crowd turned on him. He attempted to leave as several of the rioters tried stopping him. He drove off and at least one of the rioters who was trying to get into his truck fell over. The driver eventually hit a tree and rioters pulled him from his car.. it was then that they beat him into unconsciousness. Keese Love is the person who delivered the kick that put the man in the hospital.
Another difference between now and 1992 is that the leftist DA of Portland may not charge the perps here, if they are considered to be politically sympathetic.
[NOTE: This is a very recent story and it may involve the usual fogginess and rumor, with changing facts. So I’m adding this disclaimer that subsequent details may emerge that change the story considerably in either direction.]
This is the second time this year where an Antifa/BLM “mostly peaceful protestor’ has kicked a man on the pavement in the head. Their soccer skills kills, or tries to. Strength is a virtue I’ve been told.
The earlier incident was also in Portland, Andy Ngo posed the video IIRC.
As ye sow, so shall ye also reap.
I watch what’s going on in Portland with some Schadenfreude, I admit. Like the rest of America, its good people have stood silent while the evildoers have swept into office and worked their evil. I feel sorry for the good people, but elections have consequences.
The same goes for Seattle and San Fran. SF’s leftist DA, Chesea Boudin (named after Che), will not prosecute any non-violent crimes, as policy. That means car theft, car break-ins, looting, burglaries, purse-snatching, robbing citizens in broad daylight are all OK with him.
My bro the shrink who lives in WA is OK with the Seattle events. We have stopped communicating, probably for life.
Interesting how so little of this Antifa sh*t has occurred in the Deep South, isn’t it? Atlanta, Houston and Austin are not truly Southern in location or in political climate, however.
So what is the lesson to be drawn from this? Several, I think:
(1) Don’t stop to help anyone, especially if they are being savagely attacked by a mob.
(2) Don’t slow down, speed up, if the mob tries to attack you. The blood will wash off your bumper.
(3) Carry and be prepared to use.
Sad.
Here’s the Fox News report:
https://www.foxnews.com/us/portland-protest-turns-violent-brutal-assault-caught-on-video-report
Owen, I live in California. If I tried to protect myself I would probably be incarcerated with people who hate me because of my pallor.
No way I could get a carry permit here; but, if this stuff continues I may chance it. Hell, nobody obeys the laws anyway, why should I be different?
Interesting thing is that my friend who lives in Seattle tells me he can legally carry without a permit. I would be surprised if he doesn’t. He tells me that friends and family who were anti-gun are asking for advice and instruction. So, this kind of thing might not happen in Seattle. I suppose that Portland, with their official or unofficial municipal motto “Keep Portland Weird”, is a different story.
As far as charges are concerned, I seem to recall that there are Federal hate crime laws; but, I guess they only go in one direction. OOPS. I shouldn’t assume that a BLM thug is actually Black. But, if he were functioning in support of BLM, then give it a go AG Barr.
Alternative headline:
“Brief period of calm noted in routine Portland rioting, attributed to “eye of hurricane” phenomenon.”
Tornado also noted to be non-destructive in places where it wasn’t.
Are you able to report in any developed way, his thinking or rationale for this stance? I would assume that before the situation got to this regrettable state, there was some plainspoken laying out of foundational values and aims.
After all, he is presumably articulate and analytical as well as intelligent. What life values, fact analysis and conclusions did he express before things fell apart? Surely he told you.
[Or maybe not, if he was like a few progressives I know who just stare intently at you when you ask such a question – as if you have blasphemed or missed what is felt by every right minded person without the need for justification]
If you have such information to impart, you will be the first here – despite some having communist or Red revolutionary associates and family members – to ever do it.
Here’s hoping.
I’m with Owen.
I’m determined not to stop for protesters.
And I’m ready to serve on juries for others and stand firm. I won’t be browbeaten into voting “Guilty”.
For now, I only carry a pocket knife. My attitude is that I don’t want to be the easiest to attack at any time. Also, carrying the knife keeps me mindful.
I am in no way or fashion a gunner. But I bought a pistol and took a class a few years ago (You should also! Start soon, don’t wait!). My CA County has not granted a concealed carry license for decades as far as I can tell. But if/when things get more shaky, I will start to carry illegally. TBH, I’ll be a threat to myself and to others. Because I am not experienced and don’t have gun-knowledgeable friends to school me. But the option of being undefended is not acceptable.
Maybe it is you who has the failure to communicate effectively? Neo seems to have mastered the method, but notes that changing minds is not easy. A philosopher’s life isn’t a bed of roses. Too many thorny questions.
DNW-
Thanks for asking.
My bro the shrink is isolated and isolating. His wife, a psychiatric nurse practitioner who is IMO the better shrink of the two, based on case discussions I have overheard, has told me she says things like “At least I have our dog to make eye contact with me”. To little avail. He has always been private and defensive, and always a rebel against customary social order and processes. Plus, he is an atheist. Thus he is extra-ordinarily self-centered, and must have quite a false-god circus inside his skull. He believes the NYT and the New Yorker as Gospel.
He does not discuss; he issues verdicts, one-liners.
He started on marijuana as a teen. He used it until in his late 60s, with Saturday night pot & red wine get-togethers with his fellow shrinks. Maybe other drugs, who knows? A chronic marijuana syndrome?
Sociology is IMO the lowest rung on the social ‘science’ ladder. And psychiatry is the sociology of medicine. Shrinks cure no ailments!
I remember the Rodney King episode well. It was a time when comedians were allowed to say that LAPD’s new slogan was, “We treat you like a king”.
Most shrinks are in far greater need of a decent shrink than are their patients.
DNW, I have learned from my own family members that intelligence and education–or what passes for it these days–is no predictor.
They have passed through the looking glass (thanks to the educational system and/or the media drum beat) and their view is hopelessly distorted, which makes them vulnerable to Racialists, Socialists, and other Charlatans. For instance, when I tried to discuss ANTIFA with my recently college graduated granddaughter, who was taking part in peaceful protests (and I am sure that was her intent) in Portland right after Floyd’s death, she simply asked, “don’t you oppose Fascism?”. I have since written a 12 page letter to her, and to her twin brother, in which I discuss why I am a constitutional conservative, and my perspective on the issues that face us. If they read it, they haven’t commented. I am not sanguine. For now, I just hope there are not the 270 electoral votes that would provide cover to legitimize the madness.
JimNorCal-
My advice is to get a revolver, .357, .38 or .40 caliber. Not a semi-auto pistol, which is what you likely now have and are not confident about.
Go to an indoor range–they do exist–take a few lessons, get bullet advice, and thereafter go practice every couple months, not every few years.
Buy more ammo than you think you’ll need. It won’t go stale, and Dems will soon suppress supply.
I keep a .357 revolver with a laser beam in my vehicle, always. Target with the laser and just shoot; the red dot will tell you where the bullet’s going! Cool, and perfectly legal here.
Oldflyer:
Your family may indeed be too far gone.
But to your granddaughter’s question “Don’t you oppose fascism?”, you might say something like “yes, but Antifa doesn’t, despite its name.” Do they even know what fascism actually is? Do they know what brownshirts are, or what Kristallnacht was? Have they read Orwell, do they know about Newspeak?
I remember the night Reginald Denny was beaten. I was working 9-1-1 that night (my city was a couple of hundred miles north of L.A.) and my citizens were ringing my phone off of the hook reporting it in progress. I think that since LAPD didn’t seem to be responding, they expected us to send a unit screaming south. As it was, we actually did send 25% of our dept down to assist, just not with that incident. And, yep, I had a TV on watching it, too.
Washington is an open carry state however, you have to have Concealed Pistol License to have a loaded firearm in your vehicle. This means of course, unloading your carry piece when you get in your car. This is inherently dangerous.
I too had a falling out with a family member, in my case in 2004 when I revealed I that had switched from liberal to hating liberals with the heat of a thousand suns. We barely spoke for about 10 years. Good relations were restored when I gave this person an EBR (evil black rifle) as a gift. Months later this person commented to me on some gun poll about fewer people owning guns. I asked him if some stranger called him up and asked if he has guns would he tell them. After a pregnant pause I got back a quiet “no”. I said “Ah ha, the sleeper has awakened”. Last summer he said “I wish the Democrats would drop this anti-gun crap so I could vote for them again.” The answer is
https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=neo+guns+lots+of+guns&&view=detail&mid=E251E0392F4ECB244BACE251E0392F4ECB244BAC&rvsmid=C92239EB7EA28D323CE9C92239EB7EA28D323CE9&FORM=VDRVRV
People forget who saved Denny after seeing it on his television..
at some point it will heat up that opposition will not be punished and then it will take a turn. Proud boys fight kind of pounded them already… but wait till some nutter decides to handle it by sniping them. The leftists are not great at fighting those that actually oppose them, fighting those that dont, isn’t all that hard..
Some of the friends and relatives described above would seem to be a good fit for this school’s administration. (Condolences to the commenters; it is very disheartening to lose family because of ideology.)
https://babylonbee.com/news/oops-public-school-teacher-forgets-to-remove-antifa-mask-before-logging-on-for-class
This is grim and serious stuff. I bring joy to share in a moment — does anyone have links to video of violent protests this summer, in summary? A montage? Mass media used to do this well — today they censor outrageous Truth? I’like to educate friend abroad, and I can’t find this? Please share.
The joy comes from Dr. Steven Turkey — a well published Christian conservative scholar and writer — and is new video on the outlines of the New Civil War after this past weekend. My to watching his 13 minutes reaction is surprise and belly laugh schadenfreude!
And to watch it again because he’s caught details and perspectives drawn from a wide ranging set of published sources I’ve missed from Chicago to the National Interest to the WashPost and more.
His thesis is, yes, there’s a new Civil War in America, but this weekend finally witnessed the populist pushback, and as a result, it looks bad right now for the Left!
He starts by explaining something our commenters have recurrently talked about and frequently re-examined with angst (quite understandably, too, given the many dire historical parallels this year gives us): That this is an urban-rural divide and conflict.
After establishing this fact, Turley spends most of his presentation to explain how it’s being fought on three fronts: the street level battle, a civil dispute among Left politicians and city administrators over how to proceed (defections!). And finally, the stark reality of the Covid-19 virus pandemic, which has definitely killed far more in urban, Democrat ruled states than Republican.
He looks at the past week and weekends developments. His analysis? The Left is losing on all three fronts! Hence, my joy!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ctUJCM-ueeE
If so — and he makes a persuasive and enthusiastic case that it’s true —then our nations patience, between Trump’s Rushmore speech for Independence Day and the exhaustion of a people suffering at the Left’s constant lying and violent gaslighting, is wearing thin. And Trump’s numbers are already better than recent incumbents and winners, at this point. All positive developments.
So, good tidings and salutations! I hope others watch and LOL! With me!
Sometimes, life gives you a welcome surprise. Let this short video gem be one.
Thank you for all the comments.
A family member just informed me she is going to vote for Biden. A family member who loved Reagan and W. It is unbelievable to me that you can vote for a senile person and rather quickly get KH as president; who’s own presidential ambitions didn’t make it to Iowa.
However, I am half way around the world and I will bite my tongue. Besides, she lives in a very blue state.
Along with massive 24/7 demonization, this is the main thing that Trump is up against:
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2020/08/the_media_are_dangerously_misleading_the_electorate.html
Fortunately, there are other sources of information.
Unfortunately, not everyone is aware of them (or even wants to be).
To be sure, there is a very good reason why trust in the MSCM is at an all time low. The question is how big a factor this will be, ultimately.
I have a relation who is an expert in a field of knowledge so narrow as to be unbelievable. It’s PhD plus extra experience. He is supported by the chump change falling off the table when a certain extremely narrow interest group is counting their fun money–and we’re such a prosperous country that he’s doing well.
And he thinks he knows everything and is morally allowed if not required to lecture with heat and vicious slurs even family who are not up to his level on the subject of racism.
I guess we know what it took to make the issue of racism boring.
The mayor’s of Portland, Seattle and other cities, along with members of their city councils should be arrested and indicted for conspiring to commit felony assault, destruction of property, theft (causing the loss of business income), etc.
If justice were to prevail, they would all be jailed for 25 years with zero chance of parole.
As for the DAs of these cities they should too be arrested and indicted for aiding and abetting felony criminal activities.
And if anybody thinks the ANTIFA / BLM fascist storm-troopers will be arrested, and much less indicted, for their crimes, I have a few bridges and tunnels across the Hudson I wish to sell you.
As crazy as it seems, get ready for those winning re-election in those cities and states to re-elect the same folks or others holding the same political ideology.
By the way, in the Seattle district of Fremont stands a statue of Lenin; no need to fret that it will be destroyed.
Think about that; Lenin – the father of Bolshevik Russia – and his successors engaged in willful and purposeful mass starvation and exterminations, yet the useful idiots in Seattle have no problem having his statue on display.
They really need to add other statues to keep Lenin’s company; I suggest Pol Pot, Stalin and Hitler.
Mussolini does not fit into this esteemed and renown quartet because he didn’t murder enough folks, and neither does Castro (but only because he would have had to murder the entire population of Cuba to join the quartet, and thus have nobody left to cater to his every whim and fancy. After all, to live like a King you need compliant subjects).
In 1999 or so, Seattle hosted the WTO meeting and the ANTIFA folks of that day engaged in rioting, violence and destruction for a few days in Seattle.
This violent, Marxist-Fascist group has been around a long time and they will use any excuse at all to riot and cause destruction.
They will never, ever stop unless their leaders are tossed in jail – without chance of parole – for at least 50 years.
Alternatively, I would deport them immediately and drop them off in Cuba;- say the top 1000 ANTIFA leaders for starters, then the next 5000 run-of-the-mill ANTIFA thugs – never again allowed to set foot in the USA and, of course, loss of US citizenship.
I assume they would welcome – if not volunteer by the thousands – the opportunity to leave the country they really abhor and move to the “heaven-on-earth” nation of Cuba.
To Richard Aubrey;
Funny you should say that about a PHd in a narrow field.
Saw on TV some time back, a Prof. at some Texas University – a Caucasian, American guy – whose field of expertise was, and I am not making this up, Persian Poetry.
He was bitching about his funding being cut.
Of all the useless fields of endeavor (in terms of thinking that other folks should financially support you because you are an expert on something that nobody give a flying F about.
Entirely different if one takes on a hobby or personal interest in something and you delight in studying that topic).
No need to mention the other college “hate majors;” LGBT, women’s, black, hispanic, studies. I guess today you have to also toss in American studies, which should be renamed “America Sucks” studies.
I am still here and nobody has beaten me…. not that I can even recall what year last time someone got close for a physical conflict.
Even the animals will respect my territory. They know what will happen, which makes them wiser than most humans.
Prepare your soul and life for 2021, humanity. Get all your affairs in order.
However, I am half way around the world and I will bite my tongue. Besides, she lives in a very blue state.
Her vote won’t matter anyways, as this election is not normal. Things like suspending elections until 2021 is a card both sides will play.
John Tyler:
Persian poetry is not as much of a fringe thing as you might think. I’m here to defend (not defund) Persian poetry. “The Rubiyat of Omar Khayyam” is a great great work, and although I’m not into Rumi, he’s a really big deal as well.
That’s the only Persian poetry of which I’m aware, but I bet there are other great works. There’s definitely a place for Persian poetry in the teaching of literature at a university, IMHO.
In response to my question concerning his brother’s possible enunciation of principles before his vehemence broke (hopefully temporarily) their relationship, Cicero writes:
This excellent profile sketch answers the question I asked, on alternate terms.
It’s as if I asked “What were Joe’s reasons for paying 65k for that car?” and was told not the justification for the significant expenditure or the virtues of the model, but that Joe had stolen or borrowed it, and that it was just something he would discard when it had served his immediate purpose.
He is thus described as,
” … isolated and isolating … an atheist. … extra-ordinarily self-centered … believes the NYT and the New Yorker as Gospel. … He does not discuss; he issues verdicts, one-liners.[emphasis added, DW] He started on marijuana as a teen. He used it until in his late 60s, with Saturday night pot & red wine get-togethers with his fellow shrinks … ” and his wife as saying, ‘At least I have our dog to make eye contact with me’. ”
This then, is an answer or as much of one as anyone is likely to get regarding this person, outside of a psychologist who might attempt to explain the origins of these character traits.
And so, what we have in a way, as I see it, is a kind of philosophical nihilism at work; coupled with, as we have all discussed in the past, the effects of what Stephen Hicks, following Nietzsche’s analysis, called ressentiment.
Except in possibly this or similar cases, I think what we have is a blending with or appropriation of, a master morality conceit and act, by the resentment possessing philosophical nihilist. From their point of view, why should they explain it to you? If you are not satisfied with the birdseed they toss out, then “tough shit”. In a psychological and moral world reduced to power relations, where the willing of the will and the dreamt dream is all the reasoning that the situation calls for, who are we to demand more?
So much for their real take on the reciprocal duties of citizenship in a “democracy”
And I think that this Nietzschean mimicry has filtered way down to the much less educated, and has in fact become a kind of cultural default in Progressive America. Which is why your (our/my) questions as to “Why” are given some superficial and untenable answer brush off; and any further and persistent probing as to reasons is met with a “fuck you”.
Now, I know in fact, that there are progressives who will argue their ideology, and their economics especially, and try to support it with an overtly collectivist anthropology.
Marx did this, more or less. Neo has adduced another species of the authoritarian kind with her “Against Autonomy” review. And the Parecon boys over at Z-Net (if they are still there) were a decade and more ago active in arguing the “you did not build that” line, and the “you don’t own your own talents” thesis. Now these lines of argument ultimately prove incoherent, and their supposed conclusions don’t follow as true from the unsound premisses, even if the arguments look superficially valid. Nonetheless, with them at least we get a peek into the mind of the progressive as the wheels and the cogs churn; and there is formally at least, room for reason to operate and clarify.
But what of our fellow citizens, our close relations, our ardent neighbors? This is not what we see coming from most run of the mill progressive Americans of the academic and bureaucratic classes; though it is exactly that particular ideology which I have been trying to see teased or provoked out of them by commenters on this site who know such people intimately.
Because once it is stated clearly, theoretically, it can be analyzed, tested, and argued.
But they are not tracking the Parecon or even Marxist “species being” argument lines. They just shout the slogans and dogmatic shorthand, and then they clam up and stare sullenly.
I don’t know which is more alarming: the thought that they do have a well thought out and internalized Marxian anthropology hidden away as they rant and rave, or that they don’t.
John Tyler. My relation, however, isn’t living on tax money, however much he may demand it for his field in general.
Which reminds me: I have a couple of ….acquaintances who are in theater. The most hip, edgy, current, sensitive,”theater” it is capable of conceiving. What kills them is that any high school, for heaven’s sake, who wants to put on Oklahoma, South Pacific, any of the old classics..West Side Story ,Sound of Music…..Showboat…..has to pay for the rights. I looked into South Pacific the other day. Very complicated.
So after you pay for it, people pay the high school, or college, or community theater for tickets to see it.
Some of that is sixty years old. And nobody wants their stuff. Which condemns the rest of us to some kind of…..bad place.
Re attacks on your vehicle:
David Clarke, former Milwaukee county sheriff, now in talk radio, said “*Don’t stop!* Don’t floor it, but keep moving slowly. They will get out of the way.”
This isnt even close to what happened. BLM/ANTIFA were beating and robbing a transgendered woman.
So has this mutilated person stepped forward, or will it remain in solidarity with the Left?
This is the second time this year where an Antifa/BLM “mostly peaceful protestor’ has kicked a man on the pavement in the head. Their soccer skills kills, or tries to. Strength is a virtue I’ve been told.
American weaklings don’t have any strength to boast of.
My soccer kick will sever the vertebrae in one shot. Humans are fragile. Being put in a hospital means BLM were too Weak. And their victims are even weaker. Americans watching it all happen as they pay IRS taxes, weakest of them all.
I watch what’s going on in Portland with some Schadenfreude, I admit.
Foolish, weak, and also unwise. Because when the Left stomps your head in, everybody else will be watching you. You neither comprehend the cosmic powers you are up against nor do you realize this deficiency, any more than you understand Satan, Deep State, and Leftist alliance.
Here’s some much needed enlightened levity!
Hollywood’s cycle of rebellious campus comedies from “Animal House” in the early 1970s forward to 1994s “P.C.U.” climaxes when the latter film unintentionally predicts our recent year’s SWJs monstrous mayhem as the academic tools then strive to rule and police the University, to persecute, and now politicise and prosecute private deviance through their puritanical fascist totalitarianism.
You think that long-winded over intellectualization ain’t a belly laugh of ridiculousness?
Then take in 20 minutes of this smart satirical documentary’s revelations, and I dare you not to belly laugh at least a couple of times! “How the Movie PCU Predicted SJW’s”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hEvoqU-TfGk
YMMV, but this is my third viewing and I’m still laughing out loud!
The chaser is a second feature on the politics of ”Demolition Man” (1993) — a future SoCal in 2032 where crime and violence is neutered in a weaponless and ultra-polite SWJ utopia…Or is it? (Starring Sylvester Stallone/Wesley Snipe/Sandra Bullock.) Human nature does a beat down on the behaviouralist social science engineering champions? How vicariously glorious!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DrUNIX2Iv04
Classic Trailer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0B5v6QZ5R3g
Here’s your quiz topic, boys and girls, at least for those who care to play: which one is right? Which film more accurately defines our world today? And which one is funnier doing it?
What’s fun about pairing these two is how opposite the films and these documentary styles both are.
The first draws on Cheech and Chong doper humour, the post Alfred E Newman ”Mad” magazine style that your mother warned you against because it might corrupt you. The second is far less laconic, and more the ”sociology of film” class approach.
So, it’s like “The Dude” (“The Big Lebowski”), the doper-libertarian, versus the British son of the nephew of William F. Buckley, Jr., giving us the articulate, definitive Talk. Thus, not only are the two films very opposite in comedic style, so are these respective info illuminating videos. Quite the pair(s).
Feel free to bookmark the links and take in some flix fun edutainment whenever you like. The substance is too timely. And this topic’s relevance may be with us until…2032! Woa – Ha Ha Ha!
Awesome climax to the PCU documentary video at 36minutes: the “WE’RE NOT GONNA PROTEST!” protest. Brilliant.
The original film “P.C.U.” in HD free, posted here https://vikv.net/watch/pcu-1994/