The War Zone, War Zone Summary

John and Murika Tur took a video from their helicopter over the intersection of Florence and Normandie. This was the video of Reginald Denny's beating on the day of the riots. Judith Tur, reporter for the LA News Service, talks about the video as it is being shown. The video shows the beginning of the riots when several men beat Reginald Denny. It also shows some women taking pictures of the beating. No one came to help him right away, and when two men tried to help, one of the men doing the beating told them to go away. Several other people tried to help Denny. As she watches the video, Tur becomes angry and says that what it shows is not her United States. It is like being in a war zone, she says...