Actor Kept Denny’s Bag as ‘Evidence of Inhumanity’ : An actor who rescued a motorist assaulted at the intersection where Reginald Denny was attacked said Wednesday he took Denny’s orange duffel bag home as a personal reminder of inhumanity.

Gregory Alan-Williams, 37, a cast member of TV’s “Baywatch,” said he found the bag at the intersection of Florence and Normandie avenues after Denny, a truck driver, was beaten April 29, 1992. He said he did not turn the bag over to police until about a month ago.

“I saw it more as a personal item and something that had a personal meaning to me,” Alan-Williams said. “I didn’t see it as evidence. If it was any sort of evidence, it was evidence of inhumanity.”

The bag, he said, contained several pieces of identification and a manual.

Defense attorney Wilma Shanks said the duffel bag is related to a robbery charge against defendants Damian Williams, 20, and Henry Keith Watson, 28, and asked Alan-Williams why he kept it for so long.

The actor said he tried to turn it over to police the night of April 29, but they were too busy to talk to him.

“I wanted to keep it as . . . memorabilia of what I witnessed, what I experienced and what I felt, not of the riot, but of the consequences of rage,” he said.

Williams and Watson are charged with attempted murder, assault and robbery in attacks on Denny, two firefighters and five other people at the flash point of the rioting.

The unrest occurred after not guilty verdicts were reached on four white police officers accused in in the 1991 beating of black motorist Rodney G. King.

Alan-Williams said he went to the intersection after hearing news reports about the disturbances and hoped to stop further attacks against innocent people.

He recounted his rescue of Takao Hirata, 49, a print shop owner who was assaulted in a Ford Bronco, but he could not identify any of Hirata’s attackers on a videotape.

“I reached in, grabbed the driver under his arms and began to drag him,” Alan-Williams said. “Someone ran up to him and smashed a bottle across his face.”

Alan-Williams said he pulled Hirata to a sidewalk and told him: “You’re going to have to walk or you’re going to die.” A man later offered to take Hirata to a hospital in his van, the actor said.

Hirata testified Tuesday that he remembers nothing except someone approaching his vehicle and asking for his money.

He said he woke up in a hospital with 24 stitches around one eye and in his forehead. He said he lost three teeth, suffers paralysis in part of his face and has lost 40% of his hearing.