‘Terrifying’ Scene Described at Denny Trial : Courts: A man who videotaped the rioting and a firefighter whose vehicle was pelted with rocks and bottles are among those testifying on the violence.

A man who videotaped the violence at a riot flash point testified Thursday that he saw several vehicles pelted with rocks and bottles as they raced through the Los Angeles intersection where Reginald O. Denny was beaten.

Timothy A. Goldman, 34, said he saw a car struck by as many as 10 objects at the intersection of Florence and Normandie avenues on April 29, 1992. The vehicle was driven by a woman, a man was in the passenger seat and an infant was in the back, he said.

The back window of the car was broken by an object, and the infant was sitting “directly in front of the back window,” Goldman testified.

“Did you see anything to justify an attack like that?” Deputy Dist. Atty. Lawrence Morrison asked.

“No,” Goldman answered.

Fire Battalion Chief Terrance Manning, son of Fire Chief Donald O. Manning, testified that his car was hit by rocks and bottles and struck by a pickax as he drove through the intersection on the way to a fire.

“It was a truly terrifying experience,” Manning said. “The intensity of the attack on us appeared to be an intent to inflict great bodily injury.”

Damian Monroe Williams, 20, and Henry Keith Watson, 28, are charged with attempted murder, assault and robbery in attacks on Denny, two firefighters and five other people at the intersection.

On Wednesday, Fidel Lopez, who was one of the others attacked at the intersection, described to jurors how he pleaded for mercy but was beaten into unconsciousness.

Prosecutors showed videotape of the stricken Lopez lying in the street while paint was sprayed on him, blackening his bleeding face and the crotch of his trousers.

“I so fearing,” the Latin American immigrant testified in broken English. “A lot of people come to kill me. I so fearing. Imagine, people coming to kill you.”

In other testimony, an actor who became a good Samaritan testified that he found Denny’s orange athletic bag after pulling another beaten motorist away from an angry mob at the intersection.

Gregory Alan-Williams, 37, of TV’s “Baywatch,” said he kept Denny’s bag as a reminder of that day’s “inhumanity.”

He did not turn it over to police until about a month ago, he said.

“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.

Defense attorney Wilma Shanks said the bag is related to a robbery charge against Williams and Watson, 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, 1992, 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.

The rioting occurred after four white police officers were acquitted of all but one state charge in the 1991 beating of black motorist Rodney G. King.

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