[together] no justice, no peace. no justice, no peace. - i was at parker center, which was the police headquarters at the time, when the verdicts were announced. a crowd began to gather. it began to turn more and more violent. [together] guilty, guilty. - parker center has a glass entrance, and people were throwing rocks at the doors. i was inside with the police commissioners, and they were frantically searching for gates. it turned out that gates was unreachable because he was at a fund raiser. - i was standing in front of parker center trying to protect the building, and my wife called and said, "are you watching television? they're beating a guy up in the middle of florence and normandie. - terrible, terrible pictures. - in our living rooms, we saw in real time reginald denny smashed with a big cement block. - and there's no police presence down here. they will not enter the area. - it sent a message to everybody else that this is a free-for-all, there are no police, there's nobody who's gonna stop you, and so people poured into the streets, and the violence spread from that.