One minute he was hanging out with seven seemingly friendly guys in a park, the next he said he was on the ground, the blows coming from all sides, a fist or foot landing hard enough to fracture six bones in his face.
But it was the words accompanying the blows that made Manning, 24, think he was about to die.
"Coon." And then, "How do you like this, you f-ing n-?"
A week after the Jan. 24 incident, Richmond police officers arrested seven East Bay teenagers on suspicion of felony assault with a deadly weapon - a hate crime investigation delayed five days because of a police clerical error.
The seven are white. Manning is black.
"I don't understand how somebody could do that in this day and age," Manning said Sunday. "I never, never thought it would happen to me."
Not in California and not in the East Bay, Manning said.
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