In new york city as we speak. These are images coming out of washington, d. C. Tonight. Loud and ive got to say relatively cheerfullooking protests in washington tonight. Weve also got some footage out of chicago, illinois tonight. Hundreds of protesters in Downtown Chicago tonight. Theyve been blocking off some arteries in Downtown Chicago. Weve also got footage today from cleveland, ohio. This is from earlier today. You can tell because its daylight. This is a group of protesters in Public Square in cleveland sitting down in the middle of the street today blocking traffic there. Earlier today the attorney general of the United States, eric holder, was in cleveland to make a pretty big announcement about policing. And the reason that eric holder was in cleveland today started with this. It is the video that investigators did not want you to see. Tonight, channel 3 news has obtained recordings of that november police chase that ended with the shooting deaths of two unarmed suspects. Ch
These are images coming out of washington, d. C. Tonight. Loud and ive got to say relatively cheerfullooking protests in washington tonight. Weve also got some footage out of chicago, illinois tonight. Hundreds of protesters in Downtown Chicago tonight. Theyve been blocking off some arteries in Downtown Chicago. Weve also got footage today from cleveland, ohio. This is from earlier today. You can tell because its daylight. This is a group of protesters in Public Square in cleveland sitting down in the middle of the street today blocking traffic there. Earlier today the attorney general of the United States, eric holder, was in cleveland to make a pretty big announcement about policing. And the reason that eric holder was in cleveland today started with this. It is the video that investigators did not want you to see. Tonight, channel 3 news has obtained recordings of that november police chase that ended with the shooting deaths of two unarmed suspects. Channel 3s dave somers got a cop
Talking with each other. Can we all get along . [ applause ] in about 20 minutes from now David Dinkins, who is now mayor dinkins, is scheduled to step out from city hall and take a public oath of office and become new york citys 106th mayor and the citys first africanamerican mayor. I intend to be the mayor of all the people of new york. David dinkins being inaugurated on new years day in 1990 is sort of an auspicious start to the decade and really a culmination of the civil rights struggles of the 1960s. People are starting to see tangible benefits of that struggle. A grandson of slaves was sworn in today as the nations first elected black governor. Did you ever think youd see the day when a black man would be elected governor of virginia . No, indeedy. I was born in the 30s. So you know i didnt think nothing like that would happen. After we saw hundreds of black elected officials, the reality set in that we made a step, but we had not gotten all the way to where we wanted. In last y
confronted adam yue diallo, a 22-year-old west african immigrant who may have been reaching for his keys. the 90s ends the way it starts with a spotlight on violence against black bodies by law enforcement. abner louima, amadou diallo, two people who did not deserve to be on the wrong side of state violence were. justice! no peace. justice! no peace. in our community we live with that fear it could be one of our brothers or one of our nephews or one of our sons, and i just wish everyone could understand. diallo has become a martyr to some. a symbol of a price paid in new york s war against crime. rudolph giuliani has countered the outrage with carefully selected statistics. shots fired by police officers has decreased by 50%. and steadfast support for the nypd. the new york city police department is the most restrained substantially more restrained it s among the most restrained police departments in the country. many people thought even though times had
residents about police procedures. the clinton administration disputes those who say police matters are purely a local responsibility. we believe that the federal government can play a vital role in making sure that local enforcement can be as good as it possibly can be. the whole notion of putting 100,000 police officers on the street is something that this federal government has tried to has tried to foster. there have been a number of high-profile cases involving charges of police misconduct. in los angeles the beating of rodney king by four white police officers captured on videotape. in pittsburgh the case of johnny gammage, a black businessman who died of suffocation after being stopped by five white suburban police officers. in new york city the case of abdur leuima, a haitian immigrant who says he was beaten and brutalized by police a year and a half ago. more recently in new york the case of adam yue diallo, an immigrant from who was killed in a hail of 41 bullets fired