- rudolph giuliani, thank you for being with us. - thank you. - and in new york city s race for mayor, democrat david dinkins is leading in the polls over republican rudolph giuliani. - all of a sudden, david dinkins comes along, riding the wave of, you know, he was gonna be the first black mayor. and that was at a time when that had a real kind of emotional resonance, both within new york and nationally. - it was a historic day for new york and a triumphant moment for the biggest black population of any american city. - quiet! quiet! - rudy very quickly seems to have made the decision to embrace the sort of racism that a lot of his party believed in. - white power! - i saw god out on the block today he was darker than the preachers say with a teardrop tattooed on his face and dirt in his fingers i heard angels when he laughed the way that people do when they have known true pain for his sins i don t know who to blame what choice was he given?
and rudy was very much cut from that cloth and made no bones about it. - but when he was a prosecutor he was smart, he was tough, he was creative. - he was a perfect match for new york city. he was a perfect match for a tabloid culture. and he was brash and he was, you know, he was a self-promoter. - rudolph giuliani, thank you for being with us. - thank you. - and in new york city s race for mayor, democrat david dinkins is leading in the polls over republican rudolph giuliani. - all of a sudden, david dinkins comes along, riding the wave of, you know, he was gonna be the first black mayor. and that was at a time when that had a real kind of emotional resonance, both within new york and nationally. - it was a historic day for new york and a triumphant moment for the biggest black population of any american city. - quiet! quiet! - rudy very quickly seems to have made the decision to embrace the sort of racism that a lot of his party believed in. - white power! - i saw god o
he was a perfect match for a tabloid culture. and he was brash and he was, you know, he was a self-promoter. - rudolph giuliani, thank you for being with us. - thank you. - and in new york city s race for mayor, democrat david dinkins is leading in the polls over republican rudolph giuliani. - all of a sudden, david dinkins comes along, riding the wave of, you know, he was gonna be the first black mayor. and that was at a time when that had a real kind of emotional resonance, both within new york and nationally. - it was a historic day for new york and a triumphant moment for the biggest black population of any american city. - quiet! quiet! - rudy very quickly seems to have made the decision to embrace the sort of racism that a lot of his party believed in. - white power! - i saw god out on the block today he was darker than the preachers say with a teardrop tattooed on his face and dirt in his fingers i heard angels when he laughed the way that peopl
And that was at a time when that had a real kind of emotional resonance, both within new york and nationally. It was a historic day for new york and a triumphant moment for the biggest black population of any american city. Quiet quiet rudy very quickly seems to have made the decision to embrace the sort of racism that a lot of his party believed in. White power i saw god out on the block today he was darker than the preachers say with a teardrop tattooed on his face and dirt in his fingers i heard angels when he laughed the way that people do when they have known true pain for his sins i dont know who to blame what choice was he given . In this world that were livin when i see you, i see you i see love i see love i see america i see love when i see you, i see you i see love i see love i see america on a bright winter day, former federal prosecutor Rudolph Giuliani was inaugurated as the 107th mayor of new york. His son, andrew, by his side, he exhorted new yorkers to help him make dra
fear that is what brought him back into office. - thank you very much to all of the people of the city of new york for giving me four more years as your mayor. - the body of 22-year-old amadou diallo was taken from the bronx in new york this afternoon. he died in his apartment doorway at 12:40 a.m. february 4th, struck by police bullets 19 times. 41 shots were fired. - he took out his wallet to identify himself. they thought it was a gun. one of them yelled gun. 41 shots fired between the four officers, killing him. so that whole concept of the rapid expansion of the unit was a management disaster, and horrific series of trials after that. - daily bitter demonstrations of outrage, giuliani was blasted for being insensitive to minorities concerns about police brutality.