and i m gonna address theunited states of america. gary: there s no doubt that night. it was a textbook procedure. i had no choice. i was forced to take a life. i was a white cop whoshot a black 16-year-old. (protestors chanting) natacha: i would like toaddress all law enforcement across the country and around the world. honor the oath. (dramatic music) gary: the other officerskept repeating: he did the right thing.he had no choice. it was a good shoot. reporter: the death ofphillip pannell brought rage the streets of normallypeaceful teaneck, new jersey. m2: this was middle-classmodel city, american. alison: we live in teaneck.this doesn t happen in teaneck. w2: it wasn t the utopia ithought it was for many people.
jackie kates: when my familyfirst moved to teaneck, its reputationwas sterling. i just felt that myparents had moved to a paradise. paul ostrow: mywife, and i are still here because of several reasons. location,location, location. w4: teaneck is amiddle-class suburb just eight miles frommidtown manhattan described as a modelmelting pot where racial and ethnicdiversity works. m4: dotted with tudor homes, teaneck is a model town, and to know what thiscommunity is about, you have to understandits history. (music) mike kelly: teaneckwas really a part of the birth ofthe american dream. after world war 2,the united states government was tryingto present itself as a model of democracyto the rest of the world.
i got a shot so my sister won t get sick. way to go, big bro! so while we re here. flu shot, as well? let s do it. when you need to talk vaccinations, our pharmacists are here our pharmacists are here community leadersgathered near police headquarters thismorning in teaneck are trying to figureout exactly what happened yesterday toyoung phillip pannell, who was shot andkilled by police. they were two versions tothe shooting, they say. one by the youth who witnessedit and the others by police. thelma: therewas no reason for that cop to shoothim in his back. it was no reason. he was already blocked in. i still didn tunderstand all of this. it was just- i wasjust in a shock. it was a- i just couldn tbelieve what had happened. - justice.- i want justice. justice! i want justice because theycan, they can kill all the black kids too.these parents about to realize.
as the first town to integrateits schools voluntarily. jackie kates: it made thenews because the only other integrated schools wereintegrated by court order. barbara toffler: othercommunities used us as a model. when kamala, harris talked about the integration in berkeley. berkeley was modeled on teaneck. by the 1970s, teaneckdecided to market itself as a racial utopia. w5: we want to gointo an area where our children play withall types of children. m6: the diversity ofpeople is incredible. m7: i moved to teaneckbecause there was a black white mix because therewas an integrated community. gervonn: we grewup, not realizing that we were partof this experiment, we were the guinea pigs, r: it s a belief expressedagain and again in teaneck,