That cop to shoothim in his back. There are more questionsthan there are answers. Jennifer this was coming. There was too muchrage in everybody and its beengoing on for years. Steven next thing i know,i picked up a brick and threw it straightthrough the window. upbeat music Protestors Chanting r it all began on a noteof prayer and mourning for 15 year old phillippannell, shot to death by policeon tuesday night. Natacha it was apeaceful vigil. Everybody just wanted tocome together and find out, like, why did this happen . Then the evening came. The crowd was getting angry. The police were pushing back. And then thats whenthe riot broke out. William the night of the riot,i was there. Very, very quickly,it just got out of control. People werethrowing rocks, broke windows inthe police building. Bryan ive gotpeople that theyre inside in fear of their life. We tore up everythingin our path. I wanted that policestation to be burned down. Thats how i felt. You know, i mean,he just killed my fr
that cop to shoothim in his back. there are more questionsthan there are answers. jennifer: this was coming. there was too muchrage in everybody and it s beengoing on for years. steven: next thing i know,i picked up a brick and threw it straightthrough the window. (upbeat music) (protestors chanting) r: it all began on a noteof prayer and mourning for 15 year old phillippannell, shot to death by policeon tuesday night. natacha: it was apeaceful vigil. everybody just wanted tocome together and find out, like, why did this happen? then the evening came. the crowd was getting angry.the police were pushing back. and then that s whenthe riot broke out. william: the night of the riot,i was there. very, very quickly,it just got out of control. people werethrowing rocks, broke windows inthe police building. bryan: i ve gotpeople that they re inside in fear of their life. we tore up everythingin our path. i wanted that policestation to be burned down. that s how i felt. you know, i me
and how reverendsharpton had handled his role in thatparticular story. so by the time hegets to teaneck, his reputation wasextremely controversial. r: some residents todaywere fearful of still moreviolence, skeptical of themarches organizer brooklyn minister, al sharpton. jackie: i didn t havea good feeling about al sharpton s desireto be in teaneck. i may feel differentlyabout him now, but i didn t feelhe had credibility. and i felt there senough diversity, enough divergence ofopinion among teaneck people to cometogether and come to some consensus ofhow to move forward. m1: there are clearlypeople who are attempting to use a situationfor their own political benefit. then that s not helpful,that s destructive. (protestors chanting) mike: for theentire summer during this grand jury investigation, on the streets of teaneck, every saturday therewas a march led
by followers ofreverend al sharpton, often led by reverendsharpton himself. (upbeat gospel music) (protestors shoutingthrough megaphone) al: the big mistake people make is to have one rally,one march and go. you got to keep going. you got to keeppublic attention. you have to keep people focused. a lot of the attacks ihad then and now is that sharpton just wants publicity. that s exactly what i want. you only showingyour racism, to ask what am idoing in teaneck? what was king doingin selma? he was there becauseinjustice was there. unless you can keeppublic attention, you ll never make change. mike: well, after reverendsharpton came to town, some of the politicalestablishment in teaneck was looking for anantidote, so to speak.
i understoodinstitutional racism. but what even ididn t understand was the institutionalsuburban racism. so i became intriguedwith it to the point that i wanted theteaneck phillip pannell situationto be our model. sort of like king usedchicago as his model. mike: in the late 1980sand early 1990s. reverend sharptonvery much wanted to establish himself as a national civil rights leader. al: good morning.- how are you all doing? al: okay. mike: the problem withreverend sharpton was the fact that he had also been tied to an extremely controversialstory involving tawana brawley,an african-american teenager who claimed that she had beenraped by a group of white men. r: the grand jury reporton tawana brawley is officiallyreleased, concluding she lied when shesaid she was abducted and raped by agang of white men. mike: serious questions had beenraised about her truthfulness and how reverendsharpton had handled