- and ed koch immediately says, wait a minute. don t prejudge. prejudge? they said, well, we don t know if it was race. maybe it was a guy mad about his girlfriend. so i say, okay, you don t know if it s race? we are going to come out here and march, cause i wanted to make it clear to the nation, this was about race. - over the weekend, civil rights leaders marched through bensonhurst, the all-white neighborhood where hawkins was killed. they wanted to show they could go anywhere. but they met pure hatred along the route. - go home! - [bleep]! - tell them to go home, back to east new york where they came from. crowd: yusef! yusef! yusef! yusef! [crowd yelling] - there might have been 1,000 people on both sides of the street: ns, go home. ns, go home. crowd: yusef! - [bleep]! that s right! that s right! that s right!
and they surround him, and they kill him. a clear racial murder. - and ed koch immediately says, wait a minute. don t prejudge. prejudge? they said, well, we don t know if it was race. maybe it was a guy mad about his girlfriend. so i say, okay, you don t know if it s race? we are going to come out here and march, cause i wanted to make it clear to the nation, this was about race. - over the weekend, civil rights leaders marched through bensonhurst, the all-white neighborhood where hawkins was killed. they wanted to show they could go anywhere. but they met pure hatred along the route. - go home! - [bleep]! - tell them to go home, back to east new york where they came from. crowd: yusef! yusef! yusef! yusef! [crowd yelling] - there might have been 1,000 people on both sides of the street: ns, go home. ns, go home.
- i don t know what crime and fighting crime has to do with racism. i m very much in favor of the death penalty. - and you had a mayor that played between the divisions. - grandmothers say, but he s a good boy. he never did anything. don t you believe it. - a big part of giuliani s plan was peeling off 30% of the black vote, because a lot of black new yorkers loathed ed koch. - oh, mayor koch, he s told so many lies. - mayor for the rich, not for the poor. - in terms of administration, in terms of business, i think he s been terrific. but in race relations, he s been very, very, very sad. - justice! justice! justice for yusef! - and then there was the murder of this black kid, yusef hawkins. - young man gets off a train in the bensonhurst section of brooklyn. he was going with some friends that wanted to look at a used car. and a crowd gets around them and say, we don t allow the ns around here.
- grandmothers say, but he s a good boy. he never did anything. don t you believe it. - a big part of giuliani s plan was peeling off 30% of the black vote, because a lot of black new yorkers loathed ed koch. - oh, mayor koch, he s told so many lies. - mayor for the rich, not for the poor. - in terms of administration, in terms of business, i think he s been terrific. but in race relations, he s been very, very, very sad. - justice! justice! justice for yusef! - and then there was the murder of this black kid, yusef hawkins. - young man gets off a train in the bensonhurst section of brooklyn. he was going with some friends that wanted to look at a used car. and a crowd gets around them and say, we don t allow the ns around here. and they surround him, and they kill him. a clear racial murder.
asylum system in rwanda as well as serious concerns about political freedom of expression. reporter: under the government s scheme, thousands of migrants arriving in the u.k. illegally could be deported to rwanda to have their asylum claims heard there. among them is yusef, a syrian refugee whose name we ve changed to protect his identity. he was to be deported to rwanda in june. translator: i want to live in peace in the u.k., to work and build a future here for my wife and son. it just breaks my heart there is no future for my son in syria. reporter: yusef says he fled his war torn town in 2017 leaving behind his wife and child in the hope of building a new life for them overseas. yusef s journey took him from syria, lebanon to libya where he was detained for eight months