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go home! it s like a bomb. we re sitting on a bomb. you can have a black person killed with a video, then this is what you ll get. this is a revolution. should people be frightened? i think people should wake up. it s 1991. wake up. we have talked at each other and about each other for a long time. it s high time we all began talking with each other. no justice, no peace! can we all get along? 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 city s 106th mayor and the city s first african-american mayor. i intend to be the mayor of all the people of new york. david dinkins being inaugurated on new year s day in 1990 is 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 t ....
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 h ....
the four los angeles police officers who appeared in that videotape of the rodney king beating went on trial today. defense attorneys claiming they couldn t get a fair trial in los angeles got the case moved to more conservative neighboring ventura county. it felt like these officers were being sent to a very friendly venue and certainly a more friendly venue than a downtown l.a. jury would have been. the defense picked apart the videotape, and every image was turned around to say, see where king is threatening the police officers? and it is not about race, it s about king resisting. you didn t see him to have a weapon, did you? yes, i did see him to have a weapon. what kind of a weapon did mr. king have? it was his body. we re ready. we re well prepared to take care of any eventuality no matter what it might be. all right, the clerk will read the verdicts. we, the jury, find the defendant, stacy c.koon, not guilty of the crime of assault this is a stunning ve ....