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We begin tonight with a man
who's been called everything

from a troublemaker
and charlatan

to a one-person
civil rights movement.

Media manipulator,
a rabble-rouser,

a tireless harbinger
of racial discord.

A blabbermouth, a loudmouth,
too flamboyant, or an agitator,

a racist, a race-baiter.

-Yeah.
-Right?

-Oh yeah.
-All of those things?

Right.

The question that I always
hear from whites,

"Reverend Al, why do you
make everything about race?"

The white media has painted
Reverend Al Sharpton

with a broad stroke.

The Black media rejects
this negative image.

And the Black question
that's just as troubling is,

"Why are you doin' that?
Ain't nothin' gonna change."

And that's the price you pay

or that's the price
you want to pay?

That's the price you pay
for being someone

that gets involved in
a high-profile fight

all for things
you believe in.

It's somewhere between
these two questions

that I've had to do
a lot of my work in activism.

Many people in the
Black community see him

as reflecting the spirit of such
men as Malcolm X, Marcus Garvey,

Dr. King, and his mentor,
Adam Clayton Powell.

You're a civil rights leader.

And then there's this other
side of you, you know?

You live in a fancy place--

First of all, I don't see
that as a contradiction.

We fought for access.

I think he's in the
civil rights business.

I don't think he's a
civil rights leader.

To explain to whites that
every Black born in America

is born into
"it's all about race."

The story of the lion and the
hunter would be a lot different

if the lion could
read and write.

My fellow Americans,

I am about to sign into law
the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

The reason the hunter
always comes off glorious

is he's the one that
writes the story.

Let us close the springs
of racial poison.

The lion is
always depicted as less than

what he is.

Let us lay aside
irrelevant differences

and make our nation whole.

And that has been the
problem with many of us

that have fought the
system in various ways.

But the system writes
the story.

In
more than 100 cities,

violence broke out.

Detroit is afire.

100 square blocks
are now under siege.

Looting, murder, and arson have
nothing to do with civil rights.

We've legitimatized
opposition to the police

and disobedience to law.

Shoot me, goddamn it!

Dr. Martin Luther King

has been shot to death
in Memphis, Tennessee.

What effect
Martin Luther King's death

has had on you?

They're bending over
backwards to idolize him.

-I am!
-I am!

-Somebody!
-Somebody!

-I am!
-I am!

-I am!
-Somebody!

I stand before you
today as a candidate

for the Democratic nomination

for the presidency of the
United States of America.

I am not the candidate
of Black America,

although I am Black and proud.

The way to end
discrimination against some

is not to begin
discrimination against others.

New York
City has more racial tensions

than any other American city.

Goetz shot four
young men on the subway.

The shootings on the
crime-ridden

transportation system
touched off a wide debate,

with some calling
the man a hero.

Reverend Sharpton is
a relatively new face

among New York activists,

and is asking the US Attorney
to have Goetz indicted

on charges of violating the
young mens' civil rights.

Every time we come into a case,

the first thing we have to do

is fight the wrong
narrative of the story.

The issue here is there was
no mugging.

They talk about subway punks?

Nobody proved they were
subway punks.

They would try to criminalize
and demonize the victim.

The issue here is there was
an illusion in his mind,

that he has a right to shoot
people with that illusion.

Were
there racial slurs?

No, there were no racial slurs.

Did anybody
say " * * " the word?

Maybe the word
" * * " was said.

If they behaved themsleves
in this neighborhood,

maybe they could walk
the streets and be free.

Is your community
racist, yes or no?

Every fight that I've fought

to use for a bigger issue,
'cause people don't understand

that it's not just the case.

Is the criminal justice
system working for people?

Eleanor Bumpurs,
Michael Stewart.

Nobody went to jail
on any case.

You are, though,
a media animal.

If you're an activist,
the media is a tool

to get your message across.

We've got to turn these
stations upside down!

They like to fight,
so let's fight!

We demand a special prosecutor.

Special prosecutor.

We need a permanent
special prosecutor

to investigate racial crime.

Sometimes you have to be
loud to let people know

that is not the real story.

You people are
making it racist.

No one looked at it that way

until you people started
to brainwash people.

We must
deal with reality.

Either we have a racial problem

or Black people have a
mass hallucination going.

All of our lives
you had to fight

to make sure that you
controlled the story.

And I want the folks
at CBS to know,

if you can't tell
the story right,

don't tell it at all!

One of these days I'm
going in the door,

and I'm gonna give 'em
the news.

Al Sharpton has
some photographers

who are videotaping us as we are
being videotaped for you.

We don't know exactly what
purpose it'll be used for,

but we do wanna make
note of it.

Because whoever wrote
the story is gonna write it

and slant it their way.

Whatever you do, Reverend Al
told you personally,

Keep it real.

Keep it real.

Keep it real!

Talk to you tomorrow.

Alrighty.

Good evening and welcome
to PoliticsNation.

As the impeachment inquiry

into President Trump's
abuses of power continues,

2020 candidates will
have to thread the needle

while campaigning with voters.

You and I may
disagree on politics,

but you're one of
the smart analysts

and observers of politics.

If the president is impeached,

how will it affect the 2020
election, general election?

Well, thank you,
Al, for the kind words--

I think you've got
happy birthday cheer

overflowing in your cup, there.

I appreciate that. Um, I--

Right, after the
TV show Saturday.

What I'm
trying to say is

I want to do the TV show
from 30 Rock Saturday,

go down to and
speak at Howard,

and fly back and do the TV show
again from 30 Rock Saturday.

-Appreciate you, Rev.
-Thank you.

-Keep fighting.
-I'm gonna try.

-Hey.
-Happy birthday.

What's up?

Everything good?

65, Doc.

You're going to my--your
first Grandpa's birthday.

Happy Birthday, Grandpapa!

You lookin' in the camera?

You like cameras already, huh?

This is for the
Democratic debate?

Yes.

It's the only one that
looks pretty decent.

Well,
let's go with it.

What's
so special about having

some of your famous
friends here tonight?

It's always good
to have these kind of people

wish you a happy birthday.

We fight a lot.
We struggle a lot.

And for them to find some
value in our work is important,

especially now in this
day of Donald Trump,

where a lot of what
we have fought for is at risk.

It's time for all of
us to come together

and really show we're
gonna stand together

and protect voting rights
and civil rights.

♪ One, two, three, four ♪

♪ Get up, get on up ♪

♪ Get up, get on up ♪

♪ Stay on the scene,
get on up ♪

♪ Like a sex machine,
get on up ♪

I watched you on
television, you're great.

I mean, really, really--
you're really good.

There's one
of the Central Park 5.

Randall,
let him know

I'm mic'ed for a documentary,
so don't say nothin' stupid.

We told him.

That's right!

I raised you well.

Birthday boy!

Thanks for coming.

You know what I was thinking?

-We're still here.
-We're still here.

Man, we're still kicking.

Raise your glasses

to the great and
wonderful birthday

of Reverend Al Sharpton!

I wanna say a few things.

First, we know how much he has
done to defend civil rights,

to defend the America
of its highest ideals.

Are you in any way predicting
a long, hot summer?

You're not predicting
urban strife.

You're not predicting disorder,
or anything like that?

Well, what I'm
saying is, you know,

at home, you have an oven.

You have flames on
top of the oven.

And then there's
heat in the oven.

We always discuss whether
there'll be a flame on the top,

and don't discuss that it's
already 600 degrees inside.

And he has been
relentless in doing that

for close to 50 years.

I'm not concerned as much
about a long, hot summer,

because it's been
a long, hot winter.

How do we cool
the long oven out?

Let's not wait for
the explosion

and then just cut
the flames off upstairs.

Let's put the flame out inside.

Thank you, James Brown,
for being with us again.

I spent my entire
career working in media.

I've been at NBC News
for almost 35 years.

I always tell people, if you
wanna understand the media world

and how it's changed,

you follow the life of
Reverend Al Sharpton.

"Hate on Earth."

That's how the
New York Daily News described

a savage racial attack in
New York City last weekend.

The attack took place

in a predominately
white neighborhood.

The victims were three Black
men whose car had broken down.

The
Howard Beach section of Queens,

where the attack occurred,
is an almost all-white

working class neighborhood
near Kennedy Airport.

And it is known for its
hostility to Blacks.

The three Blacks were
attacked outside this pizzeria

after midnight Friday.

They had walked about
3 miles to the pizzeria

in search of a telephone
after their car broke down.

One of the victims,
Cedric Sandiford,

told the newspaper Newsday
the attacker houted,

* * you're in the
wrong neighborhood!"

He said he was hollering,
"God, don't kill us!"

Griffith will be
buried tomorrow.

Richard Valeriani,
NBC News, New York.

We must now go to
the next step,

that is vigilence.

We must be there Monday.

We must stay on Santucci.
We must not let Cuomo be silent.

I'm very upset that the
governor is not here tonight.

The governor comes from Queens.

The governor hasn't
opened his mouth yet.

We must not leave here tonight
saying the funeral is over,

they're gonna have a
race harmony parade tomorrow,

and whoop-de-doo, we must
say we're gonna be at

Santucci's door Monday.

We're going to monitor
the lawyers of the family

and Santucci, and make
sure that justice is done.

This is serious.

Racism is alive and
well in New York.

We just buried a boy.
And the only thing he did wrong

was he was born on the
wrong side of the tracks.

How do you feel about
the press conference earlier,

Attorney Maddox to make
comments on the allegations?

I heard...

There was always
these racial incidents

and racial boundaries.

We knew not to go in
certain neighborhoods.

Fights between various segments
of the city and Blacks.

When I graduated
junior high school in '68,

I couldn't go to school
the first two months

because there had
been a teacher strike.

The Black Community
School Board

wanted to fire some white
teachers in Brownsville.

And the teachers had a strike,
closed the schools down.

What kind of scars

do you think
this is gonna leave?

Yes, there will be scars.

The teachers must
realize that

the communities must be heard.

This kind of trauma
and back-and-forth

was the climate in New York.

Good morning!

I'm Ed Koch running for mayor.

I need your help.

Nice to say hello.
How am I doing?

In the '80s,
Ed Koch

immediately cut a lot of
the programs

that serviced our community.

We had
Neighborhood Youth Corps.

We had Manpower Training
and Development.

We had Model Cities.

Many of these things
Adam Clayton Powell had

put through Congress called
the Anti-Poverty Programs.

Koch would run around, talking
about, "They're poverty pimps.

"They're misusing
public funds."

If we had given
to the poor people

all the money that
we had appropriated

for the poor people,
the poor would be rich!

Instead, we allowed
poverty pimps to skim it off.

And he was a Democrat,
but he could play to that side.

And that created tension.

That led all the
way up to Bernhard Goetz, '84.

'85 was the mayor's race.

And '86 was Howard Beach.

And I barely went home
to change clothes since then.

We know how
Howard Beach are.

Howard Beach is no joke!

They never welcomed Black
people in this neighborhood.

See a Black person,
a colored person,

first thing is you
yell at them, you know?

This is the way it is
in this neighborhood.

We had great leaders
in New York--

Adam Powell, Malcolm X,
and all.

But I wanted to expose
what they spoke about.

Black is beautiful.
Black is beautiful.

We're gonna walk side by
side with you or through you.

It's gotta be with dignity
and integrity!

We don't want any
more than you have,

and we're not gonna accept
any less than you have.

It's one thing to
have a great orator

that talks about the wickedness,
the hatred of people.

It's another thing for you
to make them put them lens

and show these guys
calling you a * *

in New York City, in the '80s.

Racism, huh?

Tell the * * go home.

-Go home, * *
-No media, go home!

This is who they are.

This is who keeps us from
going to good schools.

This is who makes us have

certain levels of
employment we couldn't get.

This is who they really are.

This is your street? * * you!
White street! White street!
White street!

Given
the racism in the country,

we are the last hired
and the first fired.

In times of war,
the first drafted

and the first to die.

When the nation proper
is underemployed,

we're unemployed, and then
stigmatized for being that way.

All
of the activists,

the ones that I've
studied and emulated,

came at a time when
what we wanted to say,

people did not want to hear.

So you had to be loud

because you were not invited
to address the public.

Reverend Sharpton has organized

a youth rally for tomorrow
afternoon in Howard Beach.

He says it's to show the
public that young Black men

have the right to
peacefully demonstrate

in the predominantly
white section of Howard Beach.

I want you
to start assembling

so we can start distributing
the armbands to the marchers.

I could've made a speech,

but I decided we'd go out there

and let them make
the speech for me.

No, no.
Don't put words in my mouth.

I'm not saying that.

I'm just saying they had
no business at that time,

four hours after
their car breaks down,

to be eating pizza over there.

Just because this is Howard
Beach, an all-white community,

the media is what
caused all of this!

* * bull * *

Peace? You want a piece of us?

You mother * * * !

These are people who are saying
that they are opposed to someone

being killed by a mob,

and there's actually community
residents who would come out

to support somebody
being killed by a mob.

I mean, that's a kind
of collective insanity.

That's a whole
community that's nuts.

Which is what racism does.

It drives the racists crazy.

All right?

We're gonna ask all the people
to be in the green area.

Please cooperate with security.

♪ Everybody sing ♪

♪ Amen, amen, amen ♪

♪ Remember Michael Griffith ♪

I was baptized
by Bishop Washington

when I was three.

The next year is when
I started preaching.

And I've been
preaching ever since.

♪ A little bit louder ♪

All a preacher does is
take biblical stories

and use the story to therefore
get to the moral message

or ethical message
they're projecting.

I transfer that
into social justice,

whether it is Michael Griffith
being killed in Howard Beach

or whether it's somebody
choked to death by a cop

in Staten Island years
later, Eric Gardner.

It is the story, but the
issue is racial violence.

But you need the story
to make the issue live.

Can we hear now from Reverend--
our singing minister--Sharpton?

Reverend Al Sharpton.

Al Sharpton. Brief words.

Twenty years ago,
World War II ended,

with one race of people at their
Holocaust saying, "Never again."

We've heard for 40 years
people remind us of that

while we have been raped,
while we have been murdered,

while we have been exploited,
while we have been denied.

Here we stand in
New York City,

Howard Beach,

where people used to come
from the South for opportunity.

Where people used to
come from the Caribbean

feeling their problems
would be over.

Now they don't even know

if their children can
get home at night--

not because they
did something wrong,

but because of the
color of their skin.

I come today to say
to Governor Cuomo,

who's been silent during
this whole crisis,

who hasn't opened his mouth,

even though he
comes from Queens.

He's got political laryngitis.

To Mayor Koch and
the rest of them,

that we did not have our
children to be target practice

for some white mobs that
can't behave themselves!

Never again will
we come and weep!

We will organize!

We will go to the precinct!

We will go to Santucci!

We will go wherever
we got to go

until you leave
our children alone!

Next day, front page
of The New York Times--

they had been ignoring
all of this stuff--

was us standing in front of
that pizzeria in Howard Beach.

Howard Beach,
have you heard?

You are Johannesburg.

It was at that
rally I met Mason and Maddox.

And they said,
we have a legal strategy

of noncooperation.

You keep doing what you doing,
we'll do what we're doing.

Attorneys
Vernon Mason and Alton Maddox,

representing the
surviving victims,

says Sandiford
and Timothy Grimes

would not testify

until Governor Cuomo appoints
a special prosecutor.

People know that in this city

that no white person
has ever been convicted

of murdering a Black person.

The argument was that the
local Queens district attorney

was not gonna indict these kids

because he did
not want to offend

the voters in Howard Beach.

Some believe
that Blacks are responsible for

most of the crime
in their area.

When they rob us, nobody
does anything about it.

There are white racists,
there are Black racists.

But the vast majority of people

in every one of those
groups is decent.

I think that unfortunately,
Howard Beach was inevitable.

It's an inevitable result
of a national climate

of an absence of national
leadership which says,

people's rights, people's civil
rights, must be protected.

A lot of white people
can't understand this.

New York City is the
Birmingham of the '80s.

We felt the only way

that we would get an
impartial grand jury

is if someone outside of
the politics of the county

were to investigate the case.

If you can't prosecute
the lynch mob for murder,

the Griffith family does not
want anything less than that.

Nothing can work, and nothing
can work as it should, at least,

without Sandiford testifying.

Why did Dr. King march
from Selma to Montgomery

when they could've
flown in in an hour?

It was that daily walk

that arrested the
attention of the country.

People are marching in Alabama
for the right to vote, day one.

Day three, they're
still marching.

It was drama.

And I'm bringing
all of this into

what we were doing
in New York.

The Post called us
loudmouths yesterday.

But I think if the Post
understands history,

They will understand that

they're putting us
in some good company.

We're coming.
The summer is here.

And we have a new saying.

-No justice--
-No peace.

-No justice--
-No peace.

-No justice--
-No peace.

We'd finally got to where
the legal strategy worked

as we kept agitating.

Governor Mario Cuomo appointed
a special prosecutor.

This is a special episode.

It has lifted tensions
to a special level.

It requires a special response.

And that's what we intend by all
that we have done here today.

So I'm gonna turn
your speaker up a little bit.

Okay.

Okay.

Airing commercial.

Okay, we're back.

This Wednesday, MSNBC
and The Washington Post

are cohosting the next
presidential debate

in Atlanta, Georgia.

The event will feature

the leading 10
Democratic contenders,

and I will be there front and
center for all of the action.

-Hi, how are you doing?
-I'm good, how are you?

I'm all right.
How y'all doing?

Good, how are you doing?

-All right, how's everybody?
-Good to see you.

Did you-- Did you
call Holly and them?

'Cause I want to go
in the media room.

-I'm following you?
-Yes, sir!

Martin!
I think I changed my mind.

I'm gonna announce tonight
I'm gonna run again.

That's not a bad idea.

We'll send
Yolanda to be your cabinet.

Cabinet?

She gonna be on
top of the ticket.

I'm gonna be--

-vice president.

We love you in
Savannah, Georgia, man.

-Thank you.
-You don't come enough.

-Thank you, sir.
-All right, thank you.

How are you?

Marty Baron, Washington Post.
How are you?

-All right, how you been?
-Good.

You might wanna get the shot.

They got me sitting between
the chairman of the party

and the mayor.

Candidate for
2020 presidential nomination

Andrew Yang.

Amy Klobuchar.

Thank you!

Tom Steyer.

Senator Cory Booker.

Pete Buttigieg.

This election is going to be

one of the most important
in American history.

And certainly the most
important in our lifetime.

Voting rights is under attack.

And this president has put over
150 federal judges on the bench,

most of who for a lifetime.

If we don't fight and raise
the level of conversation

to where it oughta be,
then who's gonna do it?

That's why I wanted us to hear

some of the candidates
this morning.

All of them came to our
national convention.

But I wanted some to
come and greet us,

because I still say the strength
of our community, the backbone,

is and always has been
the Black church.

Definitely!

But Reggie's
preaching this morning,

Don't let me get going.

-Thank you, Reverend.
-Thank you.

My brothers and sisters,

our nation is on
the verge of shipwreck.

-All right.
-Yes, sir.

And it's imperative
that the Black church

again be the conscience
of the nation.

God did not just
call us to be priestly.

He also called us
to be prophetic.

Too many of us are content
just to be priestly.

We don't wanna rock the boat!

We don't wanna
challenge the system!

Maybe they'll give
us a proclamation.

Maybe they'll invite us
to give the invocation.

Maybe they'll invite us to
lunch at the governor's house.

But God has called
us to be prophetic.

To speak truth to power.

Brothers and sisters,
2020 is gonna demonstrate

whether we are
prophetic or pathetic.

God wants us
not only to praise him!

He wants us to serve him!

That's why I like the name,
the National Action Network.

We've gotta have some action!

We gotta go to work!

We've gotta turn the
world upside down!

Black leaders are planning
massive demonstrations

in New York tomorrow to
protest what they say

is rampant racial violence.

The demonstrations come
as a decision is awaited

in a racial attack case that's
getting national attention.

Richard Schlesinger
has our report.

One year
after Michael Griffith died,

a jury is still trying to decide
if a gang of white youths

chased him to his death
on a busy highway,

or if it was all just
a tragic accident.

After 11 days, there
is still no verdict.

My feeling is that
we're coming to an end.

Black
activists who have watched

the trial closely plan a
mass demonstration tomorrow

to tie up traffic,

despite a judge's order hastily
issued today to stop them.

We marched in Howard Beach.

And we were called * * *

They threw sticks at us.

Nobody gave them a
restraining order.

No one has been restrained
through this whole crisis

but Black leadership.

Mr. Maddox,
what's your reaction, sir?

The police
department informed us

that we do not have the right to
freely travel on certain days.

The First Amendment to the
United States Constitution

is being trampled upon.

The nerve of them to use
legal apparatus on the victims

while they still have not
addressed the victimizers.

So he can get his best handcuffs
ready for me tomorrow.

We intend to block the bridges.

We intend to block
subway trains.

We intend to block the
Long Island Railroad.

And we intend to send
Johnson and Ben Ward

their order back, so the
next time they have diarrhea,

they can use a box of
Maalox and this order.

I want you
to line up behind

the brothers and
sisters in the front.

Listen to me very carefully.

The entire area is
surrounded by the police.

And there are many who
are not in uniform.

There are many inside
the march.

Their plan is start a
contradiction in the march.

If anyone starts any * * in the
march, get 'em out of the march.

We will not allow them to
deter what we are trying to do.

And most important,
be courageous!

Be fearless!

Don't let anybody down!

Get out of the way!
Get out of the way!

Move, move!

♪ Freedom way.
Don't you let Mayor Koch ♪

♪ Turn you around,
turn you around ♪

♪ Turn you around ♪

♪ Don't you let nobody
turn you around ♪

♪ Keep on walking ♪

We're here!

This train will not
move until they move us!

They arrested 214 of
us on false charges.

So if they can't
ride us fair

they don't need to ride!

Brothers and sisters...

This is the most
monumental occasion.

This is a most
monumental occasion.

This is the beginning of
a civil rights movement

in the city of New York.

Michael Stewart was killed
in one of these tunnels.

And we are here in his memory.

We're here in the memory
of Michael Griffith,

of Yvonne Smallwood,
and all the countless others

whose lives have been
taken away from us

by racist oppressors.

This city will never be
the same after this day.

For 10 years, for 10 years

we marched up and
down these streets.

For 10 years, for 10 years,
we demonstrated.

So now we've raised it to
the level of civil disobedience.

You talk bad,
Ben Ward!

You talk bad, Koch!

You came in the midnight
hours and served us.

Now we're here to serve you.

Come on with it!

We're ready to go.

We told you we'd be here.

We're here!

We ain't taking no more!

We're fired up!

We ain't taking no more!

We're fired up, we ain't
taking no more!

We're fired up, we ain't
taking no more!

Fired up, we ain't
taking no more!

Fired up!

Echoes of a verdict.

They rode over New York
and the nation today

after a jury convicted
three young white men

and acquitted a fourth

in the death of a
Black man just a year ago.

That fatal outburst
of mob violence

etched the words "Howard Beach"
on the nation's consciousness.

And the anger, white and Black,

didn't end with
the jury's verdict.

Mason
and other Black leaders

spent the night in jail.

They were arrested yesterday

when a group of
about 500 protestors

blocked rush hour traffic.

It was called a Day
of Outrage--

outrage which continued today
despite attempts by city leaders

to put the best
face on the verdict.

Mayor Koch says he's not gonna
give any special treatment

to any of the people arrested
in the Day of Outrage.

The Day of Outrage,
as they refer to it,

took place before
the verdict

in the Howard Beach case.

They were knocking it,
condemning it, before

they knew what it was.

Is that the way
to get your way?

To demonstrate
and to impose yourself?

'Cause I don't think that's
what Blacks or whites want.

It would
be safe to say, though,

that you're not hailing
last night's verdict

as justice in New York City.

We want to hold comment.

We have to bury
Yvonne Smallwood

tomorrow night in the Bronx.

28-year-old Black
mother of four children

beaten to death by New York
City policemen in the Bronx.

And so we're gonna have
this funeral tomorrow night.

This struggle of racism and
racially motivated violence

in New York City
is not over with.

The Howard Beach verdict
does not end anything.

We have everything
in this movement.

We have nationalists.

We have revolutionaries.

We have people who want to
overthrow the government.

And the reason why we
will continue to have

everything in this movement,

because it
frightens white folks

when we have everything
in this movement.

It lets white folks know that
we might be Malcolm today

and Martin Luther King
tomorrow.

Those that oppress us

had the nerve to
try and advise us

on how we ought to try
to get free from them.

We are
intelligent enough

not to let you tell us

what tactics that you
are comfortable with

to hold us in slavery.

You don't have
none of us under control.

And you will never have
us under control again.

That
was Howard Beach.

It felt like a victory,

but you knew
that you won a case,

not changed the system.

I'd been in the
movement since 12,

and I knew the difference
between moments

and movements that won.

So it was a good
momentary victory.

But I knew there was
no structural change

in the criminal justice system.

If you had some advice
for young people,

what would you tell 'em?

Well, first thing I'd say,
get yourself together,

because before you can
get anything else together,

you gotta get me, I, yourself.

Hey, that's very short,
but it's very direct.

We have a young man
in the studio

who I think is an
astounding young brother

because of his youth,
he's only 19 years old,

and he's accomplished a lot.

And he's here to make a
presentation to James Brown.

And we'd like to welcome
him warmly.

His name is Al Sharpton.
How about it for Al Sharpton?

Al is the
national director of...

-The National--
-The National Youth--

-Movement.
-Movement, Incorporated.

-Right, Al?
-That's right.

And what do we have here?

Well, we come
to break tradition.

We know that in the
recording industry

that they give a gold record

to those that achieve
a million seller.

But we view your
million seller, Payback,

as a Black record, because
it is relevant and says

many of the things that
young Blacks have tried to say

and could not musically express
in our own little way.

And we feel The Payback is sort
of the like the theme song

of young Black America in 1974.

James Brown was the biggest,

most regarded, legendary Black
star in the world at that time.

And this was at one of
the lowest points in my life.

-Where were you born?
-Brooklyn, New York.

Yeah,
your dad left you--

When I was 10 years old.

And how
does that shape you?

How have you lived with that?

Well, it is certainly something

that makes you reach outside
of your home for male figures.

I woke up one
morning. My father had left.

He had left with my stepsister,
and they had a child.

It impacted me more than
I would admit to myself.

When my daddy left,

my mother became
mother and father.

Sixty percent of young
African children grow up

with just their momma at home.

Hello, Rev.
This is your mother.

And I think so very much
every time I hear you speak,

every time I see you perform,

every time I see
your lovely work--

I just think about how
good God has been to me

now and through the years
that I delivered you

for these, our people.

I was looking
for a father figure.

The wisdom of my mother
was she understood

that if she didn't guide me
around the right male figures,

that I was, because
of this hunger,

would seek them out, and it
might be negative male figures.

-Where did you grow up?
-In Brownsville,

which is probably the
worst part in the city.

Mike Tyson came out of there.
And you know, I'm 37 now.

Most--I can't think
of two friends

that are not either
in jail or dead.

So when she brought
me to Bishop Washington,

and he brought me
to a Reverend Jones

and a Jesse Jackson,

that was because she
was smart enough to say,

"He's gonna need
that in his life."

My Father's Day is about those
that have fathered our
community.

That's right!

Those that pay the extra price.

Those that have done
what needed to be done,

even when others were
not willing to do it.

I always gave her credit,

that this uneducated
Black woman from Alabama,

never studied child-rearing,
never studied psychology,

but she knew that.

We got too many
young people in America

who do not have two
parents to look up to,

and there's only so
many hours--

And that problem is
compounded by a young mother

who is now being unemployed,

whose job's been given
to international markets,

who has no daycare help,

who has no
type of assistance

from the federal government.

So he has no role model.

His mother can't
take care of him.

He's thrown in the streets
with no educational program.

He watches television that
gives him a digest of violence.

And then he's incarcerated
when he takes TV's advice

and picks up a gun and
plays Have Gun - Will Travel.

Probably if he had not left
and they had stayed together,

I would have been a
much different person,

'cause I probably
would've never known

the difference of zip codes.

I would've never saw the
father figure in Adam Powell,

or Jesse Jackson,
or James Brown.

And I understood
what a lot of people

didn't get to understand.

I knew both sides of
the Black experience.

There's one thing
about you is

I know as long as you're
involved, I'm involved.

I'm committed to
you 'cause I know

you're trying to do something.
Thank you, sir.

I sure thank ya.

I learned
from James Brown

that if you really
find your rhythm

and find what you
believe in and what you do,

that sooner or later, the world
will cross over to you

rather than you
cross over to them.

People have called for
charges to be laid,

but this crowd is wondering
what does it take?

Back before there were video,
they could understand that.

Now they can't.

People are calling
it a lynching.

Frustration
over the lack of charges

against the officers turned
into anger overnight,

and it all comes as Minnesota
and the rest of the country

are facing the dual toll
of rising jobless claims

and cases of coronavirus.

All you need is probable
cause to make an arrest.

And there is no reason
why these four policemen

should not have been
arrested by now.

Protests
breaking out in at least

140 cities across the country.

The nation
erupted into scenes of chaos,

violence.

There are people here who
are really, really angry

about the systemic issues
that they're talking about.

As part of Minneapolis
burned last night,

one of President
Trump's tweets, quote,

"When the looting starts,
the shooting starts."

These criminal acts
are not protest.

They are not statements.

Does this violence help?

It doesn't help anything,

but it lets you know
that they're tired!

They're tired of being
oppressed, being misused,

being abused, being
murdered at will!

What do you mean by
"Justice should be served"?

I'll leave that to the
justice system to work out.

There's this tinge
a horrific irony,

to hear calls for
tranquility and status quo

when justice has still
not been delivered.

I'm not gonna pretend
for a millisecond

to know what it's like to be
a Black person in America.

I don't.

But the only thing I do know is
that we all need to do better.

We need to love more.

We need to respect more.
Do better.

So part of
what we have to do

is try to understand
the context.

Oh, the context.

And squint your eyes as you
said. "The context." Of course!

There's a context to
setting fire to McDonald's,

says Professor Gloud.

I think that this could
be a tipping point

to have this conversation.

But you cannot
have a conversation

until these officers
are arrested

and show that we are
dealing on a playing field

that is even and that
is fair to everyone.

Without that, it's
talk with no action.

We don't just need
a conversation.

We need the implementation
and execution of the law.

Solidarity and respect.

All right, thanks.

Tyler's
giving us the planes,

and Robert Smith is doing
the funerals and hotels.

So whatever rooms you get,
Robert is gonna pay for.

He told me to lay it out
and he would reimburse me.

So put the credit card up
there. We'll pay for 'em.

All right, anything
come up, let me know.

Where am I going?

If the question comes
from the media about looting,

we wanted to pass to you
first to set the tone.

I wanna say I'm sorry
that it's taken this long

to pass these bills.

These are bills that
should've passed long ago.

And I wanna acknowledge the
fact that it should not take

a murder of a Black man in
Minneapolis to pass these bills.

These bills should've passed

after Eric Garner was
murdered in New York City.

We want a federal law.

And any time
anyone uses a chokehold,

they are immediately,

immediately locked up
and charged.

Don't wait five years
like mine.

My case drug on for five years.

And after five years,
the DOJ dropped the ball

and said that they
weren't going forward.

You may not be going
forward, but I am.

To those that are
doing violent things,

don't use George Floyd
and Eric Garner as props.

If you are one
that is a looter,

don't act like
you are an activist.

Because a activist goes
for causes and justice,

not for designer shoes.

Senator Schumer, it was
the outrage of the day

to call for militarization.

You can't say the week
with this president

'cause he does
at least one a day.

I'm doing the eulogy
at the funeral,

the first memorial
service on Thursday,

and then the one on Saturday,
and the one on Tuesday.

And I would hope that
we could let this family know

that we are gonna
see legislative change.

It's not enough just to keep
showing the activist part

if the legislative
part is not there.

What made the
60s significant

is with all the marching,
and the drama, and the rallies,

we got the Civil Rights Act
of '64,

the Voting Rights Act of '65,
open housing of '68.

We have not had the
legislative response

to the litany of
cases of policing

all the way from
Rodney King to now.

It's time to be able
to translate that

into legislation,
not just conversation.

I'm gonna send
everybody a speech I just gave

on the floor of the Senate,

where I was really strong
against the president.

Hello?

Hey, Rev, how you doin'?

Hey, how you feelin'?

I'm good,
I'm good, I'm good.

I wanna start by saying
that the way you maneuver, man,

I'm loving it.
I've watched it, I'm learning.

Uh, I need to get some lessons
'cause you--you damn good.

Well, coming from the
president of the NAACP,

I take it as a
compliment, Derrick.

Well, America, we are
about to open the door

on our beloved city
called New York.

Mr. Sharpton was one
of several arrested

in a blocking of the
Brooklyn Bridge at rush hour,

not to mention a couple
of subway trains here.

For which he gets an applause

which does about
a two and a half

on the old popularity meter.

So we do 8 minutes...

and 34 seconds
during the funeral.

46 seconds.

No, well, I don't know.
You tell me.

Right before, right after?

Hold one minute,
hold one minute.

Hello?

Hey Al.

Hey, Reverend,
how are you doing?

Hold one minute,
hold one minute.

Yeah, that's Jesse
on the other line.

Let's get this straight.

New York now has visible,
politically active Black people

who are not only speaking,
they are actually causing,

on some--few
occasions, purposely,

disruption of our city's life
not unlike the disruption,

or peaceful demonstrations,

that were led by
Martin Luther King, Jr.

What's the
call to action out of it?

We're talking about calling
for big march and rally

on August 28, the anniversary
of the March on Washington,

as I jump off for voting
registration nationwide.

We talking about 200-300,000
people in Washington.

Yeah,
no, this is your space,

this is your space.

It should surprise no one that
Mr. Maddox, Mr. Sharpton have,

at various times,
been called hot dogs.

You're out for
your own publicity,

and you're just causing
a lot of trouble,

and you're overdoing
this race thing.

After all, we're
all God's children.

Let's hold hands and
move on into the future.

Well, I think--

I think the charge of hot dogs
could be really put to rest.

If these cases did not exist,

there would be no reason
for us to come to anybody.

The media catches us in motion.
They don't start the motion.

And we've been marching long
before the media covered us.

In
the '70s and '80s,

you had the racy kind of show.

The Donahues,
Richard Bey, Morton Downey.

Now please zip it.

We're gonna let
everyone talk tonight.

And that's what the
loudmouths are for.

Let these guys talk first.

You can't debate
first before I give it.

Well, it's not
an answer, it's a story.

Go on and tell me.

No, it is an answer.

What's the difference
between a * * and * * *

You wouldn't sit still
for the word * * *

And sometimes we had to go
on the racy kind of shows.

No, I won't apologize.

In the manner in which
I use it, I do not apologize.

You just applauded a white
for refusing to apologize

for using the word * * *

Do you realize
what that does for America?

The polished shows
wouldn't have us on

'cause they didn't
wanna talk about race,

and they certainly didn't want
to talk about it to people.

that were going to
tell them the truth.

This business of racism is
not new, and it's systemic.

You have to know that.
You have to know that

you're even unaware
that you're a racist.

They would have these guys
that will hoot and howl at you

in the studio audience.

And I am sick of
you people promoting racism

on its highest level,

and that's exactly
what you're doing.

So it was that kind of almost
confrontational television.

You weren't here to help
build up America, most of you.

Your grandparents were,
right along with me.

And you wouldn't know
what it is to be Black.

That's why you can sit up
and say what you're saying.

You don't know what it is,
and you may never know,

because you're not Black.

We went
through everywhere else.

Richard Bey was all available.

And the question is, you
do that, or you do nothing.

We're not asking you
to like us.

We're saying that we should
be protected under the law.

Whatever America is,
white folks created it.

We did not.

It's a combination of
things that created racism.

Like what?

Well, okay, you
have, as you said,

the whites created the world--

or created America,
I agree with you.

Wait a minute,
can I make my point?

Can I make my point?

I am feeling for you.
I am very empathetic.

But then you had the buttoned
down more sophisticated
network types

that talked very measured.

It seems to me that part
of what you two gentlemen

are trying to do is perhaps

to change the legal
system in the street.

We're trying to
establish the fact

that there is a
prevalent racial--

My question
was, whether you're trying

to change the legal
system in the streets.

I'm trying to answer you.

But
had the same basic

exclusion of Black thought,

the distorted depiction
of race.

They just did it in
a more polished way.

This morning's
newspapers,

"Sharpton 'The Informer' is
as an entertaining racist

"playing the race game
for fun and profit,

"the way generations of white
Southern racists played it."

There was a joke going around

that was in the
Wall Street Journal,

repeated in Esquire magazine.

What do you do if you
have Saddam Hussein,

Muammar Qaddafi,
and Al Sharpton,

and in your hand is a
gun with two bullets?

The answer is you shoot
Al Sharpton twice.

So if you go back to
the '80s and '90s in New York,

and you go to the editorial
room that decided the news,

they were all white.

Why would they help
a Black movement

that they know would come to
get them for racial exclusion?

The media is really
manipulating people

to feel and think
a certain way.

Nobody's controlling me.

Nobody comes down
here and says--

-Come on, Richard.
-You need to wake up.

You mean you're
doing this on your own?

That's right!

Okay, all right.

The way you
discredit a movement

is you discredit those that
are in front of the movement.

Former president Truman
was quoted by the AP

as saying that the march
from Selma was "silly."

The march was not silly at all.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

National holiday in his honor.

You read books on
Martin Luther King.

Isn't it interesting they
never say he was indicted

for income tax fraud and
misappropriation of funds?

They don't want you to remember
the first thing they did

was try to make him a crook.

He had to go on trial
and get acquitted.

Adam Clayton Powell, indicted
for income tax evasion.

The gentleman's question was

that if the case
goes against me,

could it be used
against me politically?

You answer him, please?

No!

Marcus Gravey ran out
the country for a fraud.

So either all Black
leaders are crooks,

or there's the playbook
to discredit us.

Sharpton is back in the news,
arrested for grand larceny.

Sharpton appeared in

Manhattan Criminal Court,

and with lawyer
Alton Maddox at his side,

heard the charges against him.

It's my induction into
the Activist Hall of Fame.

There was too much evidence
that they knew better

than what they were projecting.

They knew that
I started in Breadbasket.

They did articles on me.

Cut that part out that

that he grew up in the
King movement in the north.

We will not sit by and watch
them shoot 14-year-old boys

in the streets any longer.

Start him mid '80s.

Who is
this 33-year-old preacher

without a church?

They had to redo me.

This is just a guy conning.

You know, he was in show
business with James Brown.

This is just performance.

At first, I resented it.
But then I came to understand

that the people
writing the stories

was part of the
institutionalized bias

I was fighting.

To most white New Yorkers

and a sizeable number of
Black New Yorkers as well,

he is little more than
a pudgy exhibitionist

who can be counted on to
show up, bullhorn in hand,

at every racial incident.

So who is Al Sharpton anyway?

The objective was to
stop

raising the issue of race

because they were guilty.

They had made a
intentional decision

to protect the status quo,

'cause the status quo
was protecting them.

Stop the rape!
Stop the lies!

Women of color on the rise!

Stop your rape!

Stop your lies!

Women of color on the rise!

Good afternoon, everybody.

I'm really glad to be here.

I'm here because, like
all of you, I'm pissed off

and I'm mad as hell at
what's happening to our people,

to our women, and
to our leaders.

So this is in support
of our Black sister,

Tawana Brawley.

They're gonna continue
taking advantage of her

'cause she's Black.

Since the people are white,

they're dealing with the
political campaigning,

they're gonna pay
the white judge,

and the white judge is
gonna throw the case out.

But as long as we're
here to fight for her,

it will not be thrown out.

Last
November, Tawana Brawley

was found dumped along
a road in Dutchess County.

She was wrapped in a
feces-covered plastic bag.

Racial slurs were
scrawled on her body.

Her family claims that she
was abducted by six white men

and sexually abused
for four days.

One of the men
purportedly claimed to be

a law enforcement officer.

It was a cop.

He was a police officer?

Showed me his badge.

My position
on the Brawley case,

which was always distorted,

was that this is a young lady
who made an accusation.

So she deserved a day in court.

And we promise this family

that we'll fight until
hell freezes over.

to get a special prosecutor
to go into the courtroom

and bring justice
to Tawana Brawley.

The case is plain.
We need a special prosecutor.

And that the attorney
general is

is the appropriate
person to appoint.

Tawana, I know you have gone
through a traumatic experience.

I and my colleagues
are here to help you.

The had the
state attorney general

become the prosecutor, who
I felt was playing politics.

And at the same time,

he announced he was
going to investigate

the funds of National
Youth Movement.

So I knew that playbook.

Like they went at
Dr. King's charity.

Mr. Abrams says he has leads.

He's made no arrest.

He's acting as if
only Tawana Brawley

can give him the evidence
he needs for an arrest.

The family
refuses to cooperate,

saying the authorities are
only interested in a cover-up.

I will not give in to
requests for a new prosecutor

because somebody's
unhappy with Abrams.

He's the best, as far as
I'm concerned, and that's that.

You can scream, shout, protest,
lay on the railroad tracks,

it won't make any difference.

The story and the controversy
surrounding Tawana Brawley

gets more and more curious.

There was a television report
last night that she's lying.

It's
easy to play back,

oh, Brawley was this or that,

but nobody ever stops to say,
well, first of all,

if two prominent
attorneys told the story,

mother backed it up,

and the guy prosecuting
the case

is a guy that
also is after Sharpton,

why wouldn't Sharpton believe
her and not believe him?

Oh, I got it.

All young Black girls lie.

Just make it up.

Tawana Brawley's
kidnapping and rape case

has been mysterious
from the start.

Just like Michael
Griffith and them.

They said they was lying.

Television station
reported witnesses

had placed the Black
teenager at a party

and accompanied
reputed drug dealers

at the time she said
she was kidnapped.

There has been a continuing
journalistic rape

of Tawana Brawley by
the establishment media.

The Brawley case
has been marked by

one strange twist
after another.

The continuing theatrics
often overshadowed

the alleged crime itself.

Sharpton dropped

another questionable bombshell.

The Reverend Al Sharpton
charged

that a group linked to the Irish
Republican Army is involved.

It's almost as if the
lawyers themselves

are saying the facts in this
case don't matter that much,

because the general
proposition is true,

that there's
institutionalized racism

in the criminal justice system.

Every time we seem to be
getting closer to the answers

in the Tawana Brawley case,
there are a lot more questions.

The question of did
I believe Brawley

is like asking me do I
believe Michael Griffith

was breaking in the house
that night in Howard Beach.

I didn't go do an investigation
on either one of them.

There's enough
prima facie evidence

to go to court on this.

And that-- guess what?--

is what all cases in
this country go by.

Why is it different for us?

My daughter was attacked
by some white officials.

I have named them.
She has named them.

Why don't you get your people
there to pick them up?

Tawana Brawley
I see as my daughter.

We want a chance to prove
that she will be protected.

And we will all be protected

in the protecting
of Tawana Brawley.

To do that, she has
to cooperate with us.

The Brawley case was
sandwiched between Howard Beach

and Central Park 5,

and we were fighting
all of them.

More than 30 boys in New York
City went wilding last week,

and now eight of
them are in jail,

charged with several attacks,

including an especially
brutal one on a young woman.

No victim identified
the five boys at Central Park.

And Brawley, she
made identification.

We are not going
to let this girl

be the scapegoat of
a corrupt system!

Mason and Maddox
have obligations

as officers of the court,

as well as attorneys
to Tawana Brawley.

They have an obligation
to the system.

They are representing
their own interests.

They obviously have
a political agenda.

If he serves a subpoena
on Tawana Brawley

or any member of her family,

we are prepared to be present

to block the serving
of that subpoena.

They will not appear in
front of a grand jury.

And we're prepared to
do what is necessary,

including going to jail.

As we did with the
original subpoena,

I ask that Bob Abrams,
that he take his subpoenas,

he can do what he wants.

They will have to
arrest us first.

We had just won a
victory in Howard Beach.

Had we met at a phone booth
at 125th Street and said,

"Let's go upstate
and create a hoax."

I mean, why would we do that?

That doesn't even make sense!

The only reason we would
do it is we believed.

You don't want to hear
what Tawana has to say!

You wanna get this behind you

so you can go on with
racist business as usual.

You've got enough
behind you now.

You done got too
much behind you now.

And our cups are
filled to the brim.

Racism has run
over in this state.

We will not allow any more of
our blood in New York State

to go unresponded to.

We're tired of burying folks.

We're tired of mothers
who we can't explain

why this is happening to them.

And you sit up there
and bring a subpoena

on the mother of
a raped daughter.

And you expect for
us to sit around

and talk about how
we're gonna comply?

Right on.

We cannot honor something
that is dishonorable.

That's where we stand today.

We're not entertaining
any questions.

Thank you.

-No justice!
-No Peace!

-No justice!
-No peace!

Why is Glenda so
important to us this week?

Look at the history of
the State of New York.

No white man has
ever been convicted

of raping a Black woman in
the history of the state.

They keep talking every
night on the news,

"It's been six months!

"They're still angry!

"Can you believe it?

"The negroes are
still with Tawana."

They will say that we are
exasperating racial tensions.

But the people know the truth.

The people know that
we've taken more

than we should've ever taken.

We should've stopped you
with Michael Stewart.

We should've stopped you
with Eleanor Bumpurs.

We should've stopped
you with Randy Evans.

We should've stopped you
with Michael Griffith.

And we're gonna stop
you with Tawana Brawley!

"Sorry, Reverend, are
you talking violence?"

I'm talking what is necessary.

When it was necessary,
God got violent.

Say that God got mad one day
and drowned the whole world.

Yeah, y'all say we're crazy?

You've driven us crazy!

400 years of abuse.

Let me tell you
something, Mario.

We are not scared of you.

You think 'cause you're
Italian and know some boys

somebody's scared of you?

We are the
descendants of Hannibal

that walked all over Italy!

You will pay from now on

for everything you
do to our people.

If we've got to take justice
in our hands, we will do that.

The Bible said there's a time
for everything under the sun.

Time to be born
and a time to die.

A time to plant and a time
to pluck up what is planted.

Time of war and
a time of peace.

It's going to be
a day in history

if you missed the Selma
to Montgomery march,

if you missed the
March on Washington,

if you missed Marcus Garvey
organizing an army

coming down 125th Street,

don't miss Monday.

There's many moments

that people would come in

and have righteous anger
and want to fight back.

And we had to develop
ways that we would put our

security teams out there and
marshals to keep people cool.

I don't care if you're
left wing, right wing,

dropped both wings.

Whoever you are, you're
gonna listen to security.

There's many times I got angry
and would want to rhetorically--

I've never been violent,
but I'd get in exchanges.

And you had to learn how
to fine tune it as you went.

If you cannot listen
to security, don't go.

If you go and get out there
and start cutting up,

we're gonna take you
behind in the bus

and break both your legs.

You've gotta be able to
raise the theater level

to where you don't lose control,
you don't have violence.

But it is dramatic enough that
you can't be ignored, either.

This is one of those moments

that transcends the
category of the ordinary.

You know there are
two great words

in the Greek language for time.

And one of things I like about
the Greek language is that it

has a greater capacity
for lifting up nuances

and shades of meaning.

Two great words in the
Greek language for time,

one is "kairos," and
the other is "chronos."

Now, you're probably
familiar with "chronos."

That's the word...

That's the root word
for "chronometer."

Chronos has to do
with clock time.

Right now,
according to chronos,

it is 4 o'clock in
the afternoon.

But there's another kind of time
that is referred to in the Greek

by the word kairos,
and that's God time.

And every now and then,

God time breaks in
on clock time.

-Say his name!
-George Floyd!

The infinite
intersects the finite.

And you get caught up in
the transcendent experience.

This young lady,
if she had not shot that video,

the world would've never
know what happened to George.

And I want her mother to know
we gonna look out for her.

We'll talk about
that in private.

My daughter was--she was
on her way to a bonfire,

like in the opposite direction.

And she saw what was
happening, it wasn't right.

So she pulled out her phone.

I want us to not sit here

and act like we had

a funeral on the schedule.

That's right,
that's right.

Right.

George Floyd should not be

among the deceased.

He did not die
of common health conditions.

He died of a common American
criminal justice malfunction.

One of the things, Martin,

that I've always had to
deal with,

as critics would say,

"All Al Sharpton wants
is publicity."

Well, that's
exactly what I want.

'Cause nobody calls
me to keep a secret.

People call me to blow
up issues

that nobody else
would deal with,

'cause I'm the blow up man,
and I don't apologize for that.

George Floyd's story

has been the story
of Black folks,

because ever since
401 years ago,

the reason we could never be

who we wanted
and dreamed of being

is you kept your
knee on our neck.

What happened
to Floyd happens every day

in this country in education,
in health services,

and in every area
of American life.

It's time for us to
stand up in George's name

and say, get your
knee off our necks!

We don't
want no favors!

Just get up off of us!

And we can be and do
whatever we can be.

As a minister, I
have to look at the providence

of in the middle of
a nation lockdown,

George Floyd happens,
Breonna Taylor happens,

Ahmaud Arbery happens,

all within the
same span of time.

And all while everybody
was locked down

and had to watch the news
over and over and over again.

And it's our job to come out
this other side of this pandemic

different than when we went in.

But I'm more hopeful
today than ever.

Why?
Well, let me go back.

Reverend Jackson always
taught me, stay on your text.

Go back to my text,
Ecclesiastes.

There is a time and a season.

And when I looked this time

and saw marches
where in some cases,

young whites outnumbered
the Blacks marching,

I know that it's a different
time and a different season.

When I looked and
saw people in Germany

marching for George Floyd,

it's a different time
and a different season.

When they went in front of the
parliament in London, England,

and said it's a different
time and a different season,

we need to go back to
Washington

and stand up in the shadows
of Lincoln and tell them,

this is the time of
dealing with accountability

in the criminal justice system.

I'd like to ask
Reverend Al Sharpton,

what is the purpose
of a family advisor

compared to a lawyer?

The lawyer is handling the
legal part of the case.

I am advising them as a minister
and as a community activist,

as we feel that has
racial overtones--

But it's not
your community, is it?

Well, what is my community?

You tell me.

Martin Luther King
marched all over the country.

Wasn't his community.

I mean, I mean, what
kind of question is that?

Well, is
that what you are?

You're now a national
Black leader?

Is that what you are?

No, I
am a family advisor.

I mean, which question
do you want me to answer?

I am an activist fighting
injustice where I find it.

You're Superman.
You go all over the world or--

I've seen other
people on your show, Richard,

like, uh...that
have been active,

and they weren't asked that.

I mean,
no one asks Curtis Sliwa

why does he have Guardian
Angels everywhere

when he lives in one community?

I mean, that's ridiculous!

But there's
some people that think

that you'll just look at a case

that you think might
be controversial,

you'll look at a case that
might be able to get headlines.

You might be able to make
something out of a case

to make a name for yourself.

We were all involved in
the Howard Beach case.

And Reverend Sharpton--
I did not know this.

Ms. Griffith told me this
about November of '77.

This was some nearly 11 months
after her son had been killed.

She indicated to me that
there was one man who had,

on a daily basis, called
her, or come to see her,

or asked her if she
needed something.

And this didn't ever
get in the headlines.

This person never called
any press conferences

when he made those
contacts with that family.

That person was
Reverend Al Sharpton.

The reality of it is, is
that there's a lot of things

that Reverend Sharpton
do for a lot of victims

that people never knew about.

He counseled the
Griffith family.

He counseled other victims.

And he's doing a great job with
respect to the Brawley family.

Back up, back up.

-What do we need?
-A Black army!

-What do we need?
-A Black army!

Ms. Brawley will
not attend this hearing

unless the members
of the community

are allowed to go in with her.

Right, right.

We have the
right to a public hearing.

We will not allow Glenda
to be disenfranchised.

We have come prepared
to give our show cause.

We will do it at
a public hearing.

We will not do it in
a private setting.

So we will stand here.

If the lawyers cannot
open the courtroom,

we will be leaving and holding
this court in contempt.

You sure you don't want to
bring your client up here?

Judge, my client already
knew the outcome of this.

She had no confidence in
the judicial system here.

Black people in this
state have no confidence.

Is that their defense?

-to the judiciary.

Let me ask
you, Mr. Maddox.

And I'm pretty sure Mr. Abrams
will ask for his 30 days.

That's the maximum
allowed by law--

Mister--Mr. Maddox.

-right now, we can all leave.

Mr. Maddox,
is it your defense--

I have no defense.

Is it the defense in this case

that Black people
cannot receive justice?

Yes.

That's your defense
to this motion to--

Yes, absolutely.

Do you wish to be heard?

He agrees with us.

He agrees with it.

-Pardon me?
-He agrees with it.

Agrees
with that statement?

-I doubt that.
-I'm hoping he does.

Who made the statement?

Mr. Ryan, do you
agree that Black people

can't receive justice
in this state?

No, I do not.

The moving
papers before me

have raised no factual issue.

All that the defense has raised
have been political in nature,

and might very well be raised
in another form and not here.

Glenda Brawley's in
criminal contempt of this court

and is sentenced and
committed to the county jail

for a period of 30 days.

We will be seeking
religious asylum for her.

We challenge Bob Abrams
to come into the church

and do what he's got to do.

We're going to force you to show
the world how beastly you are.

-Hi, Bob.
-Hi, hi, hi.

The advisors of Ms. Brawley
have apparently set up

a staged circumstance today,

and I've advised the sheriff
not to bite at their bait.

A media circus has been staged.

No justice, no peace!

-When do we want it?
-Now!

-What do you want?
-Justice!

-When do you want it?
-Now!

-When do you want it?
-Now!

WLIB Radio
in New York City.

It's Monday, June 27, 1988.

Good morning and greetings
to the WLIB family.

Anyone that understands
the history of our people

understand that any
time you start shaking

the root of this system,
then you're gonna have

a discredit campaign.
And what we've seen is that.

This is the largest crowd

that we have ever had
at Bethany.

Give yourselves
applause.

Every time
that there's a report,

it attracts a large
white audience.

It's like seeing a
lynching, you know?

"I'm getting ready to see
these Black men lynched.

This is something I want to do.
I have a thirst for this."

And TV is satisfying
that thirst.

Wait, wait, wait.

Everybody that is on this list

has signed in from
a news media station

that thinks that
they can attack us

and we cannot answer them
by name have walked out.

I'll turn this over
to the army.

They will never be allowed

in a press conference
or rally of ours.

The very strident, militant,
confrontational policy

that you've taken in terms of
dealing with the justice system,

uh, and the fact that
there has been, what?

At least four incidents
of racist violence

in this town over the
last four or five days

are somehow linked.

There are people in
this town, of color,

who are more concerned
about white feelings

than they are about
Black lives, you see?

And so they should be
happy that all we're doing

is to insist and demand
justice.

The one thing that
the white man has always done

and the one thing
that he will never change,

he will always give you
a signal

as to who he fears and
who you should follow.

But there are some of us
who watch out for his signals.

We ignore what he says,

because the Native American
told us many years ago

that the white man speaks
with a forked tongue.

If we did not have
radio station WLIB--

-That's right.
-Where would we go?

People are gonna say, "Well,
you're talking about
separatism."

I don't care what
they call it, see?

White folks are crazy.

We know what the white man
did with the Native American.

Now the white man is calling
himself the native American.

White people will rewrite
history in your face.

We're tired of this!

Enough is enough!

Payback has come!

You now have the nerve,

after all we did for you,

to put your wicked
hands on our daughter!

You will pay for
Tawana Brawley!

You will pay for
Tawana Brawley!

Later in life,
I became more conscious.

I saw Tawana, in many ways,

like the Black mother I had

that was fighting for
her kids, or my sister.

I saw in her a Black woman Black
men wouldn't stand up for.

And I wasn't gonna be the
one to walk away from her,

no matter how hard it got.

I just wasn't gonna do it.

Okay, that's close enough.

That's close enough.

I didn't tell you
all to do that.

-No justice!
-No peace!

-No justice!
-No peace!

-No justice!
-No peace!

To this day, I
don't know all of what happened

with Brawley.

But I know she
deserved the right

that everybody else deserved.

My
name is Tawana Brawley.

I'm not a liar,
and I'm not crazy.

I simply just want justice,

and then I want to be
left alone.

My family and I saw that
we couldn't get any justice.

So we decided not to cooperate.

We had no New York Times
to leak to.

Tawana, why
won't you answer any questions?

Reverend Sharpton?

After seven months
of investigation,

the grand jury found
no evidence

that a crime had been committed

against Tawana Brawley.

Governor,
do you have a reaction

to the Brawley
grand jury report?

It's not a perfect system, but
it's better than any system

anywhere in the world.

Reverend Sharpton was part of
the group of three advisors

and the same kinds of
adjectives apply to him.

Abominable behavior, deplorable,
disgraceful, reprehensible.

The attorney
general says that not only you,

but Mr. Mason
and Mr. Maddox,

are under investigation.

What do you think is
going to come out of that?

Hardy-ha-ha.

What do you think is
going to come out of it?

Nothing.

I'm saddened and angry
that we've come to this point,

where people would
use a young woman,

or use anyone in our community
for their own ambition.

They have made it less likely
that the victims of racial bias

in the criminal justice system
will be heard in the future.

They have disserved
their cause.

I remember I
was on a show one night.

And a guy said to me,
"You done well.

You're doing all right now.

But I still disagree
with you on Brawley."

I said, "What do
you disagree with?

That they should've
gone to court?"

"Well, I think she lied.

And I think
the jury was right."

I said, "Let me ask
you a question."

He said, "Yeah?"

I said, "Do you think
OJ killed his wife?"

He said, "Absolutely."

I said, "Well, the
jury said he didn't."

So I got it.
You can question juries.

I should just be a
nice boy and shut up.

AR2 is back in
session.

In 1988,
we are being told

that every person
of African descent

cannot participate in
First Amendment rights.

And the responsibility that
you have at this moment is

to dismiss each and every one
of allegations set forth

in those complaints.

In the event that they
are not dismissed,

I have 1,000 people who are
ready to go to jail right now.

What you are talking about
is putting something down

for a week from now, when
people have already been harmed

as a result of this.
You can't undo that.

You are sanctioning.

By allowing this to go on
for one further minute,

you are sanctioning
the misconduct in this order.

Well,
there are people

who are prepared
to go to jail now.

Revoke this-- no, no, no.

Your Honor,
before you do that--

Yeah, right now.

Your Honor.

Your Honor.

We marched
peacefully through

these downtown streets.

We didn't break a window glass.

Not one.

We didn't touch a pane.

We didn't close a business.

We didn't touch a pedestrian.

We didn't snatch a pocketbook.

We didn't damage any property.

Now they're telling us that
they can delay and adjourn

and pick the date that they
will decide on our freedom.

I'm sorry,
Officer Gallagher.

But you can't choose
the day no more.

We've had all we can take.

You think you're God,
and you're not God!

I'm telling you,
we're not leaving.

We'll spend this night
in jail or in this room.

I'm telling you that
you drew the line!

It don't mean nothing!
Take God's name off the wall!

Jews-- Jews ran
through the precinct

and you didn't lock up nobody.

Italians marched,
you don't lock up nobody.

And you're gonna tell us,
the children of slaves

that built your nasty streets,

that cleaned your
nasty behinds,

that we can't walk the streets,

we'll turn this
town upside down!

All of them jumped on me and
started knocking me around.

Stop it! Stop it!

Michael Stewart,
Barry Allen, Troy Canty,

Darrell Cabey, Daryl Dotson,

Michael Harris,
Michael Griffith,

Cedric Sandiford,

Tawana Brawley,

Yusuf Hawkins,

Kevin Richardson, Antron
McCray, Raymond Santana,

Korey Wise, Phillip Pannell,

Mary Mitchell, Rodney King,

Gavin Cato, Ralph Nimmons,

Anthony Baez, Ernest Sayon,

Jay Walker, Jr,

Caroline "Sissy" Adams.

Most of them on that list
never made high media.

But they say I only do
it for media attention.

And most of them that we
got a lot of media attention

didn't get media attention
before we came in,

and certainly we prolonged it.

I do this 'cause it's
what I do.

The week of
our march leading in

is the week of the
Republican convention.

So it's gonna be the major
event going into the fall.

Marches and protesting is
always about timing in history.

You got to know the right time.

Here the challenge
comes for the movement.

Say Biden wins.

Does everybody calm down, then?

And you gotta make
it above politics.

Trump losing does not
assure justice is present.

It is less of an impediment,

but you still gotta put
pressure on the system.

Tulsa, Oklahoma bracing for

a possible
political storm tonight.

The city
expects 100,000 people

this weekend for President
Trump's campaign rally

and the city's
Juneteenth celebration.

The
Reverend Al Sharpton

is expected to speak at
the Juneteenth celebration

in Tulsa tonight.

The city's mayor declared
a civil emergency...

Yeah.

You know how to do
Facetime, right?

Okay, yeah, we can do that.

He said that he's done more
than any president

for Black people in the US.

What do you think of that?

Are you the opening act?
Are you the comedian tonight?

Mother Crutcher,
how are you doing?

Good to be seen, babe.

Thank you.

I told y'all I'd be
here when y'all need me.

Now, you need to move
yourself physically to the left

about an inch.

So of course,
Trump is throwing it back

to the bad old days
on this Juneteenth

with another George
Wallace-style threat

to those who don't
support his reelection.

Rev, I wanna start with you.

What do you make of
that kind of language

coming out of the president of
the United States on Juneteenth?

I think that it is offensive.

I think that it is insulting.

Yeah, Mike, Chris did a
walkthrough with the police.

Yeah, I'm sorry--
I walked through

with two of the police
officers.

And it's a very open field.

There's not a lot of cover--
well you can see everybody.

So it's kind of open.

I don't believe--
It's a security risk.

So is the
concern a shooter?

I mean, it's--it's--

Do you have a
recommendation, Chris?

Honestly...Rev shouldn't...

really shouldn't do this.

I don't believe it's
feasible with the climate,

with the reports
that we're getting

even from the officers of

the amount of people
that are out there.

I mean, I think, Hardy,
the best thing you can do

is let them secure
as much as they can.

I'm going to do it.
I don't, you know...

We get threats all the time.

Right.

I'm not going to
not do the rally.

The
Reverend Al Sharpton,

President of the
National Action Network!

Give it up Tulsa!

I love you.
I love you so much.

I love you.

No justice!

No peace!

No justice!

No peace!

No justice!

No peace!

Coming in, coming
in, coming in.

Sorry, baby.

The killing
of 16-year-old Yusuf Hawkins

has had a chilling effect on
race relations in New York.

Hawkins was shot dead
after a confrontation

with a gang of whites in an
Italian-American neighborhood.

The peace seems to be getting
harder and harder to keep.

Hey, we want
Al Sharpton out here!

White power!

Kill 'em mother * *
we kill 'em!

This is all the media's fault!

The media should not
publicize this kind of crap

because they're all wanting
wars to start in another place.

These things should
be kept quiet.

Al Sharpton, go home!

New tape,
new tape.

Tape man.

Where's Al Sharpton?

Bulls= * * and lies!

Get an ambulance!

Until you face
what could be the end,

you guess what you would do if
you looked death in the face.

But it's different when you
think you're looking death

in the face, and death
is saying to you,

"Now what you gonna do?"

The
controversial activist

Al Sharpton is in
the hospital tonight

with a stab wound to the chest.

Police say a white man
from the Bensonhurst area

attacked Sharpton as
he prepared to lead a march

in that community.

They rushed him here to
Coney Island Hospital,

where doctors treated him for
a wound in the upper chest,

just below the collarbone.

The weapon?
A 5-inch kitchen knife.

It changed
me in two ways.

One way, it made me know

that I really was not gonna
stop no matter what they did.

How do
you feel about the attack

and the guy who came out of
the crowd and attacked you?

Well, I think that he is
the personification

of a lot of hate,

and I don't have ill
feelings toward him.

I would much rather concentrate
on the justice system.

Second thing,
if I am going to die for this,

I want to change to society.

That means you've
got to change laws.

Mr.
Mason and Mr. Maddox,

there seems to be
some divisiveness.

Are you calling for calm?

Are you supporting
the march today?

Oh, I'm absolutely
calling for calm.

Maddox was always more in the
nationalist, Malcolm tradition.

They
made a decision,

them three or four days
I was in the hospital,

that they were not gonna
let whites

attend the rallies
anymore like Slave Theater.

That's when I left.

Maddox understood I
was going another way.

We just saw our roles and
our traditions differently.

Vernon Mason went
to Harlem went me

and helped me start
National Action Network,

an organization
on the principles

of Martin Luther King.

We must not reduce ourselves
to, "If you don't do it my way,

"you ain't right.

"If you ain't out here
with me, you ain't right."

Because all of us don't
need to be outside.

Somebody better be inside
helping us outside,

or we gonna be outside forever.

Mrs. Coretta Scott
King,

Martin Luther King's widow,
was the one that challenged me.

She says, "Al,
let me ask you,

why did you say 'so-and-so'
in this occasion?"

I will never bow down to one
of these chicken * * negroes

that y'all have elected
to one of these offices,

that have done nothing

but kiss * *
behinds all their life!

And I'm trying
to explain and justify--

I mean, it was almost
like I'm in a court

being a defense attorney.

And I'm half shocked that
Mrs. Coretta Scott King

knows about all this stuff
I did and said.

And then she says,

"Al, you realize that
words have power?"

So as we rebuild the family,

know that what you
put in Black children

is what will grow in them.

"So you oughta
be careful with that."

She says, "You can
either go for the crown

"that we talk about
in Christianity,

"or you can go for the crowd.

You gotta choose."

This is your life.

It's like a blank
piece of paper.

You can write on
it what you want,

or the world will
write on it for you.

You should write for yourself
the things that are positive

and powerful for you.

You don't give people
room to misinterpret,

because the cause is the bigger
than the applause you get.

The Reverend Al Sharpton says

he'll run for the
US Senate seat.

We must be concerned
about the agenda

that empowers our community.

And I had to learn
to discipline myself.

Amadou Diallo was
shot by four police officers

who fired 41 shots at him.

This is not the end.

This is the beginning.

We intend to
nationalize this fight.

I became more defined as in the
lane that I was born in.

It was not I had changed.

I had returned,
and that's who I was.

We are angry, but we are bright
enough and intelligent enough

to channel our anger
to get results!

The Reverend
Al Sharpton and others today

found justice not outside of
the system, but through it.

Please welcome

Democratic
presidential candidate

Reverend Al Sharpton!

There's
a difference between

making news and making history.

I think you gotta go
beyond your comfort zone.

A civil rights activist who now
hosts his own program on MSNBC--

Welcome to PoliticsNation.
I'm Al Sharpton.

In the '50s,
it was Emmitt Till.

Now it is Trayvon Martin.

This boy should be alive today!

The work we've done with

the Taskforce for
21st Century Policing,

that at times you've
participated in,

terrific recommendations.

Appreciate you, sir.
Thank you.

And Mrs. King was a
large part of that.

Developing now,

crowds are gathering
in the nation's capital

for a rally called
The Commitment March--

Get Your Knee Off Our Necks.

It also marks the
57th anniversary

of the March on Washington,

one of the most important
civil rights demonstrations

in our nation's history.

Joining us now, the organizer
of today's march on Washington,

my dear friend, the
Reverend Al Sharpton.

He is the President of the
National Action Network.

He also hosts MSNBC's
PoliticsNation.

I understand the anger,

but your anger should
be directed in a way

that you're going to deal
with what you're angry about.

You cannot let your anger make
you like what you're fighting.

Nobody's more angry than me.

I've been fighting these
issues for decades.

But am I angry enough
to channel my anger

toward what I'm angry about?

Or, am I gonna start being
like what I'm angry about,

reckless and violent?

97.6--you are good to go!

-Thank you.
-Of course.

-How are you doin', boss?
-Good, how are you?

Yesterday was crazy.

I was at that gathering
at the White House,

hoping that none of those
germs will kill us all.

You see how careful
we're trying to be.

It's crazy.

Nobody was tested.
It was just crazy.

We tested everybody, and
those that we had to let in

we tested in brackets
in the back.

Yeah.

Everybody's here?

The busses are in,
but they have to walk over

from Union Station.

Good to see you.
You all right?

-They treating you all right?
-Yeah.

If they don't take care
of you, you let me know.

No racist police.

Show me what
democracy looks like!

This is what
democracy looks like!

You slowly helped
some families to understand

that it's bigger than them,

and that their loved one
can be the Emmett Till,

can be the symbol,

then we can change it
for other families.

We can't bring 'em back.
I wish we could.

Reverend Sharpton,

What is your call to action?

We want to push the George
Floyd Policing and Justice bill

and the John Lewis voting bill.

They ought to go to
their senators, email them,

and say those bills must pass.

But we can make a
historic statement

if we just work together.

Anything you need, let us know.
All right? Anything.

I'm gonna give you my number
if you need anything.

You have to have somebody
that's been there with them,

they know what to talk about,

that's not coming in
with platitudes and all,

but they're coming
with real-life stuff.

And I've been there.

When I go up, have
Mr. Blake, Philonise Floyd,

Breonna's mother, and
Arbery's father standing,

ready to come down when I call.

I always questioned
when I was younger,

why did God let this happen?

To me, my father, my sister.

No justice!

No peace!

No justice!

No peace!

No justice!

No peace!

And I thought
about it later in life,

that if I hadn't
went through that,

I probably couldn't have
ministered to those families,

'cause I would've never
known that experience.

2020, we must deal
with police brutality.

2020, we must deal with those

that want to rob
our right to vote.

So I know what a
lot of those families I end up

later in life had to go
through, 'cause I was that kid.

And I didn't come to
shame 'em or use 'em.

I came to help 'em

and help the cause.

I bring you the brother
of George Floyd,

Philonise Floyd.

But you can't ignore
their needs to help the cause.

And I never talk about it,
won't talk about it now.

That's between me
and the families.

It's part of that vow I made.

I wish George were
here to see this right now.

That's who I'm marching for.

I'm marching for
George, for Breonna,

for Ahmaud, for Jacob,

for Michael Brown, Trayvon,

and anybody else who
lost their lives.

All to evil...

Sorry man.

Atatiana Jefferson!

Jemel Roberson!

Ahmaud Arbery!

Sylville Smith!

DeAndre Barber!

Terence Crutcher!

Trayvon Martin!

You need
some water, Rev?

Testing, one,
two, three, four.

-Say his name!
-George Floyd!

-Say his name!
-George Floyd!

This
is the first time

in the history of this state

that a white police officer
has been convicted of a murder.

This is the first time
in a long ray of fights

that we've seen three
counts guilty in all three.

We don't find pleasure in this.

The war and the
fight is not over.

Just two days from now,

we're going to have to
deal with the funeral of

Daunte Wright in this
same area.

Before we do anything,
we first wanna pray.

We believe in a God that can
even get through the cracks

of the jury room and bring
conscious and bring truth.

And that jury, we
wanna thank them

for letting God
give them the strength.

Wherever they are tonight,
we want them to know

we broke down in tears
when we heard the verdict.

We had to hold each
other and hug and tears,

because too many
nights we've cried,

many of us for decades,
spent nights in jail.

But today we can
wipe our tears away

and fight on for another day.

There's sunlight.

We're gonna keep going 'til we
bring it for the Eric Gardners

and the Breonna Taylors, whose
boyfriend is here tonight.

Kenny Walker.

Kenny Walker.

Sean Bell, so many that
did not get this night,

this night is for them.

Let us pray.

What about the meeting?

Are you satisfied with
what went on in there?

We asked the police
commissioner point blank

to suspend--
emphatically suspend

the officer in question.

And we got a lot
of runaround about that.

Dear God,
we thank you

for giving us the strength
to stand together.

Sometimes we would
question each other.

Sometimes we say this is just
gonna be a waste of time.

A young man was shot and his
murderer has not been punished.

And, I mean, you can talk
about long range, short range,

any kind of
investigations you want.

And Lord,
let George know

that his name is
going down in history.

And we give you the praise.

Thank you, and God,
we give you the glory.

These blessings we ask
in your name, amen.

Amen!

Amen!

You
have white policemen

policing the community that
have the same mentality

that this man has.

So, I mean, you're talking
about the grand jury

and an investigation, a
DA, means nothing to us.

The only thing that
means something to us

is direct action--

pull the white policeman out
and deal with that situation.

Reverend Alfred Sharpton,

chairman of the
National Youth Movement.

Reverend
Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton,

they lived to see this.

Their fight wasn't in vain.

It just didn't happen
when they did it.

But it happened now.

Let's make sure,
Reverend Al, that this moment

will be documented for
our children yet unborn

as they continue on
the journey to justice.

I never
thought I would see

a policeman convicted
on all three charges.

Movements need victories.

The George Floyd verdict
gave us that victory.

Congratulations.
Thank you so much.

When I
started at 18 years old

as a youth director for

Shirley Chisolm for President
in '72,

we never dreamed of a Black
woman being vice president.

When we would boycott
and picket

supermarkets and
stores in my teen years

in Operation Breadbasket,

it was not even in
the realm of fantasy

that we'd see Black CEOs
of Fortune 500 companies.

Don't tell me
things won't change.

I kept telling family after
family that we keep going,

at some point,
we'll break through.

I sat on the stage when a Black
man named Barack Hussein Obama

put his hand on Abraham Lincoln
and Martin Luther King's bible

and was sworn in president
of the United States.

I've seen too much change to
feel that nothing will change.

I've seen a lot of
things go backwards,

but I keep the change in my head
because the change I've seen

makes me know that if we keep
going, we can break through.

I want to use for a subject,
"No Justice, No Peace."

I want 50, 100 years from
now for somebody to say,

there was a time police used
to get way with brutality.

There was a time that they
gave a Voting Rights Act,

and it lasted 50 years,

and the Supreme Court
took the gut out of it.

And oh, there was a little
fat guy from Brooklyn

who dropped out of college.

When he got older,
he lost the weight.

He was on the front line
to help in all of that.

Nobody will care
what kind of apartment I have.

Nobody will care
how much money I made.

They'll care that
I was one of them.

Did those two or three
things in history.

That's all. That's all.

And when I see my mentors
in heaven, I can tell them...

I got some stuff done.

I wonder
if this moment feels different

on a legislative
and policy front.

I do.

We're dealing with a police
case in Columbus, Ohio.

Dealing with a shooting
in North Carolina.

We're dealing with
the killing here, Daunte.

If now is not the time,

I don't know when it
ever will be the time.

Reverend Al
Sharpton, thank you so much,

on a day like today, for
making some time to talk to us.

♪ There's a truth we
cannot stop facing ♪

♪ It is what it is ♪

♪ It is what it is ♪

♪ There's a hope
we will not stop chasing ♪

♪ Now til the end ♪

♪ Now til the end ♪

♪ Couldn't breathe ♪