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bb. it's a little bit past 9 p.m. in new york. big crowds. diverse crowd. we're told overwhelmingly peaceful. spanning out from police headquarters earlier this evening. marched on to highways across
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the brooklyn bridge to the staten island ferry to the west side highway and in cities around the country. the images, they are remarkable. the motivation for all of it, one man's death. one grand jury's decision and all the larger issues. we look at the death of eric garner. legal, medical, societal. we begin though out on the streets. i want to go to deborah feyerick who is standing by. deborah, where are you and what are you seeing? >> reporter: so, anderson, we're walking up 7th avenue now in the direction of madison square garden. it's very interesting. it feels a lot different than it did last night because what police are doing is they're really trying to choke off the crowds much more quickly than they did yesterday. you can see everybody walking. this is what we experienced last night, the first night of the protests. but just before, they're trying to choke off the demonstrators, they got them off the west side highway and trying to get back on to the west side highway and
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there was a sense of urgency. all of these police cruisers at top speed started racing to try to cut them off. there was actually an accident with one of the vehicles crashing into another car. we can tell you, a police presence. they're staging in areas and trying to just rouse people away. they walk up 7th avenue. not sure where the end point is but they're walking and they're determined. >> in terms of the organization of this, are there, a lot of times in demonstrations you'll see organizers, people in different colored t-shirts or people with microphones or walkie-talkies with civilians. do you see that or, who's deciding where to go? >> reporter: it's interesting.
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there are a few leaders at the head of the demonstration. they're leading everybody, giving people cues to slow or keep going, to turn off. but also what's interesting is that the people that seem to be in charge of this, when they want to communicate a message, what they'll say is "mike check" and somebody will say, slow down at the head of the line and it filters back. there's that sense of organization. also, we know there's legal experts out here. so when people do get arrested, at least they've got recourse and as a matter of fact, we saw at least three people arrested just a little ways back. the police officers linking arms, holding this line and trying to divide the crowd as well, trying to disperse it. the crowd did separate and then came back together. this is their go. it's just slow traffic.
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you can see, anderson, as we walk towards madison square garden, the cars simply wait. some honk in support and some hold their hands out of the car windows. but they're patient and the crowd is mostly peaceful. so while it's a little bit overwhelming to have this many people descending on various cars, for the most part, everybody is just waiting patiently as the protesters make their way up 7th avenue. >> extremely difficult for protest organizers to organize the situation. we'll check in with deborah in a little bit. our brooke baldwin is in brooklyn having crossed over the brooklyn bridge. brooke, where are you now, the bark lee center in brooklyn? >> reporter: i am just stepping out of the picture because i want to make sure you see what happened in front of me. we're in the middle of atlantic
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avenue in brooklyn. i'm staring at the barkly center but you're staring at dozens of people carrying different cardboard coffins that represent the boroughs in new york. 11 names representing people killed by new york police. they have now in the last few seconds, they're staging what they call a die-in, representing eric garner, who died -- who was taken down by police on the sidewalk in staten island. it's just a bridge away from where i am, but you can see the flashing lights in the distance. police have been with us all along the way. but this entire crowd now has taken over atlantic avenue. all of the traffic, obviously, has stopped. and something else i just want to point out to you. there are three mothers, we finally caught up to the front
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of this march. there have been three mothers, each of whom have lost a son to police here in new york and they have been leading this. if you tried to get in front of them, you'd be stopped by a lot of the organizers. they just wanted to make sure the mothers led this and hundreds and hundreds of people. we have been marching for multiple miles tonight and multiple hours tonight. and it's quiet and they're going to stay this way for just a little while. anderson, back to you. >> let's listen in and look at the pictures for just a few seconds.
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in the midst of a major
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thoroughfare in the borough of brooklyn, silence on the streets as protesters lay in the streets. you see some makeshift coffins they've been carrying with the name of some that have been killed by police, killed in interactions with the police over the many years here in new york and elsewhere throughout the country. this is not just news in new york. protests in cities around the country tonight. washington, d.c. our athena jones is there standing by for us. athena, where are you? >> reporter: hi, anderson. we're right near the entrance of 395, a major artery who protesters shut down last night. we are passing the highway that's blocked by police cars tonight. this protest has been going on for more than five hours. they've covered more than five miles of the city walking around hitting major areas. justice department, city hall,
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the white house at one point. here they were talking about whether or not they'll shut down 395. just tell you, it's diverse people of all ages. i've seen some strollers. people with children, dogs out here. i even saw a blind man walking with the aid of a cane and a positive vibe. they feel like they're making a difference. this is what they need to do to bring attention to racial injustice and profiling, not just eric garner and tamir rice case. >> athena jones in washington. again, i want to go back to brooklyn. again, i just think the power of this silence is self-evident. let's just listen to the silence in the midst of brooklyn in the middle of the street with hundreds, if not thousands of people. let's listen.
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the power of protesters' voices, the power of tens of thousands of voices perhaps in this city tonight and elsewhere around the country. there, you're witnessing the power of silence as well. we're going to take a short break. we'll show you the scene in chicago when we come back. alright, so this tylenol arthritis lasts 8 hours but aleve can last 12 hours. and aleve is proven to work better on pain than tylenol arthritis. so why am i still thinking about this? how are ya? good. aleve. proven better on pain. right now, you can get a single line with 3 gigs for $65 a month. 3 gigs ... is that a lot? that's about ... 100 app downloads, 45 hours of streaming music, and 6 hours of video playing.
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a moment ago you saw brooklyn fall completely silence. silence among the protesters. in chicago, a sizable protest going on. our kim law is there. >> reporter: heard hands up, don't shoot. we are essentially walking through traffic. if you're familiar with the city of chicago, it's extraordinary as we weave among these vehicles. this is lake shore drive, it is a major, major road that is in between the lake and the city of chicago. you can see it's completely shut down right now as there are hundreds of protesters up on the easement between cars. one thing i'll tell you, anderson, is that a lot of people here are in the cars.
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let's take a look. people aren't really upset. you can hear what they're saying. and it's also a bit of cat and mouse with the police. there has been no plan. this is a group with no leader, it appears and they're just winding through the city streets trying to stay ahead of the police and trying to let the city know, anderson, they are here and they are growing. if you look at these faces, anderson, it is a very diverse group. it is a lot of people who i see are generally younger but then there are also older people in this crowd. it is quite extraordinary to see, anderson. >> it was all caught on video. the video was painful to watch.
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it was scrutinized because it shows minute by minute. . they waited for medical help to come and what did not happen once the emt got there. the short answer, they didn't seem to do much. it's hard to watch but important, we think, for you to see. so here is some of that video. ? pack up, let's go. >> please, try to give me some hands? >> got him on the floor. it's going to back up. now try to give after they harassed, slammed him down, nypd, you understand?
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it's going viral right now. viral right now. nypd arresting people for no reason. he didn't do anything at all. didn't want to step back, just beat him up, throw him to the ground. >> call an ambulance.
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>> we need an ems. >> ems. answer any questions. >> no pulse. >> sir? it's ems, come on. we're here to help, all right? we're here to help you. get you out of shock, all right?
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>> doing cpr? he's breathing? having to wait. >> so how does what we just saw in video compare with standard practice? forensic scientist and chair of the science department at john j. and sampson davis an emergency room physician. dr. davis, what do you see in
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that video? it appears once the emt arrives, checks pulse with her two fingers, talks to him as if he's conscious, but to me, certainly doesn't look conscious and doesn't look like any other -- anything is undertaken. >> the whole situation wasn't truly evaluated. had no history what was unfolded, why was he unconscious. when checked his pulse, they didn't check to see if he was really breathing or how adequate his breathing was. a simple way to do that is put her ear to his mouth and see if there's breath sounds or see if his chest is rising or going down. i'm noticing he wasn't really responsive at all. he was unconscious and if it was a pulse, was it a weak pulse? that all goes into evaluating the scenario. >> if somebody is breathing, you don't do cpr on them. but two passer byes, we need to
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give this person air but couldn't the emt given oxygen or something? what might she have done? >> the most basic emt are trained to have given oxygen. when you're advanced emt, can intu bait. given his history of asthma and he was constricted to breath sounds, starvation of oxygen to the brain and the heart and the lungs. >> in that video, he's already dying. >> i think so, yeah. >> cardiac arrest in the ambulance, but he's dying. >> cardiac arrest was secondary to lack of oxygen. he was starved of oxygen. he is dying and without being on the scene, it's tough to say. but he needed his airway controlled. incessant airway is something we can do. can have the sound in the chest where the asthma attack doesn't
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allow breath sounds. the stethoscope in the hospital, we can use clear breath sounds. >> they could have used a stethoscope to hear whether or not it's breathing. >> stethoscope, vital signs, blood pressure, heart rate. you do feel a pulse at a steady rhythm or abnormal rhythm? what we call abnormal rhythm. >> the cause of death according to the medical examiner was compression of the neck and the chest. >> insofar as the chest is concerned, the way a person normally breathes is that the muscles of the diagram and intercostal muscles between the ribs help to elevate the chest and extend it that causes negative pressure to take in air in the lungs. if you compress the chest, it's called burking. you cannot breathe.
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you'll becomes s a fiasphyxiate. forget the folk -- choke hold. that will kill somebody. very dangerous. as far as chokeholds, there's different types. this could be the choke hold in which the airway was cut off. because of the asphyxia we're talking about, but whether or not there was damage to the airway, he said "i can't breathe." that means if the airway was damaged, it certainly wasn't completely obstructed but it seems to me that the choke hold actually cut off the circulation in the jugular and carotid artery and vein that caused the brain brain. >> the video, the new angle we see on it, the one we were just showing, his head doesn't seem to be supported. it just seems to be sort of off
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to the side. when he was lifted into the stretcher, i have the doesn't seem like it's supporting. >> that's another part of the compromise to his breathing. his head was turned and force placed on his neck, chest, all prevent air from entering in a restrictive position. so when they turned him over, he had no muscle control at all because he wasn't conscious. at times, we often say your brain and heart can go four or five minutes max without oxygen. after that, irreversible states set in. even if you resuscitate after four or five minutes, they have a mental delay or some sort of a heart challenge resulting from starvation of oxygen. >> were you surprised to see the medical response here? >> i think given the situation, it's hard to say but at the same time, i don't know the emt level of training but i would have asked what happened.
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that's the first question you ask. no one took leadership. no one took ownership at that given moment. someone should have said, this is what happened and what we have here is an emergency. carried out accordingly, put him on the stretcher or take him to the hospital. >> too late. he's already dying. dr. davis, thank you. up next, the police tactics and holes we've heard about. we'll check back on some of the remarkable protests around the city and in other cities. this one, in washington, d.c. we'll be right back. to your worst cold symptoms plus chest congestion. oh, what a relief it is. here we go!
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moments ago tonight in brooklyn. silence on the streets of brooklyn among the protesters. let's just listen in on it.
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makeshift coffins they've been carrying through the streets of lower manhattan as well as now in brooklyn. brooke baldwin is with those protesters who are now on the move. brooke, what's going on? >> anderson, we have now after that incredibly poignant scene. i think you said it fast so many voices have spoken but about ten minutes ago, it was the power of silence in the middle of atlantic avenue. we've turned around. a couple members of new york police department heading up the back end of this protest as these marches continuing back towards manhattan it looks like. we're still in the middle of brooklyn. i want to echo what a lot of people have said tonight. the correspondents in the other crowds that it's been an incredibly useful turnout. although at the very front of this group this is hundreds of
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people deep, there were three mothers actually just interviewed off camera. one of the moms who lost her sons two and a half years ago and she's still frustrated because the officer, she said who shot and killed her son, was not indicted and she was helping lead this whole group. i asked her, what did she think of that moment seeing the card board coffins and what they call the die-in, everyone lying on the ground. she was so touched. she was incredibly emotional. just moving this way, anderson quickly, you can see cars. so you have police mixed in with marchers mixed in with traffic as this massive group is heading back towards manhattan. >> just an amazing scene. various groups of protesters throughout this city tonight. let's go to chris cuomo who is in manhattan. chris, we saw you last down by the staten island ferry terminal.
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where are you now? >> reporter: so now we're walking up the west side highway. this was a big gathering point last night but this time, the crowd is so big that, take a look, rick, show them how they have both sides of this stretch of the road shut down now. so traffic on both sides is shut down by the crowd and you were asking earlier how they organized. this is well organized. they were using an echo system. the staten island ferry there. one person say a couple of words and it would be echoed by people in circles around them so the message translated where to go and when to move out. it's a large pack and they move. one of the things that's remarkable is you have the solemnity of what was happening with the casket and that gesture but also a range of emotions here. there's a lot of diversity. it's not just in the numbers but
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what brought people here. we've been walking, you walk next to people for a long while and get to know them. these are not people from out of town. these are not just college kids who joined this. they're new yorkers, here from brooklyn. you say you know the garner family, so that's what brought you here tonight. >> he was my friend, his daughter and his son. . >> reporter: what does it mean to you that this many people showed up? >>. >> >> reporter: what do you think eric garner would have thought about this? >> he would have been proud of this because black people are adamant about change. he's a positive black man, he would have been with the movement. >> reporter: you know the big pushback in the situation, the cops came at, he didn't comply right away and that's why they
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had to do what they did. what do you say about him as a man and his disposition towards police? >> well, as far as i know, he would comply. he doesn't want to cause trouble. he has a family and trying to earn money to feed that family. so him causing problems to go down to jail and that is not his character. that's not in his repertoire. as you can see on the film, he's not resisting. tit for tat. we're not agreeing with that. >> reporter: growing up in the city, have you seen anything like this before? >> no, i haven't and i'm glad it's finally come to turns with sean bel and mattel, all the black men killed by nypd. it is a strong movement and so happy so many people came out. >> reporter: thank you for talking with me and sharing your story. we'll tell you what happens as
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it happens. >> chicago, kyung lah was on the iconic lake shore drive. kyung, where are you now? >> reporter: we're on lake shore drive. it's a different setting than it was. the scene even 15 minutes ago. these are i would say just looking with my eyes, i would say a couple hundred protesters have completely shut down one of the major roads in downtown chicago to stop protesters from moving north are the chicago police. you see these officers have some restraints. we don't know what's going to happen next. but this is standoff. i wouldn't describe it as tense. it's quiet but the standoff happening for just about three or four minutes. this crowd has a couple, maybe 300 or 400 people. if you look at the faces, they are predominantly young people.
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appear to be all local and very peaceful so far except for the fact that they have managed to shut down much of traffic here in downtown chicago. if you think of this as being one of the main arteries on a night where the chicago bears are playing, it's havoc as far as traffic. at one point, these were on the west side of chicago and trying to run on a freeway, the dan ryan freeway if you're familiar with chicago, an east/west freeway here and the police had to chase them off the freeway. now you can hear them chanting. >> let's listen for a second. >> we are one. >> we are one. >> we are one. >> we are one. >> we are one. >> we are one.
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>> is this the first time that police have actually stopped the forward movement of the protesters? >> reporter: not the first time tonight. they stopped when they tried to cross michigan avenue. and you'll hear in the crowd, go left and everyone will start heading left. thts the first time i've seen, i've been here at the front of the line it's been a complete standoff, if you will. we're really watching to see what happens. this is a very peaceful crowd and at some point though, the city is going to want to move them off the major roadway. people were honking their horns.
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in traffic, they didn't appear to be that upset. even though it's causing headaches. >> using the tactics in new york, even if police don't move the crowd along, the crowd may move off and turn in a different direction, continue to follow this demonstration in chicago. up next, we want to take a closer look at the choke hald that was used on eric garner, the tactic banned by the new york city police department. found out firsthand what it's like. police in new york banned the practice and banned it long ago.
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looking at protesters live on the west side highway part of a wave of protests around manhattan. in brooklyn there walking against traffic on the west side highway. just an extraordinary scene in
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this city. someone who lived here my entire life, i've never seen a night like this and this is the second night in a row of these kind of demonstrations, these fluid fast-moving demonstrations. multiple groups and they've only grown larger from last night. this crowd, number perhaps in the thousands, hard to get an accurate read at this point. brooklyn, chicago, washington, oakland, california, the nypd. we want to talk about the use of choke holds, which nypd banned. in spite of the ban, received 219 choke hold complaints between july 2013 and june 2014, the month before eric garner died. his death, obviously, refocused attention on the dangers of choke holds. up close, we want to show you what happens in a choke hold. >> reporter: the first thing i
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discovered is police aren't the only ones to use a choke hold. it's a martial arts move. matt shied is a black belt. there's only two styles. cut off the oxygen supply to the lungs or cut off the blood to the brain. matt is good enough to demonstrate both on me starting with the air supply choke. okay, that's simply pressing up the against the windpipe and cuts off your ability to talk. next step is blood flow. okay. that one creates a sensation of lightheadedness. you could definitely get the tunnel vision thing and much
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quicker. it is the last choke, the blood supplied choke is the safer of the two techniques because it's easier to restore blood flow than to get someone breathing again. phil got his hands around my neck. he's actually an attorney. >> what's that feel like? >> reporter: very difficult to talk or get a strong breath, yeah. also, a former beat cop in new york. different police departments use different chokes. there's no national standard. georgia's choke hold goes for the oxygen supply -- >> georgia exercises restraint that winds up with the person face up as opposed to face down to prevent this asphyxiation. >> reporter: it's increasing the
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danger. >> dragging him forward while this guy pulls him backward that adds more pressure against the windpipe. >> reporter: there's another problem with choking off oxygen. the ability to breathe with a response. >> the adrenaline body kicks in and the body tries to get air in the lungs. that can be misinterpreted by continued resistance. >> reporter: more force in a deadly escalation. i found choke holds can be extremely effective. but experts say get it wrong for a few seconds and the results can be tragic. like a taser or pepper spray, some departments see the choke hold a valued alternative, far safer they say than using a gun. martin savidge, cnn. >> cnn legal analyst former federal prosecutor jeffrey toobin. in determining, jeff, the grand
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jury determining the choke hold and stuff, does intent matter? whether the officer intended to use a choke hold or intended to compress? >> well, a choke hold is not illegal. a choke hold is against new york city police department policy but it's not a crime to use a choke hold. the issue before the grand jury was the unreasonable use of force. that's also a difficult term to define. but choke holds in and of themselves were not really the issue. >> there is a law against strangulation in the city that began as a domestic violence law. >> that's one of the many questions about this grand jury that we don't know the answer to. is what possibilities were presented to the grand jury. there are a lot of possible laws that were implicated here. strangulation, assault, manslaughter, involuntary manslaughter. it's not a straight up or down
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decision the grand jury could make. they could have chose a variety of criminal laws to charge any of the officers, which as we all know, charged none of them with anything. >> detective, to you, you don't see a choke hold there. >> like what we just saw here? no. i see the takedown. >> nevertheless, at some point, officer pantaleo, his arm is across the windpipe or cutting off blood supply around mr. garner's neck. >> well, that's what it looks like. yeah. >> that would be a choke hold whether intended. >> the choke hold, you've got to use both arms. you watch what he did? >> any compression of the windpipe is what they consider a choke hold. >> now, i -- i would take somebody down by the neck like this. if i was taking the gentleman down, i would not come from
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behind. i would from the side and brought him down and then you can lay down. okay? >> the difference between the approaching the carotid artery, approaching the windpipe, it seems awfully subtle and small given the fast-moving chaotic situation of an arrest. i mean, can police really make a distinction? you're just grabbing someone around the neck, aren't you? >> you basically are. but be careful too. i was very careful to not break the guy's neck. >> in a case like this where the person is moving quickly. >> and you saw here how easy it was to put a choke hold on somebody who's not fighting, just laying there. here, you've got a guy probably taller than you and back up and jump up to bring him down and he brought him back. now, was there pressure going back like he had said? looks like there was pressure on his throat. >> obviously, the homicide which was the medical examiner said based on compression of the neck
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and the chest. >> i want to see the rest of the autopsy report too. >> detective, good to have you on. jeffrey toobin as well. chicago pictures there on the right-hand side of the screen. we'll be right back with more protesters here in new york and around the country. we are not going to go to break. the scene in chicago. the first confrontation in chicago between police and protesters here. a short time ago, several minutes ago we saw basically, say silent standoff between police and protesters. kim, what happened here? what's going on? >> reporter: well, what happened is the police are frying to push the protesters off of lake shore
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drive. some of them did not want to go. you are seeing an officer really just trying to push us out of the way. and push the protesters. we'll step back over this way. you can see they're trying to push the protesters back over this fence. this is a chain-link fence. and we are trying to show you what it looks like. we are standing behind the police officers on lake shore drive. they're pushing the protesters off. >> kim, is this the same crowd that a short time ago >> reporter: we're trying, sir. we are frying trying to move as. >> let them through. let them through. let the guys through. >> reporter: yes, i can hear you, andersen. it is the same crowd. >> the same crowd. okay. there was a silent standoff several minutes ago. then you were saying the police moved in to try to push the crowd off the road? >> reporter: exactly. the standoff that you saw a short time ago was people
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turning around. that, that standoff you saw, people started turning around and walking south on lake shore drive. we got maybe 300, 400 yards. then police officers were met by another line. and then that line tried to basically squeeze the protesters right off lake shore drive. this scuffle that we are showing. want to make sure that we keep it in context with the entire night here in chicago. it has been overwhelmingly peaceful. the very first time we have seen any sort of physical interaction between the police officers and the protesters who said that they simply did not want to move. because of how -- basically, how this is happening. not really sure if there have been any people arrested. i haven't seen any people being arrested and coming out of the crowd. there certainly aren't any -- police cars here. this is interesting. they're using their -- police
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vehicles, their police bik vehicles -- their police bikes as a barricade. police officers are improvising. the protesters keep saying "this is our lake shore drive." that is one small group. simply did not want to comply with officers' requests. >> kim as we continue to look at your pictures. i want to bring in retired detective harry halk of the police department. you and i were talking before the break. i am a lifelong new yorker. in the police department since the 1970s. have you ever seen demonstrations like this. multiple crowd of people. moving somewhat at will throughout the city from a police standpoint. it's got to present huge challenges? >> definitely huge challenges. we are the police department that can handle this challenge head-on. but i have never seen anything like this at all. this is just amazing to me how -- how widespread this is
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here. in new york and country wide also. >> the fact that you have multiple groups. some times in the thousand. one right now, west side highway. one crossing over the brooklyn bridge. one down -- you know, elsewhere in city. it's extraordinary. >> it is. i am proud of my police department. >> for being able to respond. >> doing such a great job, responding to this. we virtual low have had no violence. there has been a couple arrests. but -- i'm really proud of the guys. the job that they're doing here. and these people have a right to do this. and i'm not too happy about them blocking the highways and the streets. the mayor says it is okay. let them do it. i am fine with it i guess. just extraordinary scene. looks like the crowd in chicago has turned. has begin to turn. times square there, now, i want to snow you the pictures in full.
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the scene in times square. again a silent -- well, some protesters, chanting there as well. let's listen into the scene. right now. let's take that. not chicago. times square. take that, the appropriate tests in chicago, off the screen -- take that. the protests in chicago. off the screen. let's take that -- i know, that's times square. let's listen into the sound of times square. that's the scene in times square. joining me cultural critic and writer, mikala angela davis. cornell, you are just joining us, just got into the city. what do you make of all the protests? >> it is really amazing. just left d.c. they were springing up
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spontaneously. after the decision, some of us were so fallen. then when people, this diverse group of people, gathering together. saying this is fundamentally unfair taking to the streets. it sort of reconfirms sort of our faith in our society and our values. if people take to the streets in protests in this divorce way wecwe have a chance to see change. >> mikala? >> we are seeing the american project at work. it is messy. it is difficult. it is full of diverse, like we are seeing what this really is. and, i was out after i left here last night. i, i joined the crowd. i happened to be in the mix of of students. mostly white. all chanting "black lives matter." that was an extraordinary moment. i have never seen a movement move like this.
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definitely feels like a movement. they were talking about this is what democracy looks like. that was one of their chance. you are getting to see. this is what america is going to look like. it is diverse. it is not, you know, there is not a white, male, christian, narrative that everyone conforms around. it is young. it is progressive. and this is, this is what it looks like. >> our system has got to catch of with it. >> though it seems or gaining, there was a lot of coordination. the imatter, i mean, black lives matter coordinators were actually talking to ooch othe i. you are watching strategic and feeling organic. i felt proud of the citizens. you know, there is pride in, you said you felt, pride in the police force. i felt proud of these citizens really exercising who they, who we are. and the world is watching. >> mikala angela davis. cornell belcher, and detective
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>> that does it for us. thank you for watching. our coverage continues now with "cnn tonight" and don lemon. >> on the move for a second night in a row. even greater number, outraged over the chokehold death of eric garner in new york city. the grand jury's decision not to indict officer daniel pantaleo. the outrage is spreading, here in new york city in chicago. we'll take you to all of them this evening. this is cnn tonight. i'm don lemon. as more and more take to the streets. america is facing tough questions about law and order, about black and white, and about our police and how we want them to do their jobs. we want to get into all of that tonight with our legal and police experts. so much to get to. first i want to get right out off to the middle of the streets now.

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