mr. lightfoot, thank you for joining us.t rochester police officers mistreated you and that was back in may. you say you were intervening when a young african-american male was getting arrested outside your barber shop, and we have the surveillance video to show you. this is the surveillance video of what happened. officers charged you on this day with disorderly conduct, obstructing governmental administration and driving while intoxicated. then you cut a deal pleading to d dui. you said you did that to save your firefighter job. explain that to me. >> yes, first of all, i thank god for being able to be here with you. i want to say there were two more charges. this was a charge of obscene language and failure to blow in a breathalyzer, so there were five charges that i was charged with. four got dropped in the plea. basically i took the plea because i couldn't afford to go to trial like many people in my community. and also because of my job, if i was convicted of obstruction of government administration, i would have been

mr. lightfoot, but you dropped your complaint against the police.nt 0 make my complaint about three or four days after the incident happened, i was sitting giving my complaint, the person i was giving my complaint to was in constant defense of the individual officers. i didn't feel confident in their internal process. >> since it began, police behavior has gotten better because people are watching officers more closely or has it gotten worse because officers are angry now. >> which is it? >> i'm getting numerous calls from constituents in my community and people in the neighborhood, especially an gistent to that i represent. many people are saying they're constantly being harassed. when i say harassed, i believe that the way that the police department treats african-americans m this community supposed to caucasians is a different approach. they're much more aggressive than they are when they're approaching a caucasian resident supposed to an african-american resident. and so i'm hearing nothing but complaints from people in the city. >> okay, so mr.

mr. lightfoot, that was the reason that emily good said she recorded the video in her front yard.out racial profiling and police harassment. do you believe that this is a systematic problem with rochester police? >> absolutely. i believe that. i was a victim of that myself. i was driven around for four hours. when i asked to go to the bathroom i was told to urinate on myself. i was never told why i was arresteded. i was treated like a common criminal and thug. >> thanks to willie lightfoot. when we asked about his arrest police didn't want to make further comment about it. the police chief and rochester's mayor declined our interview requests. >>> the middle of the country will be feeling the heat in the coming days. jesus christ joins us from the severe weather center. it's hot. >> it's dangerously hot and this will carry into the work week. we are not talking relief until probably thursday. heat advisories from minnesota down to the south. that bright pink is excessive heat warnings. unfortunately, we are going to see little change in this. it will be feeling like 100 to 115 deg