becoming a national entity and i wanted to find out what you know just what people were thinking and sharifa nicole my producers could do send nicole salazar went back to the t.v. studios to digitize tape as i was interviewing people on the convention floor i got a call from our senior producer saying come quickly to seventh in jackson and st paul because nicole injury couldn't rest and they've been bloodied and you should get here quickly i raced off the convention floor my credentials around my neck with our cameraman that i was working with that day the great filmmaker rick reilly of big noise films we raced down the streets of st paul got to this big parking lot the riot police had surrounded the area fully contained and i went up to them i was just sort of running along the line to find an officer that i could ask. to get a commanding officer and that's just what i did that was the second of the images you saw i ran up to the officer and i said please i'd like to speak to your commanding officer you can see i just came from the convention floor i'm a credentialed journalist i need to get my re

just announced a final settlement in your federal lawsuit in your case along with your producers sharifa nicole against the city of minneapolis and the police there and i'd like to show our viewers as a set up here just a short clip of that very violent arrest. in . how no one. knew it was my daughters that. was. really. going to. be right there. because ross speaking to us today. i still remember when he came into the r. and c. radio row after that event you were pretty pretty shaken up physically and can you tell our listeners what happened and why. that's right tom in fact your show is one of the first shows entered views that we did that was actually september first two thousand and eight it was labor day the first day of the republican convention we just come from denver from the democratic convention flown into the twin cities in the morning there was a massive peace march from the st paul city hall to the excel center where the convention would be later that day ten thousand people marched led by soldiers and full military regalia some it served some were resisting and of course thousand