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19921990s NEWS
News Events in and around New York City
May 2, 1992 - May 5, 1992
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Reel opens - zoom in on survelience camera hanging from ceiling
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Zoom in and out New Exterior New York City BBQ restaurant, checkerboard awning, peds walking by looking in
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Broken glass on sidewalk, parked bicycle can be seen, ped walking by stepping over glass
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wide shot exterior BBQ restaurant with broken glass large front window. Checkerboard storefront, pedestrian walking by looks at camera makes peace sign.
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Police car and ambulance, sirens on lights flashing, rushing down city street heading toward camera, evening
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Dozens of police officers wearing helmets, crowds of people, man carrying red flag, all rushing in one direction down city street, taxis, congestion
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close up shattered glass windshield
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zoom out broken windshield on yellow taxi, wide shot street - police van (rear), transit police, Black man looking back at camera flashes peace sign, people and vehicles all headed in one direction toward crime scene
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taxi driver leaning on door of yellow cab with shattered rear windshield.
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Close up hands holding up poster reads, "Stop Police Brutality from Los Angeles to New York"
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wide shot black man in middle of the street holding up "stop police brutality" poster
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Night time, large group of police lined up dressed in riot gear, ready for action as protestors holding "Stop police brutality" sign and screaming "peace and justice" "revolution", "America", etc.
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close up on crowd of rowdy protestors, yelling, chanting - man ripping American flag in half as protestors chant "burn it burn it"
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TV cameramen are seen, girl holds a boom. Police begin to move walking together as a group, holding shields. Rowdy crowd continues to rant, burn baby burn.
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Police lined up holding shields, crowd taunts them. CU on the face of a young police officer behind his shield.
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Police are told to move forward. They move slowly toward crowd dispersing them. Crowd begins to break up walking down the streets. MOtorcycle police are in their midst.
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Perazzo Funeral Homealarm going off as peds and cops walk by. Window on the building is shattered.
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Dark footage police arresting someone who is lying on the ground. Police surround the man, then pull him up off ground, he is wearing handcuffs. They walk away with the arrested man, and cameramen are seen filming the action.
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A car upside down on the street. A man is seen painting something on the overturned vehicle he then walks away. CU reveals graffiti on car door of overturned car, shattered glass from the windows on the street. Police officers run toward the vehicle and look inside to check for any victims.
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CU graffiti written on back end of car "...Fuck Cops!"
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Cops grab a gal, she struggles, they let go and she moves on. Lots of screaming and shouting, chaos ensues. People still shouting and angry.
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A Black guy (young man about 25-30)wearing a white button down shirt with a few blood stains taunts police, cameras filming the action. Police stand back then move forward surrounding the young man, he moves back into the crowd, police follow.
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A young white woman approaches group of policemen screaming at them about how they shoved her friend's face in the ground and took him away. She demands to know where he is. Her friends lead her away.
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Two Asian men with a drill appear to be repairing the door on their restaurant. Red sign above storefront, "China Town" and a poster for BBQ Chicken in window. The sidwalk in front of the restaurant ins littered with trash and broken glass.
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CU of trash all over the ground next to a lone red chair, paper items, cups, various trash.
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A wooden stand or wooden 'horse' with the words, New Rochelle, appears stuck halfway in and out of a broken glass storefront window. Pan left to other storefronts.
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Ws Rochelle Auto Parts store with a wooden stand stuck in the broken window, apparently someone threw it into the window purposely to break it. CU on the shattered glass.
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Pan out from shattered glass window to three windows on a brick building, two appear to be broken.
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LS of the street, crowd in the distance, and New Rochelle Police van parked.
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Pan across street to broken windows. CU pan in then out on the brick building.
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Nighttime large group of policemen are seenin the street wearing helmets, holding rifles, ready for action.
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Street signs: North Av and Winthrop
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Police take instruction from officer in charge. He states, "what we're gonna do is we're gettin' in, we're taking them out, and we're leaving, we are getting out, we're getting the people and we're getting out..." Police then move slowly following the man down the street. A crowd of people are seen in the distance.
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The crowd of people starts running and moving away. Jumpy camera. Dark footage.
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Parked car with broken rear window.
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Shattered glass windows and door of a store, chairs piled up inside store.
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African American Cop with his head all the way back being treated by a medic in the back of a medical van. He gets up and squints.
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Sign with phone numbers in window of double parked red'90's Cadillac for Enrico's.
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Two policemen appear to be writing a ticket . the 108 Precinct police car parked nearby. Pan in and out on the double parked car and police car. Nighttime.
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bloodstains on the street covered by a white sheet. Several shots of the blood, the car double parked and policemen
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Street signs: 44 St and Queens Midtown Expressway.
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Group of policemen wearing helmets taking instruction from man in charge, cameraman filming. Reverand Al Sharpton walks toward camera with a group of protesters carrying signs and chanting with fists in the air, "No Justice, No Peace".
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Var. crowd shots at the rally.
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CU Rev. Al Sharpton standing on a riser, wears a tee shirt that says, no justice no peace.
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Protester holds up poster that says, "When are th eGood Cops Going to Put the Bad Cops in Check?"
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Tilt down on huge protest crowd on New York City streets
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Line of police officers wearing helmets standing on guard ready for action.
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Protesters carrying hand made posters walk toward camera,partial NYC skyline in bkgd.
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Policemen arm in arm amidst the rowdy shouting crowd
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Broken, shattered windows on upper floor of a semi attached three story home or apartment building. Fire ladder extended up, firemen at the scene in the residential neighborhood.
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CU fire damage on side windows of home.
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Street signs above No Parking sign: William St and N. 14th St
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Pan away from the street signs to WS of the residential street, firemen at the scene, fire trucks, onlookers.
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CU Dead body wrapped in white sheet on the ground. Pan in and out from the body, police and detectives on the scene talk amongst themselves.
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CU large bullet hole in shattered car rear window.
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Another bullet hole in shattered car side window of same car.
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MS of the dead body in a white sheet on the street. Z'out to the corner where a police car is parked, and policemen are milling about.
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CSU vehicle parked at the scene.
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Detectives inspect a bright yellow van with a bullet hole in the hood. Z'in to CU of the bullet hole.
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CU large hole from bullet in shattered window of vehicle. Pan out reveals two shattered windows of a parked car.
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CU A bloodied foot pokes out of a white sheet stained with blood.
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Detectives and officials huddle in the middle of the street, pan back over to the bloodied dead body on the ground.
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43 Precinct police car
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Policeman with flashlight looks through rolling security gate. WS of graffiti on the iron gates of the store. Large yellow sing and yellow awning for the Stop! Meat Market.
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Shattered car rear window with a large bullet hole.
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Detective with camera tri pod, detectives and policeman inspect the covered store fronts walk right past the dead body on the ground covered in a white sheet and blood on the sidewalk. Graffiti all over the security gates.
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CU bullet holes are seen in the store window in between the iron security gating. Pan in and out of the R & B Variety Store.
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Medics secure the dead body onto a stretcher
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Reebok hi-top sneakers on the ground next to the body. Medics place the body in an ambulance.
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Street signs: Ward Av and Watson Av
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A hard hat worker wearing an orange vest and a policeman vigorously direct oncoming traffic on a highway. Orange cones line a lane on the highway.
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WS of the highway, no traffic in either direction. Green highway overhead signs in the distance.
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A broom sweeps debris off steps, pan out to people sweeping dirt off the side of a highway
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CU the broom of a street cleaner swirling as the yellow street cleaning truck moves slowly along the street.
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Back of man's red tee shirt reads "Highways - Safety Quality Productivity TeamWork"
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CU Side door of yellow street cleaning truck reads, D.O.T Bureau of Highways, City of New York Highways emblem.
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Various shots of Department of New York Highway employees sweeping, raking, picking up trash and cleaning the streets.
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A small boy about 6 years old pitches in to help clean the streets.
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Two men with a woman in the middle pose with their rakes and brooms.
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CU a rman rakes up trash on side of the road. An older woman about 50 wearing an orange tee shirt and pants pitches in to help. Several shots of the folk cleaning up the sides of the road.
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Nighttime, several cops stand under a street light outside a brick building. Various dark shots, apartment buildings, police walk around the area and enter an apartment building, a helicopter is heard and hovers above.
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WS an F.D.N.Y. station wagon in the middle of the street, several firetrucks lined up at the curb in front of a row of apartment buildings.
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A fireman is seen peering out of a window of an apartment, no glass in the window. Pan out from him to street level where peds walk by firetrucks. A fireman climbs into one of the trucks.
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Fire ladder leans against a building, The Washington - Address numbers 106. Pan up the building to an open window with a fire escape.
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At street level firemen wheel an injured person wrapped in a white sheet and strapped onto a gurney to a waiting ambulance. The ambulance with lights flashing takes off down the street.
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More shots of the firemen on the street, firetrucks, and the building with windows blown out and with broken glass.
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Two older women bystanders linked arm in arm.
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