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>> act out was started by larry kramer in new york city. after that chapters began to spring up around the country. >> the militant group act up gained increasing influence on aids policy. weekly meetings of the new york chapter attract hundreds, mostly young, mostly gay. >> i realized i only had a year or two more to live probably so why not go out with a bang. so i quit my job on wall street and became a full time activist. >> lets do a demonstration and keep it there. >> we had so many angry ...

>> this is a major day of protest by aids activists in this country. 1,000 of them converging on national institutes of health, demanding more research on the disease. >> they started to become confrontational. >> why are you saying this, i am a physician, trying to save your lives. it was that kind of confrontation had me say time out. >> demonstrators blocked police cars, tried to break into the lead biomedical research agency. >> the police were about to arrest a whole bunch of them. i said d...

Notice. >> the president-elect is pretty good at using twitter to distract people from the really big issues that are happening. he can do a tweet saying that 3 million americans are felons because they were doing -- not doing -- they were voting illegally at the same time as all the trump university settlement was announced. i think that was the same time. hes very good at getting people to pay attention to the relatively little th things hes doing when we see these interest groups sell out ame...

This is the first test, the first example. i hope he cleans his act up and pays for attention to this and puts heat on mcconnell and ryan to do the right thing. weve got this case where the mine workers in ohio -- around the country, more than 12,000 mine workers because of one guy, mitch mcconnell -- were trying to get trump involved. he wont get involved. and a whole bunch of thousands of workers, retirees and widows are unfortunately going to face christmas with their health care cut off. >> ...

See, thats how jail works. if youre good to people, people are good to you. if you act like an [ bleep ] -- >> over the last seven to ten days were starting to see his behavior change because weve been giving him less attention. weve kind of been having just one or two people deal with him for the most part, as opposed to when he acts up, everybody shows up to include myself, sergeants, corporals. so what weve done is we started to kind of trim those numbers down so when he does act up, we just ...

>> so many people in act up, came from arts, marketing, they sold aids activism like you sell the newest madonna album and knew how to do it because they sold the newest madonna album, knew how to make the drama necessary to promulgate it in the minds of america. they figured out that the best way to get the government to do the right thing was to become smarter than the government. to learn more about drugs than the doctors who were advising the public health officials and then to shame the fed...

200,000 gay rights activists, including buses filled with victims of aids, brought their campaign for equal rights brought their campaign to the nations capitol today. >> how many must die for this administration to wake up? >> this huge march on washington, act up went there in force. we had a huge impact in the march. but then we were hearing about this project, this quilt project. >> this huge quilt that today is being spread out on the capitol mall in washington, as 2,000 panels, every one c...

Kramer in new york city, and soon after chapters began to spring up around the country. >> the militant group act up gained increasing influence on aids policy. weekly meetings of the new york chapter attract hundreds, mostly young, mostly gay. >> i realized i only had a year or two more to live probably so why not go out with a bang. so i quit my job on wall street and became a full time activist. lets do a big demonstration there and keep it there. >> we had so many angry young men who had los...

Protest by aids activists in this country. 1,000 of them converging on national institutes of health, demanding more research on the disease. >> they started to become confrontational. signs up, you are killing us. why are you saying this, i am a physician, trying to save your lives. it was that kind of confrontation had me say time out. >> demonstrators blocked police cars, tried to break into the lead biomedical research agency. >> the police were about to arrest a whole bunch of them. i said ...

Comes out of there. >> as you just documented on camera, he stated wait until he [ bleep ] comes out of there so well have to take him out of the chair eventually. he still continues to make threats and [ bleep ] act up and violate the rules of the department. >> lieutenant medeiros has a problem with me. >> you tell him. >> hes a [ bleep ] [ bleep ]. >> with gomes safely restrained, deputies conduct a search of his cell, checking for weapons or other contraband. it isnt long before they find ca...