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New yorks confrontational advocacy group, actup, are looking for new ways to get the message across. >> as we got into the 90s, the number of our friends within actup dying was just escalating and we were really getting tired of metaphors. and a lot of people were using rhetoric, when i die, throw my body over the white house fence. >> in 1992, with the presidential election looming, actups activists seized the opportunity to put aids research on the national agenda. >> actup began a year-long c...

Much eggnog. they are not just drinking eggnog. they were all over the city yesterday. >> civil libertarians were fighting back to shut the whole thing down. saying you have to clean your act up. so they were nicer yesterday. >> eggnog is potent, by the way. residents are cleaning up after a pineapple express storm slams california. camarillo springs was destroyed by a rare mudslide. >> and a rare tornado ripped off several roofs and knocked down trees in southern los angeles. >> rick mireichm...

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 cause for concern. >> we discovered inmate gomes tied multiple shoelaces around his shower head. inmate gomes has done this in the past to not only use the shoe laces...

He recently had a cup of urine confiscated from his cell. he says he was going to throw it at a particular officer, but an even more sinister concoction. >> i was planning on making a special remedy we used to do back in the old days called funky cold medina. its kind of like skunk juice. its made out of some really nasty parts, urine, feces, peanut butter and sour milk. and we mix it together until its liquid. if you hit anybody with this, they aint coming, theyre not going to want to go home, ...

Child. one, over $20,000. one slightly over $2,000. theres a financial motive. then, we get into the sexting issues. why would that be relevant? well, its relevant because the claim will be, that his marriage was falling apart, he was having relationships with other women, and he was looking to become child free. so weve got a lot of evidence there of why he would commit such a horrific act. he then proceeds to set the act up, to make it look accidental. and so he sets up this whole scenario, wh...

Rhetoric, when i die, throw my body over the white house fence. >> in 1992, with the presidential election looming, actups activists seized the opportunity to put aids research on the national agenda. >> actup began a year-long campaign called campaign 92: aids, vote if your life depended on it. >> on october 11th, three weeks before the election, thousands of actup members come to washington to perform a solemn protest. >> no more -- >> they coincided with the aids memorial quilt being unfurled...

News organizations. planning to disrupt their live broadcasts. they succeed at cbs. >> good evening. were going to take a break for a commercial just now. >> we knew that cameras were going to cut off as soon as they could. so we didnt know whether we were going to get one word out, two words out, or a whole sentence. so we came up with "fight aids, not arabs, act up, act back, fight aids." >> the next day, actups planned demonstrations wreak havoc on the city. the plan for the end of the day is...

Citys gay and lesbian community and its supporters. the demonstrators are from a defiant political action group called actup, the aids coalition to unleash power. actups co-founder, sawyer, was diagnosed with hiv in 1984. >> one thing we realized writing letters or articles to the editor about the health crises wasnt getting the publics attention and decided we really had to disrupt people in their daily lives the way aids was disrupting our daily lives. >> the crisis began in 1981 when a myster...

>> actups success at not only defying authority, but creating revolutionary results, was the fact that we didnt simply get angry and shout in the streets. >> we did change the way the media talked about aids. we demanded the right to be able to live. and we fought like hell for action to happen to save our lives. coming up, a journalist puts his life in jeopardy to report from one of the most dangerous places on earth. when "caught on camera: defiance" continues. [ girl ] my mom, she makes und...

Aids deaths skyrocket. by 1991, the number of people infected with hiv reaches 1 million. and theres still no effective drug treatment in sight. >> almost in step with the way the epidemic was exploding, the turnout to act up exploded. first it was a few dozen people planning, and then a thousand people or more showing up at a meeting. >> in january, 1991, around the 10-year anniversary of the epidemic, actup mounts a major coordinated protest, hoping to attract maximum media coverage. they call...