in the bensonhurst section of brooklyn. he was going with some friends that wanted to look at a used car. and a crowd gets around them and say, "we don't allow the ns around here." and they surround him, and they kill him. a clear racial murder. - and ed koch immediately says, "wait a minute. don't prejudge." prejudge? they said, "well, we don't know if it was race. maybe it was a guy mad about his girlfriend." so i say, "okay, you don't know if it's race? we are going to come out here and march," 'cause i wanted to make it clear to the nation, this was about race. - over the weekend, civil rights leaders marched through bensonhurst, the all-white neighborhood where hawkins was killed. they wanted to show they could go anywhere. but they met pure hatred along the route. - go home! - [bleep]! - tell them to go home, back to east new york where they came from.