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Usual -- the usual bunch of politicians coming on, though i'm glad to be with you talking about what needs to be done. you and everyone else here in parkland has heard from the kids of marjory stoneman douglas. the passion they have for effecting change is real. they are not prepared to simply let this go. they demand action. i saw on facebook the other day someone posted 17, tragically 17 lives were lost but beware of those who is live. they're going to change the world. that's what's different this time. and i believe it in my core. >> on that, i want to play you a little bit from a young ma...

There. thank you. now to the scene of the latest protest journal way right now in new york city. miguel is there. tell us where you are and what's going on. >> reporter: we are at fifth avenue headed north. the number of protesters here may be 500. they are staying on the sidewalk. let me give you an idea. let's go all the way up. we can give you an idea of how many protesters are here. they walked down fifth avenue to again with. this is shopping central this time of the year here. so they are sending a message that the system in general, not only the law enforcement and the justice system, t...

Sidewalk, keeping the protesters from going out in the street. the protesters have said they are going to stay off the street. they won't shut down traffic as they have in previous protests. wolf? >> miguel, what are they saying about killer cops over there? i see some of those signs referring to that phrase, killer cops. what is their message? >> reporter: the message tonight is that they are calling the system racist. they want change. they are calling the cops who have killed a black man racist. that the system itself is racist. a sort of institutional racism that they're sick of and they w...

And while i think they were across the line, they have a right to express their opinion. and this conversation may be difficult for many at this time. but it has to continue. at the end of the day, relationships between police and communities across the nation do need significant change and improvement. >> we're showing our viewers the live pictures coming in from the demonstrators on fifth avenue. the upper right-hand part of the screen. we're showing the memorial. the candlelight vigil where these two police officers were murdered on saturday, brutally executed, assassinated, whatever term y...

Make it about if you will, people with whom you do not agree with politically is an effort to score cheap political points. what the governor should be doing, the former governor should be doing, saying i want to be part of a conversation about change. not a conversation about whether this is about saying, i'll stand up for police officers and support their mission. which i do and many of us do. that doesn't mean that police officers are beyond criticism. or if as an institution, law enforcement cannot be asked, cannot be forced to change some of its practices. we can have both conversations. ...