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Mcelmary broke that story in 1997 about abner louima. he was a young man, an immigrant from haiti, arrest bid police officers in brooklyn, beat nen their patrol car with night sticks and police radios. then he was taken to a police station house in brooklyn where officers violently raped him with a broken-off broom handle. he needed three rounds of surgery and two months of hospitalization to recover from his injuries. he was so grievously injured that the police did realize they had to take him to a nearby hospital. but they lied to the hospital about how it was that he became so hurt. a nurs...

We've got to start acting like it's everybody's problem. >> in terms of the hope for moving forward and literally hope being the operative word here. i feel like a lot of people are talking particularly around the eric garner case and the michael brown case about feeling hopeless, that everything is futile, that protest is essentially a way to exert feelings and exude feelings and let people see what your feelings are but it's not a way to get anything done. i feel -- i hear and i've been interviewing people and getting a lot of sense of hopelessness and futility. i mean, the call for the fede...

Department. because they're so terrible. but in the meantime, that is the cop who killed the 12-year-old boy. and this was cleveland today. and this is new york tonight. and this is washington, d.c. tonight. people in d.c. yelling tonight "if i can't breathe, you can't breathe." this is chicago tonight. and the protests tonight are about the death of eric garner in new york and the hope for justice in his case is that the federal government might step in where the local authorities would not. maybe the feds will. and maybe that will help. but as long as that is the solution, that's the only th...

That journalist, mike mcalary, and he learned the story from abner louima himself in his hospital bed. mike mc'llary wrote a story, "this is a story to stop the city." and the daily news put it on the front page and those torture cops as the daily news called them-u know what? they did end up going to prison. they went to federal prison. because they prosecuted those officers out of the u.s. attorney's office in new york. one of the prosecutors on that trial team was loretta lynch, who went on to be the u.s. attorney for the eastern district of new york, which is why she would also prosecute t...

Until they get an indictment in the death of eric garner. there is just as much anger out here tonight, just as much passion, but it's not that sort of wide variety of people that we saw last night in midtown manhattan. rachel? >> nbc news correspondent anne thompson out live right now on 14th street in downtown manhattan. anne, we'll be checking back in with you. i want to bring now to the conversation connie schultz, joining us from cleveland tonight. connie's a pulitzer prize-winning syndicated columnist. connie, it's really nice to see you again. thanks for being here. >> thanks for asking...