then you have those stragglers. how is it there for you now? reporter: this evening it does appear that so far the situation, this protest has been peaceful. there are tens of thousands of people out on the streets. the police headquarters just behind me, the legislative counsel, the office of the people s liberation arm, the army of mainland china. so far the protests have been peaceful. there is a desire among protesters we spoke to that they can protest peacefully, that after several weeks of protests that began peacefully, proceeded by and large peacefully but ended with violence against police stations, with the police in general. so far, so good. now, many of the protesters we spoke to had seen that not very subtle video coming from mainland china of the riot
happened in the last two months in this country, do you remember racial tensions ever being this high? never. you had two incidents that were not racial, you know what no, but answer the question. take it back to the 70s. back to the 60s and 70s. the black liberation arm, black panther party, flan were completely anti-police. all anti-police. but then it stopped after that. right. we had a great city here with bloomberg a great city. when the commissioner was here, a great city. they did a great job. you know, look at the, dissect these groups. 32 bj. you have the sec. talking about the union? talking about the demonstrators. these were the supporters that got the voters out for de blasio. the one guy who was charged excuse me, charged with assault of a lieutenant last saturday is the organizer of the city s largest union, and he s an occupy wall street