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Of diversity on the police department. look, the folks who are protesting, it's impossible or difficult in some cases to say who exactly they are. and this is something that, this is a problem i think the mayor did walk into. which is that on any given march, if you look at the signs, some of them are hard-core communist who is have been protesting and saying the same things for 30 or 40 years, literally. in other cases they're kids who are just spontaneously decided to walk out of their classroom and stage a protest. what they want, what they believe, what they're saying about the nypd -- it ...

Things, last night it sounded like there was yet a new slogan. they were saying how do you spell racist, n-y-p-d. here is what the former mayor of new york, rudy giuliani, said in response to that chant. listen to this on cnn. >> this new york police department is not an all-white police department. in fact, it's not even majority white police department. i think. this is a very, very diverse police department. hispanic and chinese in this particular case, americans. so this kind of thing has been suggested about racism. within the new york city police department -- it's really an outrageous l...

Sergeant there. and in the confusion of the moment they would have known he was having that type of heart attack or that type of disturbance you would not expect every cop to know that. it's all a matter of minutes we're talking about. we're talking about a person resisting arrest. as i said, 99 of 100 times would have gone fine. i'm not saying he deserved to die. he didn't. but to somehow say maybe it's negligence but to say it's manslaughter the ems person didn't give emergency care quickly enough. certainly they didn't do it on person. again, an african-american sergeant the whole time. >> ...

Rowdy. how are the police supposed to control this? people are shouting in their faces. most of these police officers are men and women who join the force just to protect the communities. and they're getting shouted in their faces as though they're all racist. and in some cases getting attacked. >> you know, it's supposed to be peaceful protests. the civil rights leaders out there today, they should be curing this. they should be calling for peaceful protest. they're not doing that. they're inciting it. >> they are calling for it, but out of the other side of their mouths they're calling the p...