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The united stateswas looking for model communitieshere, in america that they couldpresent as models of democracy to therest of the world. so they came to teaneck. (music) reporter: this is teaneck,our hometown. these pictures have been shownthroughout the world to demonstrate,to people everywhere, a fine example of americandemocracy in action, (music) gervonn: my grandfather ownedhis own business, in jersey city, and i previouslyhave been in new york, butwanted something more suburban,and teaneck, even in the late50s was a safe place where blackfamilies could buy homes. walter fields: the fact...

Of- of information. people wanted to know exactly, you know, what was going on? and i don't thinkthey were getting it. paul ostrow: we can't lookaway from the fact that people were upset and angry and that might have been festering. mike kelly: this wasa town that built itself as a modelamerican community. and yet underneathall of that, you had a segmentof the town that felt angry. walter fields: we never wantto talk about the ugliness, that is rightbelow the surface. reporter: as angryresidents, i hear, say the shootingis another example of rising tensions betweenblack youth in teaneck and th...

I was with the police chief. and we were insidethe council chambers of teaneck and things started to get raucous outside. (protestors chanting"justice now, justice now.) for some reason ididn't feel right. i started to walkaway and as i walked away i heard a lot ofshouting and screaming. (crowd shouting) steven: people were leaving, and all of a sudden policecame out with shields. natacha: and i waslike telling them, we have a permit to march downthe street to where phillip was killed and the policewouldn't let us go. walter fields:police from almost every community in bergen county arrived in...

The killing of a Black teen by a white police officer sent shock waves through the town of Teaneck in 1990. Now a MSNBC documentary looks back.

And Ruben Gallego unloads.