00:01On May 13, 1985, years of conflict between the city of Philadelphia and a small urban group known as MOVE
00:08ended in a violent, day-long encounter.
00:11It was one of the most devastating days in the modern history of this city.
00:17The big stories tonight is the effort to evict MOVE.
00:20The effort has turned into a disaster.
00:25Can you describe the philosophy of MOVE?
00:28We were being taught about the corruption in this system.
00:31The system, the establishment, you.
00:33Did you consider the MOVE organization to be a terrorist group?
00:36People who threaten to shoot and kill neighbors, police.
00:38I think that's a pretty adequate description of the word terrorist.
00:41Where is it written that we could not have a religion of our own?
00:45This system had one intention, to either kill MOVE people or to put us in prison as long as possible.
00:52It's just that simple.
00:53More than three dozen Philadelphia policemen surrounded the building
00:56after a MOVE member was spotted on the roof wearing a hooded mask and carrying a shotgun.
01:00We intend to seize control of the house.
01:03We will do it by any means necessary.
01:05Every one of us knew that someone was going to die.
01:09Did you have a concern that the people inside that house might be in physical danger?
01:14Excuse me.
01:15Yes, ma'am.
01:15To ask me what we're concerned is complete insanity.
01:22There has just been a huge explosion here.
01:25We don't know what it means, but it just shook the whole place.
01:27It was a huge blast.
01:35Did it ever occur to you that this might have been a dangerous device?
01:39Yes, ma'am.
01:59There's no one that I know in city government that would intentionally go out there to burn
02:02those people to death.
02:03There's no one that I know of could do that.
02:09I remember as soon as I scooped them up, he said to me, don't shoot me, don't shoot me.
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