Thirty years ago Thursday, a riot in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, tore the city apart. A cauldron of simmering racial tensions and polarizing politics grabbed the national spotlight and ripped the bandage off wounds that continue to fester. CBS2 political reporter Marcia Kramer takes a look back at how what then-mayor David Dinkins called the city's "gorgeous" mosaic" came apart.
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