Mardi Gras 78'er Robert Harvey says we cannot become complacent

WATCH: It has been 46 years since Robert Harvey stepped out onto Oxford Street for the first Mardi Gras.

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00:00 A permit to march from Tyler Square down to Oxford Street and that was it.

00:06 And the police came out later on and they're really pushing us down Oxford Street because

00:11 they want it over and done with.

00:13 They're very aggressive and very pushy.

00:16 And we're marching along the street and we're trying to get other people out of the bars

00:20 and into the streets, out of the bars and into the streets.

00:24 Stop police attacks on gays, women and blacks.

00:27 And we got some people out of the bars and into the streets.

00:31 Not all, but some of them.

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