See more of our coverage in your search results. He may be a pot dealer now, but “subway vigilante” Bernhard Goetz insists he was definitely not stoned when he opened fire on four teens three decades ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In 1984, Bernhard Goetz opened fire on four Black men on the New York City subway. He was charged with attempted murder, assault, ...
Crime isn’t what it was in the 1980s. But a new podcast about the Bernhard Goetz subway shootings suggests that even then, the fear of crime outpaced reality. By Ginia Bellafante Ginia Bellafante ...
In his book "Five Bullets," Elliot Williams, attorney and highly regarded CNN legal analyst, revisits the case of “Subway Vigilante” Bernhard Goetz. On the night of December 22, 1984, Goetz fired an ...
The New York Daily News front page from Dec. 23, 1984 Regardless of the grand jury’s decision, America’s response to the shooting of an unarmed black teen by a white police officer in Ferguson, Mo., ...
It took nine days for Bernhard Goetz, then a 37-year-old electronics specialist, to turn himself in after he shot and injured four young Black men on Dec. 22, 1984, in a New York City subway car.