Elliot Williams revisits the subway vigilante, the 1984 New York City subway shooting involving Bernard Goetz.
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From Bernhard Goetz to Renee Good
Two books revisit the 1984 subway shooting and the “reasonable fear” defense.
In 1984, a shooting on a New York City subway thrust Bernie Goetz into the center of the national spotlight. After opening ...
Elliot Williams, a CNN legal analyst and frequent commentator for other outlets, wrote “Five Bullets” about the 1984 subway shooting.
The New York of the nineteen-eighties was, warily, a city in transition. The frightening “Taxi Driver” New York of the previous decade—steaming manholes, blackouts, riots—still hung over the town, but ...
Two new books return to the ’80s-era saga of Bernie Goetz to consider the 21st-century intersections of race, crime and sensationalism. By David Segal Bernie Goetz is still here. The white man who ...
Two new books trace an arc from the notorious Bernie Goetz case to the spread of vigilantism today. By Jennifer Szalai FEAR AND FURY: The Reagan Eighties, the Bernie Goetz Shootings, and the Rebirth ...
Without Trumpism, Democrats and anti–Donald Trump conservatives tell themselves, America can once again be the nation it ...
In Fear and Fury, historian Heather Ann Thompson revisits Bernhard Goetz's shooting of four Black teens — and explains how ...
The book was released Tuesday, Jan. 20, and Williams will be joined by Errol Louis at Greenlight Bookstore in Fort Greene on Feb. 11.
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