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After reaching an all-time peak in 1990, crime in New York City dropped dramatically through the rest of the 1990s. [117] New York City crime rates by 2014 were comparable to those of the early 1960s. [118] [119] Darrell Cabey fell into a coma after the shooting; he suffered irreversible brain damage and was paralyzed from the waist down. [120]
The underlying case, involving the shooting of four black teenagers on a New York subway, was "one of the most controversial cases in recent American history". [2]: 554–559 The shooting sparked a media frenzy, and Defendant Bernhard Goetz was both vilified and exalted in the press and in public opinion. [3]
Barry I. Slotnick (born 1939) is a New York City-based defense attorney. Slotnick is well-known for defending infamous Mafia crime boss, John Gotti [1] and New York City subway shooter, Bernhard Goetz. [2] Along with his son Stuart, he negotiated former First Lady, Melania Trump's pre-nuptial agreement with Donald Trump.
Meanwhile, civil rights leaders, including Rev. Al Sharpton, have compared the killing to the 1984 subway shooting of four Black men by Bernhard Goetz, a white man dubbed the “subway vigilante ...
On October 29, 1984, Eleanor Bumpurs was shot and killed by the New York City Police Department (NYPD). The police were present to enforce a city-ordered eviction of Bumpurs, an elderly and disabled African American woman, from her New York Housing Authority (NYCHA) public housing unit at 1551 University Avenue (Sedgwick Houses) in the Morris Heights neighborhood of the Bronx.
In 1996, he won a judgment of $43 million for Darrell Cabey against Bernhard Goetz in connection with the 1984 New York City Subway shooting. [22] Kuby also won nearly a million dollars for members of the Hells Angels motorcycle club who were wrongfully arrested by the New York City Police Department . [ 23 ]
New York Times article. All good. 9. New York Times article. All good. 23. Failed verification. The source states The judge kept this information from the jury presumably because he thought its risk of undue prejudice substantially outweighed its probative value. 26. Interview with Goetz. All good for uncontroversial material. 27. All good.
Bernhard Goetz shot four African-American men on a New York City Subway 2 train in Manhattan on December 22, 1984, when they approached him and tried to rob him. At his trial Goetz was acquitted of all charges except for carrying an unlicensed firearm.