In December 1984, Bernhard Goetz shot four Black teenagers on a New York City subway after they approached him and asked for five dollars, igniting a national firestorm over race, crime, self-defense, and urban decay. Though no one died, one of the teens, Darryl Cabey, was paralyzed and s
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