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...then in the midst of a bitter mayoral campaign pitting three-term incumbent Edward I. Koch against a black challenger, Manhattan Borough President David Dinkins, came the murder of Yusuf Hawkins. He was a 16-year- old black who with a group of friends ventured into the tightly knit, mostly Italian Bensonhurst section of Brooklyn to inspect a used car. They were set upon by a gang of whites armed with baseball bats and a gun. When the melee was over, Hawkins lay dead with two bullet wounds in his chest...
...pointing at the jurors, shouted, "He did it! He did it!" As night fell on Friday, crowds of angry blacks milled about in Brooklyn, disrupting traffic and throwing rocks and bottles. Fires, possibly ignited by arsonists, erupted in the Bedford-Stuyvesant and East New York sections of the borough, and a few whites, including several newsmen, were attacked but suffered only minor injuries...
Professor of Afro-American Studies Emeritus Ewart Guinier, who started the Afro-Am Department in 1969, was also a trade unionist and the first Black to run for Manhattan Borough President...
Except for his race, the former Manhattan borough president was hardly a bold choice for a city accustomed to setting trends. Courtly, cautious and unfailingly polite, Dinkins, 62, is a classic clubhouse politician who spent 35 years loyally trudging up the Democratic Party ladder while more dynamic black leaders overshadowed him. Seemingly content to forge a career based more on amiability than activism, he had never displayed the ruthless ambition and toughness most New Yorkers thought it took to reach the top. Says his old friend and former Deputy Mayor Basil Patterson: "David was always showing...
...Manhattan Borough president did not disappoint his backers. Running through his list of personal, national and local gratitude, he stopped to mention "that man of towering talent who touched the face of history--the Rev. Jesse Jackson...