Word: goetz
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...YORK--More than two years after Bernhard Goetz shot four young men on a subway, the question of whether he overreacted or read the situation clearly in thinking he was about to be mugged is being put to a jury...
...prosecution maintains Goetz panicked, and shot with an unlicensed .38-caliber handgun four youths who were only panhandling...
...Goetz's lawyers counter that the threat was real and that Goetz, badly beaten in a previous mugging, realized he was in danger and did what...
...Goetz, 39, is charged with attempted murder, reckless endangerment, assault and illegal possession of a dangerous weapon in the shooting of Troy Canty, Barry Allen, James Ramseur and Darrel Cabey on December...
...Washington, as elsewhere, downtown shopkeepers lock their doors and refuse to buzz them in, provoking an agonizing debate about whether such actions are justified. In New York City, conflicted emotions simmer to the surface when the subject turns to Bernhard Goetz and the shots he fired at four young blacks aboard a Manhattan subway train. A nation that would like to believe it can shun stereotypes, that cherishes the ideals of equality and brotherhood, continues to be haunted by the plight of a segment of its citizenry that remains mired in a seemingly intractable dilemma of race and poverty...