Word: goetz
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...incidents to focus the story. One was the brutal murder in Chicago last year of a black high school basketball star, Ben Wilson, by two youths who seemed to have no motive at all. The other was the incredible burst of support from black New Yorkers for Bernhard Goetz, the white subway vigilante. He was a lightning rod for the fears that many blacks have of their own violent young...
...have to call Goetz a 98-lb weakling? Up against four strapping teenagers, most of us would look like weaklings. Premeditated self-defense is a perfectly rational response when one is confronted with four strong, savage, conscienceless youths. Laura Callahan Busch Chesterfield...
...feel sorry for Goetz. And I do not feel any safer knowing that I may be sharing a subway car with a copycat vigilante inspired by Goetz. Marian H. Neudel Chicago...
...point is overlooked. Goetz felt responsible enough to turn himself in. I doubt that such a move ever crossed the minds of his victims. Stan Jonutis Worcester, Mass...
Conditions in our society brought Goetz to the edge. If anyone deserves to sit in jail, it is the politicians and judges who let crime get out of hand. Larry Zawilenski Chicago Seething South Africa...