In 1984, a subway straphanger named Bernhard Goetz shot four Black teenagers who he said were trying to mug him. The city was reminded of the case in May after Jordan Neely was placed in a fatal chokehold. Leon Neyfakh, podcast host and producer, joined NY1's Errol Louis on the latest "You Decide" podcast to look at the Goetz story and how he thinks the killing of Neely indicates how little has changed in four decades. https://ny1.com/nyc/all-boroughs/news/2023/08/23/leon-neyfakh-telling-the-sto

On December 22, 1984 Bernhard Goetz, aka "The Subway Vigilante," took the law into his own hands when he fired a gun on four teens riding the Manhattan subway. For more NBC News flashbacks visit: http://www.nbcnews.com/feature/flashback | NBC News

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