|
|
Article: New York Racial Tensions Run High Since Verdict in Howard Beach Case; Demonstrators, Alleging Pattern of Injustice, Take to Streets Today
- Article from:
- The Washington Post
- Article date:
- January 18, 1988
- Author:
CopyrightThis material is published under license from the Washington Post. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Washington Post. (Hide copyright information)
|
A gang of whites attacked two black brothers in the Bensonhurst
section of Brooklyn, shouting "This is our Howard Beach!" Four blacks
beat up a Polish refugee cabdriver in Manhattan. A black man in
Queens died in a hail of police gunfire. A black woman from the
Bronx died after six days in police custody.
Racial tensions have been running high here since a Queens jury
in late December convicted three white teen-agers of manslaughter in
the 1986 death of a black man in Howard Beach. Black demonstrators
will take to the streets today for the third time in recent weeks to
protest what they see as a pattern of racial injustice in a series of
killings and arrests stretching over a decade.
The ...