Ehsan Ahmad
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Podcast Appearances
So also, that was also the place where the Italian guys chased the black kids into traffic.
Do you remember that story?
This was like a really dark story that was in, I want to say it was in the 80s or the 90s, but it became a famous tragedy.
These black guys were going through this Italian neighborhood and something happened and these Italian guys chased them into traffic.
23-year-old black man was killed on December 20, 1986, in Howard Beach in Queens, New York City, a racially motivated attack.
Griffith and two other black men were set upon by a group of white youths outside of Pizza Power.
Oh, my God, it's a Spike Lee movie.
Two of the victims, including Griffith, were severely beaten.
Griffith fled onto a highway where he was fatally struck by a passing motorist.
Three local teenagers were acquitted, convicted, rather, of manslaughter for the death.
Yeah, that was a story that I remember, like, right out of high school.