CONGRATULATIONS! read the placard held high by a muscular white man in a checked shirt. BERNIE GOETZ WINS ONE FOR THE GOOD GUYS!
"Goetz is a Nazi!" shouted a nearby black man in his 20s.
CRIMINALS, WATCH OUT, promised another sign, WE'LL GET YOU.
"New York will reap the wind, that is certain," a black minister warned.
That was the scene of shouting and shoving outside a Manhattan courtroom last week at the end of what Judge Stephen Crane called the "most difficult case of our time." After four days of deliberations, a jury of ten whites and two blacks had...
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