For eight straight years, New York City had been pounded with one act of racial violence after another. 1982: Willie Turks, a black transit worker, is beaten to death by a mob of whites shouting racial slurs. 1984: Bernhard Goetz wounds four young blacks he said were menacing him on the subway. 1986: a white mob in the Howard Beach section of Queens attacks several blacks, one of whom fled in panic onto a highway and was killed by a passing car. 1989: a 28- year-old white executive is beaten and raped in Central Park by a pack of black teenagers...
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