In the immediate aftermath of the death of Jordan Neely after he was choked by Daniel Penny on the floor of an uptown F train 18 months ago, parallels were floated to the shooting of four Black ...

The trial of Bernhard Goetz in New York in the 1980s raised issues of safety, fear, punishment, and power that still ...

Accused “subway vigilante” Bernhard Goetz, who shot four young black men whom he believed were intent on robbing him on the subway, is surrounded by newsmen in New York, 1987. (AP Photo) Goetz fled ...

Celebrating a killer as a modern-day hero is not just about one man’s actions—it’s about the stories we tell ourselves as a nation. America’s elite’s fascination with the white vigilante has ...

Traveling downtown on an express subway train on Dec. 22, 1984, Bernhard Goetz, a 37-year-old White engineer living in New York’s Greenwich Village, warily eyed four Black teenagers - Barry Allen, ...

A few minutes into Vigilante, journalist Leon Neyfakh’s riveting and heart-wrenching new podcast, we hear from Garth Reed, a gravel-voiced New Yorker who had immigrated from Jamaica in the late ...

In 1984, in a New York subway car, Bernie Goetz opened fire on four black teenagers who he claimed were trying to rob him. At a time when fears of rising crime were rife, some saw Goetz as a hometown ...