141: The Subway Vigilante (Trial By Media Ep. 2)

True Crime Obsessed

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🗓️ 21 July 2020

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

On December 22, 1984, a white man named Bernhard Goetz shot 4 black teenagers on the New York City subway. He claimed self defense--that the 4 boys were in the process of robbing him. But eye witness accounts and crime scene evidence said otherwise. Still New Yorkers, who had lived in fear for years, rallied to the man's defense and he became an instant celebrity.

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0:27.0	Slack.com slash DHQ. Girl, here's the thing. Do you know how I know Skyborgman who directed
0:33.0	this is a genius? Wait, don't say that's an eye statement. This is a wee conversation.
0:37.8	Sorry, we, you know how we know that Skyborgman is a genius. Listen, this whole episode is
0:42.4	about how disgusting and bad New York City was in the 70s and 80s. Guess what we don't
0:46.4	see? Girl, that floating TV in the Hudson River. She didn't use the picture. Because she's
0:49.9	a professional, because she does the work, because she shows up and she does good work.
0:54.2	She's not lazy. Okay. I drunkenly found my way around a New Orleans hotel with her to
1:00.2	get back to our rooms. And crime time, because when there are conventions, they have the hotels
1:03.6	that the elevators don't make any sense and you get lost very easily. Sky and I found
1:07.7	our way. And if Sky wasn't there, I don't know where I'd be.
1:11.5	Sky, I send you my thanks. Girl, do you know what else I'm grateful for?
1:16.4	What?
1:17.2	I'm not lazy and pens of all day. Patrick, I'm spinning up.
1:24.2	Aw, you guys, before we get to the show, just a quick reminder, you already know if you
1:33.3	were looking for more fun last good time.
1:37.5	Join us on the Patreon. You guys, Skyborgman is our friend. She directed this episode.
1:41.2	There's an interview with Sky that I did about this episode on the Patreon right now.
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