Additional reporting by Graphics By Audrey Carlsen and Kazi Awal Nearly 70% of New York City’s residents are Hispanic, black, Asian or mixed race — a non-white majority that’s steadily solidified since the 1980s. But over at One Police Plaza, the top ranks of the New York City Police Department appear to be frozen in […]
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Thirty Years Later, Yusuf Hawkins’ Murder Still Shocks in a Changed Brooklyn
Until this week, Mohamed Kootabeda never heard the name Yusuf Hawkins. Kootabeda was shocked to learn the story of the African-American 16-year-old who was set upon by a mob of white youths in Bensonhurst and fatally shot on Aug. 23, 1989. “I had no idea that something like that happened here,” said the 65-year-old Syrian […]