Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Daniel Penny and Bernie Goetz The original subway vigilante, Bernie Goetz, thinks the prosecution of Daniel Penny for the ...

Nearly 40 years before former Marine Daniel Penny captured headlines for the death of Jordan Neely, another case brought questions of crime and self-defense to the forefront of the national dialogue.

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, ...

Subway vigilante Bernie Goetz, who ignited a national furor over racism and gun control after he shot four panhandling youths on a train in the 1980s, has been arrested on drug charges, police said ...

Elliot Williams introduces his new book "Five Bullets." 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 ...

Bernie Goetz said he thought he was going to be mugged by a man who turned out to be a plainclothes cop arresting him in a low-level drug sting — the same explanation he used nearly three decades ago ...

Historian Heather Ann Thompson had been in the midst of writing a book in 2023 when she realized she needed to stop and start a new one. With Donald Trump on course to return to the White House, ...

The original subway vigilante, Bernie Goetz, thinks the prosecution of Daniel Penny for the chokehold death of Jordan Neely aboard a train was “BS.” Goetz, 77, spoke to WABC’s Frank Morano Dec. 10 ...