Bernard Getz
Saw a thing on tv about him tonight. It was like an 80's flashback type program and all the black people were making fun of him and calling him a racist. Did he ever serve any jail time for what he did ?
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seemed he didn't care for getting mugged 0 -
At the time he was compared to Charles Bronson in DeathWish. I don't recall him spending any jail time, but he had heavy civil liability to pay the crippled thug.
Be careful, Viking Swinde is poofing anything pro-white.0 -
I wouldn't have known how to spell his name... but I think he did five years. 0 -
No jail.
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http://www.heroism.org/class/1980/goetz.htm
BERNARD GOETZ
On December 22, 1984, Bernard Goetz, otherwise known as the "subway vigilante," shot four young men in a Manhattan subway car after he said the men threatened him and tried to rob him.
The shooting became a national sensation, as many subway riders, concerned about subway muggings, applauded Goetz's actions. But others criticized Goetz as a racist because the four young men were African-American.
Three years after the shooting, Goetz, a 39-year-old electronics specialist, was acquitted of attempted murder and assault, but was convicted of criminal possession of an unlicensed weapon and spent 250 days in jail.
Goetz said he started firing because he thought the four men were about to rob him. Many suspected however, that Goetz acted as an "avenging angel" because he had been mugged twice before. The youths said they were panhandling money to play video games when they asked him for $5, not trying to rob him.
On December 22, 1984, Bernard Goetz, otherwise known as the "subway vigilante," shot four young men in a Manhattan subway car after he said the men threatened him and tried to rob him.
The shooting became a national sensation, as many subway riders, concerned about subway muggings, applauded Goetz's actions. But others criticized Goetz as a racist because the four young men were African-American.
Three years after the shooting, Goetz, a 39-year-old electronics specialist, was acquitted of attempted murder and assault, but was convicted of criminal possession of an unlicensed weapon and spent 250 days in jail.
Goetz said he started firing because he thought the four men were about to rob him. Many suspected however, that Goetz acted as an "avenging angel" because he had been mugged twice before. The youths said they were panhandling money to play video games when they asked him for $5, not trying to rob him.
One of the four men, Darrell Cabey, was paralyzed in the shooting. In reaction to a $50 million lawauit filed by Cabey's familiy, Goetz said in a December 20, 1994 Toronto Star article, "If you're injured, paralyzed or whatever while committing a violent crime against me, that's not my fault."
After the verdict, Goetz' lawyer Barry Slotnick said, "I think the true message is that people have a right to protect and defend themselves under justifiable situations." Goetz said he wants to "go back to being an anonymous stranger in New York," said Slotnick in a June 17, 1987 Toronto Star article.
Supporters and critics argued outside the courthouse immediately after the verdict. Anti-Goetz demonstrators chased his car, shouting, "Goetz is an oppressor, murder no more." Another man carried a sign, "Criminals, think twice or we will Goetz you."0 -
lessons learned from Bernie Goetz
1) dead men tell no tales...leave corpses, not potential lawsuits
2) keep your mouth shut.
IIRC all the "victims" were arrested for other crimes later, including the one in the wheelchair. Yep, just innocent kids looking for videogame money. Uh-huh.0 -
And I am sure the innocent kids were carrying those screwdrivers ground to a sharp point so they could work on the video games. 0 -
OOps. Sorry.
Doug0 -
I lived in NYC when this happenned. I remember Howard Stern singing "Bernard Hugo Goetz what he shoots," to the tune of "You Can't Always Get What You Want," by the Rolling Stones.
He told one of the punks that was still conscious, "You don't look so bad, here have another," and shot the guy again.
The Firearm charge is what gave him all the grief...!0 -
11b6r is right: those punks were carrying long, sharpened screwdrivers. They were in the process of mugging Getz when they were shot, and they got what they deserved. 0
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