{"id":10056,"date":"2011-12-23T15:19:15","date_gmt":"2011-12-23T15:19:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2011\/12\/23\/what-ever-happened-to-bernie-goetz\/"},"modified":"2011-12-23T15:19:15","modified_gmt":"2011-12-23T15:19:15","slug":"what-ever-happened-to-bernie-goetz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2011\/12\/23\/what-ever-happened-to-bernie-goetz\/","title":{"rendered":"What Ever Happened to Bernie Goetz?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\"><iframe allowtransparency=\"65535\" frameborder=\"0\" id=\"twttrHubFrame\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"http:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets\/hub.1324331373.html\" style=\"position: absolute; width: 10px; height: 10px; top: -9999em;\" tabindex=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">Bernard Goetz, mild-mannered electronics nerd, looked like an easy mark, a slap job.&#0160; And so he got slapped around, thrown through plate glass windows, mugged and harrassed.&#0160;&#0160;He just wanted to be left alone to tinker in his basement.&#0160; One day &#0160;he decided not to take it any more and acquired a .38 &#39;equalizer.&#39;&#0160; And so the black punks who demanded money of him on the New York subway in&#0160;December of &#39;84 paid the price to the delight of conservatives and the consternation of liberals.&#0160;To the former he became a folk hero, to the latter a &#39;racist.&#39;&#0160; It was a huge story back then.&#0160; One of the miscreants, James Ramseur, <a href=\"http:\/\/usnews.msnbc.msn.com\/_news\/2011\/12\/23\/9661713-27-years-after-nyc-subway-shooting-goetz-victim-dies\" target=\"_self\">has been found dead<\/a> of an apparent drug overdose.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">Ramseur was freed from prison last year after serving 25 years for a rape, according to NBC NewYork.com. He was one of four black teens shot by Goetz on a train on Dec. 22, 1984, in a shooting that earned Goetz the nickname of &quot;subway vigilante&quot; by city newspapers.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">Meanwhile Goetz, 64, flourishes and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.biography.com\/people\/bernhard-goetz-578520\" target=\"_self\">runs a store<\/a> called &quot;Vigilante Electronics.&quot;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">A heart-warming story on this, the eve of Christmas Eve.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bernard Goetz, mild-mannered electronics nerd, looked like an easy mark, a slap job.&#0160; And so he got slapped around, thrown through plate glass windows, mugged and harrassed.&#0160;&#0160;He just wanted to be left alone to tinker in his basement.&#0160; One day &#0160;he decided not to take it any more and acquired a .38 &#39;equalizer.&#39;&#0160; And so &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2011\/12\/23\/what-ever-happened-to-bernie-goetz\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;What Ever Happened to Bernie Goetz?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,71],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10056","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crime-and-punishment","category-varia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10056","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10056"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10056\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}