Case Number 2: In the early afternoon of December 22, 1984, four juvenile African-American men boarded the New York City subway, in which Bernhard Goetz shot and seriously wounded all four teenagers, after they allegedly tried to mug him. Nine days after the incident, Goetz eventually surrendered to law enforcement. In the process of People vs. Goetz’s trail, he was charged with attempted murder, assault, reckless endangerment, and several firearms offenses, however, a jury found him not guilty of all charges except for one count of carrying an unlicensed firearm, for which he served eight months of a one-year sentence. The incident sparked a nationwide debate on race and crime in major cities and the legal limits of self-defense, incidence
