Today in History: ‘Subway Vigilante’ arrested
- Posted on December 22, 2025
- By Chicago Tribune
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Today in History: ‘Subway Vigilante’ arrested
On Dec. 22, 1984, New York City resident Bernhard Goetz shot and wounded four young Black men on a Manhattan subway, alleging they were about to rob him. (Goetz, a white man in what became known as…
