On July 16, 1964, a white off-duty New York City police lieutenant fatally shot a black ninth-grader in Harlem on allegations that the teenager had a knife and was lunging at the officer. While the details of exactly what happened that day are still hotly contested and debated, it would seem that the event was racially motivated. It triggered a
50 Years After Harlem Riot, Police Brutality Still A Concern
We could learn a lot by examining cases of police brutality and abuses of power, but most instances aren’t even investigated or reported.