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AI Summary
- Pulitzer Prize historian Heather Ann Thompson examines the 1984 Bernhard Goetz subway shooting, where a white man shot four Black teenagers and became a hometown hero
- Thompson argues that media narratives and public reactions to Goetz fueled politics of racial resentment that reshaped criminal justice and policy
- Her book 'Fear and Fury' connects the Reagan-era case to contemporary patterns of racial politics and distorted truth