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Howard Beach racial incident
One African-American man was killed and another was beaten in Howard Beach, Queens, New York, in a racially charged incident in December 1986 that heightened racial tensions in New York City.
The dead man was 23-year-old Michael Griffith, who was born on March 2, 1963 in Trinidad and lived in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn. He was killed after being accidentally hit by a car on December 20, 1986 as he was chased onto a highway by a mob of white youths who had beaten him and his friends. Griffith's death was the second in a string of three infamous racially-motivated killings of black men by white mobs in New York City in the 1980s. The other victims were Willie Turks in 1982 and Yusuf Hawkins in 1989.
==The incident==
Late on the night of Friday, December 19, 1986, four black men: Michael Griffith, 23; Cedric Sandiford, 36; and Curtis Sylvester and Timothy Grimes, both 20; were riding in a car when it broke down in a deserted stretch of Cross Bay Boulevard near Broad Channel. Three of the men walked about three miles north to seek help in the Howard Beach neighborhood of Queens, an insular, mostly-white community. Sylvester remained behind to watch the car. They argued with some white teens who were on their way to a party, then left.
By 12:30 A.M. on the 20th, the men reached the New Park Pizzeria, near the intersection of Cross Bay Boulevard and 157 Avenue. After a quick meal the men left the pizzeria at 12:40 A.M. and were confronted by a group of about 10 white men who were with the group they had earlier confronted. Racial slurs were exchanged and a fight ensued. Sandiford and Griffith were seriously beaten; Grimes escaped unharmed. While trying to evade his tormentors, Griffith ran in front of a moving car driven by the son of a police officer, and was killed. His body was found on Shore Parkway at 1:03 A.M.〔McFadden, Robert D. "Black Man Dies After Beating In Queens" New York Times, December 21, 1986, p. A1.〕
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