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Directed By Spike Lee.
1989.
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<img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3061/2869697962_7ec77da327_o.jpg" height="503" alt="mural" width="672" /> “<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yusef_Hawkins">Yusef Hawkins</a> was a 16-year-old African American youth who was shot to death on August 23, 1989 in Bensonhurst, a heavily Italian-American neighborhood in the New York City borough of Brooklyn. Hawkins and three friends were confronted there by a crowd of 10 to 30 white youths, mostly Italians, and at least seven of them wielding baseball bats. One, armed with a handgun, shot Hawkins twice in the chest, killing him. Hawkins had gone to Bensonhurst that night with his three friends to inquire about a used 1982 Pontiac automobile that was for sale. The group's attackers had been lying in wait for Black or Hispanic youths they believed were dating a white neighborhood girl. Police later said Hawkins was not involved with the girl.” <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fight_the_Power">Fight the Power</a>
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