A new documentary is making an old hate crime more relevant than ever. On Thursday, HBO debuted the trailer for the doc “Yusuf Hawkins: Storm Over Brooklyn”, about the murder of Yusuf Hawkins 30 years ago.
RELATED: John Legend On George Floyd Video: We ‘See Our Family Members When That Happens’ Hawkins was a 16-year-old Black teenager who was with three of his friends in mostly Italian-American area of Brooklyn when they were stopped by a group of white men harassing Black men rumoured to be dating girls in their neighbourhood.
The men attacked Hawkins and his friends, shooting Hawkins to death. In the documentary, the story of that incident is retold by the people who lived it, including Hawkins friends and attackers.
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