Bernhard Goetz Quotes


I thought I was a pretty good physical specimen. But there was a teenager from Brooklyn, who basically wiped the floor with me on the street. He gave me a punch that I didn't even feel. All I knew I was looking up at the sky. I tried to fight him, and I got a number of injuries after that.


Citations

Goetz, Bernhard. Interview by Larry King. Larry King Live, CNN, 17 Dec. 2004.

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  • Born: November 7, 1947
  • Nationality: American
  • Profession: Celebrity

The 1984 New York City Subway shooting took place on December 22, 1984, when four teenagers, Barry Allen, Troy Canty, Darrell Cabey and James Ramseur, were shot and wounded by Bernhard Goetz on a New York City Subway train in Manhattan.