A Mob Boss, Gunshots and Racial Violence
▻http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/projects/cp/national/unpublished-black-history/joe-colombo-shot-black-man-beaten-by-crowd-1971
On June 28, 1971, Joseph A. Colombo Sr., the Brooklyn Mafia boss, was shot in the head and critically wounded at Columbus Circle as an Italian-American civil rights rally was about to begin.
The crowd reacted immediately “with confusion, sorrow, anger, rage and violence directed at Negroes in the crowd, because, as the radio told them and they told each other, Colombo had been shot by a black man,” The Times reported.
photo Librado Romero/The New York Times
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