Apartheid. USA 1988

June 21, 1987:

Twenty-five young black men began patrolling the New York subway system in an effort to curtail crime that they believed disproportionately affects the black community. Organizers of the patrol said it began in response to the acquittal last week of Bernhard H Goetz. Nathaniel Cumberbath, a member of the patrol, which is called the Disciples of Justice, told the Times, ‘I don't want me or my son to be picked as targets for violence or harassment because we are black.’ Mr Cumberbath (33) is a construction worker from the East New York section of Brooklyn. The words D J Safety Patrol were written on the T-shirts of the members of the new patrol. The group was formed with the

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assistance of a Baptist Minister, the Reverend Al Sharpton of Brooklyn.^125.

125. The New York Times, from a report by Esther Iverem