A deeply emotional film with chilling resonance in today’s America, Yusuf Hawkins: Storm Over Brooklyn, explores the 30-year legacy of Yusuf’s murder as his family and friends reflect on the tragedy and the subsequent fight for justice that inspired and divided New York City. Premieres August 12 at 9pm on HBO.
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A deeply emotional film with chilling resonance in today’s America, Yusuf Hawkins: Storm Over Brooklyn, explores the 30-year legacy of Yusuf’s murder as his family and friends reflect on the tragedy and the subsequent fight for justice that inspired and divided New York City. Premieres August 12 at 9pm on HBO.
Got a chance to watch this tonight and it was a tough one. This breh and his friends walked into a fukking ambush that had nothing to do with them.
People try to shyt on Rev Al but he really put on for Yusuf’s family and even got stabbed in the process. It was rough hearing Yusuf’s mom in her own words and it’s wild that it took Yusuf’s death to ignite something in his father after being away from the family for so many years.
The juelzing by the CACs interviewed for this (and in archival footage) was just insane. The media tried their best to spin this as a love triangle gone wrong and I wonder how much pressure the Gina chick got to not testify. Her testimony was crucial. Another subplot is hot the mafia literally made the community in Bensonhurst give up the shooter because the marches were destroying “business”.
And that breh who was friends with the mob that killed Yusuf needs a retroactive 1989 c00n award that he can share with David Dinkins. That dude has some serious identity issues even tho he flipped on his peoples to avoid prosecution. Motherfukka expressed guilt and applied for a butter biscuit at the same time in this documentary.
shyt is wild seeing the city for what it was at the time and knowing that brehs flat out did not get a fair shake whether it was from law enforcement or the people in the communities they weren’t “allowed” to go into. fukk Ed Koch too. That b*stard thought he was on a roll with the Central Park case and was so dismissive in Yusuf’s case.
In this doc all you saw was CACs who cared about property, politicians buck dancing in an election year and residents in white neighborhoods who literally couldn’t breathe without being bigots. I see the archival footage and wonder where these people are today because they had no issue shouting racist shyt during the marches.
Just wish that night Yusuf died, his grandmother got ahold of him first and made him stay home. She knew the bullshyt that was out there and he paid the price over something that I can’t even call a misunderstanding. Those CACs were looking for a reason to hurt someone and pulled up with bats and gun(s).
People try to shyt on Rev Al but he really put on for Yusuf’s family and even got stabbed in the process. It was rough hearing Yusuf’s mom in her own words and it’s wild that it took Yusuf’s death to ignite something in his father after being away from the family for so many years.
The juelzing by the CACs interviewed for this (and in archival footage) was just insane. The media tried their best to spin this as a love triangle gone wrong and I wonder how much pressure the Gina chick got to not testify. Her testimony was crucial. Another subplot is hot the mafia literally made the community in Bensonhurst give up the shooter because the marches were destroying “business”.
And that breh who was friends with the mob that killed Yusuf needs a retroactive 1989 c00n award that he can share with David Dinkins. That dude has some serious identity issues even tho he flipped on his peoples to avoid prosecution. Motherfukka expressed guilt and applied for a butter biscuit at the same time in this documentary.
shyt is wild seeing the city for what it was at the time and knowing that brehs flat out did not get a fair shake whether it was from law enforcement or the people in the communities they weren’t “allowed” to go into. fukk Ed Koch too. That b*stard thought he was on a roll with the Central Park case and was so dismissive in Yusuf’s case.
In this doc all you saw was CACs who cared about property, politicians buck dancing in an election year and residents in white neighborhoods who literally couldn’t breathe without being bigots. I see the archival footage and wonder where these people are today because they had no issue shouting racist shyt during the marches.
Just wish that night Yusuf died, his grandmother got ahold of him first and made him stay home. She knew the bullshyt that was out there and he paid the price over something that I can’t even call a misunderstanding. Those CACs were looking for a reason to hurt someone and pulled up with bats and gun(s).
Nothing changed breh. These dudes are union heads, contractors, owners of various businesses and entities that willfully discriminate against black people. The level of hate they had is unreal. Yusef was killed for following friends to buy a car. His mother did not deserve that pain. She still suffers from it to this day. But somehow those fukking cacs wanted to sweep it under the rug. Pretend nothing happened so they could have their little festival.
I think the thing that resonates to me is you needed strong community action like what sharpton did as far as the marches and protests. It showed the rest of the world what a racist shythole parts of NY are.
What makes me sad is to see all of those people mobilize and take action as a united community but somehow we fall right back into the bullshyt. Yusef was killed in 1989 but by ‘91 NY had one of the highest murder years on record. It’s like we learned nothing and essentially nothing changed. Yusef was compared to Emmett Till in the doc and now George Floyd. I’m frustrated at that next step we never get to. That targeted community action to make real change.
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Yeah, just watched this last nite and it is infuriating. Not one of the white Italians interviewed came off as remotely truthful. Just a bunch of hateful liars. It's just strange how much people hate us. You would think we enslaved and marginalized them for some period of time but it is the opposite.
The grace and fukkin' righteous nature of Black people is astounding. We deserve revenge but don't even want it. We just want to be left alone and treated with some level of respect and still can't get it. Shyt is wild.
The grace and fukkin' righteous nature of Black people is astounding. We deserve revenge but don't even want it. We just want to be left alone and treated with some level of respect and still can't get it. Shyt is wild.
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I see you niccas...
Guess I'll drop this here.
https://www.thecoli.com/threads/fir...ucci-dude-who-help-kill-yusuf-hawkins.800079/
https://www.thecoli.com/threads/fir...ucci-dude-who-help-kill-yusuf-hawkins.800079/
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