Originally Posted by Moe_Tilden
Jon Lester, the ringleader in a racial killing by a mob of people in Howard Beach in the 80's recently committed suicide.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/23/...howard-beach-race-attack-dies-at-48.html

Sad, as he seemed to have turned his life around in prison. He was never able to see his family again, as he was banned from returning to America, being a native of Great Britain.

I wonder what became of the other people involved in this thuggery?

Hopefully they turned their lives around.


That Times story is extremely biased. Lester was dating a Black girl at the time, and he had walked her home before encountering the 4 men. An argument had broken out between him and them, leading to him going to get his friends. My source is the friends of Michael Griffith who were involved, they said so in their testimony at Lester's trial that they had argued with him earlier and challenged him to fight. He was outnumbered and went for his friends. All the Black men including the one who was hit by the car had records. Lester went to England and married an Indian lady.