Celebrating Black History Month

Celebrating a great figure in Black History: Lemrick Nelson.

From Wikipedia:

Lemrick Nelson, Jr. (born July 31, 1975) is an African-American man who stabbed Hasidic student Yankel Rosenbaum to death during the racial unrest of the 1991 Crown Heights riot.^[3][4] Though his lawyer did not deny at his trial that Nelson stabbed Rosenbaum, he argued that the killing had nothing to do with Rosenbaum's being Jewish.

Nelson was arrested several times on unrelated charges over the following years. In a third trial for Rosenbaum's murder, Nelson was convicted of violating Rosenbaum's civil rights in the murder, and served a 10-year sentence. Nelson admitted for the first time at his 2003 trial that he had stabbed Rosenbaum.

After seven-year-old African-American Gavin Cato was accidentally struck and killed by an automobile in the motorcade of a prominent Hasidic rabbi on August 19, 1991, some Black residents of Crown Heights rioted. Shortly after the riot began, a group of 12–20 young Black men shouting "Kill the Jew", surrounded Yankel Rosenbaum, a 29-year-old Australian University of Melbourne graduate student who was in the United States conducting doctoral research. Nelson stabbed Rosenbaum in the back and was apprehended by police a short time later.

 Before being taken to the hospital, Rosenbaum identified Nelson as the person who had stabbed him.