While the glasses-wearing engineer appeared meek, he spoke brazenly about the attack, which fueled debates about crime, self-defense and gun ownership, and racial tensions. his electronic testing and repair firm. He unsuccessfully ran for New York City mayor in 2001, “I tell people there are 10 doofuses running for mayor, and I want my name added to the list.”, He has become an advocate for New York City’s squirrel population and keeps busy nursing squirrels, he told, in 2015. And one of them had a gun.”. After watching Goetz's episode of Trial by Media, the similarities are clear. December 22, 1984. “I wanted to maim those guys.”. In court, defense attorney Barry Slotnick asserted that, despite his statement, Goetz had never said, “You seem to be doing alright, here’s another,” and had just thought that to himself in retrospect. On radio talk shows, reported the New York Times on December 30, there was similar support. “I wanted to kill those guys,” he exclaimed in the recording. The Crown's Makeup Artist: Princess Diana Wore Blue Eyeliner When She Felt "Vulnerable and Targeted", We're Just a Little Bit Obsessed With Annie Murphy and Emily Hampshire's IRL Friendship, Yes, The Bachelorette's Dale Moss Was a Party City Model, and of Course, We Have Photos, Every Celebrity Cameo in Sarah Cooper's Netflix Special, Everything's Fine, We Already Have a Pretty Good Idea When Clare Will Be Leaving The Bachelorette, The Way This Is Us Addressed the Black Lives Matter Movement Was So Necessary, a grittier version of the Joker's origin story, drew inspiration from New York City in the 1980s, vigilante group known as the Guardian Angels began patrolling the subways. Goez, now 72, still lives in the very same apartment in Manhattan, as the docuseries points out. It was just mayhem non-stop.”. While they all survived, Cabey suffered brain damage as a result of his injuries and remains paralyzed to this day. It taught me that the city doesn’t care what happens to you.” He was left with the fear what anything could happen at any moment. “I don't think it's the type of thing you regret,” he said, adding that “there are many things in my life that I regret and I made many, I've made many blunders. “They have found themselves a hero,” said the Cable News Network co-host Dave Walker. Craft and use several items effectively whilst coordinating your ragtag band of non-heroes to defend castles and survive! – a six-episode docuseries that focuses on this contentious case in its second installment – that the incident quickly became a sensational story. Goetz told investigators that he'd bought a gun in Florida and illegally transported it to New York City after he was violently mugged by three teens four years before the subway shooting.