There’s an eerily direct line from horrified art students witnessing Transit Police beating Michael Stewart into a coma in 1983 ito Eric Adams being elected mayor — one that intersects with Madonna, Jean-Paul Basquiat, Spike Lee and Tucker Carlson.
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Journalist Elon Green, the author of The Man Nobody Killed: Life, Death, and Art in Michael Stewart’s New York, the first book-length account of a crime that captivated the city — and that no one was held responsible for, as Mayor Ed Koch flatly called police brutality “a phony issue” — rejoins the podcast to discusses all that, and much more, with THE CITY’s Rachel Holiday Smith and Harry Siegel.
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