![]() Sharpton and other Black leaders believed the Queens District Attorney’s office was mishandling the case and called for the appointment of a special state prosecutor. Al Sharpton led a large group of demonstrators on a protest march through Howard Beach and was met by a smaller band of counter-demonstrators who shouted abuse. The two surviving victims, distrustful of police in Queens who they believed were treating them like perpetrators, refused to cooperate further with investigators and the district attorney’s office. The attack stoked racial tensions in New York City and garnered national headlines. A second man, Cedric Sandiford, was severely beaten, while the third man, Timothy Grimes, outran the assailants and escaped without serious injury. One of the men, Michael Griffith, 23, was chased into traffic on the Belt Parkway and died after being hit by a car. When the men left the pizzeria, they were confronted by the gang of teens. After being told there was no phone available, they ordered some pizza. ![]() They walked several miles to a pizza parlor in Howard Beach, where they asked to use a phone to call for assistance. ![]() On December 20, 1986, three Black men are attacked by a group of white teenagers yelling racial slurs in Howard Beach, a predominately white, middle-class, Italian-American neighborhood in Queens, New York.Įarlier that night, the men were driving from Brooklyn to Queens, when their car broke down near Howard Beach. ![]()
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