The Hurracane

Several shots on June 17th 1966, pierced the stillness of the night. This gunfire came from the Lafayette Bar and Grill in Patterson, New Jersey, and claimed the lives of two men and two women. This night would terrorize a champion fighter for the next nineteen years of his life. Without the help and constant persistence of justice by Lesra Martin, Rubin ‘Hurricane’ Carter as he was known to his fans, may never have seen the light of justice in the United States legal system.

Even though Rubin Carter suffered at the hands of the law when he was a child, the more serious injustices occurred on the eve of June 17th 1966. On this night, he and an associate who fitted the description of the sighted attackers of the Lafayette Bar and Grill were arrested and imprisoned. All the while they were denied the most basic right, the right to a constitutionally fair trial. These atrocities were committed by vengeful and predominantly white executive and judicial powers, so...