Boston mayor apologizes to Black men wrongly accused in 1989 murder that shone spotlight on racism
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Boston Mayor Michelle Wu issued a formal apology Wednesday to two Black men who were wrongly accused in a 1989 murder of a white woman, a case that coarsened divisions in a city long split along racial lines and renewed suspicion and anger directed at the police department by the city’s Black community.
“I am so sorry for what you endured,” the mayor said during a news conference. “I am so sorry for the pain that you have carried for so many years.”
Alan Swanson and Willie Bennett were wrongly named as suspects in the Oct. 23, 1989, death of Carol Stuart, whose husband, Charles Stuart, had orchestrated her killing.
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I felt this was buried at the end of the article,
"The Boston Globe and an HBO documentary series has cast a new spotlight on the case."
And it looks like this documentary JUST came out (December 2023), https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_in_Boston:_Roots,_Rampage,_and_Reckoning
Specifically I was curious why a 1989 case was coming up and being apologized for now. I'm glad this happened, just curious "why now".
You mean why they coincide? Something new was uncovered, triggering both lawyers and docu makers, for example.
Exactly, was something new actually uncovered? Or does the documentary just go into more details of the events in 1989.