Germaine Rucker

Death by Force

On a summer evening in Boston, fifteen-year-old Black / African American male Germaine Rucker was riding his bicycle in Dorchester, carrying a knapsack filled with necklaces he was selling. It was August 10, 2003, and the young man would not make it home that night. A group of youths from the Dudley Street neighborhood approached him on Wendover Street in an unprovoked attack. They knocked him to the ground and began to beat him. One of the assailants demanded, "where's the bag," and ran off wit ...Read More

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