The Crown Heights riots in Brooklyn, N.Y., began on this day in 1991. The impetus behind the racially charged three-day event was the death of seven-year-old Gavin Cato at the hands of a Hasidic Jewish man, Yosef Lifsh. Lifsh was driving a station wagon following a motorcade for Lubavitcher Hasidic leader Rabbi Menachem Schneerson when […]
