Compass: Oct 2
It has been 20 years since Melbourne man Yankel Rosenbaum was a bystander killed after a 7yo black boy was run over in New York City.
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This Sunday night Compass will revisit a most famous crime in the US in which an Australian man found himself at its centre. 29 year old Melbourne man Yankel Rosenbaum was a bystander, killed after a 7 year old black boy was run over by another man in New York City.
When seven-year-old black boy Gavin Cato was accidently run over and killed by an ultra orthodox Jewish driver in New York in 1991, what followed would shatter two families and divide an entire community.
In the middle of it all was an Australian who was in the wrong place at the wrong time, and became part of one of the ugliest moments in US history.
Along with Gavin, Melbourne man Yankel Rosenbaum came to symbolise the racial and religious tensions between black and white, Jews and gentiles in New York City.
This year will be the twentieth anniversary of the riots and Compass has exclusive access to this extraordinary story told by the people who lived it.
10pm Sunday 2 October on ABC1.
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Rosenbaum didn’t accidentally run over and kill a child. He wasn’t involved in the car accident at all, he was killed in the aftermath by a mob who was angry about what happened and took it out on him.
Yes bad error on my part. Apologies and I have amended.
Important but crucial clarification to the opening paragraph – Yankel Rosenbaum was not driving the car that killed Gavin Cato.