It might not be as nationally well known as the Central Park 5 case of the same year, but the 1989 killing of Carol Stuart, and its long, racist aftermath, followed much the same dynamics: a lurid accusation of violence against a white woman painting people of colour as threats; an aggressive police response; a decades-long fight to find the truth.
This week, Boston Mayor Michelle Wu formally apologised to Willie Bennett and Alan Swanson, Black men who were falsely accused of fatally shooting Stuart, an expecting mother, in October of 1989.
