black, media, and police evil in 1990, New York City

[“TCM’s Film Noir of the Week Saturday Night-Sunday Morning at Midnight and 10 a.m. ET is Richard L. Bare’s This Side of the Law (1950) with Kent Smith and Viveca Lindfors”]

By Your Longtime Reader (LTR)
saturday, july 5, 2025 at 9:29:00 p.m. edt

black, media, and police evil in 1990, New York City

In January 1990, Viveca Lindfors, then aged 69, was thrown to the ground and slashed in the face by a group of five or six “teen” muggers in Greenwich Village.

A 36-year-old Manhattan man a few blocks away was also slashed by the same group. Both victims required dozens of stitches. There was no attempt to rob them; it was called a “random” attack.

The next week, a single 18-year-old suspect was arrested. If there was any follow-up account of the incident, I haven’t found it. Lindfors died in Sweden five years later.

https://www.upi.com/Archives/1990/01/14/Swedish-actress-Viveca-Linfors-slashed/7378632293200/