Inside the Infamous NYC Riot That Got Six Cops Indicted

stock footage of the Tomkins Square Riot in New York City, 1988

 

Tompkins Square Park Riot of 1988

Nearly thirty years ago, on Saturday, August 6th, 1988, a full-blown riot had broken out at Tompkins Square Park.

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MISSING FOUNDATION, THE LONG-LOST INDUSTRIAL ROCKERS WHO ALMOST DESTROYED NEW YORK CITY

Shortly before the Disneyfication of Manhattan, when the lower east side was still a churning ball of druggy chaos and the art scene was spewing up creeps, weirdos and bleak visionaries like Nick Zedd, Kembra Pfahler, White Zombie and the Toxic Avenger, one group emerged as the undisputed Kings of the Wasteland. They were called Missing Foundation, and they had come for your children.

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Daniel RAKOWITZ

Daniel Rakowitz is an American murderer and cannibal. He was born in 1960 in Rockport, Texas. He moved to New York around 1985.

In Manhattan's East Village in 1989, Rakowitz walked around Tompkins Square Park bragging that he had killed his roommate, Monica Beerle, a Swiss dancer and student. He said that he had boiled her head and made soup from her brain. He had tasted it and liked it, and thereafter he referred to himself as a cannibal.

He was found not guilty by reason of insanity on February 22, 1991, and was moved to a state hospital for the criminally insane.

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