Feb. 5, 2026 . Clay Waters

Amanpour & Co., which airs on PBS and CNN International, picked up on "Five Bullets," a new book by Elliot Williams about Bernard Goetz, the so-called subway vigilante who shot four black teenagers on the NYC subway in 1984 because he thought he was being mugged. The book has surprisingly become a handy hook for the elitist media (whose denizens probably doesn’t ride the NYC subway) to wring their hands once more over racism.

Interviewer Michele Martin showed a rather astonishing ignorance of recent prominent news events, mischaracterizing self-defense acts by Kyle Rittenhouse at a violent Black Lives Matter protest in Wisconsin, and Daniel Penny's heroics against a threatening Jordan Neely on the NYC subway.

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