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He went from tokens to toking. “Subway vigilante” Bernie Goetz has turned to peddling pot, cops say, decades after he pumped five shots into four black teenagers, skyrocketing him to national fame and infamy. The gunman, who divided the city after shooting four black teens in 1984, was arrested in Manhattan after selling a small amount of marijuana to an undercover narcotics cop Friday evening, police said. Goetz, who will be celebrating his 66th birthday next Thursday, reportedly chatted up the undercover female officer at Union Square Park at about 5:30 p.m. and “asked her if she wanted to get...

Bernhard Goetz, who shot four black youths he believed were trying to mug him on a New York City subway in 1984, believes the prosecution of George Zimmerman was politically motivated, fraudulent, and warrants a special investigation. "It’s all baloney. This is a political prosecution," Goetz told "The Steve Malzberg Show" on Newsmax TV. America has many problems but this is a political prosecution just like my case was a political prosecution . . . If the public wants to be lied to and misled then they should just accept this." Goetz, dubbed the "subway vigilante" in an incident that...