On this date in 2020, New York-based radio station Scorching 97 terminated one in every of its longtime workers after it was revealed that he performed a job within the loss of life of 16-year-old Yusuf Hawkins in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn.
Pasquale Raucci, who is healthier recognized on the airwaves as “Paddy Duke,” was fired from Scorching 97 after HBO documentary Storm Over Brooklyn unveiled that Raucci was a member of the white mob of youngsters who killed Hawkins whereas he was within the largely Italian neighborhood looking for to buy a automotive.
Raucci was proven in Storm Over Brooklyn, detailing his hiring on the station in 1994 and his shut work with award-winning on-air character Angie Martinez.
After the discharge of the documentary, Scorching 97 made an announcement concerning the firing of Raucci, stating, “After watching HBO’s Storm over Brooklyn, HOT97 was shocked and took swift motion. Paddy Duke is not employed by HOT97. The march for social justice continues.”
Duke was fired the day after the thirty first anniversary of Hawkins’ homicide.
