On this present day in 2020, New York radio station Sizzling 97 fired a longtime worker after information emerged that he was concerned within the dying of 16-year-old Yusuf Hawkins in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn.
Pasquale Raucci, identified on radio as ‘Paddy Duke’, fired from Sizzling 97 after HBO documentary airs storm over brooklyn It was revealed that Rauch was a part of a mob of white youngsters who killed Hawkins as he sought to purchase a automotive within the predominantly Italian neighborhood.
Rauch seems in storm over brooklyndetailing his 1994 hiring on the station and his shut collaboration with award-winning radio character Angie Martinez.
After the documentary was launched, Sizzling 97 issued an announcement relating to Raucci’s firing, saying: “After watching HBO’s Brooklyn Storm, HOT97 was shocked and took swift motion. Paddy Duke is now not employed by HOT97. The march for social justice continues.
Duke was fired the day after the thirty first anniversary of Hawkins’ homicide.
