In 1997, a 13-year-old was beaten by white Bridgeport teens. A podcast challenges the racial narrative that followed.
Thank you for supporting our journalism. This article is available exclusively for our subscribers, who help fund our work at the Chicago Tribune.Yohance Lacour, shown in his Chicago studio, is the host of the podcast"You Didn’t See Nothin," about the 1997 hate crime beating of 13-year-old Lenard Clark in the Bridgeport neighborhood.” takes a critical look at the media narrative that followed the 1997 Armour Square neighborhood beating of 13-year-old Lenard Clark Jr.
Clark’s assault became national news as the case went to trial. As time progressed, a key witness disappeared for nearly a year until the cases of those charged in the beating were resolved; another witness was killed in 1998 in an apparent robbery on the West Side; and two other witnesses pleaded guilty, saying they stood by while Clark was beaten and did nothing to prevent it, but did not hit him. Both received probation and community service.
Yohance Lacour works on assembling a messenger bag in his Chicago studio on April 18, 2023. Lacour is the host of the podcast"You Didn’t See Nothin," about the 1997 beating of 13-year-old Lenard Clark. And at the same time, guys from the projects had gotten to the point where it had become retaliatory. So if they caught young men from Bridgeport on their side of the tracks, which was rare, but if it happened, they would chase them out of there. But this was different because this kid was so little and he was beaten and left for dead.
People are shy because they know that they’ve seen people who look like themselves get treated by the media in a certain way and painted in a certain light. So they’re not trying to be victims of those biases from largely white journalists. … He saw a lot of people who looked like him and a lot of people who had credibility and good references that wound up selling him out.
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