NYPD Officer Shoots Dead Clifford Glover, Age 10, in Queens

NYPD plainclothes officer Thomas Shea shot and killed Clifford Glover, a 10-year-old Black child, in South Jamaica, Queens, while Glover was walking with his stepfather Add Armstead. Shea claimed Glover reached for a weapon; no weapon was found. Shea was acquitted of murder in 1974, sparking outrage. Gil Scott-Heron memorialized Glover in the song 'Whitey on the Moon.'