In 1997, a 13-year-old was beaten by white Bridgeport teens. A podcast challenges the racial narrative that followed.

The new podcast “You Didn’t See Nothin” takes a critical look at the media narrative that followed the 1997 Armour Square neighborhood beating of 13-year-old Lenard Clark Jr., a Black child who lived in the Stateway Gardens public housing development, going to get air for his bike tire, by a group of white Bridgeport teens ages 17 to 19. Clark was beaten unconscious and suffered permanent ...

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