The film is set to premiere on HBO on Wednesday, August 12 at 9 p.m. EST and will be available to stream on HBO Max.
HBO has unveiled the first official trailer and premiere date for the upcoming documentary Yusuf Hawkins: Storm Over Brooklyn, telling the story of the titular black teenager who was killed by a group of white men in 1989 in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn.
Yusuf and his friends were quickly surrounded by the crowd of white attackers wielding baseball bats.
On August 23, 1989, sixteen-year-old East New York-native Yusuf Hawkins and three of his friends made a trip to the predominantly Italian-American neighborhood of Bensonhurst, Brooklyn to view a used car his friend was hoping to buy.
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Yusuf Hawkins: Storm Over Brooklyn (2020) | Official Trailer | HBO