Man Who Incited Mob Is Sentenced

A man convicted of inciting a black mob against Jews during New York City’s 1991 riots was sentenced to almost 22 years in prison. Charles Price, 44, led a crowd of men who attacked and killed scholar Yankel Rosenbaum “with a blind, baseless bigotry aimed at what Yankel was: a Jew,” Fay Rosenbaum, the victim’s mother, told Judge David Trager in federal court. Last year, Price was convicted with Lemrick Nelson, 21, of violating Rosenbaum’s civil rights: Price by inciting the mob and Nelson by stabbing the Jewish scholar. Nelson was sentenced in April to 19 1/2 years in prison. Before the federal charges were filed, Nelson had been acquitted in state court of a murder charge.