The sto­ry of a young Black man in New York City, killed by Tran­sit police, and the upris­ing set off by his death. While Many of the char­ac­ters are Gen­tiles, such as Madon­na and Jean-Michel Basquiat, there are also numer­ous famed Jew­ish fig­ures who fea­ture promi­nent­ly: Man­hat­tan Dis­trict Attor­ney Robert Moreg­n­thau (the inspi­ra­tion for the Law & Order DA), May­or Ed Koch, nightlife leg­end Haoui Mon­taug, land­mark news­man Gabe Press­man, and Chief Med­ical Exam­in­er Elliot Gross.