Bumpurs, who had a history of mental illness, grabbed a butcher knife as two officers pushed her against a wall with their plastic shields and a metal pole. Five officers responded by storming into her apartment. When officials from the city housing authority tried to evict her, she refused, and they called the police. Bumpurs, who lived in a public housing complex in the Bronx, had fallen four months behind on her rent. 29, 1984, New York police killed an elderly Black woman named Eleanor Bumpurs in her own home. At a Rhode Island prep school and at Trinity College, classmates remember him as a skilled debater who could both amuse and infuriate his audiences.His bohemian artist mother abandoned her young family and cut Tucker and his brother out of her will.Tucker Carlson is remembered as a provocateur and gleeful contrarian by those who knew him in his early days.
