An explosive documentary examines the famous criminal case that once it was called the crime of the century: The Central Park Five. Many people heard and remember this criminal case, but very few know that the people who went to prison were not guilty. The documentary tells the story of how four black and one Latino teenagers were arrested and convicted in 1989 for beating and raping a white woman in Central Park in New York City. The coverage of the media at that time presented the adolescents as guilty and used racially coded terms, such as "wolf pack", to refer to the group of boys accused of the attack. The central park five where charged for assault, robbery, riot, rape, sexual abuse, and attempted murder.
Antron McCray, Raymond Santana, Kevin Richardson, Yusef Salaam and Kharey Wise were known in New York as the five of Central Park. On the afternoon of April 19, 1989, a 28-year-old investment agent name Trisha Meili, a white woman, was running through northern Central Park, in the park at
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The rapist gave her up for dead and when hours later they found her, Meili was senseless, suffering from hypothermia and had serious brain impairment. From the first moment, the New York Police Department was convinced that the perpetrators were already detained in the precinct. The five teenagers denied having any participation in the iniquitous acts that were committed that night. Meanwhile, while hours were passing the five adolescences were questioned, and cornered by the New York City police. The adolescences felt intimidated by the city police, and were illegally question without the consent of a parent and question without an attorney, the central park five ended up recognizing a crime they did not committed, and admitting to a crime that they did not had participation of. The sexual assault of the Central Park