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The Central Park Five Summary

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I watched a documentary film “The Central Park Five” for this week’s field experience. The movie examines a 1989 case of five black and Latino teenagers who were convicted of raping a White woman in Central Park, NY. Compared to the research above, the five young male were guilty because of outside racism. The movie provides background, interviews, expert analysis, and details of associated facts related to the case. The five young men were forced and threatened to write their crime “story” but no one doubted their confession even though there was no DNA test results. The Central Park Jogger case finally got cleared in 2003 when another suspect Matias Reyes convinced this crime. The five juveniles then sued New York City for racial discrimination,
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