This picture of Yusef Salaam is one of the most haunting pictures of the century.
Everyone should see this Ken Burns documentary at least once on the big screen. Then a few times on the screens at home. And recommend to families and friends and neighbors.
From the Central Park 5 Press Notes:
In 1989, five black and Latino teenagers from Harlem were arrested and later convicted of brutally beating and raping a white woman in New York City’s Central Park. New York Mayor Ed Koch called it the “crime of the century” and it remains to date one of the biggest media stories of our time. The five each spent between 6 and 13 years in prison before a shocking confession from a serial rapist and DJ\IA evidence proved thelr innocence.
THE CENTRAL PARK FIVE tells the story of how five lives were upended by the rush to judgment by police, a sensationalist media and a devastating miscarriage of justice.
This too is an unforgettable picture of Kharey Wise, one of the five.
Tags: Central Park 5, crime, Mayor Bloomberg, NYPD
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The Central Park 5
This picture of Yusef Salaam is one of the most haunting pictures of the century.
Everyone should see this Ken Burns documentary at least once on the big screen. Then a few times on the screens at home. And recommend to families and friends and neighbors.
From the Central Park 5 Press Notes:
In 1989, five black and Latino teenagers from Harlem were arrested and later convicted of brutally beating and raping a white woman in New York City’s Central Park. New York Mayor Ed Koch called it the “crime of the century” and it remains to date one of the biggest media stories of our time. The five each spent between 6 and 13 years in prison before a shocking confession from a serial rapist and DJ\IA evidence proved thelr innocence.
THE CENTRAL PARK FIVE tells the story of how five lives were upended by the rush to judgment by police, a sensationalist media and a devastating miscarriage of justice.
This too is an unforgettable picture of Kharey Wise, one of the five.
Tags: Central Park 5, crime, Mayor Bloomberg, NYPD
This entry was posted on Saturday, December 22nd, 2012 at 11:18 pm and is filed under Blogroll, Ethnic News, Journalism, News/Commentary/Opinion. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.