Central Park Five Thesis

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The Truth About The Central Park Five “Of the 316 known cases in which innocent people have been exonerated by past conviction DNA testing, nearly 30% are attributable to false confessions” (Kukucka). This was the case for five young men living in the city of New York. At the time, these five men were just teenagers from the ages of 14 to 16, four of them were African American and the other one was Latino. These teenagers became know as “The Central Park Five”. This nickname came about after being wrongly accused and convicted of a violent rape that occurred in Central Park. Sadly these teenagers became victims of mistreatment by police and the lawlessness and errors that occur in the justice system. It all began on the night of April 19th in 1989. Trisha Meili, the victim was a 28 years old caucasian woman. Trisha was a smart and successful woman, she was a graduate from Wellesley College where she received her bachelor's …show more content…

On the night they were detained the five teenagers along with a large group of other teenagers all decided to go to the park that night. At some point many of the boys started harassing people they saw around the park, they were throwing rocks at them and even started started beating them up for no reason at all (The Central Park Five). However even though the five teenagers were hanging out with the teenagers that were harassing people, they did not take any part in it. Suddenly a cop car came out of nowhere and the group of boys all started running different directions, the police ran after the group and detained the five boys, they were then taken to the precinct (The Central Park Five). Once at the precinct the detectives began questioning the boys. After hours of an intense interrogation the boys self-incriminated themselves in the

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