During the night of April 19, 1989 a young woman was brutally raped and beaten while she went for a jog in Central Park. The rapist left her for dead lying in her own pool of blood. When she was found by a near Officer. The Central Parker Jogger went into a coma due to her severe injuries and was place on life support once she arrived to the hospital. Within a few hours after the crime six black and latino teenagers between the ages of 14-16 were picked up and questioned about their where about during the attack. The next day everyone found out about the horrifying news through the press the city went into an outrage and wanted justice for the victim. The city became divided between the whites and blacks and latinos communities.
Antron McCray, Kevin Richardson, Raymond Santana, Yusef Salaam, and Kharey Wise were being prosecuted as adults for the harsh crime they did. During the on going investigation the victim’s name was never released to the public. She was considered the Central Parker Jogger. Meanwhile, the names of the accused already have been released and officially labeled as animals or as the New York Post called them “Wolf Pack Prey”. After two week the victim wakes up from her coma with no memory of what happen that night. As the trials were beginning detectives
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were able to get confessions out of the five teenagers. These confession were brought up as evidence in court as the only proof that states they committed the crime. Within 24 hours the news media like the New York Post and Daily News told the story about a horrific crime that was done to a white woman who went for a midnight run. They immediately went on creating an image for these six teenagers as vicious animals who were part of a Wolf Pack that went out that same night to terrorize and mug people. They gave life to the word wilding to describe the act of violence that took place. The media portrayed the teens as being the ones who committed the crime. Within the two weeks of investigation the press had already written almost four hundred articles clearly stating they are guilty. Due to how much influence the media had in the public eye everyone assumed these teens were guilty, wanted them charged and convicted. This made their trials difficult because being innocent until proven guilty never an option for them. Everyone had a job to do from the press to the detectives to find out who committed the crime and seeking justice for the victim. When the press released their coverage about what happen people were in shock and terrified. This caused a division between the whites, blacks and latinos communities. As a well known columnist Pete Hamill states “They were coming downtown from a world of crack, welfare, guns, knives, indifference and ignorance. They were coming from a land with no fathers . . . . They were coming from the anarchic province of the poor. And driven by a collective fury, brimming with the rippling energies of youth, their minds teeming with the violent images of the streets and the movies, they had only one goal: to smash, hurt, rob, stomp, rape. The enemies were rich. The enemies were white.”1 There was a racial basis The purpose of the media is to challenge and question events that impact our community.
In this specific case the media never bothered, and just jumped to conclusion. From the moment the Jogger was found in Central Park to the moment the five teens were convicted they already made those teens guilty of gang rape. The media made these kids look like savage animals. If the media would of question how the detectives got those false confessions? Analyzed the interview recordings. As well as look at the evidence found in the crime scene. They would of realized those teens couldn’t have been involved with crime. The investigators would have no choice but to continue to look for the actual
rapist. During the 1980’s the crime rates were at all time high in New York City especially in the minority communities, but once a young white women gets attacked and left for dead that’s when the whole city goes into a panic to find out who’s responsible for the hanis act and justices. News Tabloids made these 5 teenagers to be animals that needs to be caged in to the public eyes. Or as the New York Post puts it as “packs of bloodthirsty teens from the tenements, bursting with boredom and rage, roam the streets getting kicks from an evening of ultra-violence.”2 Within the two weeks of the investigation the five teens were presumed to be guilty in the public eye because of the media. The press is suppose to question the allegations brought by the NYPD. When the media found out the investigators only had recordings of the kids confessing to the crime. The first question they should of asked, Where the detectives leading them to a false allegation? Were the teenagers just saying what the investigators wanted to hear. When you watch the videotape of the confession closely there are a few things that don’t add up. They’re stories were always changing. For example, in an article that was published in the Daily News was the question and answer of the confession of Santana where they said Q:You said that Kevin knocked her to the ground? He tripped her? A: Yeah with his foot.3 In the video tape Santana switches and says that Antwon was the first to come and contact with the jogger. Not once the press expressed that he had to different answers. So not only does the media ignores how he changes his answer, but they only tell the viewers what makes the story more believable. As the video continues to play the Kharey Wise clearly changed his story more then once when he was asked who first raped her. Another great example is Kharey Wise describes events that does not add up to what the medical examiner found on the jogger. Wise states “...They pulled down and start cutting, cut her legs up”4 In fact, in the medical reports claims that there were no signs of knife wounds that matches what Wise told interrogators. This evidence could have affected the prosecution team if the press wasn't quick to judge and rush to publicly show that these kids were the criminals. NYPD wouldn't have a choice, but to continue search for the correct person. The press should have remembered what happen not so long ago in the 1970s in small towns in California where you kids were accusing their Preschool teacher of child molestation. From the media, investigators and to the counselor automatically assumed the Preschool teachers were molesting the children. While they the kids were interrogated the questions were very misleading “...confused answers given during interviews to questions that were so leading that they were bound to produce frightening fantasies and even emotional disturbance..”5 This states that the individual would eventually confess to something that they had no part of. In the confession, the interrogator gave pictures of the crimes scene to Wise and was asked to she her where the body find. That specific moment that media could have said loud and clean that was a form of a leading a false confession because it shows how the Wise is trying to tell the interrogator what they want to hear. In this situation the “It is the abused who become the abusers..”6 this describes how viciously the media attacked these five teens. Around the crime scene DNA was found. Once the DNA was tested there were no positive match to known of the teenagers being charged. This meant that none of the Central Park 5 raped the victim. At this point, the press needed to ask themselves are we sure we are sending the correct people to prison. if the teenagers are changing up their stories and evidence proves that only one person committed the crime. All of the evidence that proved their innocents were withheld from the the public's eye. At this point the media made the public believe that the Wolf Pack were the ones to commit the crime. If they would of open up and explain the evidence to the public would be outrage in fear because the real rapist is still out there. The media could of commented on why nobody had talked about the DNA in the court house during the trail. The real rapist was arrested with the same mo on how Trisha Meili was left that night on April 19. The detectives could of question him, but since the trial was already started they never bothered to take a second look at. Same thing with the media throughout all of the racial basis and the names they gave the Central Park Five made even harder for them to have a fair trial. Thirteen years later the real rapist confesses in raping Meili and gives extremely detailed about what happen that night. DNA was confirmed to be from Matias Reyes the actual rapist. Reyes also gives exact details that was never released to the public. The Central Park 5 were finally released from prison. Even after the confession of the person who actually committed the crime some law enforcement still believe they are not innocent and were involved in the crime. Its important to realize that if the media did it's job to question everyone's statements and evidence this case wouldn't have been such a big thing. The press would have torn down the NYPD for using false confessions, and with holding all the evidence in the court house. The actual rapist would have been arrested because all of the evidence lead to him committing the crime. In other word, the press a big influence on the verdict. The press could of stop them.
The killings of unarmed black men have increased tremendously with different races to blame for. In January 2011, the life of Justin Patterson was snatched from him and his family by Mr. Neesmith, who only served in prison for one year. How do you think the community of Toombs County and Justin's family feel about him only serving one year in a detention center? Many people protested that the racial issues behind his travesty caused an upstir in the world, including the murder of Trayvon Martin that just recently happened in Florida during that time. However, Justin Patterson's murder did not make national news or even in the papers because most people thought he was just another dead man.
On Friday April 24th J.P. Walker, Preacher Lee, Crip Reyer and L.C. Davis got into Reyer’s Oldsmobile and they took off on a mission to kill Mark Charles Parker. (3 other cars of men followed) They went to the courthouse/jail in Poplarville and they could not get in. So they went to Jewel Alford’s House (The jail keeper) to get the keys to the Jail. Alford went with the four men to the courthouse. When he got there he went in and down the hall to Sheriff Moody’s office and got the keys to the jail. He opened the door to the jail and Lee, Reyer, Davis, Walker followed Alford into the jail. Alford then opened Parkers cell and Lee and Davis pulled Parker out of the jail and courthouse to the Reyer's Oldsmobile. Alford then left and the men got into the car.
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- on June 23, Williams was driving when a heavy car came up from behind him and tried to force his car off the embankment and over a cliff with a 75 ft. drop off. The bumpers of the two cars were stuck and the cars had to pass right by a highway patrol station, which was a 35 mile and hour zone, but the car was pushing his at 70 miles per hour. Williams started blowing his horn hoping to attract the attention of the patrolmen, but when they saw they just lifted their hands and laughed. He was finally able to rock loose from the other car’s bumper and make a sharp turn into a ditch. He went to the police about it, but they would not do anything because he was black. The police in Monroe never did anything to help blacks
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That is why the media never covers anything like this. We all know that they really don't care about. anything else except for hot topics. The truth really does not mean anything. to them. This we notice in all the cases that the media jumps to wrongful conclusions, such as the Richard Jewel case, the Olympic bombing and the TWA.