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The Central Park Five is a 2012 documentary film about the Central Park jogger case, directed by documentary filmmaker Ken Burns, his daughter Sarah Burns, and her husband David McMahon. [1] It covers the arrests, interrogations, trials, convictions and vacating the convictions of the five men who were teenagers in 1989 at the time of the case.
The Central Park jogger case (sometimes termed the Central Park Five case) was a criminal case concerning the assault and rape of Trisha Meili, a woman who was running in Central Park in Manhattan, New York, on April 19, 1989. [1] [2] Crime in New York City was peaking in the late 1980s and early 1990s as the crack epidemic surged.
When They See Us is based on events of the April 19, 1989, Central Park jogger case and explores the lives of the five suspects who were prosecuted on charges related to the sexual assault of a female victim, and of their families.
Due to statute of limitations in New York, Reyes was not charged, but it led to the exoneration of the Central Park Five. The New York Supreme Court vacated the convictions on Dec. 19, 2002.
However, over a decade later, DNA evidence proved their innocence, and the group is currently known as the Exonerated Five. C.P.R. workshop informs teens how to handle police encounters
Salaam is a member of the “Central Park Five” – a group of Black and Hispanic youths Trump once called to be executed for a crime they were later they later exonerated of.
Sarah Burns is an American author, public speaker, and filmmaker.She is the author of The Central Park Five: A Chronicle of a City Wilding.She is also the co-producer and director for the documentary film The Central Park Five which she co-produced and directed with her husband David McMahon and her father Ken Burns.
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