In the documentary movie, The Central Park Five, when the media is reporting the park jogger case with two completely different tones, it failed to comply a basic moral principle: to be objective on any cases. Extreme descriptions such as “wilding” and “wolf pack” exaggerate the negative image of these teenagers, even though who are actually innocent in this case. The media is trying to plant prejudices in the public’s mind, to make decisions for them to treat the five teenager suspects as pure evil and abominable culprits. The media also uses positive words to emphasize that the victim is so fragile, soft, innocent and unfortunate, but these words are more useful to reflect the suspects’ vicious characterization. What the media does here is obviously not fair and objective because the news reports directly ignite the fuse of the public’s fury. It deprives the chance for people to doubt, reconsider or even think about this case.
2. When the police started to isolate each teenager and confront them about the case, the tactics and questioning strategies that the police used were unethical and unfair, especially when they put too much pressure on the fragile teenagers. These questioning tactics may sometimes be useful on questioning adult criminals, but they would only …show more content…
I was shocked when I knew from the movie that there was another terrible raping case undergoing in the New York City, yet it was all covered up because the rapist and the victim have the same skin color. In other words, the central park five’s fundamental rite of passage was stripped and they had to spend the best years of their lives in police stations, courts and cells mostly because this case was suspected to be an interracial one. I was astonished that in 1989, or even today, in the “country of freedom and justice,” the judicial system is still dedicated at picking other races’ mistakes and if a black or Hispanic young man went one step wrong, he will be punished terribly with “rational”
2. When the police started to isolate each teenager and confront them about the case, the tactics and questioning strategies that the police used were unethical and unfair, especially when they put too much pressure on the fragile teenagers. These questioning tactics may sometimes be useful on questioning adult criminals, but they would only …show more content…
I was shocked when I knew from the movie that there was another terrible raping case undergoing in the New York City, yet it was all covered up because the rapist and the victim have the same skin color. In other words, the central park five’s fundamental rite of passage was stripped and they had to spend the best years of their lives in police stations, courts and cells mostly because this case was suspected to be an interracial one. I was astonished that in 1989, or even today, in the “country of freedom and justice,” the judicial system is still dedicated at picking other races’ mistakes and if a black or Hispanic young man went one step wrong, he will be punished terribly with “rational”