The Central Park Five Discussion Questions

The movie about The Central Park Five produced by Ken Burns, it about the story of the five black boy (Korey Wise, sixteen years old, Kevin Richardson, fourteen years old, Yusef Salaam, fifteen years old and Antron McCray, thirteen years old) and one Latino (Raymond Santana, fourteen years old), so they were wrongly convicted of rape a white woman in New York City in April, 1989. In about 1984 in New York City it was danger and people were selling drugs, gang’s wars, and the economy was terrible. Also, the building was old fashioned, the people sleeping on the street, they used drugs, and people was afraid to walk in the city. One night people throwing rocks a black girl and the same night Kevin Richardson, Raymond Santana and Korey Wise were detained at the Central Park. …show more content…
She was beaten and raped. The boys were in custody and the police questioned to boys a range fourteen to thirty hours. Also, the police did the statement and the boys just assigned it. The district attorney Elizabeth and one detective, they ask again to Korey Wise with sixteen years old about what happen in Central Park but Korey was frustrated. Also, the detective told to Korey just told the story and he want to make sure he do it, so they did the same process with all boys and they don’t gave an opportunity to them. So, their families were confused at the time because they didn’t asked anything about the process and also they didn’t check the statement of their children. The media just was talk about the case and about the justice that police did with the boys. Under New York laws these teenager were treat as adult and sent to adult