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Exclusive: Yusef Salaam of the Central Park Five Says City’s Recent Document Dump Is One-Sided, Prejudicial and Biased

Seemingly out of nowhere last Friday, the city of New York, via its law department, released a trove of documents on the notorious “Central Park Five” or “Central Park Jogger” rape case, a 1989 assault that rocked the city along its already precarious racial fault lines. In April of that year, a white investment banker,…

By

Angela Helm

Published

July 30, 2018
Criminal Justice, News, Social Justice

NYC Releases Thousands of Documents on the Central Park Five Case, Prosecutor In Case Says the Five Weren't 'Deserving' of Settlement

On Thursday night New York City released several thousand documents, recordings and other materials detailing the notorious Central Park Five case. The story of the Central Park Five should be a stranger to no one. It was only decades after their initial conviction that defendants Kharey Wise, Antron McCray, Kevin Richardson, Raymond Santana and Yusef…

By

Breanna Edwards

Published

July 20, 2018