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Matias Reyes: I showed them
the top of the entrance,

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the direction she came by.

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I showed them where
she made the turn.

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I showed them where I
picked up the tree branch

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and down the road where

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I struck her over the
head with the tree branch

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and where I dragged her in.

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She just kept
moaning, you know,

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saying stop, and
grabbing her head.

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You know, because she was in
pain and all that, you know.

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She was bleeding.

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I can't explain to you what
happened after I left there,

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that park that night.

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But I can guarantee you, that
there was no way these kids

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saw this woman come
in or have a idea of

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where she was coming from.

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I'm the one that did this.

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- Ready?
- Yeah.

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Approximately 1:30
this morning, ah,

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two males walking
through Central Park

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north of the 102nd street
jogging path found a female.

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She was still alive, and
in fact still is alive.

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The female was clad
only in a bra.

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She was lying exposed
in the area,

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appeared to have been exposed
for a couple of hours.

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Her body temperature
was down very low.

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Around her mouth there's
an article of clothing

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that was wrapped
around her face,

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and the same article was used
to bind her wrists to her face.

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She had been struck around
the head repeatedly,

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mud on her body.

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She appears to have been
dragged through the woods,

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north into the, ah, shrub area.

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She was taken to Metropolitan
Hospital where she is classified

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as, ah, in serious condition.

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I look back at the jogger
case and wish I had been

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more skeptical as a journalist.

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You know, a lot of people
didn't do their jobs...

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reporters, police,
prosecutors, defense lawyers.

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This was a proxy
war being fought.

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And these young men
were the proxies

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for all kinds of other agendas.

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And the truth and the reality and
justice were not part of it.

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The bulls are galloping...

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Do you have a
passport, Mr. Gotti?

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Given the alarming spread
of aids, New York...

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If you don't like
it, you're fired.

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Tom Brokaw: A savage
racial attack...

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In the middle-class
neighborhood of Howard Beach...

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A mob of whites
attacked 3 black men...

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Peter Jennings: The mayor of New
York called it a racial lynching.

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Yo, off with
the camera, man.

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New York, under-policed city
with crime out of control.

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The criminal justice
system isn't working.

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They call him the
subway vigilante.

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Dan Rather: Goetz bent over one
of his wounded victims and said,

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"You don't look too bad.
Here's another"...

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If I had more bullets, I
would have shot them all

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again and again.

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It's about time someone
stood up for himself.

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25-year-old
Michael Stewart...

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16-year-old
Yusef Hawkins...

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Where 67-year-old
Eleanor Bumpers lived

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until police came to evict her
and ended up killing her.

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New York is now the capital
of racial violence.

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I am. People: I am!

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Somebody. Somebody!

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You want to use the
gun, we'll use the gun.

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None of us is safe. Even
if you lock yourself

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behind doors...

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There's now a new level of
random violence in this city.

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It's intolerable and this
city will rise up in its wrath

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against those who
perpetrate monstrosities.

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Antron McCray: Harlem. 1989.

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My neighborhood, it's
a small neighborhood.

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When I was younger, all
the kids would say

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it was the suburbs of Harlem.

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It was like 3 different projects
around my neighborhood.

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Raymond Santana,
Kevin Richardson,

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Korey Wise, Yusef Salaam,
I didn't know them,

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but I seen them around
my neighborhood.

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I lived in the
Bronx at one time,

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and the Bronx is
more quiet life.

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You know, um, even though
it was the projects.

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It was very secluded,
everybody knew each other.

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When I moved to Harlem,
Harlem was very fast-paced.

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Everything moved fast.

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The cars moved fast; The
people; The, the lingo.

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It was a big culture shock.

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McCray: I was the only child.

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And me and my mother,
we was close,

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but my father was
my best friend.

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I thought he was
like a superhero.

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He coached all of my
little league teams.

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He was a great teacher.

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I played shortstop,
I played pitcher.

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In little league, you get
to play everything...

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outfield, catcher.

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But my favorite
position was shortstop.

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Santana, Jr.: My dad
is from Puerto Rico.

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My mother's a mix of
Puerto Rican and Black.

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So, my dad is, like,
light-skinned Puerto Ricans.

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And my mother's side was
more, like, dark skin.

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You know, so we have, like,
the best of both worlds.

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I used to
ride skateboards.

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I used to play things like hide
and go seek and, you know,

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used to run around with
a lot of the people

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from the neighborhood.

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As a kid, I knew Yusef

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and I must say he
was a good kid.

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Ah, he had, ah... Him and his
family ah, had just moved

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into the Schomburg Complex.

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Korey and Yusef, we grew
up in the same buildin'.

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So, you know, of course I've
seen 'em around and our parents

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knew each other from
just day-to-day.

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Salaam: It was my mother,
my sister, and my brother.

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And my mother was
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teaching at Parsons University.

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She encouraged all of us to do
good work, good quality work.

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Whatever we did.

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Wise: When I was a kid,
had a little hearin',

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little hearin' problem.

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But I just found myself just
ignorin' it to the point

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where it affected my life.

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I grew up with a big family.

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A lot of women in my family.

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My mother plus 4 sisters.

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Woman: He's the baby and
he was treated as such.

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And, you know, mama's only boy
out of 5 children and the baby.

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So he was just our hearts',
like, joy, everybody's.

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Santana, Jr.: At
that time I was

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just getting into music.

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Watching videos.
"MTV Raps" was kinda big,

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so, we, we watched that.

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We would record the videos and
we would watch 'em over and over

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and over all day, you know.

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You know, my dad would
come in the house, say,

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"You still watching that
video from when I left?"

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You know, that's how
far my range was.

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I think that I was at that point
of coming into who I was,

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you know, but I never really...
I never really got there.

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New York in the late
1980s was a completely

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schizophrenic, divided city.

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There was enormous wealth
gushing into the city

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out of the rise of the financial
industries, which had surged

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beginning around 1980.

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So, the city that had
been in a big collapse

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for several decades
had turned around.

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But there was a whole side to the
city in which drug gangsters

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and crack and a kind of hard,
permanently locked underclass

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was in place.

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And there was
enormous suffering.

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It was as if there
was a social moat

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that divided these
two New Yorks.

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The city, when I came in,
uh, was on the edge of, uh,

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bankruptcy, and people thought
we would not, uh, recover.

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We were a city coming out of

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a series of crises and an
enormous economic crisis.

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A school system that
was in collapse;

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political institutions that
seemed to be failing the people

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and not meeting their needs;

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old, fashionable, beautiful,

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noble neighborhoods
falling apart.

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Koch: And, of course,
overriding was crime.

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Several things happened to
me that I just considered

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normal part of living
in New York City.

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A couple of muggings
and near muggings

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and I didn't even report
any of these things.

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Just kind of figured
it's the way it is.

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People had it worked
out in their heads

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that their block was safe,
the streets they walked

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to get to the subway to
go to work, they were OK.

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Their subway line, they
got on the same spot

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on the train every day.

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That was OK.

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They had figured out a safe
path through this, ah...

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You know, garden of terrors.

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Koch: And then in about '84,
crack came to New York City

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and that increased crime.

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No question, uh, about it.

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Wilder: When the
crack wars happen,

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all of a sudden teenagers
have lots of cash and guns.

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And all hell breaks loose
in Bedford-Stuyvesant,

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all hell breaks loose in Harlem,

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all hell breaks loose in
Brownsville, East New York.

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We were supposed to be afraid.

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It would have been
irrational not to be afraid.

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But the people who suffered most
with the rise of criminality,

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gang wars, drug wars, were
actually the people we blamed.

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Most of the homicides
were young, poor,

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working class black
and brown kids.

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And the dominant
social message was

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no one cared if you
lived or died.

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As far as I'm concerned,
in the late eighties,

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in New York City, the black
community was under assault.

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"The most endangered
species in America,"

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that was a popular phrase,
was the young black man.

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Richardson: It was
a nice night.

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We was just, um, just hanging
out outside, playing basketball

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where I lived at in Schomburg.

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Santana, Jr.: It was
a holiday coming up.

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We didn't have school.

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A couple of friends
wanted to go hang out.

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I told him, you know, ah,

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"Too much trouble
in the corner.

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Um, go to the park."

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I sent him to that
park that night.

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So, I feel guilt, too.

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Wise: I was comin'
from a restaurant

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on the corner of 110th street.

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We walked over to 110th street.

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Almost in front of the
entrance to Schomburg Plaza.

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Comin' from 110th and Madison,
there was a group of people.

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I see this mob
turning the corner.

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Wise: Good kids and bad kids.

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Kids just out to have some fun.

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McCray: Some of them I
didn't know by face;

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some of them went to my school;

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some of them lived
in my neighborhood.

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Yusef came my way.

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I see Korey. I said,

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"Hey, come and hang out.

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We're about to hang
out in the park."

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A close friend of
mine, he stayed back.

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We was all playing basketball
and he was like, "Don't go."

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Like, stay here."

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Next thing I know, we was
going into the park.

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Wise: Walk in, a
few of the guys

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horse playin' with each other.

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Jumpin' on each other's back,
beatin' each other up.

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Just horse playin'.

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We start going towards
the main road.

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And people started throwing
rocks at the cars.

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A couple, they was
on a tandem bike.

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And some kids is harassing 'em
or sayin' something to them.

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Looked like they was
trying to pull 'em off

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and the bicyclists kept
they, held their balance

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and they just kept goin'.

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A homeless person starts
walking across the street

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and the guys surround him.

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McCray: He had some food.

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Some of the guys
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took his food, beat him up.

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Salaam: They were beating
this guy up really badly,

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and at some point in
time someone poured out

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a beer bottle, and then smashed
him in the head with it.

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You know, it was
kinda unbelievable

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to see that and, and to see,
like, this guy getting,

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you know, jumped on by
all these teenagers.

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McCray: I remember police
coming, everybody split up.

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Santana, Jr.: They shined a
light and the group kind of

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dispersed. Everybody ran.

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That's when it was time
for me to go home.

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I left the park when
everybody scattered.

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Santana, Jr.: We was gonna
leave but somebody said,

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"Well, let's go find
the rest of the guys

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"and we'll break out.

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"We'll go home." And
that's what we did.

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Salaam: We crossed down onto
the 96th street traverse

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and climbed up the rocks
to the other side.

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We was by a reservoir.

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I remember a man running
by and some kids that are

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throwing rocks at him.

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And he kept running.

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Another person came running by.

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And when he got in the middle,
they kind of came out

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and they jumped on him.

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We was watching from a distance.
I didn't take part in that.

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And I'm like, wow, this
guy just picked him up

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and threw him into the gate.

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Then he just starts punching
him and beating him.

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And then somebody
yelled, "Police."

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Richardson: Commotion.

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Some kids, like,
running that way,

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and some kids going
the other way.

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Trying to find our way outside,

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out of the park.

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McCray: I think it was
between, like, 9:00 and 10:00.

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I was leaving the park
around that time,

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because I had a curfew.

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Salaam: I remember walking with
this small group to the 1,

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2, and the 3 train on Broadway.

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The only crime I
committed that night

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was I hopped the turnstile.

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Santana, Jr.: On
Central Park West,

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a car pulled up in front of me

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and two officers jumped out.

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And one grabbed me.
And, um... And,

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and when I turned back,
the crowd scattered

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and everybody ran.

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Police was chasing
me and I had

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nowhere else to go, so, there
was a wall and you jump

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over the wall, you go
back into the park.

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They handcuffed us
and put in the car.

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And then his partner ran and
he jumped over the wall

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into the park and he took off.

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Richardson: Somebody told me
to, "Freeze or I will shoot."

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My fear even went up more
so I just kept runnin'.

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One of the cops, he tackled me.

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All my clothes was just
all dirty and muddy.

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And he had a helmet, and he
swung it across my face.

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And he handcuffed me
and I said, um...

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I thinks he said, um,
like, "What's goin' on?"

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And he said,

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he was like, you know, "Didn't
I tell you not to run?"

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Like, you, it's like "You
little, little animal"

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or something.

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So, um, I basically said, "Oh, I
didn't do nothin', you know."

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And we sat in the police
cars for a while.

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They rounded up a few people

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and we proceeded
to the precinct.

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Santana, Jr.:
They brung us in.

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They took shots,
ah... photos of us

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and then they put us in a room.

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Richardson: 14.
Never got arrested.

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Never had handcuffs on me.

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Scared to death.

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I could recall one
cop lookin' at me.

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He says, "What's
that on your face?"

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And ha, I, I said, um,
"One of your one, of your,

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your fellow workers hit me."

322
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And he said, "One of
my, my fellow workers?"

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Where at? Come point
him out to me."

324
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You know, like I was lying.

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They asked me what was going on
next, and the guys are sayin',

326
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"wW'll give you a ticket for
family court and you'll,

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00:19:35,608 --> 00:19:38,126
you'll be right outta here
in no, in no time soon."

328
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We were sitting there
for a long time.

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Richardson: It took
a while but they

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begin to call parents.

331
00:19:55,905 --> 00:19:59,209
Black: My mother received
a call from the precinct

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and they told her to come
pick up Kevin up from, um,

333
00:20:02,428 --> 00:20:05,144
it was the Central Park precinct
and that he had been picked up

334
00:20:05,164 --> 00:20:08,614
for, I believe it was
unlawful assembly.

335
00:20:08,634 --> 00:20:12,684
3 policemen knock
on my door and say,

336
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"Oh, you ain't know your son
was in the police station?"

337
00:20:15,340 --> 00:20:16,855
I said, "No."

338
00:20:16,875 --> 00:20:18,823
And they tell me,
"Come on, let's go."

339
00:20:18,843 --> 00:20:20,325
I had to get dressed.

340
00:20:20,345 --> 00:20:22,594
And then my mother was there,

341
00:20:22,614 --> 00:20:23,928
and she got scared.

342
00:20:23,948 --> 00:20:25,764
And she said, "I
going with you."

343
00:20:25,784 --> 00:20:28,767
So, she went with me.

344
00:20:28,787 --> 00:20:31,535
I started seeing a
lot of parents.

345
00:20:31,555 --> 00:20:34,405
We feelin' a little
better, you know,

346
00:20:34,425 --> 00:20:37,626
thinkin' that we,
that we gonna be OK.

347
00:20:49,538 --> 00:20:51,154
Woman: The jogger was
discovered about

348
00:20:51,174 --> 00:20:53,957
1:30 in the morning
by passersby.

349
00:20:53,977 --> 00:20:58,861
She was in the underbrush in the
northern reaches of the park

350
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and she was taken to
Metropolitan Hospital.

351
00:21:02,484 --> 00:21:04,533
Dwyer: Her skull
was fractured.

352
00:21:04,553 --> 00:21:09,172
She lost a good deal
of her body fluids.

353
00:21:09,192 --> 00:21:12,759
She was virtually dead.

354
00:21:14,562 --> 00:21:18,513
The kids were about to be
released when a detective

355
00:21:18,533 --> 00:21:21,916
who realized the gravity of
the injuries of the victim

356
00:21:21,936 --> 00:21:26,620
called the precinct and said,
"Hold on to those guys."

357
00:21:26,640 --> 00:21:28,255
And it was from
that moment forward

358
00:21:28,275 --> 00:21:32,378
that everything
plowed towards them.

359
00:21:35,181 --> 00:21:37,331
Black: The next time I
heard from my mother,

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she woke me up.

361
00:21:38,418 --> 00:21:39,566
And, ah, she says,

362
00:21:39,586 --> 00:21:41,968
"I'm still here
at the precinct."

363
00:21:41,988 --> 00:21:43,504
And I says, "Well, why
are you still there?"

364
00:21:43,524 --> 00:21:46,239
And she said, um,
"Well, they sayin'

365
00:21:46,259 --> 00:21:47,907
they waitin' for paperwork."

366
00:21:47,927 --> 00:21:49,509
I was wondering what's wrong.

367
00:21:49,529 --> 00:21:52,111
And I told 'em if I could see my
son because I saw him next door

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00:21:52,131 --> 00:21:54,079
in the room with all the kids.

369
00:21:54,099 --> 00:21:57,416
And they said, "No, you
gotta wait till morning."

370
00:21:57,436 --> 00:22:01,086
So I tell my mother, "Stay with
him and let me to go to work."

371
00:22:01,106 --> 00:22:03,555
They probably gonna release
him in the morning anyway.

372
00:22:03,575 --> 00:22:07,377
I don't see nothin' wrong
and I went to work.

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00:22:20,891 --> 00:22:23,074
Dwyer: Initially, the case
was going to be handled

374
00:22:23,094 --> 00:22:25,042
by the Central Park precinct.

375
00:22:25,062 --> 00:22:29,480
But she was thought to be near
death, and homicide cases are

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00:22:29,500 --> 00:22:32,215
handled typically by
these homicide squads.

377
00:22:32,235 --> 00:22:36,319
And Manhattan North was
a prestigious bunch

378
00:22:36,339 --> 00:22:37,320
of detectives

379
00:22:37,340 --> 00:22:39,423
with a great deal of
pride in their work

380
00:22:39,443 --> 00:22:42,159
and swagger in their step.

381
00:22:42,179 --> 00:22:47,196
Two prosecutors, Linda Fairstein
and Elizabeth Lederer.

382
00:22:47,216 --> 00:22:49,866
They were part of
the investigation.

383
00:22:49,886 --> 00:22:52,835
And they were operating
not only as prosecutors

384
00:22:52,855 --> 00:22:53,787
but investigators.

385
00:22:59,326 --> 00:23:02,244
Byfield: I was getting
ready for work

386
00:23:02,264 --> 00:23:04,613
and I heard the news.

387
00:23:04,633 --> 00:23:09,585
And instantly your mind
goes into the calculus.

388
00:23:09,605 --> 00:23:10,685
An unidentified white woman

389
00:23:10,705 --> 00:23:12,687
found raped in
Northern Central Park.

390
00:23:12,707 --> 00:23:13,888
Oh.

391
00:23:13,908 --> 00:23:15,623
I think virtually every

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00:23:15,643 --> 00:23:17,992
ethnic and racial group in New
York has these moments where

393
00:23:18,012 --> 00:23:21,362
you, your, your heart just sort
of stops and your stomach turns

394
00:23:21,382 --> 00:23:24,164
and you think to yourself, oh,
please don't let it be us.

395
00:23:24,184 --> 00:23:27,134
...Police have 5 teenagers
in custody right now...

396
00:23:27,154 --> 00:23:29,336
Richardson: First we
was all together.

397
00:23:29,356 --> 00:23:34,125
Then they started to put us in
different rooms separately.

398
00:23:36,229 --> 00:23:37,911
Different cops coming
back and forth.

399
00:23:37,931 --> 00:23:41,148
And one cop sayin', "Well, we
just heard that a woman was"

400
00:23:41,168 --> 00:23:44,317
raped and beaten in the park."

401
00:23:44,337 --> 00:23:46,352
Now he says, "What
happened to the lady?"

402
00:23:46,372 --> 00:23:48,654
And I'm saying, "What lady?"

403
00:23:48,674 --> 00:23:50,857
And he says, "What do
you mean what lady?"

404
00:23:50,877 --> 00:23:53,558
The lady who got
raped in the park."

405
00:23:53,578 --> 00:23:55,261
I say, "Yeah, I was in the park."

406
00:23:55,281 --> 00:23:59,197
"And I was, yeah, I was,
you know, all around.

407
00:23:59,217 --> 00:24:00,198
But that I don't know about."

408
00:24:00,218 --> 00:24:01,300
"What do you mean
you don't know?

409
00:24:01,320 --> 00:24:02,601
You just... " And I said, " No.

410
00:24:02,621 --> 00:24:05,871
Never came across no lady."

411
00:24:05,891 --> 00:24:07,539
So now we going back
through the statement

412
00:24:07,559 --> 00:24:08,907
from the top, again.

413
00:24:08,927 --> 00:24:10,775
"What did you do?"
"Who were you with?"

414
00:24:10,795 --> 00:24:14,845
"Who did you come with?"
And, um, same answers again.

415
00:24:14,865 --> 00:24:17,014
They gettin' a little
angry 'cause I guess

416
00:24:17,034 --> 00:24:19,536
they not gettin' a
word outta anybody.

417
00:24:21,271 --> 00:24:23,654
Dwyer: The detectives are
trying to piece together

418
00:24:23,674 --> 00:24:26,623
a narrative of what happened and
they're trying to make it fit

419
00:24:26,643 --> 00:24:29,994
what they know happened:
A woman ended up

420
00:24:30,014 --> 00:24:34,031
at the bottom of a ravine
in the park almost dead

421
00:24:34,051 --> 00:24:37,433
and a bunch of other
people got hassled or hurt

422
00:24:37,453 --> 00:24:38,735
in some way by these kids.

423
00:24:38,755 --> 00:24:43,473
So, they're trying to
make the story climb

424
00:24:43,493 --> 00:24:45,341
some sort of ladder of facts.

425
00:24:45,361 --> 00:24:49,045
All hell is breaking loose
in Central Park that night.

426
00:24:49,065 --> 00:24:52,682
And there are gangs of kids
running around making mischief.

427
00:24:52,702 --> 00:24:55,851
It's not so hard to understand
why these kids were brought in,

428
00:24:55,871 --> 00:24:58,921
why they were interrogated
so aggressively,

429
00:24:58,941 --> 00:25:02,824
why police believed
they had amongst them

430
00:25:02,844 --> 00:25:05,560
the culprit or culprits.

431
00:25:05,580 --> 00:25:07,247
Now they just have to
get the proof of it.

432
00:25:09,550 --> 00:25:11,299
Santana, Jr.: Another
detective came into the room,

433
00:25:11,319 --> 00:25:13,000
he called my grandmother.

434
00:25:13,020 --> 00:25:16,337
And he said, "Listen, can I talk
to you outside for a minute?"

435
00:25:16,357 --> 00:25:19,473
And when he took her outside,
that's when it started.

436
00:25:19,493 --> 00:25:20,841
He looks at me. He's like,

437
00:25:20,861 --> 00:25:24,010
"Oh, this is the scumbag
right here that did it."

438
00:25:24,030 --> 00:25:26,447
Richardson: I remember one
guy specifically tell me,

439
00:25:26,467 --> 00:25:29,149
"You want to spend 25 to
life on Rikers Island?"

440
00:25:29,169 --> 00:25:30,550
You want to go to
jail for rape?

441
00:25:30,570 --> 00:25:31,985
"'Cause they don't like
guys that rape women,"

442
00:25:32,005 --> 00:25:33,753
and things like that.

443
00:25:33,773 --> 00:25:38,390
You know, and I'm saying, like,
I'm, I'm, I'm tellin' the guy,

444
00:25:38,410 --> 00:25:41,293
"I don't know what
you're talkin' about."

445
00:25:41,313 --> 00:25:42,995
Santana, Jr.: Now the
other officer comes in.

446
00:25:43,015 --> 00:25:45,164
He had about red
hair, a short guy.

447
00:25:45,184 --> 00:25:48,167
And he was like, "Oh, so this is the...
right here."

448
00:25:48,187 --> 00:25:50,436
And Arroyo says, "Yeah,
this is the guy here."

449
00:25:50,456 --> 00:25:52,538
He doesn't want to tell
us what happened."

450
00:25:52,558 --> 00:25:55,641
And I'm sittin' there like,
"Ah, what's going on?"

451
00:25:55,661 --> 00:25:59,010
And now Arroyo starts to
yell at me and then this guy

452
00:25:59,030 --> 00:26:00,378
pulls up a chair next to me.

453
00:26:00,398 --> 00:26:02,047
He starts to yell
right in my ear.

454
00:26:02,067 --> 00:26:05,650
So I have Arroyo here yellin'
at me, blowing smoke in my face

455
00:26:05,670 --> 00:26:07,585
with the cigarette, and then
I have this guy on my side

456
00:26:07,605 --> 00:26:08,953
and he's yellin' at me.

457
00:26:08,973 --> 00:26:10,588
And they're like, "You know you...
did it."

458
00:26:10,608 --> 00:26:12,790
You... stuck your... in her, right?
Didn't you?"

459
00:26:12,810 --> 00:26:14,558
And I'm like, "What are
you talkin' about?"

460
00:26:14,578 --> 00:26:17,061
I didn't stick
nothin' in nobody."

461
00:26:17,081 --> 00:26:21,065
And I start to cry a little bit.
And then Hartigan jumps in.

462
00:26:21,085 --> 00:26:24,635
And I was grateful, you know,
at that point I was grateful

463
00:26:24,655 --> 00:26:27,037
'cause Hartigan stopped him
from trying to hurt me.

464
00:26:27,057 --> 00:26:28,372
Then again, the other
guy come back in

465
00:26:28,392 --> 00:26:32,609
screamin' and yellin, '
violating my personal space,

466
00:26:32,629 --> 00:26:35,044
so close to spittin' on me.

467
00:26:35,064 --> 00:26:37,480
And then my mother, she came
to the door, and she said,

468
00:26:37,500 --> 00:26:38,514
"I need to see my son.

469
00:26:38,534 --> 00:26:39,882
I need to see my son."

470
00:26:39,902 --> 00:26:42,585
I looked out when I seen one of
the detectives, um, you know,

471
00:26:42,605 --> 00:26:45,855
take her by the shoulder,
put her back to her chair.

472
00:26:45,875 --> 00:26:48,357
And while he's talking to
her, they close the door

473
00:26:48,377 --> 00:26:49,759
and they questioning me.

474
00:26:49,779 --> 00:26:57,399
They knew that my mother was, was
a weak person, was disabled.

475
00:26:57,419 --> 00:26:59,301
And they, they used
that, you know.

476
00:26:59,321 --> 00:27:00,336
They used that.

477
00:27:00,356 --> 00:27:04,072
The officers, they
actually met me outside.

478
00:27:04,092 --> 00:27:05,973
They were like, "Oh,
your mother's, you know",

479
00:27:05,993 --> 00:27:09,244
"she's not well and since
you're, you know, of age,

480
00:27:09,264 --> 00:27:10,979
"you can stay and replace
your mother and we'll

481
00:27:10,999 --> 00:27:15,582
send her on home in a squad car,
and we'll make sure she's OK."

482
00:27:15,602 --> 00:27:18,952
And they said, "She was
cooperating with this process."

483
00:27:18,972 --> 00:27:21,822
So we sure that you're
gonna cooperate as well."

484
00:27:21,842 --> 00:27:24,324
So that, in they
constantly kept saying,

485
00:27:24,344 --> 00:27:25,658
"So that your brother
can go home."

486
00:27:25,678 --> 00:27:26,793
So that your brother
could go home.

487
00:27:26,813 --> 00:27:28,394
"So that..." And
that's all I wanted.

488
00:27:28,414 --> 00:27:29,947
I just wanted to
get him back home.

489
00:27:43,462 --> 00:27:45,677
McCray: There was a
loud knock at the door.

490
00:27:45,697 --> 00:27:47,913
It was 3 or 4 detectives.

491
00:27:47,933 --> 00:27:50,148
I thought they was there
because of the assaults

492
00:27:50,168 --> 00:27:51,768
on the people in Central Park.

493
00:27:53,671 --> 00:27:56,354
My father, he let them come in.

494
00:27:56,374 --> 00:27:57,956
These men, they looked
like giants, you know,

495
00:27:57,976 --> 00:28:00,091
compared to my father.

496
00:28:00,111 --> 00:28:02,426
He asked me to put
some sneakers on.

497
00:28:02,446 --> 00:28:05,830
He told my father he was going
to take me down to the precinct.

498
00:28:05,850 --> 00:28:07,798
My father called my mother,

499
00:28:07,818 --> 00:28:11,135
and my mother met
us at the precinct.

500
00:28:11,155 --> 00:28:15,306
They was asking me questions a
female jogger in Central Park.

501
00:28:15,326 --> 00:28:17,507
And I was like, "There
was only one woman",

502
00:28:17,527 --> 00:28:19,510
"and she was with
a man on a bike.

503
00:28:19,530 --> 00:28:21,177
But they rolled off."

504
00:28:21,197 --> 00:28:24,314
And he was like, "You
sure?" I was like, "Yeah."

505
00:28:24,334 --> 00:28:26,583
"What about the lady
that got raped?"

506
00:28:26,603 --> 00:28:30,220
I'm like, "What lady
that got raped?"

507
00:28:30,240 --> 00:28:32,387
They just kept asking me about
this lady that got raped.

508
00:28:32,407 --> 00:28:35,491
And I kept telling them,
"There was only one lady."

509
00:28:35,511 --> 00:28:38,528
They asked my mother
to leave the room.

510
00:28:38,548 --> 00:28:40,195
I'm looking at my
father and he's like,

511
00:28:40,215 --> 00:28:41,363
"Are you telling the truth?"

512
00:28:41,383 --> 00:28:42,532
I was like, "Yeah, Dad,
I'm telling the truth."

513
00:28:42,552 --> 00:28:44,333
I swear I'm telling the truth."

514
00:28:44,353 --> 00:28:46,869
I always told my
father the truth.

515
00:28:46,889 --> 00:28:48,837
"I know nothing about no jogger.

516
00:28:48,857 --> 00:28:50,205
"I know some people
got beaten up,

517
00:28:50,225 --> 00:28:52,708
but I had nothing
to do with that."

518
00:28:52,728 --> 00:28:55,711
Then they asked me to
tell my story again.

519
00:28:55,731 --> 00:28:57,513
This time yelling at me.

520
00:28:57,533 --> 00:29:01,667
All up in my face, pointing
at me, poking me in my chest.

521
00:29:04,504 --> 00:29:07,155
It just kept going
on and on and on.

522
00:29:07,175 --> 00:29:11,057
We stopped a few times
because I was crying.

523
00:29:11,077 --> 00:29:15,963
And I had no protection. My
father didn't do anything.

524
00:29:15,983 --> 00:29:17,982
I was scared.

525
00:29:20,920 --> 00:29:22,335
Santana, Jr.: Hours
have passed.

526
00:29:22,355 --> 00:29:24,037
Richardson: Time kept going by.

527
00:29:24,057 --> 00:29:25,539
McCray: They kept
asking questions.

528
00:29:25,559 --> 00:29:27,051
Santana, Jr.: No
food, no drink.

529
00:29:27,071 --> 00:29:30,161
McCray: I didn't eat. I
didn't get no sleep.

530
00:29:30,366 --> 00:29:33,070
Santana, Jr.: And I didn't
know when it was gonna end.

531
00:29:40,370 --> 00:29:43,121
Kassin: Confrontation followed
by denial, followed by:

532
00:29:43,141 --> 00:29:48,044
"You're a liar, I want to hear
the truth" can go on for hours.

533
00:29:48,465 --> 00:29:51,809
And the, the goal there is
to break the suspect down

534
00:29:51,829 --> 00:29:55,473
into a state of despair, into a
state of helplessness, so that

535
00:29:55,493 --> 00:29:59,155
the suspect gets worn down and
is looking for a way out.

536
00:30:00,931 --> 00:30:03,421
McCray: They pulled
my father aside.

537
00:30:03,441 --> 00:30:04,792
Then my father came
back in the room,

538
00:30:04,812 --> 00:30:06,432
it was like he just changed.

539
00:30:06,452 --> 00:30:07,737
He just changed. He
was like, "Listen."

540
00:30:07,757 --> 00:30:08,974
He was like, "Tell these
people what they want to hear"

541
00:30:08,994 --> 00:30:11,785
so you can go home."

542
00:30:11,805 --> 00:30:14,428
If he just would've
stood his ground,

543
00:30:14,448 --> 00:30:15,464
I would've told the truth.

544
00:30:15,484 --> 00:30:16,789
I would've stuck to the truth.

545
00:30:20,837 --> 00:30:22,525
Santana, Jr.: Hartigan
sat down and he said,

546
00:30:22,545 --> 00:30:25,569
"Look, Ray. I know you
didn't do anything wrong.

547
00:30:25,589 --> 00:30:28,413
"But the other guys right now,
they're in other precincts

548
00:30:28,433 --> 00:30:29,919
and they're saying
that you did it."

549
00:30:29,939 --> 00:30:32,427
And they tellin' me,
"Well, you're not

550
00:30:32,447 --> 00:30:35,004
sayin' nothin' but these
guys put your name in it."

551
00:30:35,024 --> 00:30:36,978
And I'm like, "I
didn't do anything."

552
00:30:36,998 --> 00:30:39,019
And he's like, "Well, this is
why I'm here, to help."

553
00:30:39,039 --> 00:30:40,609
"Because I know you didn't do anything.

554
00:30:40,795 --> 00:30:43,240
You're a good kid. You
know, this isn't you."

555
00:30:43,260 --> 00:30:45,638
He pulls out this picture
of Kevin Richardson.

556
00:30:45,658 --> 00:30:47,337
And he goes, "You
know this kid?"

557
00:30:47,357 --> 00:30:49,036
And I'm like, "No,
I don't know him."

558
00:30:49,056 --> 00:30:51,202
And he goes, "You see the
scratch under his eye?"

559
00:30:51,222 --> 00:30:54,099
"That came from the woman.
We know he did it.

560
00:30:54,119 --> 00:30:56,050
He's going down."

561
00:30:57,516 --> 00:31:01,760
At this point I'm like,
you know, like, I don't

562
00:31:01,780 --> 00:31:06,790
know these, these guys that's,
that's there so I'm just gonna

563
00:31:06,810 --> 00:31:11,720
make up somethin' and, and,
include these guys' names.

564
00:31:11,740 --> 00:31:14,152
Ok. If, if, you know, if you're

565
00:31:14,172 --> 00:31:15,983
going to do it to me, then
I'm going to do it to you.

566
00:31:16,003 --> 00:31:18,116
They was coaching me and
I was writing it down.

567
00:31:18,136 --> 00:31:19,748
Santana, Jr.: He
just fed it to me.

568
00:31:19,768 --> 00:31:22,812
"Well, what did he do? What
did Antron McCray do?"

569
00:31:22,832 --> 00:31:25,443
He gave me the names.
I put 'em in.

570
00:31:25,463 --> 00:31:28,576
I couldn't tell you who they
were, who they looked like.

571
00:31:28,596 --> 00:31:32,790
If he woulda gave me a hundred
names, I woulda put a hundred
people at the crime scene.

572
00:31:32,810 --> 00:31:35,009
McCray: And I was like,
"How can they lie?"

573
00:31:35,029 --> 00:31:36,932
So I was like, "I'm
going to get him back."

574
00:31:36,952 --> 00:31:42,441
At that point, I told myself I
just, I just want to go home.

575
00:31:42,461 --> 00:31:44,844
I thought I had the
upper hand because

576
00:31:44,864 --> 00:31:47,011
here I was, I had a
detective who was saying,

577
00:31:47,031 --> 00:31:49,081
"I'll make sure you go home."

578
00:31:49,101 --> 00:31:52,047
McCray: I was thinking that I
was never going to go home.

579
00:31:52,483 --> 00:31:54,530
I gave these people what
they want to hear.

580
00:31:54,774 --> 00:31:56,094
So I lied.

581
00:31:57,234 --> 00:31:58,108
I lied.

582
00:31:59,582 --> 00:32:01,033
I say, "Well, you
know, this is where"

583
00:32:01,053 --> 00:32:03,370
it happened at the reservoir."

584
00:32:03,390 --> 00:32:06,606
You know, I'm placing the scene
of the crime at the reservoir.

585
00:32:06,626 --> 00:32:08,441
And, and he just, he
doesn't really say

586
00:32:08,461 --> 00:32:11,209
but he gives me this look like,
"What are you talking about?"

587
00:32:11,229 --> 00:32:13,479
McCray: He asked me
what she was wearing.

588
00:32:13,499 --> 00:32:14,879
I didn't know because
I wasn't there.

589
00:32:14,899 --> 00:32:18,551
So I remember one of the men
joggers that got assaulted,

590
00:32:18,571 --> 00:32:20,553
he had blue shorts
and a white shirt.

591
00:32:20,573 --> 00:32:22,955
That's what I said she had on.

592
00:32:22,975 --> 00:32:25,523
And then he said, "It's
gotta be more believable."

593
00:32:25,543 --> 00:32:27,560
"You know, Ray, people
don't fully believe it

594
00:32:27,580 --> 00:32:28,562
if you just saw it."

595
00:32:28,582 --> 00:32:29,561
He said, "Where were you?"

596
00:32:29,581 --> 00:32:31,063
And I said, "I saw
it from a distance."

597
00:32:31,083 --> 00:32:32,230
I was watching."

598
00:32:32,250 --> 00:32:34,100
And he said, "No,
you gotta be in it."

599
00:32:34,120 --> 00:32:36,668
Like, you have to be there."

600
00:32:36,688 --> 00:32:39,170
McCray: As the time just,
you know, went on,

601
00:32:39,190 --> 00:32:41,540
and my father wasn't
doing nothing.

602
00:32:41,560 --> 00:32:44,142
So, I was just like,
"I, whatever, yeah.

603
00:32:44,162 --> 00:32:47,631
"I had something to do with
it," just to get out of there.

604
00:32:49,467 --> 00:32:52,817
[Reading] Then we saw
this lady jogger.

605
00:32:52,837 --> 00:32:55,054
She had on gray shorts
with black biking pants

606
00:32:55,074 --> 00:32:56,554
and a white tank top.

607
00:32:56,574 --> 00:32:59,156
[Reading] I observed
the male, black Kevin,

608
00:32:59,176 --> 00:33:02,627
with scratch on face was
struggling with a female.

609
00:33:02,647 --> 00:33:04,429
McCray, reading: The
tall, thin black guy

610
00:33:04,449 --> 00:33:05,930
hit her in the ribs with a pipe.

611
00:33:05,950 --> 00:33:08,066
[Reading] I moved back
and everybody started

612
00:33:08,086 --> 00:33:09,366
feeling on her.

613
00:33:09,386 --> 00:33:12,504
[Reading] Antron came and started
ripping her clothes off.

614
00:33:12,524 --> 00:33:14,524
McCray, reading: The Puerto
Rican kid with the black hoodie

615
00:33:14,544 --> 00:33:15,623
jumped on her.

616
00:33:15,643 --> 00:33:19,662
[Reading] I tried to grab her.
I got scratched on my face.

617
00:33:20,028 --> 00:33:23,580
Antron pulled her pants off
and she was screaming.

618
00:33:23,600 --> 00:33:26,013
Richardson, reading:
Antron had sex with her.

619
00:33:26,154 --> 00:33:27,442
McCray, reading:
Then Kevin got on.

620
00:33:27,609 --> 00:33:28,734
Richardson, reading: That's
when she was yelling,

621
00:33:28,754 --> 00:33:29,944
"Stop" and "help."

622
00:33:30,204 --> 00:33:32,322
I was the one that
didn't rape her.

623
00:33:32,639 --> 00:33:35,597
[Reading] Kevin pulled down his
pants and had sex with her.

624
00:33:36,113 --> 00:33:38,690
When she was on the floor
I grabbed her tits.

625
00:33:47,421 --> 00:33:51,250
A 4, a 14-year-old boy
doesn't talk like this.

626
00:33:51,270 --> 00:33:53,007
You know?

627
00:33:53,027 --> 00:33:54,103
At that time, being naive,

628
00:33:54,123 --> 00:33:58,779
I figured I'm not
implicating myself.

629
00:33:58,799 --> 00:33:59,840
I was crying at that time.

630
00:33:59,860 --> 00:34:00,968
He said, "Don't worry.
You did good."

631
00:34:00,988 --> 00:34:03,408
Everything's gonna be OK."

632
00:34:04,052 --> 00:34:05,927
McCray: When I first went
there, they said I was going to

633
00:34:05,947 --> 00:34:09,488
be a witness, and then just,
everything just flipped.

634
00:34:09,508 --> 00:34:14,711
You know, they had me raping
a woman, beating her.

635
00:34:14,731 --> 00:34:17,272
And they read the
statement to my mother.

636
00:34:17,292 --> 00:34:19,902
And she looked at me, and I was
like, "Ma, I didn't do it."

637
00:34:19,922 --> 00:34:22,848
She was like, "OK, I
know you didn't do it."

638
00:34:26,907 --> 00:34:29,383
Black: I walked in the
room and I could see

639
00:34:29,403 --> 00:34:30,548
that he was terrified.

640
00:34:30,568 --> 00:34:33,909
I could see him,
like, shivering.

641
00:34:33,929 --> 00:34:38,733
I said, "Kevin, I can't believe
you saw this woman get raped."

642
00:34:38,753 --> 00:34:40,594
And he looked at me.

643
00:34:40,614 --> 00:34:42,976
He say, "Angie, I
didn't see a rape."

644
00:34:50,396 --> 00:34:53,471
And I said, "Kevin, why
did you say that then?"

645
00:34:53,491 --> 00:34:56,583
He said, "'Cause they told me
to say it so I could go home."

646
00:34:58,015 --> 00:35:00,357
But they was like a orchestra,

647
00:35:00,377 --> 00:35:02,254
like they orchestrated
this whole thing.

648
00:35:02,274 --> 00:35:06,314
And I felt so dumb
for not realizing it

649
00:35:06,334 --> 00:35:07,996
till it was too late.

650
00:35:13,041 --> 00:35:16,029
When I came back, they
disappeared my son.

651
00:35:16,049 --> 00:35:18,024
He wasn't there no more.

652
00:35:18,044 --> 00:35:19,221
I said, "Where's my son?"

653
00:35:19,241 --> 00:35:21,385
He said, "They took him to
another police station."

654
00:35:21,405 --> 00:35:23,780
My father did make a return.

655
00:35:23,800 --> 00:35:26,483
Um... But when he came
it was too late.

656
00:35:26,503 --> 00:35:29,103
And waited like 4 or 5 hours.

657
00:35:29,123 --> 00:35:32,032
And then he came in, handcuffed

658
00:35:32,052 --> 00:35:34,260
and a lot of policemen
with, with him.

659
00:35:34,280 --> 00:35:36,123
My dad's sittin' there, so I go

660
00:35:36,143 --> 00:35:39,084
through the same story but
now I add the woman in it.

661
00:35:39,104 --> 00:35:42,112
Now, my dad, this is the
first time he hears this,

662
00:35:42,132 --> 00:35:45,573
so he looks at me
and he goes, "What?"

663
00:35:45,593 --> 00:35:47,136
That happened?"

664
00:35:47,156 --> 00:35:49,183
And now I get quiet because now

665
00:35:49,203 --> 00:35:51,693
here's my dad, I
can't lie to him.

666
00:35:51,713 --> 00:35:53,990
And I... I'm like, you
know, I want to say,

667
00:35:54,010 --> 00:35:57,101
"Dad, don't say nothin',
it's tooken care of."

668
00:35:59,651 --> 00:36:04,431
Dwyer: In those days, there
were probably 6 murders a day.

669
00:36:04,592 --> 00:36:07,989
In the newsrooms, people
didn't always pay attention

670
00:36:08,009 --> 00:36:11,048
to whatever grisly event
of the day had happened.

671
00:36:11,068 --> 00:36:13,949
This one was different.

672
00:36:22,114 --> 00:36:24,573
Last night, a woman
jogger was found

673
00:36:24,593 --> 00:36:28,085
unconscious and partially
clothed in Central Park

674
00:36:28,105 --> 00:36:31,700
about 200 feet north of the
102nd street cross drive.

675
00:36:31,720 --> 00:36:35,079
What we, we believe happened is
the following: The victim was

676
00:36:35,099 --> 00:36:38,391
jogging across the 102nd street
cross drive when she was

677
00:36:38,411 --> 00:36:40,767
attacked by a dozen young males.

678
00:36:40,787 --> 00:36:43,412
She was dragged down in the
bushes near what is called

679
00:36:43,432 --> 00:36:48,028
"The Loch," where she was
beaten and sexually assaulted.

680
00:36:48,048 --> 00:36:50,473
5 youths were arrested
at 96th street

681
00:36:50,493 --> 00:36:52,513
and the west bridle path.

682
00:36:52,533 --> 00:36:55,291
We believe these youths and
others were responsible

683
00:36:55,311 --> 00:36:57,364
for two or 3 other
incidents that occurred

684
00:36:57,384 --> 00:37:03,086
in the park last night, assaults
on, on joggers and pedestrians.

685
00:37:03,106 --> 00:37:04,893
And we are currently
looking for others

686
00:37:04,913 --> 00:37:06,183
we believe to be involved.

687
00:37:09,696 --> 00:37:11,685
Salaam: When I came home, I
remember saying to myself,

688
00:37:11,705 --> 00:37:14,029
"Man, there's a whole bunch of
unmarked police cars out here.

689
00:37:14,049 --> 00:37:15,869
I wonder what happened?"

690
00:37:15,889 --> 00:37:21,490
I bumps into Korey at some point
and Korey says, um, he heard

691
00:37:21,510 --> 00:37:25,673
that they were... are
looking for us.

692
00:37:25,693 --> 00:37:27,914
Wise: So, him and
I went upstairs.

693
00:37:27,934 --> 00:37:30,056
He had the detectives
at his door.

694
00:37:30,076 --> 00:37:31,761
And they said, "Oh,
this is one of the guys"

695
00:37:31,781 --> 00:37:33,201
we were looking for."

696
00:37:33,221 --> 00:37:34,707
Checked my name off.

697
00:37:34,727 --> 00:37:36,748
And they asked Korey who he was.

698
00:37:36,768 --> 00:37:38,522
He looked at the list.

699
00:37:38,542 --> 00:37:41,735
Said, "No, your name
ain't on here."

700
00:37:41,755 --> 00:37:45,380
So they said, "Ah,
you can come down",

701
00:37:45,400 --> 00:37:47,354
come downtown with your buddy."

702
00:37:47,374 --> 00:37:48,444
You'll be right back."

703
00:37:50,285 --> 00:37:52,106
Salaam: We went
to the precinct

704
00:37:52,126 --> 00:37:54,214
and I came home 7 years later.

705
00:37:54,234 --> 00:37:56,039
He came home 13 years later.

706
00:37:59,923 --> 00:38:01,041
Wise: They said, ah,

707
00:38:01,061 --> 00:38:02,212
"Something happened
out in the park.

708
00:38:02,232 --> 00:38:04,721
You was out in the park
that night, right?"

709
00:38:04,741 --> 00:38:07,766
I say, "I was in the
park but I don't know"

710
00:38:07,786 --> 00:38:08,937
what you're talkin' about."

711
00:38:08,957 --> 00:38:12,719
"Kevin is saying this
happened, you know.

712
00:38:12,739 --> 00:38:15,930
Antron is saying this happened."

713
00:38:15,950 --> 00:38:18,306
And they were stopping
me during my retelling

714
00:38:18,326 --> 00:38:21,217
of the events and saying,
"Is this where you got

715
00:38:21,237 --> 00:38:24,396
the woman? Is that where?"

716
00:38:24,416 --> 00:38:27,910
The tone was very, very scary.

717
00:38:27,930 --> 00:38:31,691
I felt like these guys
are really angry.

718
00:38:31,711 --> 00:38:34,267
And you know what?

719
00:38:34,287 --> 00:38:37,699
They might take us to the back
of the precinct and kill us.

720
00:38:39,473 --> 00:38:41,161
A lot of time had gone by.

721
00:38:41,181 --> 00:38:42,516
I didn't even know
what time it was.

722
00:38:44,893 --> 00:38:47,618
Wise: Detective
Hartigan says, "Korey?"

723
00:38:47,638 --> 00:38:50,495
"You look like you
real tired, man.

724
00:38:50,515 --> 00:38:56,652
"Very tired, exhausted,
and you want to go home.

725
00:38:56,672 --> 00:38:58,694
"But you're not gonna go
home until you give up,

726
00:38:58,714 --> 00:39:01,672
till you say a story."

727
00:39:01,692 --> 00:39:04,450
They had made up a story
saying something like, ah,

728
00:39:04,470 --> 00:39:06,992
"Well, we have your
prints on her pants."

729
00:39:07,012 --> 00:39:09,233
I'm thinking, "How did
they take my prints"

730
00:39:09,253 --> 00:39:10,690
and put it on her pants?"

731
00:39:13,839 --> 00:39:16,127
Wise: Detective Nugent,
a young officer

732
00:39:16,147 --> 00:39:19,006
with a whole lot of
energy, came in.

733
00:39:19,026 --> 00:39:22,886
He put his face to my face.
Put his hand in my face.

734
00:39:22,906 --> 00:39:29,074
Grabbed my face, shook my face.
"I want a story from you."

735
00:39:29,094 --> 00:39:33,641
I just gave a written statement
just to satisfy them.

736
00:39:34,018 --> 00:39:36,872
Just to get them out of my
face with it and trying to be

737
00:39:37,024 --> 00:39:38,394
on my way out their buildin'.

738
00:39:40,838 --> 00:39:44,680
And afterwards, he
had me sign on it.

739
00:39:44,700 --> 00:39:47,367
So, I signed on it. Yeah.

740
00:39:49,537 --> 00:39:53,254
These boys were in custody
and under varying

741
00:39:53,274 --> 00:39:57,926
degrees of interrogation for
a range of 14 to 30 hours.

742
00:39:57,946 --> 00:40:02,064
And when you are stressed,
when you are tired,

743
00:40:02,084 --> 00:40:06,233
when you are a juvenile and not
fully mature and developed,

744
00:40:06,253 --> 00:40:09,222
you're thinking, "Right now
I just want this to stop."

745
00:41:03,208 --> 00:41:04,725
Woman: My name is
Elizabeth Lederer.

746
00:41:04,745 --> 00:41:07,560
I'm an assistant district
attorney in New York county.

747
00:41:07,580 --> 00:41:10,997
I'd like to ask you some
questions about a series of

748
00:41:11,017 --> 00:41:13,366
things that happened in
Central Park on the night of

749
00:41:13,386 --> 00:41:16,136
April 19 of 1989.

750
00:41:16,156 --> 00:41:18,338
Before I do that, I'd like
to, ah, advise you of your

751
00:41:18,358 --> 00:41:21,941
rights with respect to
statements you may make now, OK?

752
00:41:21,961 --> 00:41:23,376
You have the right
to remain silent

753
00:41:23,396 --> 00:41:25,078
and to refuse to
answer any questions.

754
00:41:25,098 --> 00:41:26,146
Do you understand?

755
00:41:26,166 --> 00:41:27,781
Yes, I do.

756
00:41:27,801 --> 00:41:28,781
Anything that you say

757
00:41:28,801 --> 00:41:29,849
can be used against
you in court.

758
00:41:29,869 --> 00:41:30,849
Do you understand?

759
00:41:30,869 --> 00:41:32,185
Yes, I do.

760
00:41:32,205 --> 00:41:33,686
You have the right to
consult a lawyer now

761
00:41:33,706 --> 00:41:35,855
before any questioning and
have a lawyer present

762
00:41:35,875 --> 00:41:36,856
during any questioning.

763
00:41:36,876 --> 00:41:38,758
Do you understand?

764
00:41:38,778 --> 00:41:40,192
Could you please
answer out loud?

765
00:41:40,212 --> 00:41:41,326
Yes.

766
00:41:41,346 --> 00:41:42,461
If you have no lawyer

767
00:41:42,481 --> 00:41:44,597
or cannot afford a
lawyer, a lawyer will be

768
00:41:44,617 --> 00:41:47,065
provided for you now free of
charge before any questioning.

769
00:41:47,085 --> 00:41:48,133
Do you understand?

770
00:41:48,153 --> 00:41:50,636
Thank you. Yes.

771
00:41:50,656 --> 00:41:52,105
Now that I have advised
you of your rights,

772
00:41:52,125 --> 00:41:53,972
are you willing to tell me the
truth about what happened

773
00:41:53,992 --> 00:41:56,775
in Central Park on the
night of April 19 of 1989?

774
00:41:56,795 --> 00:41:58,343
Yes. Ok.

775
00:41:58,363 --> 00:42:01,514
Present in this room
is Detective Nugent,

776
00:42:01,534 --> 00:42:03,315
whom you have already
met, I believe...

777
00:42:03,335 --> 00:42:06,919
Wise: Detective Nugent
told me to, "Go in here."

778
00:42:06,939 --> 00:42:10,255
"You're gonna give this story
which you, which you has,

779
00:42:10,275 --> 00:42:12,491
"which you have said to me and
the rest of my coworkers,

780
00:42:12,511 --> 00:42:14,193
"you will go in here
and give the story.

781
00:42:14,213 --> 00:42:15,828
"I'm gonna be in the room.

782
00:42:15,848 --> 00:42:17,681
And I'm gonna make sure,
make sure you do it."

783
00:42:19,650 --> 00:42:20,865
Lederer: This is
Detective McCabe

784
00:42:20,885 --> 00:42:22,367
and Detective Hildebrant.

785
00:42:22,387 --> 00:42:24,736
Ah, I think you've
already met them.

786
00:42:24,756 --> 00:42:28,307
Also present are, I
believe, your parents.

787
00:42:28,327 --> 00:42:32,376
Um, could you each please
state your full name?

788
00:42:32,396 --> 00:42:34,012
My name is Linda McCray.

789
00:42:34,032 --> 00:42:35,280
Bobby McCray.

790
00:42:35,300 --> 00:42:37,081
And, ma'am, what
is your relation?

791
00:42:37,101 --> 00:42:38,083
I'm his mother.

792
00:42:38,103 --> 00:42:39,318
And... his father.

793
00:42:39,338 --> 00:42:42,354
Ok. I want to warn you
of your rights with, ah,

794
00:42:42,374 --> 00:42:44,523
respect to anything you
say in this case...

795
00:42:44,543 --> 00:42:48,025
Why would a parent
not say at that moment,

796
00:42:48,045 --> 00:42:51,430
we want to consult
with an attorney?

797
00:42:51,450 --> 00:42:56,268
The reason is because of the
setting and because of the way

798
00:42:56,288 --> 00:43:00,471
they're being treated by the
police and because of being

799
00:43:00,491 --> 00:43:03,508
overwhelmed by the situation.

800
00:43:03,528 --> 00:43:06,612
It doesn't even register
in their minds.

801
00:43:06,632 --> 00:43:07,845
Lederer: I just want
to state it is now

802
00:43:07,865 --> 00:43:09,680
20 minutes to 5:00
in the morning

803
00:43:09,700 --> 00:43:12,250
on the morning of
April 21 of 1989.

804
00:43:12,270 --> 00:43:15,186
There is another gentleman
here in the room.

805
00:43:15,206 --> 00:43:16,254
Who is that man?

806
00:43:16,274 --> 00:43:17,255
My father.

807
00:43:17,275 --> 00:43:18,556
And, sir, could
you please just

808
00:43:18,576 --> 00:43:19,690
state your name and address.

809
00:43:19,710 --> 00:43:22,025
Paul L. Richardson...

810
00:43:22,045 --> 00:43:25,997
Richardson: My father, he
was a quiet, stern man,

811
00:43:26,017 --> 00:43:29,499
so..

812
00:43:29,519 --> 00:43:34,604
I felt ashamed that I was
even there doing that.

813
00:43:34,624 --> 00:43:38,708
And I shouldn't feel that
way because I was innocent.

814
00:43:38,728 --> 00:43:40,677
Lederer: ...Also present
in the room right now

815
00:43:40,697 --> 00:43:43,680
are Detective Arroyo and
Detective Sheehan...

816
00:43:43,700 --> 00:43:44,982
Santana, Jr.: I was under
the impression that

817
00:43:45,002 --> 00:43:48,652
I was going to be a witness,
help out, or just give 'em

818
00:43:48,672 --> 00:43:49,954
the story and that was it.

819
00:43:49,974 --> 00:43:51,755
Lederer: Sir, could you
please give your name?

820
00:43:51,775 --> 00:43:53,790
My name is Raymond Santana.

821
00:43:53,810 --> 00:43:55,558
Santana, Jr.: I didn't
think about consequences.

822
00:43:55,578 --> 00:43:56,927
I didn't think about anything.

823
00:43:56,947 --> 00:43:58,628
The only thing that
I thought about was

824
00:43:58,648 --> 00:44:00,664
he was gonna make
sure I go home.

825
00:44:00,684 --> 00:44:02,565
That was it.

826
00:44:02,585 --> 00:44:03,900
Lederer: I'm gonna ask
you a few questions...

827
00:44:03,920 --> 00:44:06,503
Richardson: Here I
am doing a videotape

828
00:44:06,523 --> 00:44:14,244
and I'm already deep in this so
I'm thinking now I gotta sell it

829
00:44:14,264 --> 00:44:18,081
to make sure that people
know that I wasn't involved.

830
00:44:18,101 --> 00:44:19,982
Lederer: Were you
trying to touch her?

831
00:44:20,002 --> 00:44:21,051
Not really.

832
00:44:21,071 --> 00:44:22,352
Didn't you tell the
police earlier today

833
00:44:22,372 --> 00:44:23,720
that you had tried to grab her

834
00:44:23,740 --> 00:44:25,488
and that's when you
got scratched?

835
00:44:25,508 --> 00:44:27,057
No, not like,

836
00:44:27,077 --> 00:44:28,624
like feeling her,
feeling her up.

837
00:44:28,644 --> 00:44:30,125
Ok. Not like that?
Trying to stop it.

838
00:44:30,145 --> 00:44:32,761
But you tried, you...

839
00:44:32,781 --> 00:44:34,496
To grab, like, grab the
arms or something.

840
00:44:34,516 --> 00:44:35,731
You tried to grab her arms?

841
00:44:35,751 --> 00:44:37,733
I was trying to stop it.

842
00:44:37,753 --> 00:44:39,301
Did you see Antron have
intercourse with her?

843
00:44:39,321 --> 00:44:40,303
Yes.

844
00:44:40,323 --> 00:44:41,503
Was he laying on top of her,

845
00:44:41,523 --> 00:44:43,406
or was he kneeling, or was he?

846
00:44:43,426 --> 00:44:44,908
Laying on top of her.

847
00:44:44,928 --> 00:44:47,943
Ok. And how long was
he on top of her?

848
00:44:47,963 --> 00:44:50,379
For a short while,
then Raymond,

849
00:44:50,399 --> 00:44:52,314
then Raymond went.

850
00:44:52,334 --> 00:44:53,416
We was headed to
the West Side.

851
00:44:53,436 --> 00:44:55,151
That's when I seen Kevin.

852
00:44:55,171 --> 00:44:57,454
That's where you saw Kevin?

853
00:44:57,474 --> 00:44:58,754
Was anybody with Kevin?

854
00:44:58,774 --> 00:45:01,457
Yeah, a lady.

855
00:45:01,477 --> 00:45:02,458
Who was with Kevin?

856
00:45:02,478 --> 00:45:03,492
Some lady.

857
00:45:03,512 --> 00:45:06,028
A lady? Mm-hmm.

858
00:45:06,048 --> 00:45:07,262
How was she dressed?

859
00:45:07,282 --> 00:45:09,698
I couldn't tell.
It was too dark.

860
00:45:09,718 --> 00:45:11,000
What was he doing with her?

861
00:45:11,020 --> 00:45:12,368
Struggling with her.

862
00:45:12,388 --> 00:45:13,769
What were the others
doing while Kevin

863
00:45:13,789 --> 00:45:15,938
was struggling with
her, with the wrists?

864
00:45:15,958 --> 00:45:17,472
Antron was going
for her clothes

865
00:45:17,492 --> 00:45:20,542
and Lopez was
holding her arms.

866
00:45:20,562 --> 00:45:22,945
What was Kevin
doing while, um,

867
00:45:22,965 --> 00:45:24,446
Steve Lopez was
holding her hands

868
00:45:24,466 --> 00:45:25,447
and hitting her
with the brick?

869
00:45:25,467 --> 00:45:27,582
He was having sex with her.

870
00:45:27,602 --> 00:45:28,750
Where were you standing?

871
00:45:28,770 --> 00:45:31,020
I was on the side of Kevin.

872
00:45:31,040 --> 00:45:32,754
Were you watching?

873
00:45:32,774 --> 00:45:35,007
No, I was grabbing
the lady's...

874
00:45:38,011 --> 00:45:40,061
Who else had sex with her
besides Kevin Richardson?

875
00:45:40,081 --> 00:45:42,782
I didn't see anybody else
who had sex, just him.

876
00:45:44,985 --> 00:45:47,935
Did somebody have
sex with her?

877
00:45:47,955 --> 00:45:48,970
Yeah.

878
00:45:48,990 --> 00:45:51,339
Did a lot of people
have sex with her?

879
00:45:51,359 --> 00:45:52,840
Yeah. First it was
the black guy,

880
00:45:52,860 --> 00:45:54,475
then it was the Puerto Rican
guy with the black hood?

881
00:45:54,495 --> 00:45:56,395
Then you got on top of her?

882
00:45:59,699 --> 00:46:01,182
Lederer: What's
in that picture?

883
00:46:01,202 --> 00:46:02,183
Wise: It's her.

884
00:46:02,203 --> 00:46:03,251
Is that the woman
that you saw?

885
00:46:03,271 --> 00:46:05,119
Yes.

886
00:46:05,139 --> 00:46:06,154
Is that sort of the
way she looked

887
00:46:06,174 --> 00:46:07,155
when you saw her?

888
00:46:07,175 --> 00:46:09,208
Yes, yes, ma'am.

889
00:46:14,180 --> 00:46:16,596
Did you see anybody
hit her with the,

890
00:46:16,616 --> 00:46:18,150
with anything but their hands?

891
00:46:21,254 --> 00:46:23,036
I seen... And I'm
telling you, Korey...

892
00:46:23,056 --> 00:46:25,205
I don't want you to think that

893
00:46:25,225 --> 00:46:26,874
you have to say that,

894
00:46:26,894 --> 00:46:29,443
but I want to
know what you saw

895
00:46:29,463 --> 00:46:32,597
that explains how she
got so badly hurt.

896
00:46:36,002 --> 00:46:42,222
I did see Kevin pick
up a, a hand rock,

897
00:46:42,242 --> 00:46:47,594
a small hand rock, and hit
her across the face with it.

898
00:46:47,614 --> 00:46:49,062
How big was the rock?

899
00:46:49,082 --> 00:46:55,535
It was a hand, about that
big, like, it was nice,

900
00:46:55,555 --> 00:46:58,271
it was big, it was a
good-shaped rock.

901
00:46:58,291 --> 00:47:00,358
Hit her across like that.

902
00:47:05,197 --> 00:47:06,847
Are you just saying
that because I...

903
00:47:06,867 --> 00:47:08,447
No. Uh, uh, no. I
am asking you.

904
00:47:08,467 --> 00:47:09,850
Why didn't you say it before?

905
00:47:09,870 --> 00:47:11,784
- Huh?
- Why didn't you say it before?

906
00:47:11,804 --> 00:47:13,385
Because I remember I was,

907
00:47:13,405 --> 00:47:15,155
me taking a quick
glance in the dark.

908
00:47:15,175 --> 00:47:17,491
I remember him
picking up a rock

909
00:47:17,511 --> 00:47:20,526
from out the, out the dirt.

910
00:47:20,546 --> 00:47:22,461
Woman: Why did you tell them
something that wasn't true,

911
00:47:22,481 --> 00:47:24,048
that you hadn't seen?

912
00:47:28,420 --> 00:47:30,137
I guess... I would
strongly guess

913
00:47:30,157 --> 00:47:33,439
just to save my own life.

914
00:47:33,459 --> 00:47:36,041
To get out, get out,
get outta there

915
00:47:36,061 --> 00:47:38,444
as quickly as I, I
can as possible

916
00:47:38,464 --> 00:47:42,114
because I been there
too long as it was.

917
00:47:42,134 --> 00:47:44,216
And, you know, bein' a kid

918
00:47:44,236 --> 00:47:46,952
I never experienced
that in my life.

919
00:47:46,972 --> 00:47:47,987
How old were you?

920
00:47:48,007 --> 00:47:49,522
16.

921
00:47:49,542 --> 00:47:54,360
16 and I felt like
I was about 12.

922
00:47:54,380 --> 00:47:56,128
Lederer: Did you tell us
the truth voluntarily?

923
00:47:56,148 --> 00:47:57,363
Yes, ma'am.

924
00:47:57,383 --> 00:47:58,563
Because you wanted to?
Yes, ma'am.

925
00:47:58,583 --> 00:47:59,565
Did anyone force you?

926
00:47:59,585 --> 00:48:00,566
No, ma'am.

927
00:48:00,586 --> 00:48:01,666
Did anyone threaten you?

928
00:48:01,686 --> 00:48:03,202
No.

929
00:48:03,222 --> 00:48:05,271
Thank you very much. It is now

930
00:48:05,291 --> 00:48:09,507
20 minutes to 4:00 and the
interview is concluded.

931
00:48:09,527 --> 00:48:12,577
Detective: Hey. Sit down...

932
00:48:12,597 --> 00:48:13,978
Got to get you to
sign something, eh?

933
00:48:13,998 --> 00:48:15,164
Huh?

934
00:48:18,670 --> 00:48:19,884
Santana, Jr.: They
put us in the cell

935
00:48:19,904 --> 00:48:21,786
with the rest of the guys.

936
00:48:21,806 --> 00:48:24,757
Now there's all these guys that
I don't even know, you know.

937
00:48:24,777 --> 00:48:27,125
Who are you, you know?
And, um...

938
00:48:27,145 --> 00:48:28,560
And everybody's
asking each other.

939
00:48:28,580 --> 00:48:30,361
You know, "Well,
what did you say?"

940
00:48:30,381 --> 00:48:31,764
What did you say?"

941
00:48:31,784 --> 00:48:33,865
And everybody's
basically saying,

942
00:48:33,885 --> 00:48:36,100
"Well, I told 'em I
was with my boy.

943
00:48:36,120 --> 00:48:39,103
And we left. I
didn't see nothing."

944
00:48:39,123 --> 00:48:41,172
Nobody's saying what
they actually said.

945
00:48:41,192 --> 00:48:44,709
Everybody had that sense of don't
let it out the bag because

946
00:48:44,729 --> 00:48:48,463
if I let it out then
I'm not gonna go home.

947
00:48:52,501 --> 00:48:54,519
Woman: In New York City
this morning, a jogger is

948
00:48:54,539 --> 00:48:57,455
fighting for her life after a
brutal attack in Central Park.

949
00:48:57,475 --> 00:48:59,524
Woman: Viciously battered
and unconscious,

950
00:48:59,544 --> 00:49:03,027
wearing only a jogging bra, her
hands tied over her mouth.

951
00:49:03,047 --> 00:49:05,829
Woman: The suspects are
14- and 15-year-olds

952
00:49:05,849 --> 00:49:08,299
who blazed a nighttime
trail of terror.

953
00:49:08,319 --> 00:49:09,934
Assaulting an elderly man,

954
00:49:09,954 --> 00:49:13,238
attacking a male runner, hitting
another person with a lead pipe.

955
00:49:13,258 --> 00:49:15,606
At one time, the group
was running in a pack of

956
00:49:15,626 --> 00:49:17,374
more than 25 youths.

957
00:49:17,394 --> 00:49:19,509
Woman: The victim is now
in critical condition

958
00:49:19,529 --> 00:49:20,511
at Metropolitan Hospital.

959
00:49:20,531 --> 00:49:21,779
Two skull fractures,

960
00:49:21,799 --> 00:49:24,815
a significant loss of blood,
and advanced hypothermia.

961
00:49:24,835 --> 00:49:26,484
Woman: If she lives,
it's likely she'll

962
00:49:26,504 --> 00:49:27,618
suffer from brain damage.

963
00:49:27,638 --> 00:49:30,387
8 suspects were
arraigned this weekend,

964
00:49:30,407 --> 00:49:32,356
aged 14 to 17.

965
00:49:32,376 --> 00:49:33,457
Jennings: Some of the
young men told police

966
00:49:33,477 --> 00:49:36,226
they were just out wilding.

967
00:49:36,246 --> 00:49:38,880
Woman: Wilding is a word you
won't find in Webster's.

968
00:49:38,934 --> 00:49:40,942
Wilding. New York
city police say

969
00:49:40,962 --> 00:49:44,682
that's new teenage slang for
rampaging in wolfpacks,

970
00:49:44,702 --> 00:49:46,924
attacking people just
for the fun of it.

971
00:49:46,944 --> 00:49:48,134
The district
attorney's office says

972
00:49:48,154 --> 00:49:50,199
the teenagers have confessed.

973
00:49:50,219 --> 00:49:54,027
The spokesman said some of those
confessions are on videotape.

974
00:49:55,398 --> 00:49:59,800
Koch: A woman jogging
and Central Park.

975
00:50:00,150 --> 00:50:02,704
Central park was holy.

976
00:50:02,724 --> 00:50:06,615
If it had happened any place
else other than Central Park,

977
00:50:06,635 --> 00:50:08,351
it would have been terrible,

978
00:50:08,371 --> 00:50:11,608
but it would not have
been as terrible.

979
00:50:14,622 --> 00:50:18,215
It was for everybody,
not just me,

980
00:50:18,235 --> 00:50:20,046
the crime of the century.

981
00:50:27,496 --> 00:50:30,416
During this whole process
we were inside the precinct.

982
00:50:31,200 --> 00:50:34,449
I had no clue what was
going on on the outside.

983
00:50:36,154 --> 00:50:37,767
Can you stop to talk to
us for a couple seconds?

984
00:50:37,787 --> 00:50:39,346
Tell us what's going to happen now?

985
00:50:39,366 --> 00:50:43,318
They said, "Oh, yeah, the news got
a little bit ahold of this story so..."

986
00:50:43,515 --> 00:50:45,487
there might be some reporters outside."

987
00:50:45,507 --> 00:50:48,144
"You know, just don't pay them
any attention. Just keep walking."

988
00:50:52,932 --> 00:50:55,016
Colangelo: Today we are
announcing the arrests of

989
00:50:55,036 --> 00:51:00,251
4 males, all between 14 and 15
years of age, in connection with

990
00:51:00,271 --> 00:51:03,934
the April 19 attempted
murder, rape, and assault

991
00:51:03,954 --> 00:51:06,265
of a female in Central Park.

992
00:51:06,509 --> 00:51:09,042
"They got 'em!" That
was the, uh, feelings.

993
00:51:09,062 --> 00:51:12,967
"Thank God, uh, for Ben
Ward and the NYPD.

994
00:51:12,987 --> 00:51:14,076
They got 'em!"

995
00:51:16,017 --> 00:51:19,057
Kassin: Set against the
backdrop of New York City

996
00:51:19,077 --> 00:51:22,249
and a crime that just about
has everybody flipping out,

997
00:51:22,509 --> 00:51:25,484
you can only imagine
the pressure that NYPD

998
00:51:25,504 --> 00:51:28,790
was under to have this crime
solved and solved quickly.

999
00:51:29,559 --> 00:51:31,270
Dwyer: Jack Maple, one
of the architects of

1000
00:51:31,290 --> 00:51:34,746
the 1990s New York city
police revolution,

1001
00:51:35,007 --> 00:51:38,722
once told me that he
remembered seeing detectives

1002
00:51:38,742 --> 00:51:43,878
involved in the Central Park
jogger case in Elaine's

1003
00:51:44,061 --> 00:51:46,541
within a day or
so of the crime,

1004
00:51:46,702 --> 00:51:48,824
celebrating the arrests.

1005
00:51:49,615 --> 00:51:54,549
There was a sense that
this had been a home run

1006
00:51:54,934 --> 00:51:57,113
from a law enforcement
standpoint.

1007
00:52:06,713 --> 00:52:09,520
When they chained us up to
go to another precinct,

1008
00:52:09,980 --> 00:52:11,212
pictures snapping.

1009
00:52:12,019 --> 00:52:14,292
Me and Yusef did
the walk together

1010
00:52:14,477 --> 00:52:16,484
and we just kept our head down.

1011
00:52:16,888 --> 00:52:19,845
When we saw the lights we,
we still didn't know.

1012
00:52:19,865 --> 00:52:21,245
We still didn't understand.

1013
00:52:22,021 --> 00:52:23,795
Richardson: I'm walking
and I'm scared

1014
00:52:23,815 --> 00:52:24,903
but I had my head up high.

1015
00:52:24,923 --> 00:52:28,707
And all I think to myself, "OK,
the truth is going to come out."

1016
00:52:30,781 --> 00:52:33,513
Dwyer: After they got out
of the interrogation room,

1017
00:52:33,628 --> 00:52:34,632
they backed off.

1018
00:52:34,815 --> 00:52:37,534
Each one of them
denied having done it.

1019
00:52:37,882 --> 00:52:40,117
Consistently, again
and again and again.

1020
00:52:40,303 --> 00:52:42,463
They said, "No,
we didn't do it."

1021
00:52:43,078 --> 00:52:45,104
For the first time
since the April 19

1022
00:52:45,124 --> 00:52:48,639
rampage through Central Park,
Manhattan D.A. Robert Morgenthau

1023
00:52:48,659 --> 00:52:51,541
spoke out publicly on the
attacks to officially announce

1024
00:52:51,561 --> 00:52:53,652
indictments involving
6 of the 8 suspects

1025
00:52:53,672 --> 00:52:56,072
charged with the
most serious crimes.

1026
00:52:56,092 --> 00:52:57,638
Morgenthau: Each is
charged in this attack

1027
00:52:57,658 --> 00:53:00,812
with attempted murder,
rape in the first degree,

1028
00:53:00,832 --> 00:53:02,799
sodomy in the first degree,

1029
00:53:02,819 --> 00:53:04,543
sexual abuse in
the first degree,

1030
00:53:04,563 --> 00:53:06,710
two counts of assault
in the first degree,

1031
00:53:06,866 --> 00:53:08,984
and riot in the first degree.

1032
00:53:43,349 --> 00:53:46,062
Hancock: There's no
way that I as a woman

1033
00:53:46,082 --> 00:53:51,076
could not feel horrible for her
and feel scared for myself

1034
00:53:51,096 --> 00:53:53,541
and every other woman
walking the street.

1035
00:53:54,053 --> 00:53:57,611
And I was on the edge of my seat
hoping that she would get better

1036
00:53:57,631 --> 00:54:01,438
but there was no indication that
she would recover consciousness.

1037
00:54:07,590 --> 00:54:09,626
Byfield: For me, the one
piece of information

1038
00:54:09,646 --> 00:54:12,641
that just got me was
her friends coming in

1039
00:54:12,661 --> 00:54:14,697
to identify her and
her being just

1040
00:54:14,717 --> 00:54:15,882
beaten beyond recognition.

1041
00:54:16,049 --> 00:54:19,824
And the only way that her
friends could identify her

1042
00:54:19,844 --> 00:54:22,773
was by a ring that she wore.

1043
00:54:41,162 --> 00:54:43,658
The 28-year-old
victim lies in a coma.

1044
00:54:43,678 --> 00:54:45,883
A teacher called
her "golden girl,"

1045
00:54:45,903 --> 00:54:48,757
an investment banker with
a blue-chip background

1046
00:54:48,777 --> 00:54:51,940
whose savage beating and gang
rape has provoked outrage

1047
00:54:51,960 --> 00:54:54,587
in a city famous
for indifference.

1048
00:54:54,607 --> 00:54:57,263
Suspects in the crime were
arraigned this weekend,

1049
00:54:57,283 --> 00:54:59,616
aged 14 to 17.

1050
00:54:59,636 --> 00:55:01,165
Lederer: Rape in
the first degree;

1051
00:55:01,185 --> 00:55:02,799
sodomy in the first degree;

1052
00:55:02,819 --> 00:55:04,522
sexual abuse in the
first degree...

1053
00:55:04,542 --> 00:55:07,057
We was at arraignment and, um,

1054
00:55:07,077 --> 00:55:09,621
I remember them
reading charges off...

1055
00:55:09,641 --> 00:55:11,874
robbery in the first, attempted
murder in the first,

1056
00:55:11,894 --> 00:55:13,226
rape in the first.

1057
00:55:13,246 --> 00:55:15,142
And the lawyer was like,
"Don't say anything.

1058
00:55:15,162 --> 00:55:16,071
Just keep your head down."

1059
00:55:16,091 --> 00:55:17,536
Lederer: ...That he
had her by the legs,

1060
00:55:17,556 --> 00:55:20,212
and that he raped her after
defendant Santana did.

1061
00:55:20,232 --> 00:55:22,034
But it wasn't until

1062
00:55:22,054 --> 00:55:26,054
you got into that jail and,
and you felt the impact.

1063
00:55:28,086 --> 00:55:30,913
McCray: Spofford
Juvenile Detention.

1064
00:55:31,198 --> 00:55:34,311
You had kids that
committed serious crimes.

1065
00:55:35,659 --> 00:55:37,668
Murder, rape.

1066
00:55:39,827 --> 00:55:41,343
Santana, Jr.: This
counselor came down,

1067
00:55:41,465 --> 00:55:42,780
he sat there with us.

1068
00:55:42,985 --> 00:55:47,028
And he said, "You know, you know
how serious y'all case is?"

1069
00:55:47,714 --> 00:55:50,532
And we was like, "What
are you talking about?"

1070
00:55:51,011 --> 00:55:53,938
And he said, "You all,
y'all over the paper."

1071
00:55:53,958 --> 00:55:56,034
"Y'all in every news station.

1072
00:55:56,392 --> 00:55:58,120
Everybody's talkin'
about y'all."

1073
00:55:58,448 --> 00:56:01,960
He said, "It's so serious the
whole jail want to get you."

1074
00:56:06,341 --> 00:56:08,087
Salaam: Because he was 16,

1075
00:56:08,320 --> 00:56:10,311
they sent Korey
to Rikers Island.

1076
00:56:11,560 --> 00:56:15,081
Rikers Island would
make Spofford...

1077
00:56:16,939 --> 00:56:18,522
Look like a country club,

1078
00:56:20,975 --> 00:56:23,238
'specially when you're in there

1079
00:56:23,258 --> 00:56:24,441
for a rape charge.

1080
00:56:25,459 --> 00:56:28,350
To be a child, to
be 16 years old

1081
00:56:28,370 --> 00:56:32,003
and to be in an adult facility,
I can't imagine that.

1082
00:56:33,965 --> 00:56:38,688
Rikers Island at
the age of 16.

1083
00:56:40,354 --> 00:56:44,946
Bein' forced to
grow up very fast.

1084
00:56:52,513 --> 00:56:54,879
Byfield: In the first few
days after the incident,

1085
00:56:55,022 --> 00:56:57,567
the narrative that
came out was that

1086
00:56:57,755 --> 00:56:59,802
these young men were guilty.

1087
00:57:00,287 --> 00:57:03,001
And it was almost unquestioned.

1088
00:57:04,108 --> 00:57:07,551
Koch: When parents or
grandmothers, ahh,

1089
00:57:07,571 --> 00:57:10,698
of some of these, ah,
alleged perpetrators...

1090
00:57:10,718 --> 00:57:14,887
we always have to say alleged
because that's the requirement.

1091
00:57:16,882 --> 00:57:19,596
When those grandmothers
say, "But he's a good boy."

1092
00:57:20,187 --> 00:57:21,850
He never did anything."

1093
00:57:21,959 --> 00:57:23,216
Don't you believe it!

1094
00:57:23,236 --> 00:57:25,012
Black: There was so much hate.

1095
00:57:25,549 --> 00:57:27,202
We couldn't watch TV.

1096
00:57:27,222 --> 00:57:29,155
There's something wrong
with the parenting

1097
00:57:29,175 --> 00:57:31,972
and the families and the
home life of our city.

1098
00:57:31,992 --> 00:57:34,359
It's an outrage. It's, it's...

1099
00:57:35,392 --> 00:57:36,726
The violence in this city,

1100
00:57:36,746 --> 00:57:38,191
the quality of
life in this city,

1101
00:57:38,211 --> 00:57:39,327
is getting worse and worse.

1102
00:57:39,347 --> 00:57:45,790
This is the, the, mm, the
ultimate shriek of alarm.

1103
00:57:45,810 --> 00:57:48,994
This is the ultimate siren
that says none of us is safe.

1104
00:57:49,014 --> 00:57:50,985
The story has enraged
many New Yorkers,

1105
00:57:51,005 --> 00:57:53,605
startled others, and
started renewed talk of

1106
00:57:53,625 --> 00:57:56,299
an under-policed city with
crime out of control.

1107
00:57:56,319 --> 00:58:01,844
Mayor Koch said, "This will
be a test of the system."

1108
00:58:02,100 --> 00:58:07,031
People want to see how the,
ah, criminal justice system

1109
00:58:07,051 --> 00:58:09,214
works, or if it works.

1110
00:58:09,571 --> 00:58:11,787
Woman: The brutal attack on
the young investment banker

1111
00:58:11,807 --> 00:58:14,260
is fueling a new battle
for the death penalty,

1112
00:58:14,382 --> 00:58:17,702
even though as the proposed law
now stands, it would only apply

1113
00:58:17,722 --> 00:58:19,217
to those 18 or older.

1114
00:58:19,330 --> 00:58:20,682
Woman: I'm for the
death penalty.

1115
00:58:20,702 --> 00:58:23,757
If someone were to hurt
my family or a loved one

1116
00:58:23,777 --> 00:58:25,776
as they did this woman,

1117
00:58:25,796 --> 00:58:27,619
I would probably want them dead.

1118
00:58:27,639 --> 00:58:30,259
You better believe
that I hate the people

1119
00:58:30,494 --> 00:58:33,498
that took this girl and
raped her brutally.

1120
00:58:33,518 --> 00:58:34,681
You better believe it.

1121
00:58:34,701 --> 00:58:37,469
Woman: Trump put his money where
his mouth is by taking out

1122
00:58:37,489 --> 00:58:41,292
this full-page ad in 4 New
York City newspapers.

1123
00:58:41,434 --> 00:58:43,442
"Bring back the death penalty."

1124
00:58:43,602 --> 00:58:47,358
Trump's ads underscore a fierce debate
going on right now in New York.

1125
00:58:47,461 --> 00:58:52,380
According to a recent Gallop pole a
full 76% of all New York City residents

1126
00:58:52,484 --> 00:58:55,263
favor executing some convicted criminals.

1127
00:58:58,400 --> 00:59:00,096
Byfield: They were children.

1128
00:59:00,462 --> 00:59:01,898
They were children.

1129
00:59:02,349 --> 00:59:04,993
Bringing up the death penalty
in the context of the case

1130
00:59:05,013 --> 00:59:09,201
in which you were discussing
children was outrageous to me.

1131
00:59:09,221 --> 00:59:11,380
I think that if she had
been a wa... young woman

1132
00:59:11,400 --> 00:59:17,511
who, ah, who had been found in
an alley in Bedford-Stuyvesant;

1133
00:59:17,848 --> 00:59:21,246
if she had been
found, ah, in Harlem;

1134
00:59:21,387 --> 00:59:26,373
ah, if she had been found in any
of the, any of the, ah, ah,

1135
00:59:26,393 --> 00:59:30,171
darker enclaves in this
city or in this state,

1136
00:59:30,546 --> 00:59:33,298
Donald trump wouldn't have
spoken, he, he wouldn't have

1137
00:59:33,318 --> 00:59:35,036
even whispered a word.

1138
00:59:35,439 --> 00:59:38,367
Interracial rapes are
covered differently.

1139
00:59:38,911 --> 00:59:42,598
And there was another major
rape in the city at the time.

1140
00:59:43,640 --> 00:59:45,781
And this is the woman who
was raped in Brooklyn

1141
00:59:45,801 --> 00:59:47,543
and thrown off a rooftop.

1142
00:59:47,563 --> 00:59:49,902
That got little to no coverage

1143
00:59:49,922 --> 00:59:52,222
because the assailants
and the victim

1144
00:59:52,457 --> 00:59:54,541
were in the same racial group.

1145
00:59:55,607 --> 00:59:59,126
If there's a white woman and
the accusation is that she's

1146
00:59:59,146 --> 01:00:02,810
been done-in by blacks, that
by itself takes you back

1147
01:00:02,830 --> 01:00:07,431
to Emmett Till, who did nothing
but whistle at a woman

1148
01:00:07,451 --> 01:00:11,421
and ended up in a shallow
Mississippi grave.

1149
01:00:12,631 --> 01:00:19,299
If this had happened in 1901,
they would have been lynched,

1150
01:00:20,003 --> 01:00:24,551
perhaps castrated, and their
bodies burned and that

1151
01:00:24,571 --> 01:00:25,951
would have been the end of it.

1152
01:00:25,971 --> 01:00:28,331
But this was New
York City, 1989.

1153
01:00:28,351 --> 01:00:31,056
It was not Jim Crow South.

1154
01:00:31,076 --> 01:00:33,645
And yet the same words are
being used with the same

1155
01:00:33,665 --> 01:00:35,253
damaging results.

1156
01:00:36,591 --> 01:00:40,842
Butts: They seized on the
fears of the people.

1157
01:00:40,862 --> 01:00:41,982
Wilding.

1158
01:00:42,002 --> 01:00:46,627
The bestial characterization
of the black man, these young

1159
01:00:46,647 --> 01:00:49,165
hoodlums, these thugs.

1160
01:00:51,791 --> 01:00:55,904
Wilder: Once we were on the path
to identifying these young men

1161
01:00:55,924 --> 01:00:59,707
as the culprits, it's hard
to get off that path.

1162
01:01:00,110 --> 01:01:05,200
And race, power, and politics
make it extremely difficult.

1163
01:01:05,220 --> 01:01:08,063
It requires extraordinary courage.

1164
01:01:08,315 --> 01:01:11,263
A lot of people in the
black community went along

1165
01:01:11,283 --> 01:01:13,177
with the confessions.

1166
01:01:14,435 --> 01:01:17,928
Many of us were frightened
by our own children.

1167
01:01:18,416 --> 01:01:26,322
Many of us had been pushed
around, raped, burglarized,

1168
01:01:26,717 --> 01:01:29,990
pocketbooks snatched,
harassed on the subway

1169
01:01:30,574 --> 01:01:32,724
often by young black men.

1170
01:01:35,211 --> 01:01:38,588
People just said,
"Oh, how terrible.

1171
01:01:39,067 --> 01:01:40,241
How terrible."

1172
01:01:40,795 --> 01:01:43,519
Everyone turned against
them, except a few.

1173
01:01:49,460 --> 01:01:52,509
Woman: The good news is, she
continues to improve neurologically

1174
01:01:52,529 --> 01:01:53,980
from her attack.

1175
01:01:54,828 --> 01:01:57,522
For the first time, she
called her father "Dad."

1176
01:01:57,634 --> 01:01:59,213
She did simple arithmetic.

1177
01:01:59,233 --> 01:02:01,765
Her brain is working, still
abnormally... she thought

1178
01:02:01,785 --> 01:02:05,671
the year was 1952... but
her brain is working.

1179
01:02:05,924 --> 01:02:10,611
She's getting better, and
so far she looks good.

1180
01:02:10,733 --> 01:02:13,421
Woman: The medical case
of the 28-year-old jogger

1181
01:02:13,441 --> 01:02:15,048
continues to improve.

1182
01:02:15,068 --> 01:02:17,705
She is undergoing physical
and psychological therapy

1183
01:02:17,725 --> 01:02:19,134
at a Connecticut hospital.

1184
01:02:19,154 --> 01:02:21,724
The young woman attacked has
apparently made a remarkable

1185
01:02:21,744 --> 01:02:24,880
recovery, although she
reportedly cannot recall any

1186
01:02:24,900 --> 01:02:26,590
details about the attack.

1187
01:02:43,667 --> 01:02:46,220
McCray: When I was bailed out,
I thought the case was over.

1188
01:02:46,240 --> 01:02:47,713
I thought the truth came out.

1189
01:02:47,733 --> 01:02:51,033
I didn't know nothing about
bail until I got home.

1190
01:02:51,053 --> 01:02:53,589
My mother explained to me, "No, it's bail.
We paid for you to get out."

1191
01:02:53,609 --> 01:02:55,290
We still got to
go on with this."

1192
01:02:57,910 --> 01:02:59,412
I wasn't able to go to school,

1193
01:02:59,432 --> 01:03:01,118
so I got a tutor.

1194
01:03:01,557 --> 01:03:03,329
I didn't go outside a lot.

1195
01:03:04,082 --> 01:03:07,795
I stayed in the house, played
video games, and just studied.

1196
01:03:11,375 --> 01:03:13,827
Hancock: The police controlled
the story from the beginning.

1197
01:03:14,087 --> 01:03:18,752
They created the story and the
theory, and all the pieces

1198
01:03:18,772 --> 01:03:19,566
fell into place.

1199
01:03:19,826 --> 01:03:23,845
The authorities release a
chronology to the press

1200
01:03:24,130 --> 01:03:27,188
of what this wilding
was all about.

1201
01:03:27,208 --> 01:03:29,876
Together at about
8:50 P.M., they entered...

1202
01:03:30,136 --> 01:03:32,670
Dwyer: The newspapers
love chronologies.

1203
01:03:32,690 --> 01:03:33,994
We call 'em tick-tocks.

1204
01:03:34,014 --> 01:03:37,881
We like to say, "Here's how
this night of terror unfolded"

1205
01:03:37,901 --> 01:03:38,634
in the park."

1206
01:03:38,928 --> 01:03:42,254
At 8:55, they
attacked an older male.

1207
01:03:42,394 --> 01:03:47,877
The timeline says the kids did these attacks
at this place with the homeless guy,

1208
01:03:47,897 --> 01:03:50,386
at this place with the taxi
driver, over there with

1209
01:03:50,406 --> 01:03:53,578
the bicycle rider, and
then with people running

1210
01:03:53,598 --> 01:03:54,789
around the reservoir.

1211
01:03:54,809 --> 01:03:55,758
At 9:25...

1212
01:03:55,778 --> 01:04:00,050
They did various acts of malice
or mischief with these folks.

1213
01:04:00,400 --> 01:04:04,388
Now, those people reported
these things either

1214
01:04:04,408 --> 01:04:07,769
simultaneously or right
after to the police.

1215
01:04:07,789 --> 01:04:11,149
So there is a
clear-cut timeline.

1216
01:04:12,783 --> 01:04:17,054
And what they do is they
append to the end of this

1217
01:04:17,074 --> 01:04:20,609
sequence of crimes the
attack on the jogger.

1218
01:04:21,097 --> 01:04:23,129
Then something happens.

1219
01:04:23,389 --> 01:04:28,168
Her movements that night
start to become defined.

1220
01:04:28,906 --> 01:04:32,775
And all of a sudden we find out
when she left her house,...

1221
01:04:32,795 --> 01:04:35,567
What route she normally
took around the park.

1222
01:04:35,670 --> 01:04:39,500
And with not necessarily
absolute certainty,

1223
01:04:39,520 --> 01:04:43,724
but with a good degree of
certainty you can figure out

1224
01:04:43,744 --> 01:04:46,885
that Trisha Meili should
have been in the park

1225
01:04:47,016 --> 01:04:51,840
around the place where she was
attacked at around 20 after 9:00.

1226
01:04:52,807 --> 01:04:57,351
We know for certain that at
that time, those kids were

1227
01:04:57,371 --> 01:05:01,953
beating up, hassling other
people on the reservoir,

1228
01:05:02,094 --> 01:05:04,206
South of that
spot in the park.

1229
01:05:04,620 --> 01:05:08,720
They weren't at that part of
the park at the time she would

1230
01:05:08,740 --> 01:05:10,074
have been there.

1231
01:05:10,094 --> 01:05:14,895
And if you watch the videotape
confessions, it turns out they

1232
01:05:14,915 --> 01:05:17,246
actually don't know where
the crime took place;

1233
01:05:17,266 --> 01:05:19,512
they don't know
when it took place;

1234
01:05:19,532 --> 01:05:20,957
and they don't know
how it took place.

1235
01:05:20,977 --> 01:05:22,716
They just know
that it happened.

1236
01:05:26,287 --> 01:05:30,856
Kassin: The problem is, once you form
a strong belief that somebody is

1237
01:05:30,876 --> 01:05:33,084
guilty of a crime,

1238
01:05:33,104 --> 01:05:35,013
the contradictory
details are just that.

1239
01:05:35,033 --> 01:05:38,072
They're details but they
don't fundamentally

1240
01:05:38,092 --> 01:05:40,184
change our belief
in their guilt.

1241
01:05:42,746 --> 01:05:46,085
But when the DNA results
come back and none of their

1242
01:05:46,105 --> 01:05:50,674
DNA is present, that should
have stopped the investigation

1243
01:05:50,695 --> 01:05:53,334
in its tracks and they should
have at least paused and moved

1244
01:05:53,354 --> 01:05:55,695
in another direction.

1245
01:05:55,715 --> 01:05:59,552
Warren: Harlan Levy was a
DNA prosecutor at the time.

1246
01:05:59,572 --> 01:06:04,806
And he recalls how Elizabeth Lederer
said, "Please, come to my office."

1247
01:06:04,826 --> 01:06:07,399
And he could sense
urgency in her voice.

1248
01:06:07,419 --> 01:06:10,026
And she said, "Look, I
feel like I've been kicked"

1249
01:06:10,046 --> 01:06:12,021
"in the stomach.

1250
01:06:12,041 --> 01:06:14,448
"There's no DNA
match whatsoever

1251
01:06:14,468 --> 01:06:17,043
to any of these boys."

1252
01:06:17,063 --> 01:06:20,200
Kassin: It is improbable, given
the nature of this crime

1253
01:06:20,221 --> 01:06:24,224
and the scene, that these boys
would not have left a single

1254
01:06:24,244 --> 01:06:28,247
trace of themselves on the scene or
the scene a single trace on them.

1255
01:06:28,267 --> 01:06:32,703
The improbability of
that is striking.

1256
01:06:32,723 --> 01:06:36,361
But the decision was we can
still prosecute this case.

1257
01:06:36,381 --> 01:06:39,287
And the argument we will make
to the jury is just because we

1258
01:06:39,307 --> 01:06:42,213
didn't get all of them,
doesn't mean we didn't get

1259
01:06:42,233 --> 01:06:43,161
some of them.

1260
01:06:45,124 --> 01:06:49,461
They now created a scenario by
which there is a 6th perpetrator

1261
01:06:49,482 --> 01:06:51,257
a 6th perpetrator
who mysteriously

1262
01:06:51,277 --> 01:06:54,981
doesn't appear in any
of the confessions.

1263
01:06:55,001 --> 01:06:58,439
But even if they were correct,
that 6th perpetrator's

1264
01:06:58,459 --> 01:07:01,133
absence in their confessions
makes the confessions

1265
01:07:01,153 --> 01:07:03,146
factually incorrect.

1266
01:07:04,477 --> 01:07:07,384
That should have
been the dilemma.

1267
01:07:07,404 --> 01:07:12,337
Dwyer: The trail in the grass at the
very spot where she was taken down

1268
01:07:12,357 --> 01:07:16,328
is 18 inches wide, that wide.

1269
01:07:16,348 --> 01:07:21,515
You can't tell me that 5 kids
or 10 or whatever the number is

1270
01:07:21,535 --> 01:07:23,477
that were supposedly
involved in this wilding

1271
01:07:23,497 --> 01:07:29,761
dragged this woman off the road
and left an 18-inch-wide trail.

1272
01:07:29,781 --> 01:07:36,345
That trail was a photograph of
the beginning of this attack.

1273
01:07:36,365 --> 01:07:41,433
And in that picture there are
not 5 kids, there are only

1274
01:07:41,453 --> 01:07:45,923
2 people: The victim
and her assailant.

1275
01:08:06,005 --> 01:08:08,884
Reyes: I asked her
to get undressed.

1276
01:08:09,369 --> 01:08:12,123
When she was coming towards
me, I picked up the knife.

1277
01:08:13,041 --> 01:08:16,627
And I shoved the knife
and I caught her hair.

1278
01:08:17,116 --> 01:08:19,181
And she was saying,
"Ah, you stabbed me."

1279
01:08:19,332 --> 01:08:22,149
And I don't know even where,
I kept on stabbing her,

1280
01:08:22,169 --> 01:08:24,281
and I don't know what
places I got her.

1281
01:08:24,301 --> 01:08:29,130
I see her on the floor,
shaking and nervous,

1282
01:08:29,150 --> 01:08:31,599
so I run out the door.

1283
01:08:37,637 --> 01:08:44,341
Dwyer: Matias Reyes was a young
man living essentially by himself

1284
01:08:44,361 --> 01:08:47,411
in his late teenage years.

1285
01:08:47,431 --> 01:08:50,031
He would steal Walkmans,
he would steal watches,

1286
01:08:50,051 --> 01:08:51,631
he would steal jewelry.

1287
01:08:51,651 --> 01:08:56,059
Then he started sexually
assaulting women,

1288
01:08:56,079 --> 01:09:00,144
attacking women all
around that neighborhood.

1289
01:09:00,164 --> 01:09:05,857
On April 17, 1989, just two days
before the jogger was attacked,

1290
01:09:05,877 --> 01:09:09,604
he attacked a woman in the
northern part of Central Park.

1291
01:09:09,624 --> 01:09:14,131
But the woman noticed that he
had fresh stitches on his chin,

1292
01:09:14,151 --> 01:09:16,469
and she told the
police about this.

1293
01:09:16,489 --> 01:09:22,779
And a young detective went
to the hospitals in the area

1294
01:09:22,799 --> 01:09:26,159
and found out that there had
been a guy named Matias Reyes

1295
01:09:26,179 --> 01:09:29,708
who had these
stitches on his chin.

1296
01:09:29,990 --> 01:09:32,018
That was ignored.

1297
01:09:32,469 --> 01:09:34,920
He was the "East Side Rapist"
that we'd been covering

1298
01:09:34,940 --> 01:09:36,751
in the "Daily News."

1299
01:09:36,771 --> 01:09:39,282
And one of the police officers

1300
01:09:39,302 --> 01:09:41,193
who was working on
the jogger case

1301
01:09:41,213 --> 01:09:45,342
and also working on one of
the rapes that Reyes has

1302
01:09:45,362 --> 01:09:50,170
been accused of, has the
DNA markers in both files.

1303
01:09:50,517 --> 01:09:54,564
Detective Mike Sheehan...
he knew because he was working

1304
01:09:54,584 --> 01:09:56,649
with Linda Fairstein
and Elizabeth Lederer

1305
01:09:56,669 --> 01:09:58,902
and all the other detectives...
he knew that there

1306
01:09:58,922 --> 01:10:03,361
was no DNA match to these
young Central Park Five.

1307
01:10:04,935 --> 01:10:07,235
TV reporter: The only real
evidence the prosecutors have

1308
01:10:07,255 --> 01:10:10,656
is the evidence the defendants
gave them: Hours of graphic

1309
01:10:10,676 --> 01:10:12,368
videotaped confessions.

1310
01:10:12,678 --> 01:10:15,866
Kassin: What is particularly
disturbing about this case

1311
01:10:15,886 --> 01:10:19,774
and about so many other cases
like it is that once that

1312
01:10:19,794 --> 01:10:23,602
confession is taken and once
that confession is in the air,

1313
01:10:23,867 --> 01:10:25,861
it corrupts everything else.

1314
01:10:26,314 --> 01:10:31,160
And confessions will trump
DNA, confessions will change

1315
01:10:31,180 --> 01:10:35,257
witnesses' testimony,
confessions are irresistibly

1316
01:10:35,277 --> 01:10:38,672
persuasive, and almost the
effects can't be reversed.

1317
01:10:51,876 --> 01:10:53,676
Rather: Screening for
jurors began today

1318
01:10:53,696 --> 01:10:56,505
in a case that shocked New
York and jolted the nation.

1319
01:10:56,525 --> 01:11:00,130
Prosecutors are expected
to call 50 witnesses, possibly

1320
01:11:00,150 --> 01:11:01,558
including the victim herself.

1321
01:11:01,578 --> 01:11:06,131
Woman: Though she has no memory of the
attack, prosecutors expect her to testify.

1322
01:11:06,151 --> 01:11:08,404
Her mere appearance will
pack an emotional punch

1323
01:11:08,424 --> 01:11:10,262
for the prosecution's case.

1324
01:11:14,938 --> 01:11:18,478
Santana Jr.: In the back of my mind, I
knew we wasn't gonna beat this case.

1325
01:11:19,314 --> 01:11:21,342
It was in the paper too much.

1326
01:11:21,446 --> 01:11:23,314
Too many people
were against us.

1327
01:11:26,460 --> 01:11:28,610
Everybody washed
their hands from us,

1328
01:11:28,741 --> 01:11:33,714
and I felt like people accepted
whatever happened to us.

1329
01:11:34,220 --> 01:11:37,949
It was like, "Whatever happens
to those kids, forget 'em."

1330
01:11:43,842 --> 01:11:47,702
McCray: My father, as the trial
came, he left me and my mother.

1331
01:11:48,011 --> 01:11:49,008
Disappeared.

1332
01:11:50,669 --> 01:11:51,845
I couldn't understand.

1333
01:11:51,865 --> 01:11:54,425
And I just, I hated
him after that.

1334
01:11:57,826 --> 01:12:00,682
Me and my mother started
going to court by ourself.

1335
01:12:03,198 --> 01:12:05,291
Demonstrators, you know
people just shouting,

1336
01:12:05,311 --> 01:12:07,461
you know, "Rapist",
"You animal."

1337
01:12:07,481 --> 01:12:09,386
"You don't deserve
to be alive."

1338
01:12:10,813 --> 01:12:13,966
It just felt like the
whole world hated us.

1339
01:12:17,481 --> 01:12:21,696
Joseph: The amazing thing to me
in meeting Antron was that he was

1340
01:12:21,716 --> 01:12:26,535
the exact opposite of the way
he was portrayed in the news.

1341
01:12:26,555 --> 01:12:31,164
He is a timid, calm,
non-aggressive individual,

1342
01:12:31,184 --> 01:12:33,972
not anything as
he was portrayed.

1343
01:12:38,974 --> 01:12:41,960
Woman: In her opening argument,
the prosecutor made it clear

1344
01:12:41,980 --> 01:12:44,586
their own words would be
the main evidence against

1345
01:12:44,606 --> 01:12:46,369
the first three defendants.

1346
01:12:46,389 --> 01:12:47,533
Lederer: Where
were you standing?

1347
01:12:47,553 --> 01:12:49,358
Santana Jr.: I was on
the side of Kevin.

1348
01:12:50,119 --> 01:12:51,668
Lederer: Were you watching?

1349
01:12:51,772 --> 01:12:53,527
Santana Jr.: No, I was
grabbing the lady's tits.

1350
01:12:53,547 --> 01:12:56,154
It was very hard not to
believe those confessions.

1351
01:12:56,174 --> 01:12:57,759
Lederer: What was Anton
doing to her clothes?

1352
01:12:57,779 --> 01:12:59,524
Santana Jr.: Trying
to pull them off.

1353
01:12:59,544 --> 01:13:00,695
It seemed genuine.

1354
01:13:00,715 --> 01:13:02,169
These confessions
seemed genuine.

1355
01:13:02,189 --> 01:13:05,690
They didn't seem like they were
rehearsed or made up or anything.

1356
01:13:06,000 --> 01:13:07,581
I think that Raymond lied.

1357
01:13:07,601 --> 01:13:09,469
It'll come out
that Raymond lied.

1358
01:13:09,581 --> 01:13:13,264
He was lying when he was
being asked questions by

1359
01:13:13,284 --> 01:13:14,456
the district attorney,

1360
01:13:14,476 --> 01:13:18,464
and I think that will come
out very... graphically

1361
01:13:18,577 --> 01:13:20,502
in my cross
examination tomorrow.

1362
01:13:20,522 --> 01:13:23,853
Woman: Yusef Salaam didn't make
taped statements, but police say he

1363
01:13:23,873 --> 01:13:27,588
verbally admitted beating the
female jogger with a lead pipe

1364
01:13:27,608 --> 01:13:29,578
while others climbed
on top of her.

1365
01:13:32,238 --> 01:13:34,821
Salaam: Bobby burns... He
was a friend of my mom's.

1366
01:13:35,262 --> 01:13:37,694
He was originally
a divorce lawyer.

1367
01:13:40,315 --> 01:13:41,761
I thought he was a nice guy.

1368
01:13:41,958 --> 01:13:46,475
But at one point in time I
remember looking over at him

1369
01:13:46,719 --> 01:13:48,470
and I thought he was sleeping.

1370
01:13:55,431 --> 01:13:58,398
Santana Jr.: Mentally, you know,
physically it was draining,

1371
01:13:58,629 --> 01:14:00,686
not knowing what's going on,

1372
01:14:00,836 --> 01:14:04,254
seeing these people get on the
stand, nobody actually saying

1373
01:14:04,274 --> 01:14:05,212
you did it.

1374
01:14:11,326 --> 01:14:13,823
Woman: ...That there is
another perspective.

1375
01:14:13,946 --> 01:14:17,385
Crowd: No more
Scottsboro boys!

1376
01:14:17,405 --> 01:14:18,446
No more Scottsboro boys!

1377
01:14:18,466 --> 01:14:22,276
Woman: There has been no evidence
in any form that could show me,

1378
01:14:22,296 --> 01:14:29,506
for one moment, anything related to his
being anything other than innocent.

1379
01:14:29,526 --> 01:14:31,223
Yusef is innocent.

1380
01:14:31,243 --> 01:14:32,545
Crowd shouting: No justice.
No peace!

1381
01:14:32,565 --> 01:14:34,150
No justice. No peace!

1382
01:14:34,170 --> 01:14:35,581
No justice. No peace!

1383
01:14:35,601 --> 01:14:36,431
No justice. No peace!

1384
01:14:36,451 --> 01:14:39,070
There have been charges
of racism, that authorities

1385
01:14:39,090 --> 01:14:42,042
aggressively pursued the case
because the victim is white

1386
01:14:42,062 --> 01:14:44,307
and the suspects
Black and Hispanic.

1387
01:14:44,327 --> 01:14:46,749
Woman: Meantime, a group of
people came to demonstrate

1388
01:14:46,769 --> 01:14:49,582
for the female jogger and
against a regular cadre

1389
01:14:49,602 --> 01:14:51,977
of protestors who have
suggested that the jogger's

1390
01:14:51,997 --> 01:14:53,066
boyfriend raped her.

1391
01:14:53,086 --> 01:14:55,122
Where the jogger's boyfriend?

1392
01:14:55,142 --> 01:14:57,160
Where's the
jogger's boyfriend?

1393
01:14:57,180 --> 01:14:59,181
Woman: All people should
be outraged about this,

1394
01:14:59,294 --> 01:15:01,397
not any particular race.

1395
01:15:01,417 --> 01:15:04,734
We need to remember that this
was a human being and people

1396
01:15:04,754 --> 01:15:05,897
need to support that.

1397
01:15:06,133 --> 01:15:08,596
Yesterday, Mayor David
Dinkins also condemed

1398
01:15:08,616 --> 01:15:09,818
the regular protestors

1399
01:15:09,838 --> 01:15:13,255
who even jeered at the injured
jogger the day she testified.

1400
01:15:17,676 --> 01:15:21,160
Woman: She walked with an unsteady
gait, clutched the railing

1401
01:15:21,180 --> 01:15:22,698
as she stepped into
the witness stand.

1402
01:15:23,375 --> 01:15:25,140
Her scars were evident,

1403
01:15:25,713 --> 01:15:28,605
but she spoke clearly in
a strong, sweet voice.

1404
01:15:29,783 --> 01:15:31,978
Hancock: She was a miracle
now at this point.

1405
01:15:32,572 --> 01:15:35,559
She couldn't contribute
anything to the actual case

1406
01:15:35,579 --> 01:15:37,583
because thankfully she
couldn't remember.

1407
01:15:37,997 --> 01:15:42,081
But the fact of her being
on the stand galvanized

1408
01:15:42,101 --> 01:15:46,839
the public around her and
against these young boys.

1409
01:15:49,122 --> 01:15:51,491
McCray: I was like just sitting
there, like looking, like, "Man",

1410
01:15:51,512 --> 01:15:53,572
I really hope this
lady can remember."

1411
01:15:53,593 --> 01:15:55,975
You know, I'm, like, "Why
she can't remember?"

1412
01:15:56,209 --> 01:15:58,777
It's messed up what happened
to her, but I didn't do it.

1413
01:16:02,851 --> 01:16:05,782
Woman: With the prosecution resting
its case in the final hour today,

1414
01:16:05,802 --> 01:16:07,900
the defense begins its
case tomorrow, starting

1415
01:16:07,920 --> 01:16:10,501
with the parents
of Antron McCray.

1416
01:16:11,433 --> 01:16:17,444
Joseph: My strategy was obviously
to try to convince the jury that

1417
01:16:17,464 --> 01:16:21,283
the statements were not
accurate, were the product

1418
01:16:21,303 --> 01:16:24,322
of coercion, should
be inadmissible,

1419
01:16:24,342 --> 01:16:26,232
and were not credible.

1420
01:16:26,252 --> 01:16:30,092
But when they testified in
court, the police officers

1421
01:16:30,112 --> 01:16:33,951
said, "All we did is ask
him what happened."

1422
01:16:34,326 --> 01:16:36,896
That seemed to me
to be incredible.

1423
01:16:36,916 --> 01:16:40,709
They also denied that
they ever made any

1424
01:16:40,729 --> 01:16:42,946
promises whatsoever.

1425
01:16:42,966 --> 01:16:47,199
They denied even knowing
Antron was a suspect.

1426
01:16:47,875 --> 01:16:50,927
Gold: Even though he had asked him
to tell the truth no matter what

1427
01:16:50,947 --> 01:16:53,387
and to bring the clothes he
was wearing, and all kinds

1428
01:16:53,407 --> 01:16:57,244
of stuff, that made it perfectly
obvious that he was a suspect,

1429
01:16:57,264 --> 01:16:59,027
he said he didn't think
of him as a suspect.

1430
01:16:59,047 --> 01:17:00,586
That was just nonsense.

1431
01:17:00,878 --> 01:17:04,257
Some of the detectives were obviously
lying through their teeth.

1432
01:17:05,679 --> 01:17:09,337
Dwyer: The lawyers in the
case had another defense,

1433
01:17:09,357 --> 01:17:11,664
which is they had alibis.

1434
01:17:12,720 --> 01:17:18,835
They were not where the jogger
was when she was attacked.

1435
01:17:18,855 --> 01:17:20,279
Why?

1436
01:17:20,299 --> 01:17:22,617
They were beating
up other people.

1437
01:17:23,749 --> 01:17:27,736
That alibi defense
was not offered.

1438
01:17:29,649 --> 01:17:31,730
Gold: The only evidence
against Yusef was

1439
01:17:31,750 --> 01:17:34,766
the testimony of
McKenna, the detective.

1440
01:17:34,913 --> 01:17:39,352
And Burns absolutely
undercut Yusef in the most

1441
01:17:39,372 --> 01:17:41,404
terrifying way.

1442
01:17:41,781 --> 01:17:46,247
He put into evidence the notes
of McKenna which hadn't been

1443
01:17:46,267 --> 01:17:48,140
put into evidence before.

1444
01:17:48,160 --> 01:17:51,164
And that was the only
evidence against Yusef.

1445
01:17:53,598 --> 01:17:55,489
Santana Jr.: There was
one part during trial

1446
01:17:55,509 --> 01:17:58,729
I think Peter Rivera,
my lawyer, he woke up.

1447
01:17:58,749 --> 01:18:01,092
And they was talking about
the statements, of how

1448
01:18:01,112 --> 01:18:03,606
the statements were
coerced by the police.

1449
01:18:03,626 --> 01:18:08,181
I remember him reading
something, and I heard him...

1450
01:18:08,201 --> 01:18:10,085
I heard him whisper it.

1451
01:18:10,105 --> 01:18:11,789
He didn't say it loud
but he sat next to me.

1452
01:18:11,809 --> 01:18:15,061
He said, "They didn't do it."

1453
01:18:15,081 --> 01:18:17,901
And I heard him say that.

1454
01:18:17,921 --> 01:18:20,706
And I said, "All right, well,
maybe now he gonna fight."

1455
01:18:20,726 --> 01:18:22,662
But it was too late.

1456
01:18:24,733 --> 01:18:26,519
Gold: No blood on the kids.

1457
01:18:26,539 --> 01:18:28,774
Nobody could identify them.

1458
01:18:29,671 --> 01:18:31,953
It was just a
question of believing

1459
01:18:31,973 --> 01:18:33,390
the confessions or not.

1460
01:18:33,820 --> 01:18:38,220
And it was very hard to imagine
why anybody would make up

1461
01:18:38,240 --> 01:18:42,502
something that not only
incriminates them but is full

1462
01:18:42,522 --> 01:18:46,552
of details that sound like
they actually happened.

1463
01:18:47,749 --> 01:18:51,336
Santana Jr.: It got to one point where
they pulled me, Yusef, and Antron

1464
01:18:51,356 --> 01:18:52,973
in the conference room.

1465
01:18:52,993 --> 01:18:56,302
And the lawyer says, "You know,
we're gonna lose this case."

1466
01:18:57,040 --> 01:19:00,714
What we're planning to do is see
if we can get you a plea deal."

1467
01:19:01,662 --> 01:19:05,231
Salaam: And I remember telling them,
you know, "You guys can cop out."

1468
01:19:05,251 --> 01:19:09,754
"But if I did something,
I would cop out.

1469
01:19:10,101 --> 01:19:12,979
"I would want the least amount
of time for what I did.

1470
01:19:13,209 --> 01:19:16,887
But if I didn't do anything, you can
give me the rest of my life in prison."

1471
01:19:17,131 --> 01:19:20,228
You know, I didn't know what
that meant back then, but I

1472
01:19:20,248 --> 01:19:23,618
just knew that there would be
no way that I would cop out

1473
01:19:23,638 --> 01:19:25,093
for something
that I didn't do.

1474
01:19:25,224 --> 01:19:29,112
They said, "Well, it has to be all
three of you guys or it's nobody."

1475
01:19:29,132 --> 01:19:32,286
And so we, you know, we
looked at each other.

1476
01:19:32,306 --> 01:19:34,390
We was like, "Well,
guess it's nobody."

1477
01:19:34,880 --> 01:19:36,828
Coming out. Let's roll.

1478
01:19:36,848 --> 01:19:39,521
The crimes and the colors in
this case have been a focus

1479
01:19:39,541 --> 01:19:41,571
of attention here for
more than a year.

1480
01:19:41,898 --> 01:19:45,061
It will now be up to a jury to
decide the guilt or innocence

1481
01:19:45,081 --> 01:19:46,215
of the defendants.

1482
01:19:46,235 --> 01:19:49,322
John McKenzie, ABC
News, New York.

1483
01:19:55,468 --> 01:19:59,269
It is day 10 of deliberations
and the jogger jury appears to

1484
01:19:59,289 --> 01:20:00,969
be going back to what
they were thinking

1485
01:20:00,989 --> 01:20:02,982
about on day one.

1486
01:20:03,002 --> 01:20:06,483
Were those damaging videotaped
confessions coerced by cops,

1487
01:20:06,652 --> 01:20:08,108
overeager to solve the case?

1488
01:20:08,128 --> 01:20:09,162
Joseph: Each day that

1489
01:20:09,182 --> 01:20:11,546
the jury remained out,

1490
01:20:11,887 --> 01:20:15,481
I started to get a
little more optimistic.

1491
01:20:15,741 --> 01:20:16,632
People were shocked.

1492
01:20:16,652 --> 01:20:20,095
What's taking them so long?
They confessed to it!

1493
01:20:21,947 --> 01:20:24,880
I was going nuts,
quite frankly.

1494
01:20:24,900 --> 01:20:27,744
I mean, everyone was blaming
the fact that we were there

1495
01:20:27,764 --> 01:20:29,245
so long on me.

1496
01:20:29,492 --> 01:20:33,150
And I had to fight with my
fellow jurors to consider

1497
01:20:33,170 --> 01:20:36,477
the discrepancies between
the 3 statements,

1498
01:20:36,608 --> 01:20:39,192
but it didn't matter to them.

1499
01:20:39,397 --> 01:20:42,035
If they confessed, they
confessed, and that was that.

1500
01:20:42,827 --> 01:20:45,661
Everyone's hurling
imprecations at me and

1501
01:20:45,681 --> 01:20:47,259
telling me what a rat I am.

1502
01:20:47,616 --> 01:20:51,174
And I just went along with it
at the end because,

1503
01:20:51,559 --> 01:20:53,531
frankly, I was wiped out.

1504
01:20:54,029 --> 01:20:59,136
I found some cockamamie
excuse to vote guilty,

1505
01:20:59,156 --> 01:21:00,471
just to get outta there.

1506
01:21:14,887 --> 01:21:18,744
Santana Jr.: When the verdict
came out, they brung us out.

1507
01:21:18,959 --> 01:21:20,446
The courtroom was packed.

1508
01:21:22,000 --> 01:21:24,789
As they started to read,
everything kinda got numb.

1509
01:21:25,133 --> 01:21:27,549
McCray: I remember
standing there and just,

1510
01:21:27,569 --> 01:21:28,958
they found me guilty.

1511
01:21:28,978 --> 01:21:32,155
That's when I was just...
the world just collapsed.

1512
01:21:32,675 --> 01:21:34,591
Salaam: My whole
insides dropped.

1513
01:21:34,611 --> 01:21:38,336
Just... like this is crazy.

1514
01:21:38,356 --> 01:21:39,304
Are you... are you kidding me?

1515
01:21:39,324 --> 01:21:41,501
Like, I couldn't
believe it at all.

1516
01:21:42,320 --> 01:21:45,238
McCray: I couldn't hear nothing after that.
I just sat down.

1517
01:21:45,398 --> 01:21:47,707
I looked back at my mother.
She was crying.

1518
01:21:51,257 --> 01:21:52,513
You know, that was it.

1519
01:21:52,533 --> 01:21:54,949
Woman: After the jury foreman,
a law school graduate...

1520
01:21:54,969 --> 01:21:57,853
One of my friends had a
radio, and then I heard it.

1521
01:21:57,873 --> 01:22:01,806
Woman, continuing: Guilty, guilty, guilty
on rape, robbery, riot, and assault...

1522
01:22:01,975 --> 01:22:03,562
Tears came out of my eye.

1523
01:22:03,918 --> 01:22:04,962
And I was mad.

1524
01:22:04,982 --> 01:22:08,899
Woman, continuing: 16-year-old McCray
clenched his jaw and brushed away tears.

1525
01:22:09,254 --> 01:22:11,837
15-year-old Santana
looked wide-eyed ahead,

1526
01:22:12,022 --> 01:22:15,168
while Salaam stared at the jurors,
then back at the courtroom.

1527
01:22:15,299 --> 01:22:17,643
Pure anguish.

1528
01:22:18,088 --> 01:22:22,760
Joseph: Antron leaned over to me
and said, "Thank you very much"

1529
01:22:22,780 --> 01:22:24,771
for all of your efforts."

1530
01:22:25,270 --> 01:22:30,593
That's not something that you
see from clients in general

1531
01:22:30,613 --> 01:22:34,717
and certainly not something
you would expect to see

1532
01:22:34,737 --> 01:22:36,013
from a young man,

1533
01:22:36,033 --> 01:22:37,856
and I truly appreciated it.

1534
01:22:39,055 --> 01:22:41,573
McCray: I just looked at him, and I
was like, "Thank you for helping me."

1535
01:22:41,593 --> 01:22:43,373
He did his best.

1536
01:22:43,861 --> 01:22:46,263
He did his best, you
know, in my eyes.

1537
01:22:48,967 --> 01:22:50,772
Santana Jr.: They
took me out first.

1538
01:22:51,639 --> 01:22:54,838
They asked for my belt,
they asked for my laces.

1539
01:22:55,609 --> 01:22:59,777
And then Yusef and Antron came
out like a little bit after me.

1540
01:23:00,549 --> 01:23:01,758
And then we cried.

1541
01:23:01,778 --> 01:23:03,636
We cried inside the bull pen.

1542
01:23:03,842 --> 01:23:07,437
We didn't... it was like you
didn't wanna show them that,

1543
01:23:07,457 --> 01:23:12,110
you know, because you didn't
want them to see defeat.

1544
01:23:12,355 --> 01:23:14,682
So you know we did it
when we went in the back.

1545
01:23:16,228 --> 01:23:18,312
Woman: The defendants'
families left the courtroom

1546
01:23:18,332 --> 01:23:19,964
quickly, in tears.

1547
01:23:19,984 --> 01:23:22,435
They left without
their teenage sons.

1548
01:23:27,480 --> 01:23:28,519
All right!

1549
01:23:28,539 --> 01:23:30,077
Thank you!

1550
01:23:32,087 --> 01:23:34,977
Law and order in the nation's
largest city seemed to get

1551
01:23:34,997 --> 01:23:37,908
a boost tonight as the first
three youths to be tried

1552
01:23:37,928 --> 01:23:40,477
in the Central Park jogger
case were found guilty

1553
01:23:40,497 --> 01:23:43,325
of gang rape and brutal
assault and robbery.

1554
01:23:44,255 --> 01:23:45,517
Woman: You're pleased
with the verdicts?

1555
01:23:45,537 --> 01:23:46,339
I am.

1556
01:23:46,359 --> 01:23:50,000
How much of a help has your
detectives... have your detectives

1557
01:23:50,020 --> 01:23:51,459
been to you during this case?

1558
01:23:51,479 --> 01:23:53,718
Lederer: They've been the best.
They're terrific.

1559
01:23:53,854 --> 01:23:56,736
Woman: Were you concerned about
the lack of genetic evidence?

1560
01:23:56,756 --> 01:23:59,862
A lot of people made a big
deal about that, that none

1561
01:23:59,882 --> 01:24:02,029
of the semen from the
defendants matched that

1562
01:24:02,049 --> 01:24:03,503
that was found in the jogger.

1563
01:24:03,523 --> 01:24:05,356
I think, because
there's another trial,

1564
01:24:05,376 --> 01:24:06,981
it's better not to
discuss the evidence.

1565
01:24:07,001 --> 01:24:09,470
Woman: How do you feel about
the prospect of another trial?

1566
01:24:09,490 --> 01:24:11,706
I think I could use a
vacation before we start.

1567
01:24:11,726 --> 01:24:14,487
- Are you going to give it to her?
- I'm going to give it to her.

1568
01:24:44,625 --> 01:24:46,042
Richardson: They
offered me a plea.

1569
01:24:46,062 --> 01:24:49,460
And I said, "I will never plead to
anything 'cause I was innocent."

1570
01:24:49,480 --> 01:24:54,526
And that we gonna fight this
the whole way through."

1571
01:24:58,847 --> 01:25:01,042
It was just really a circus.

1572
01:25:01,464 --> 01:25:03,502
At this time, I was 16 now.

1573
01:25:04,065 --> 01:25:07,098
So it was already two years
of going through that.

1574
01:25:09,347 --> 01:25:12,520
Wise: I'm just goin' from
Rikers Island, back and forth,

1575
01:25:12,642 --> 01:25:15,225
goin' to this court
thing like it's a job.

1576
01:25:16,548 --> 01:25:20,498
Her only argument on me
is my confession tapes.

1577
01:25:20,518 --> 01:25:21,900
Lederer: Did you
hold her legs down?

1578
01:25:21,920 --> 01:25:25,071
Wise, on tape: I hold her legs
down for what? 5 seconds.

1579
01:25:25,091 --> 01:25:31,176
Wise: So I'm lookin' at
this like..."That's me?

1580
01:25:32,834 --> 01:25:37,202
"Is that me? She usin'
me against me."

1581
01:25:38,770 --> 01:25:41,510
16-year-old Kevin Richardson
has been quiet through most

1582
01:25:41,530 --> 01:25:43,760
of the trial, but
his mother has not.

1583
01:25:43,920 --> 01:25:46,388
Cuffie: He was set
up, he was set up.

1584
01:25:46,408 --> 01:25:47,430
Richardson's attorney

1585
01:25:47,450 --> 01:25:50,601
says he won't claim his client's
taped confession was coerced.

1586
01:25:50,882 --> 01:25:53,669
Instead, he'll argue
Richardson was with the gang

1587
01:25:53,689 --> 01:25:55,885
but never took part
in any of the crimes.

1588
01:25:55,905 --> 01:25:58,223
Wise's attorney said he'll
try to show the confessions

1589
01:25:58,243 --> 01:25:59,519
were coerced.

1590
01:25:59,660 --> 01:26:01,857
By putting him under
continuous pressure

1591
01:26:01,960 --> 01:26:03,519
for 1 hour and 24 minutes,

1592
01:26:03,631 --> 01:26:06,392
after he had been interrogated
for over 24 hours,

1593
01:26:06,570 --> 01:26:08,757
that amounts to pressure.

1594
01:26:08,777 --> 01:26:13,029
I was asked from my
lawyer, Colin Moore,

1595
01:26:13,301 --> 01:26:15,140
do I wanna testify?

1596
01:26:16,249 --> 01:26:20,347
And the D.A., she came up
there tearin' me apart.

1597
01:26:21,207 --> 01:26:24,576
I had wanted to get up and
say, "Woman you don't know me!"

1598
01:26:24,596 --> 01:26:26,963
You talkin' like you know me.
You don't know me."

1599
01:26:31,433 --> 01:26:32,962
Black: The reporters
were runnin',

1600
01:26:32,982 --> 01:26:36,555
and people were runnin', and we
were like, "What's goin' on?"

1601
01:26:36,575 --> 01:26:38,160
And somebody said,
"The verdict is in."

1602
01:26:41,965 --> 01:26:43,749
Richardson: The first thing
I heard was "Guilty,"

1603
01:26:44,262 --> 01:26:47,472
and everything else was
just like fading out.

1604
01:26:48,697 --> 01:26:51,275
Wise: The judge said,
"How do you find?"

1605
01:26:51,458 --> 01:26:55,814
"Guilty: Assault, riot,
and sexual abuse."

1606
01:26:57,570 --> 01:26:58,884
So that was that.

1607
01:27:00,138 --> 01:27:02,889
I remember being handcuffed
right on the spot,

1608
01:27:04,419 --> 01:27:07,593
and that's when I felt
completely alone,

1609
01:27:08,221 --> 01:27:11,244
'cause, you know, before I had my family
at least supportin' me, you know.

1610
01:27:13,366 --> 01:27:18,875
But at that point once the gates
closed and I was in the cell,

1611
01:27:19,340 --> 01:27:23,969
and I just thought my life
was pretty much over.

1612
01:27:33,227 --> 01:27:36,418
Get the... out of my face!

1613
01:27:36,438 --> 01:27:37,570
Outside the courthouse,

1614
01:27:37,590 --> 01:27:39,505
supporters of the two
teenagers erupted

1615
01:27:39,525 --> 01:27:40,763
with violent emotion.

1616
01:27:42,557 --> 01:27:45,741
Get the... out!

1617
01:27:45,761 --> 01:27:49,210
Inside, 16-year-old Kevin
Richardson cried loudly.

1618
01:27:49,380 --> 01:27:52,120
His mother screamed, "We
love you", and collapsed,

1619
01:27:52,140 --> 01:27:54,184
later to be taken
to a hospital.

1620
01:27:54,204 --> 01:27:57,222
18-year-old Korey Wise
shouted, "Racism,"

1621
01:27:57,242 --> 01:27:58,556
as he was led from court.

1622
01:27:58,576 --> 01:28:01,219
The prosecutor was taken
from court under heavy guard

1623
01:28:01,239 --> 01:28:03,435
as an angry crowd
swirled around her.

1624
01:28:03,455 --> 01:28:05,331
You lying ...! You lied!

1625
01:28:05,651 --> 01:28:08,234
This was the second
trial in the jogger case.

1626
01:28:08,254 --> 01:28:10,716
Last summer, three teenagers
were convicted of rape

1627
01:28:10,736 --> 01:28:13,647
and assault and are now
serving their juvenile terms.

1628
01:28:37,489 --> 01:28:39,706
This is the test Mayor
Koch had laid out.

1629
01:28:39,726 --> 01:28:45,598
He was out of office now but
people felt the system had passed.

1630
01:28:56,179 --> 01:29:00,165
Richardson: I went to a maximum
security for juveniles.

1631
01:29:00,185 --> 01:29:05,077
Me and Yusef Salaam, we wound
up being in the same place.

1632
01:29:07,345 --> 01:29:14,215
I remember sayin' that we just
have to stay strong together

1633
01:29:14,235 --> 01:29:15,671
and try to get through
this together 'cause

1634
01:29:15,691 --> 01:29:17,989
all we have is each other
right at this point.

1635
01:29:19,575 --> 01:29:22,358
Santana Jr.: In the beginning, it was
very hard because they perceived me

1636
01:29:22,378 --> 01:29:26,229
as this was a rapist
and, uh... he committed

1637
01:29:26,249 --> 01:29:29,624
one of the most heinous crimes
in New York State history.

1638
01:29:30,413 --> 01:29:33,438
You could be the most peaceful
person, but then you come to

1639
01:29:33,458 --> 01:29:36,775
the point where you have to
defend yourself to avoid

1640
01:29:36,795 --> 01:29:41,641
possibly being beaten, or
worse, even, you know, killed.

1641
01:29:41,661 --> 01:29:45,535
So I had to adjust to that
environment and basically

1642
01:29:45,555 --> 01:29:47,705
I had to grow up really fast.

1643
01:29:49,142 --> 01:29:52,822
McCray: And it's real hectic in
there, you know, people dying

1644
01:29:52,842 --> 01:29:54,288
over cigarettes.

1645
01:29:55,184 --> 01:29:56,617
It's real crazy.

1646
01:30:10,994 --> 01:30:12,487
Santana Jr.: Why me?

1647
01:30:13,006 --> 01:30:15,580
Cursed God out a
coup of times.

1648
01:30:15,990 --> 01:30:18,192
You know, my faith was gone.

1649
01:30:18,212 --> 01:30:22,698
I lost that, um, ah...

1650
01:30:22,718 --> 01:30:25,316
Just my faith was
gone and, um...

1651
01:30:26,096 --> 01:30:29,156
I didn't, um...
Know what to do.

1652
01:30:33,682 --> 01:30:35,714
My father came
once in a while.

1653
01:30:35,734 --> 01:30:38,386
He apologized to me, but
I didn't accept it.

1654
01:30:39,904 --> 01:30:41,709
My mother came a lot.

1655
01:30:42,282 --> 01:30:44,555
I mean, there was sometimes I
had to tell her to stay home

1656
01:30:44,575 --> 01:30:47,092
because the weather
would be so messed up.

1657
01:30:47,693 --> 01:30:49,682
She'd still come.

1658
01:30:54,188 --> 01:30:56,516
Wise: When I heard that
my dad had passed,

1659
01:30:57,282 --> 01:30:58,826
it was hurtin', uh...

1660
01:30:59,831 --> 01:31:04,114
It was hurting and I would
think, surely think, he just...

1661
01:31:04,134 --> 01:31:06,200
he drunk hisself to death.

1662
01:31:07,440 --> 01:31:11,721
You know, through... what do they call that?
Cirrhosis of the liver?

1663
01:31:12,160 --> 01:31:16,835
But no one shared it with
me or gave me the chance

1664
01:31:16,855 --> 01:31:18,599
to come down.

1665
01:31:18,619 --> 01:31:21,583
So I just learned it
and that was that.

1666
01:31:23,211 --> 01:31:24,657
That was that.

1667
01:31:33,202 --> 01:31:37,495
But as time passed, I
started to make changes.

1668
01:31:38,409 --> 01:31:40,858
I was able to get my G.E.D.

1669
01:31:40,878 --> 01:31:42,761
I was able to get a
degree, you know.

1670
01:31:42,781 --> 01:31:44,163
I got an associate's.

1671
01:31:44,183 --> 01:31:47,567
I jumped on the opportunity
to go to college.

1672
01:31:47,587 --> 01:31:51,006
It was a real graduation,
the Dean and everybody.

1673
01:31:51,659 --> 01:31:55,167
Salaam: I was able to get a
college degree before they took

1674
01:31:55,187 --> 01:31:57,046
education out of prison.

1675
01:31:57,600 --> 01:32:01,008
McCray: They stopped the program,
so I didn't get a degree.

1676
01:32:01,774 --> 01:32:04,153
After that, I just started doing
trades and stuff like that.

1677
01:32:04,173 --> 01:32:05,735
Like I worked in the tailor
shop, and that was like

1678
01:32:05,755 --> 01:32:07,831
the highest-paying
job in prison.

1679
01:32:08,629 --> 01:32:11,062
I think it was, like,
30 cents an hour.

1680
01:32:13,219 --> 01:32:15,067
woman on radio: Good
afternoon, 47 degrees...

1681
01:32:15,087 --> 01:32:17,172
In New York,
republican Rudolph Giuliani

1682
01:32:17,192 --> 01:32:18,804
defeated incumbent
David Dinkins...

1683
01:32:18,824 --> 01:32:20,040
Mayor Dinkins' handling

1684
01:32:20,060 --> 01:32:22,909
of the Black on Jewish Crown
Heights rioting hurt him.

1685
01:32:22,929 --> 01:32:25,895
Giuliani promises tougher
approaches to homelessness

1686
01:32:25,915 --> 01:32:26,681
and crime...

1687
01:32:26,701 --> 01:32:28,617
Giuliani: Squeegee operators
and excessive noise

1688
01:32:28,637 --> 01:32:30,018
and aggressive panhandling...

1689
01:32:30,038 --> 01:32:32,322
Woman: Crime has plunged 33%

1690
01:32:32,342 --> 01:32:33,655
from the same month
a year ago...

1691
01:32:33,675 --> 01:32:34,858
Since 1990,

1692
01:32:34,878 --> 01:32:37,126
homicides have fallen
dramatically in New York...

1693
01:32:37,146 --> 01:32:39,730
Brokaw: New York City is
no longer a crime capital.

1694
01:32:47,258 --> 01:32:49,108
Richardson: I came
up to parole.

1695
01:32:49,128 --> 01:32:53,247
And my hearing lasted
a couple of minutes.

1696
01:32:53,267 --> 01:32:54,667
I walked in.

1697
01:32:55,769 --> 01:32:58,038
You know, said who I was.

1698
01:32:58,873 --> 01:33:01,788
They looked at the time
that I'd been there

1699
01:33:01,808 --> 01:33:03,638
and realized that I haven't
gotten into no trouble

1700
01:33:03,658 --> 01:33:04,963
the whole time.

1701
01:33:06,409 --> 01:33:08,203
They just wanted
to know one thing.

1702
01:33:08,551 --> 01:33:11,202
They said, "Did you
do the crime?"

1703
01:33:11,495 --> 01:33:12,715
I said, "No."

1704
01:33:13,224 --> 01:33:15,513
They told me, "Have
a good day."

1705
01:33:42,792 --> 01:33:45,242
McCray: Got my stuff,
my personal stuff,

1706
01:33:45,262 --> 01:33:47,645
had my money in my account,

1707
01:33:47,665 --> 01:33:49,761
and they took me
to the bus stop.

1708
01:33:51,704 --> 01:33:54,172
Called my mother
every stop we made,

1709
01:33:54,369 --> 01:33:56,533
let her know where I was at.

1710
01:33:57,585 --> 01:34:00,336
And I'm just looking
around, like, wow, free.

1711
01:34:05,720 --> 01:34:07,403
Got home, forgot the
building I lived in

1712
01:34:07,423 --> 01:34:08,805
'cause all the
buildings look alike.

1713
01:34:08,825 --> 01:34:10,937
I went in the wrong building.

1714
01:34:11,862 --> 01:34:14,262
My mother and my
father ran downstairs.

1715
01:34:16,603 --> 01:34:19,150
The day he was actually
released he said, "They're

1716
01:34:19,170 --> 01:34:20,166
sending me home on a bus."

1717
01:34:20,186 --> 01:34:22,320
We're like, "Nope. We're
comin' to get you."

1718
01:34:22,340 --> 01:34:24,056
And of course, my family
was crying which made me

1719
01:34:24,076 --> 01:34:26,025
start to cry.

1720
01:34:26,045 --> 01:34:30,163
And everybody jumped up. You
know, we jumped for joy

1721
01:34:30,183 --> 01:34:34,921
and we got in the car,

1722
01:34:34,941 --> 01:34:37,235
and we sped off and
never looked back.

1723
01:34:37,255 --> 01:34:40,503
And we drove. It was about
3 hours from the city.

1724
01:34:41,442 --> 01:34:45,134
And so we went straight,
like, not even stoppin'.

1725
01:34:47,003 --> 01:34:47,936
Beautiful.

1726
01:34:50,111 --> 01:34:52,324
Santana Jr.: When
I was released...

1727
01:34:52,344 --> 01:34:54,259
Best feeling in the
world, you know.

1728
01:34:54,279 --> 01:34:55,828
I said, "Wow."

1729
01:34:55,848 --> 01:34:58,064
You know, I got
a fresh start.

1730
01:34:58,084 --> 01:35:00,853
I can try to pick up, put
my life back together.

1731
01:35:00,873 --> 01:35:02,569
Yeah, he came home.

1732
01:35:02,589 --> 01:35:06,741
And I was happy he's
home and all that.

1733
01:35:06,761 --> 01:35:10,671
But you know, I brung a lot
of stuff with me, you know,

1734
01:35:10,830 --> 01:35:12,887
that I didn't
even know exists.

1735
01:35:13,269 --> 01:35:15,411
I loved to stay inside my
room, 'cause my room was like

1736
01:35:15,431 --> 01:35:17,054
the size of a cell.

1737
01:35:17,074 --> 01:35:19,590
I would go in the shower
and wash in my boxers,

1738
01:35:19,610 --> 01:35:21,993
wash my boxers in the shower.

1739
01:35:22,013 --> 01:35:23,962
I had this aggression.

1740
01:35:23,982 --> 01:35:26,965
You know, if I'm in a room
with too many people,

1741
01:35:26,985 --> 01:35:30,503
I can talk to you but I won't
give you eye-to-eye contact

1742
01:35:30,523 --> 01:35:32,190
'cause I'm too busy
watching the room.

1743
01:35:34,697 --> 01:35:36,744
McCray: When I got home, my
father, he was living, you know,

1744
01:35:36,764 --> 01:35:39,072
with my mother because
they were back together.

1745
01:35:40,965 --> 01:35:43,886
But I didn't really...
I didn't talk to him.

1746
01:35:43,906 --> 01:35:46,344
We lived in the same house, but
I didn't even talk to him.

1747
01:35:47,544 --> 01:35:50,195
I noticed he was getting sick,
'cause he lost a lot of weight.

1748
01:35:50,215 --> 01:35:53,402
He was real sick.
I didn't even care.

1749
01:35:55,774 --> 01:35:57,769
My mother, she would
try to get us to talk.

1750
01:35:57,924 --> 01:35:59,961
I was just like, "You don't
remember what he did to us?"

1751
01:35:59,981 --> 01:36:01,795
"You know, he left you."

1752
01:36:03,597 --> 01:36:07,371
My mother, you know, got
that call, and she was like,

1753
01:36:07,391 --> 01:36:09,885
"Your father just
passed away."

1754
01:36:09,905 --> 01:36:12,193
I was still was
like, "All right."

1755
01:36:13,308 --> 01:36:16,531
But seeing him laying
there, it just hit me.

1756
01:36:17,647 --> 01:36:19,680
You know, he used to
be my best friend.

1757
01:36:26,538 --> 01:36:29,787
Richardson: I was a sex
offender, labeled as that.

1758
01:36:30,557 --> 01:36:35,038
And I had to register,
um, every month.

1759
01:36:36,268 --> 01:36:39,084
I applied for the post
office at one point.

1760
01:36:39,104 --> 01:36:41,256
And I was about
to get the job.

1761
01:36:41,559 --> 01:36:44,400
But I'm an honest person and
so they asked me have I ever

1762
01:36:44,420 --> 01:36:46,228
been incarcerated?

1763
01:36:46,248 --> 01:36:47,537
I put yes.

1764
01:36:48,204 --> 01:36:49,753
And they didn't hire me.

1765
01:36:51,055 --> 01:36:53,415
McCray: I just wanted
to get out of New York.

1766
01:36:53,547 --> 01:36:55,339
I had a cousin that
lived in Maryland.

1767
01:36:55,359 --> 01:36:57,254
I kind of liked Maryland.

1768
01:36:57,629 --> 01:37:01,442
So I went out there job
hunting for the whole day,

1769
01:37:01,934 --> 01:37:04,338
and on the spot I got
a sanitation job.

1770
01:37:06,639 --> 01:37:09,723
Santana Jr.: Months went by
where I didn't have no money,

1771
01:37:09,743 --> 01:37:11,438
and there's nothin'
I could do.

1772
01:37:11,458 --> 01:37:13,595
I can't get a job.

1773
01:37:13,759 --> 01:37:15,530
I was becoming a burden.

1774
01:37:15,684 --> 01:37:17,635
You know, here I am in my
father's house, I'm eating

1775
01:37:17,655 --> 01:37:20,180
the food, you know,
'cause I'm a bigger guy

1776
01:37:20,200 --> 01:37:21,996
and I'm not contributin'.

1777
01:37:22,593 --> 01:37:24,676
I said, "I can't function."

1778
01:37:24,696 --> 01:37:26,747
That was my breaking point.

1779
01:37:27,331 --> 01:37:28,913
And so I said, "You know what?"

1780
01:37:28,933 --> 01:37:31,449
"I'm gonna just, I'm gonna
get in the drug game."

1781
01:37:31,469 --> 01:37:33,203
And I started to sell drugs.

1782
01:37:54,204 --> 01:37:57,893
Dwyer: All of the jogger
defendants have gone home

1783
01:37:57,913 --> 01:37:59,255
except one, Korey Wise.

1784
01:37:59,275 --> 01:38:01,478
He was the eldest of the
group convicted and he had

1785
01:38:01,498 --> 01:38:02,988
the longest sentence.

1786
01:38:03,179 --> 01:38:05,328
And he had stopped going to
the parole board... didn't even

1787
01:38:05,348 --> 01:38:07,846
bother going anymore
to deny his guilt.

1788
01:38:09,198 --> 01:38:13,740
One day in late 2001,
Matias Reyes meets him

1789
01:38:14,351 --> 01:38:16,125
at the Auburn prison.

1790
01:38:17,262 --> 01:38:19,552
Warren: This is the first
time they had seen each other

1791
01:38:19,572 --> 01:38:23,393
since 1989, when both of
them were at Rikers Island.

1792
01:38:23,995 --> 01:38:28,552
And at that time, they had a
little incident in the TV room.

1793
01:38:28,791 --> 01:38:32,303
And it almost, you know
escalated to blows.

1794
01:38:33,138 --> 01:38:35,561
Wise: He said, "I would
like to apologize to you."

1795
01:38:35,730 --> 01:38:39,599
We had a fight at Rikers Island
about a TV, and so forth.

1796
01:38:40,009 --> 01:38:43,502
I said, "Matias, ain't
about nothin' man. Ha!"

1797
01:38:44,140 --> 01:38:48,493
"We here. It's not gonna
free neither one of us.

1798
01:38:48,572 --> 01:38:49,567
Don't worry about it."

1799
01:38:49,587 --> 01:38:51,580
Reyes doesn't say
anything to him,

1800
01:38:51,844 --> 01:38:55,584
but he starts talking to
people in the prison.

1801
01:38:55,912 --> 01:38:58,840
"Hey, I met somebody who's
doing time for a crime that he

1802
01:38:58,860 --> 01:39:01,010
didn't have anything to do
with that I did myself."

1803
01:39:01,236 --> 01:39:04,263
They send up an investigator,
and he takes this statement.

1804
01:39:04,538 --> 01:39:06,856
They send it down to the
Manhattan D.A.'s office which

1805
01:39:06,876 --> 01:39:10,737
has no idea that this case
from 13 years earlier,

1806
01:39:11,468 --> 01:39:14,352
which has long been stored and
forgotten by everybody except

1807
01:39:14,372 --> 01:39:17,394
the people involved,
is suddenly gonna come

1808
01:39:17,414 --> 01:39:18,698
back to life.

1809
01:39:21,377 --> 01:39:25,473
I showed them the top of the
entrance, the direction she came by.

1810
01:39:27,163 --> 01:39:31,023
I showed them where I picked
up the tree branch and down

1811
01:39:31,043 --> 01:39:34,161
the road where I
dragged her in.

1812
01:39:35,945 --> 01:39:37,721
I'm the one that did this.

1813
01:39:42,657 --> 01:39:45,615
When I saw Korey Wise in
Auburn, I saw in his eyes,

1814
01:39:45,635 --> 01:39:48,216
you know, the suffering that
he's been going through,

1815
01:39:48,742 --> 01:39:51,887
to know that a man has
suffered 13 years of his life

1816
01:39:51,907 --> 01:39:54,512
in jail for something
that he has not done,

1817
01:39:54,616 --> 01:39:58,361
to know that all these kids
got arrested for something

1818
01:39:58,381 --> 01:40:00,099
that they didn't do.

1819
01:40:00,881 --> 01:40:02,703
You want to know something?

1820
01:40:02,723 --> 01:40:04,889
I have done everything
possible that I can come

1821
01:40:04,909 --> 01:40:06,674
forward and admit the truth.

1822
01:40:06,984 --> 01:40:10,145
I'm to the point where if
people don't do something,

1823
01:40:10,165 --> 01:40:13,394
or if they don't do
what's right, then, hey,

1824
01:40:13,647 --> 01:40:15,332
there's nothing else I can do.

1825
01:40:20,569 --> 01:40:26,394
To hear this after all the
trials and tribulations

1826
01:40:26,414 --> 01:40:28,156
that I done been through...

1827
01:40:30,991 --> 01:40:38,913
the scuffle, the jumping
on, the stabbin',

1828
01:40:41,867 --> 01:40:44,468
the whole unneeded package...

1829
01:40:47,240 --> 01:40:49,482
It felt so good!

1830
01:40:51,067 --> 01:40:54,596
Dwyer: Morgenthau's office begins
an exhaustive re-examination

1831
01:40:54,616 --> 01:40:55,217
of the case.

1832
01:40:55,237 --> 01:40:58,175
And they pulled out the old
files and they found the

1833
01:40:58,195 --> 01:41:02,813
unknown semen from the rape
kit, and they matched Reyes.

1834
01:41:04,080 --> 01:41:05,921
Then they began to
interview Reyes.

1835
01:41:06,033 --> 01:41:10,000
Reyes steps in 13 years later
and immediately gives off

1836
01:41:10,020 --> 01:41:12,386
details that turn out to be
verified and accurate that

1837
01:41:12,406 --> 01:41:13,654
the police didn't know.

1838
01:41:13,674 --> 01:41:17,419
He described her as having
black running tights on

1839
01:41:17,439 --> 01:41:18,792
and a white T-shirt.

1840
01:41:18,812 --> 01:41:21,176
That's what Ms. Meili
was wearing.

1841
01:41:21,196 --> 01:41:22,941
He tells them about
the Walkman.

1842
01:41:23,072 --> 01:41:25,561
Turns out she did
run with a Walkman.

1843
01:41:25,581 --> 01:41:28,119
Nobody knew it 'cause it
wasn't found at the scene.

1844
01:41:28,246 --> 01:41:30,939
He describes how he
took off her sneakers.

1845
01:41:30,959 --> 01:41:34,944
When the police came on the
scene and they found her,

1846
01:41:34,964 --> 01:41:38,949
her sneakers were... one
sneaker was in one location,

1847
01:41:38,969 --> 01:41:40,951
another sneaker was
in another location.

1848
01:41:40,971 --> 01:41:44,097
He talked about taking her keys
and trying to get her address

1849
01:41:44,219 --> 01:41:45,958
and then tossing the keys.

1850
01:41:45,978 --> 01:41:49,095
Well, that explained the dilemma
about where her key was

1851
01:41:49,115 --> 01:41:50,476
'cause her door was locked.

1852
01:41:50,496 --> 01:41:54,868
These were details that even
the most assiduous student

1853
01:41:54,888 --> 01:41:59,308
of the case would have had
a hard time coming up with

1854
01:41:59,328 --> 01:42:00,876
as some kind of fake story.

1855
01:42:00,896 --> 01:42:06,716
There was no question that
Reyes knew what had happened.

1856
01:42:06,736 --> 01:42:10,353
And his DNA was present on the
scene and the way in which

1857
01:42:10,373 --> 01:42:12,224
he committed this crime was
perfectly consistent with

1858
01:42:12,244 --> 01:42:14,559
the way he committed
other crimes.

1859
01:42:14,579 --> 01:42:16,461
It stands to reason
that Reyes was giving

1860
01:42:16,481 --> 01:42:18,202
an accurate statement.

1861
01:42:25,332 --> 01:42:26,796
McCray: I worked
the third shift.

1862
01:42:26,816 --> 01:42:30,111
It was from 8:00 to
6:30 in the morning.

1863
01:42:30,825 --> 01:42:33,716
I got home, got out of the
shower, about to watch

1864
01:42:33,736 --> 01:42:36,252
"Sportscenter," and
my cousin called.

1865
01:42:36,272 --> 01:42:38,821
She was like, "Tron,
Tron, turn on CNN."

1866
01:42:38,841 --> 01:42:40,290
And I'm like, "Why?
What's going on?"

1867
01:42:40,310 --> 01:42:42,327
She was like, "The truth came out.
The truth came out."

1868
01:42:42,347 --> 01:42:43,660
"The truth came out? What
are you talking about?"

1869
01:42:43,680 --> 01:42:45,164
"Your case! Somebody
that did it,

1870
01:42:45,184 --> 01:42:48,467
he told the truth, he confessed.
He did it."

1871
01:42:48,487 --> 01:42:50,035
And I'm like,
"Are you serious?

1872
01:42:50,055 --> 01:42:51,837
"Are you serious?" And I
just started crying.

1873
01:42:51,857 --> 01:42:56,731
New DNA evidence conclusively
connects Reyes to the victim.

1874
01:42:56,751 --> 01:42:58,546
Santana, Sr.: My son
called me on a Saturday,

1875
01:42:58,566 --> 01:43:01,048
and I said, "I want
you to sit down."

1876
01:43:01,068 --> 01:43:02,564
I got news for you."

1877
01:43:03,219 --> 01:43:05,438
And he said, "What
news you got for me?"

1878
01:43:05,458 --> 01:43:07,156
"Get a chair, sit down.
I'm gonna tell you."

1879
01:43:07,176 --> 01:43:09,960
He says, "Oh, you know, they
found the guy that did it."

1880
01:43:09,980 --> 01:43:11,175
And I said, "What?"

1881
01:43:11,898 --> 01:43:14,263
And he says, "Yeah,
they found the guy that

1882
01:43:14,283 --> 01:43:16,394
committed your case."

1883
01:43:16,667 --> 01:43:19,171
And I said... man,
I gotta curse.

1884
01:43:19,191 --> 01:43:21,626
I said, "Get the fuck outta here."

1885
01:43:21,870 --> 01:43:24,478
He said, "No, for real.
They found the guy."

1886
01:43:24,498 --> 01:43:26,370
"You're gonna be
comin' home soon."

1887
01:43:26,390 --> 01:43:28,548
And I'm like, "Yeah, OK.
Whatever."

1888
01:43:28,568 --> 01:43:29,885
He's the only one
that has the hope.

1889
01:43:29,905 --> 01:43:32,320
But I'm like, "You know what?
I'll talk to you later."

1890
01:43:34,108 --> 01:43:36,260
It started raining outside.

1891
01:43:36,655 --> 01:43:39,874
And I'm looking out the
window, and I'm like,

1892
01:43:39,894 --> 01:43:42,439
"Damn. Did they really
find this dude?"

1893
01:43:43,387 --> 01:43:45,990
And I'm thinking about this.
Then I start crying.

1894
01:43:55,435 --> 01:43:57,885
Why are we here?
The Central Park five!

1895
01:43:57,905 --> 01:44:00,521
Why are we here?
The Central Park five!

1896
01:44:00,541 --> 01:44:01,928
In the snow!

1897
01:44:02,381 --> 01:44:05,104
Dwyer: There was a motion
by the defense to overturn

1898
01:44:05,291 --> 01:44:07,845
the convictions on the grounds
of newly discovered evidence.

1899
01:44:08,108 --> 01:44:12,732
And Morgenthau not only
said that the new evidence

1900
01:44:12,752 --> 01:44:14,413
likely would have led
to a different verdict,

1901
01:44:14,433 --> 01:44:19,877
he said to me and he said
to others, "If we knew then

1902
01:44:20,056 --> 01:44:25,650
what we know now, we wouldn't
have indicted these guys."

1903
01:44:26,833 --> 01:44:31,228
Koch: My faith in Robert
Morgenthau is such that I don't

1904
01:44:31,248 --> 01:44:33,281
quarrel with his decision.

1905
01:44:33,301 --> 01:44:34,517
Warren: This is step one.

1906
01:44:34,537 --> 01:44:37,888
The response from the district
attorney's office has been to

1907
01:44:37,908 --> 01:44:42,075
concede, or agree, or consent
to our application that

1908
01:44:42,095 --> 01:44:43,497
the verdicts be set aside.

1909
01:44:43,517 --> 01:44:46,933
The judge has to make a
formal ruling in that regard.

1910
01:44:47,130 --> 01:44:50,379
We expect for that ruling
to be made forthwith.

1911
01:44:52,077 --> 01:44:54,913
Dinkins: I wanna share
with you a statement from

1912
01:44:54,933 --> 01:44:58,086
District Attorney Robert
Morgenthau's office.

1913
01:44:58,819 --> 01:45:00,309
The office said,

1914
01:45:00,329 --> 01:45:05,107
"A comparison of the statement... statements,
reveals troubling discrepancies."

1915
01:45:06,121 --> 01:45:09,064
"Accounts given by the five
defendants differed from one

1916
01:45:09,084 --> 01:45:12,531
another on the specific
details of virtually every

1917
01:45:12,551 --> 01:45:14,718
major aspect of the crime:

1918
01:45:14,850 --> 01:45:16,568
Who initiated the attack;

1919
01:45:16,671 --> 01:45:18,229
Who knocked the victim down;

1920
01:45:18,249 --> 01:45:19,794
Who undressed her;
Who struck her;

1921
01:45:20,070 --> 01:45:21,723
Who held her;
Who raped her;

1922
01:45:21,836 --> 01:45:22,906
What weapons were used

1923
01:45:22,926 --> 01:45:24,518
in the course of the assault."

1924
01:45:24,538 --> 01:45:27,524
And went into the sequence
of events the attack took place.

1925
01:45:28,041 --> 01:45:31,139
And some of what they said
was simply contrary to

1926
01:45:31,159 --> 01:45:32,567
established fact.

1927
01:45:32,933 --> 01:45:36,383
Now, this is a damned shame.

1928
01:45:39,955 --> 01:45:41,953
Warren: I have an
application at this time

1929
01:45:41,973 --> 01:45:45,869
on the behalf of all of the
defendants: Korey Wise,

1930
01:45:45,889 --> 01:45:49,767
Yusef Salaam, Kevin
Richardson, Raymond Santana,

1931
01:45:49,787 --> 01:45:52,779
and Antron McCray, all the
indictments against each one

1932
01:45:52,799 --> 01:45:55,313
of them in their
entirety be dismissed.

1933
01:45:55,596 --> 01:45:56,919
Motion is granted.

1934
01:45:56,939 --> 01:46:00,572
Everyone have a very Merry
Christmas. Happy New Year.

1935
01:46:00,592 --> 01:46:01,708
Thank you!

1936
01:46:05,226 --> 01:46:07,841
Woman: The judge handling the review
of the Central Park jogger case

1937
01:46:07,861 --> 01:46:09,972
has just ruled in the
last hour that those

1938
01:46:09,992 --> 01:46:13,637
convictions against the five
young men must be set aside.

1939
01:46:13,657 --> 01:46:16,194
It is a stunning reversal in
one of the most controversial

1940
01:46:16,214 --> 01:46:18,553
crime cases in the
city's history.

1941
01:46:20,808 --> 01:46:24,855
That was the best Christmas,
ever... first... excuse me.

1942
01:46:24,875 --> 01:46:28,099
Best Christmas gift ever,
and me and my mother,

1943
01:46:28,119 --> 01:46:29,697
we just hugged each
other in our apartment

1944
01:46:29,717 --> 01:46:32,280
for seemed like forever.

1945
01:46:35,005 --> 01:46:36,771
That was a beautiful thing.

1946
01:46:39,400 --> 01:46:40,489
Still is.

1947
01:46:42,577 --> 01:46:44,912
I would always see these photos
of my mother walking around

1948
01:46:44,932 --> 01:46:47,657
with a "Yusef is
Innocent" shirt.

1949
01:46:47,677 --> 01:46:51,842
And then when they
dropped all the charges,

1950
01:46:52,102 --> 01:46:54,009
she had her coat open

1951
01:46:54,029 --> 01:46:57,719
and the "Yusef is Innocent"
shirt on and this huge smile

1952
01:46:57,739 --> 01:47:01,935
on her face like, not only
did I told you so, but I'm

1953
01:47:01,955 --> 01:47:03,597
so happy today.

1954
01:47:05,916 --> 01:47:08,681
Woman: Now 4 of the 5 are out...
they served long prison terms,

1955
01:47:08,701 --> 01:47:10,790
but Raymond Santana
remains behind bars

1956
01:47:10,810 --> 01:47:12,446
on an unrelated conviction.

1957
01:47:12,466 --> 01:47:15,109
But the length of time that
he's serving on a drug charge

1958
01:47:15,129 --> 01:47:17,609
was based upon the fact that
he was a predicate felon,

1959
01:47:17,629 --> 01:47:19,852
his conviction in the
Central Park jogger case.

1960
01:47:19,872 --> 01:47:23,341
So lawyers close to the case representing
the five are telling me that they expect

1961
01:47:23,361 --> 01:47:26,530
to challenge that and try to
get Raymond Santana home to

1962
01:47:26,550 --> 01:47:28,819
his parents before Christmas.

1963
01:47:29,525 --> 01:47:31,171
Santana Jr.: It was celebration.

1964
01:47:31,191 --> 01:47:33,734
All the guys jumped around.
They, "Waaaa!"

1965
01:47:33,754 --> 01:47:35,302
They were all cheering.

1966
01:47:35,322 --> 01:47:39,133
"You goin' home. It's over.
You goin' home."

1967
01:47:39,153 --> 01:47:41,030
The correctional officer said,
"Well you know, there's a lot

1968
01:47:41,050 --> 01:47:42,566
of people out there."

1969
01:47:42,586 --> 01:47:45,040
"You wanna go through the back?
I'll get a car for you."

1970
01:47:45,060 --> 01:47:46,898
"You know, you can go
out the back way."

1971
01:47:47,089 --> 01:47:48,900
And I said, "Well,
I'm a free man."

1972
01:47:48,920 --> 01:47:52,662
"I'm goin' out the front!
Open that door and let's go!"

1973
01:47:52,964 --> 01:47:56,110
Amid a crush of cameras,
Raymond Santana left jail

1974
01:47:56,130 --> 01:47:59,125
a free man, much to
his father's joy.

1975
01:47:59,145 --> 01:48:02,341
I always believed he was
innocent, from the beginning.

1976
01:48:03,576 --> 01:48:07,221
Santana Jr.: It took me back to
that perp walk that they do.

1977
01:48:07,241 --> 01:48:11,321
And then now this time,
it was a free man walk.

1978
01:48:11,341 --> 01:48:14,157
And it was definitely great to
walk through that, you know,

1979
01:48:14,177 --> 01:48:16,384
and to hold my head up high.

1980
01:48:16,404 --> 01:48:18,768
And I said, "I told you
we were innocent."

1981
01:48:20,535 --> 01:48:22,263
Santana, Sr.: This
is a miracle.

1982
01:48:23,069 --> 01:48:26,614
And let me tell you, when I was
in that yard, I was saying

1983
01:48:26,634 --> 01:48:29,928
I need to pray for him a lot.

1984
01:48:31,196 --> 01:48:35,110
They say if your prayer don't
come out it did for me.

1985
01:48:35,130 --> 01:48:38,080
Because I pray a lot for
that kid, and look.

1986
01:48:39,062 --> 01:48:41,835
That was the happiest
day of my life, boy.

1987
01:48:50,146 --> 01:48:54,533
Wilder: I felt ashamed, actually,
for New York and I also felt

1988
01:48:54,553 --> 01:48:59,991
extremely angry, because
their innocence never got

1989
01:49:00,011 --> 01:49:02,066
the attention that their guilt did.

1990
01:49:02,508 --> 01:49:08,973
The furor around prosecuting
them still drowns out

1991
01:49:09,846 --> 01:49:11,827
the good news of
their innocence.

1992
01:49:12,072 --> 01:49:20,364
These were 5 kids who we
tormented, we falsely accused,

1993
01:49:20,881 --> 01:49:26,416
we pilloried in the press,
we attacked, we invented

1994
01:49:26,436 --> 01:49:29,856
phrases for the imagined
crimes that we're

1995
01:49:29,876 --> 01:49:31,529
accusing them of.

1996
01:49:32,186 --> 01:49:34,517
And then we put them in jail.

1997
01:49:34,712 --> 01:49:36,531
We falsely convicted them.

1998
01:49:36,644 --> 01:49:39,281
And when the evidence
turned out that they were

1999
01:49:39,301 --> 01:49:45,875
innocent and they were
released, we gave a modest nod

2000
01:49:46,476 --> 01:49:50,054
to fairness, and we walked
away from our crime.

2001
01:49:50,314 --> 01:49:55,538
It was a more interesting
story when it was all about

2002
01:49:55,669 --> 01:50:00,140
a white woman that was
raped by 5 black boys.

2003
01:50:00,490 --> 01:50:09,204
The coverage in 2002 was worse
than what had happened in 1989.

2004
01:50:09,885 --> 01:50:15,699
More resistant to
fact, more obstinate

2005
01:50:16,273 --> 01:50:17,950
about being wrong.

2006
01:50:20,617 --> 01:50:24,804
The police department
commissioned this panel led by

2007
01:50:24,824 --> 01:50:27,028
a very distinguished lawyer
named Mike Armstrong,

2008
01:50:27,169 --> 01:50:30,285
to review what had happened
in the jogger case.

2009
01:50:30,305 --> 01:50:32,642
And the police department
found that the police

2010
01:50:32,662 --> 01:50:35,093
department had done nothing
wrong even though it had let

2011
01:50:35,113 --> 01:50:38,004
the right man get away and
apparently had put the wrong

2012
01:50:38,024 --> 01:50:39,418
people in prison.

2013
01:50:40,863 --> 01:50:45,305
This was institutional
protectionism that was going on.

2014
01:50:47,747 --> 01:50:51,868
Hancock: Linda Fairstein made a
huge name for herself in part

2015
01:50:51,888 --> 01:50:53,644
because of this case.

2016
01:50:54,671 --> 01:50:56,829
It was extremely important
to her profession

2017
01:50:56,849 --> 01:50:58,953
and her reputation.

2018
01:51:05,897 --> 01:51:10,637
So she's got a lot to lose by
saying, "I got everything wrong"

2019
01:51:10,657 --> 01:51:13,291
"and I railroaded these
kids into jail."

2020
01:51:15,018 --> 01:51:18,752
Whatever you do in life,
you make mistakes,

2021
01:51:19,456 --> 01:51:22,254
and you either face your
mistakes or you don't.

2022
01:51:23,475 --> 01:51:26,677
I don't think the press
faced its mistakes.

2023
01:51:29,953 --> 01:51:32,264
I don't think the police
department faced the truth

2024
01:51:32,284 --> 01:51:35,577
of what had happened because
the truth of what had happened

2025
01:51:35,597 --> 01:51:37,097
is almost unbearable.

2026
01:51:37,660 --> 01:51:42,107
By prosecuting the wrong
people for the Central Park

2027
01:51:42,127 --> 01:51:47,159
jogger case, Matias Reyes
continued to hurt,

2028
01:51:47,179 --> 01:51:49,059
maim, and kill.

2029
01:51:49,661 --> 01:51:53,981
And they could have had
him but they got stuck

2030
01:51:54,178 --> 01:51:55,324
with a mistake.

2031
01:51:55,999 --> 01:51:58,741
And they're still
invested in that mistake.

2032
01:52:00,035 --> 01:52:01,829
Patricia Meili...

2033
01:52:04,768 --> 01:52:07,191
My brother, all the boys,

2034
01:52:07,451 --> 01:52:09,365
all of our families...

2035
01:52:10,219 --> 01:52:12,050
all of us are victims.

2036
01:52:15,435 --> 01:52:20,025
Nobody wants to look at the
damage, the terror that they

2037
01:52:20,045 --> 01:52:22,015
put my family through.

2038
01:52:22,035 --> 01:52:25,013
Nobody wants to take
responsibility.

2039
01:52:25,952 --> 01:52:29,377
I want us to remember what
happened that day and be

2040
01:52:29,397 --> 01:52:33,389
horrified by ourselves because
it really is a mirror

2041
01:52:33,617 --> 01:52:34,997
on our society.

2042
01:52:35,223 --> 01:52:38,686
And rather than tying it up
in a bow and thinking that

2043
01:52:38,706 --> 01:52:40,685
there was something that
we can take away from it

2044
01:52:40,705 --> 01:52:43,860
and we'll be better people, I
think what we really need to

2045
01:52:43,880 --> 01:52:46,462
realize is that we're
not very good people.

2046
01:52:47,105 --> 01:52:48,761
And we're often not.

2047
01:52:59,506 --> 01:53:01,130
Santana Jr.: I'm
always behind.

2048
01:53:01,994 --> 01:53:04,859
Those years that it took
from me, I lost a lot.

2049
01:53:04,879 --> 01:53:09,203
And even now at the age
of 36 where I should be

2050
01:53:09,462 --> 01:53:13,987
fully in a career, have a
house, a car, maybe married,

2051
01:53:14,007 --> 01:53:15,869
I don't have any of that.

2052
01:53:16,153 --> 01:53:18,650
And so I don't know how to
regain that stuff anymore.

2053
01:53:18,847 --> 01:53:20,368
So I'm just here.

2054
01:53:22,922 --> 01:53:25,692
I lost my youth.

2055
01:53:26,788 --> 01:53:28,972
I lost 7 years of my life.

2056
01:53:31,230 --> 01:53:38,494
I lost that sense of being
youthful and missing the

2057
01:53:38,514 --> 01:53:43,213
average things of going to
school and going to the prom

2058
01:53:43,233 --> 01:53:46,428
and just livin' like average
14, 15 year-old kid.

2059
01:53:54,039 --> 01:53:56,537
Wise: You can forgive
but you won't forget.

2060
01:53:57,937 --> 01:53:59,920
You won't forget
what you done lost.

2061
01:54:02,512 --> 01:54:05,676
No money could bring
that time back.

2062
01:54:06,386 --> 01:54:11,174
No money could bring the life
that was missin' or the time

2063
01:54:11,194 --> 01:54:13,245
that was taken
away bring back.

2064
01:54:14,285 --> 01:54:15,710
Nothin'.

2065
01:54:17,973 --> 01:54:21,832
Salaam: It hasn't become
easier to live as an adult.

2066
01:54:21,852 --> 01:54:23,160
It's become harder.

2067
01:54:24,598 --> 01:54:28,623
It's always more difficult to
do something if you have this

2068
01:54:28,643 --> 01:54:31,605
huge gap of your life
taken away from you.

2069
01:54:32,581 --> 01:54:35,919
And it's not like just because
they said, "OK, we're

2070
01:54:35,939 --> 01:54:39,957
vacating the convictions", that
that vacated the whole prison term.

2071
01:54:40,126 --> 01:54:42,041
That whole prison
term happened.

2072
01:54:42,191 --> 01:54:45,037
It was a reality. We
really went through that.

2073
01:54:51,021 --> 01:54:52,927
McCray: I still
struggle every day,

2074
01:54:53,581 --> 01:54:55,550
but I made it, you know.

2075
01:54:55,570 --> 01:54:57,396
Came home, didn't
get in trouble.

2076
01:54:57,759 --> 01:54:59,677
Worked ever since I came home.

2077
01:54:59,981 --> 01:55:02,625
Pay taxes, take
care of my kids.

2078
01:55:04,390 --> 01:55:06,123
I'm doing the best I can, so...

2079
01:55:07,276 --> 01:55:10,874
I told them I was going to make it.
Told 'em.

2080
01:55:11,853 --> 01:55:13,629
The truth came out.

2081
01:55:14,770 --> 01:55:16,460
Truth came out.