The story of the Central Park Five

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Five Black and Latino men wrongfully convicted of the brutal rape of a jogger. Donald Trump calling for the death penalty...   Here's what the Central Park Five case revealed.

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00:00This case arose at a time when the perception, at least, was that crime in the city was out

00:15of control, that the police had to take extra measures to try to beat back crime.

00:22And in this case, five young men ended up losing their liberty for many, many years.

00:52We still have her on the ventilator, and we're going to keep her on it until we see for sure

01:06how things are developing, but this last problem is under control.

01:22First statement, he said he had nothing to do with it, and they put pressure on him,

01:31a lot of pressure.

01:32He was slapped around, and it is our contention that whatever statements he made were the

01:38of psychological and physical coercion.

02:08I think it's a couple of things, first and most importantly, race.

02:23These were five men of color who were charged and convicted of raping a white woman in Central

02:30Park.

02:32That has all of the historical issues that come with race in America.

02:57All the time we did for something we didn't do, and it hurts.

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