Heart-wrenching. It's stories like this that make people lose faith in our judicial system everyday. It made me so mad. She was found in the middle of the night — covered in blood, half-naked, and left in a ravine.Law enforcement quickly apprehended five juveniles — four of them black and one Hispanic — and tried them for assault, robbery, rape, riot, sexual abuse, and attempted murder. It focuses on the racial aspects of the case and how it was portrayed in the media, as well as the general climate of NYC in the late 80s. It is obvious that the justice system failed these kids. Two were Asian. Civil rights activist Angela Y. Davis calls for the eradication of the prison system in this radical treatise on criminal justice reform, which explores the history of policing and incarceration in the U.S.'The Central Park Five: The Untold Story Behind One of New York City's Most Infamous Crimes' by Sarah Burns'Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America' by Ibram X. Kendi'Racism Without Racists: Color-Blind Racism and the Persistence of Racial Inequality in the United State' by Eduardo Bonilla-Silva'The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness' by Michelle Alexander'At the Dark End of the Street: Black Women, Rape, and Resistance â A New History of the Civil Rights Movement from Rosa Parks to the Rise of Black Power' by Danielle L. McGuire'We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy' by Ta-Nehisi Coates'Death of Innocence: The Story of the Hate Crime That Changed America' by Mamie Till-Mobley'The Presumption of Guilt: The Arrest of Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and Race, Class and Crime in America' by Charles Ogletree The evidence clearly did not support, nor suggest, that these young men were ever guilty of anything. Luckily, I kept reading ... and, I'm happy to report, my experience changed completely and positively.I watched this documentary a few months ago and just finally got around to reading the book. Richardson was convicted of attempted murder, rape, assault, and robbery during the second trial in December and sentenced to five to 10 years, as well. I was not yet a teenager when the events that comprise this novel happened. It was sickening what the boys went throught .it was heart breaking. It is obvious that the justice system failed these kids. Well I still can’t believe that happened in America and nothing has changed to this day. Although they all confessed under intense coercion, even the details in their confessions are completely inconsistent. Unfortunately books like this, at least for me, tend to have the opposite effect. While I don't believe these kids were angels by any stretch of the imagination, I do believe it is absolutely disgusting how NYPD could coerce these minors into confessing to a crime they did not commit. The Central Park 5 had been in the park that night with a much larger group of boys who did assault and accost several people in the park. It would be the middle of the night and I just couldn't stop reading. Just a moment while we sign you in to your Goodreads account. Unfortunately books like this, at least for me, tend to have the opposite effect. The Central Park Five: A Chronicle of a City WildingOK, I have to admit that I was a tad disappointed with this book initially, finding the first two chapters or so interesting in terms of details but not particularly movingly conveyed. After what the police and prosecutors did to those boys, they should be throwing money at them. Unfortunately, I found it a little boring and more than a little confusing. Meili’s skull was fractured, her body temperature was at 84 degrees, and she had lost 75 percent of her blood. We also find out about their hapless defense attorneys, the venal media frenzy surrounding the case, and the iron-clad case for their exoneration. What was mortifying was how much the police, investigators, media, prosecution, defense and even family members failed these young men. Turns out the young men didn't rape the woman at all, but then where have we heard this story before? We now know that the five boys, ages 14 to 16, who were prosecuted for beating and raping a young woman who was jogging in Central Park on an April night in 1989 are almost undoubtedly not guilty of that crime.Sarah Burns’ new book about the Central Park Jogger case has the advantage of hindsight. Sara Burns does justice to their cases, and reminds us all that our race and class is oft times used against us in a court of law. Once I'd finished the series, I wanted to find out more and invested in this book.
In spite of all evidence to the contrary, the "Scottsboro Boys" were convicted in a landmark case that led to the racial integration of juries. This is definitely an angering but important case to read about! !So this is a true crime book about one of New York City’s most notorious crimes. That is the opening line to Joan Didion's The White Album, as well as the title of the author's collected non-fiction, published in 2006. What didn’t make the headlines was the fact that the five boys (four under 16) that were tried and convicted of the heinous crime were all exonerated of that crime in 2003. I thought it would be somewhat dry reading but I could not put this book down. Trisha Meili was one of three white women raped that week. The Untold Story about the Central Park Five one of NYC's Most Infamous Crimes is based off the Emmy Award Winner Miniseries When They See Us.