The Central Park Case
In the case of the Central Park Five, five innocent young kids were wrongfully charge of the rape and atempted murder of a white woman who was jogging one night in the park. The Five Boys whose names are Korey Wise, Kevin Richardson, Raymond Santana, Yusef Salaam and Antron McCray. These boys were racially discremintation due to the location that they lived and the color of their skin. These boys skin color and race was able to cause a huge controversy for the city of New York. Five teens under the age of 16 committing a serious crime such as this one cause the state to go into panic. With the help of the media the boys were viewed as wild animals that needed to be locked up. The media focused soley on the race of the boys. LIttle to no evidence
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The five boys from the central park case were never involved in gangs or drugs they were just five kids going to the park to hang out and ended up being charged with a crime that they did not commit. Due to the negative view that the public has againsit black males it helped conscrewed this image of them being wild and unfit to live in the community among others. The public reacted negatively toward the case. The emphomus Donald Trump made a headline statement that said, "Bring Back the Death Penalty.Bring Back Our Police!" (Holmes,2016). This is a very strong statement to make considering there was no enidence that connected these five boys to the crime. The only evidence that was used durring the case was a corhorced confession taht was coach throughout the whole video by the …show more content…
It is a known fact that there more afican amaerican in prison than there is of any race. African americans have always received the shorter end of the stick. In the article Crime, Cops, and Context speaks about the victimization of black and latino youth in New York specifically. These boys were victimized by New York police department. In the text it states, "Recent study figures predict that 80% of Black men ages 18 to 19 will likely bestopped by the police—versus 40% for Latino males, and about 12% for White males giving credence to the idea that 'race evidently became a factor in everyday policing'" (Rengifo, 2016,p. 456). This conveys the argument that blacks are targets to police officers. When a person sees a young black male in a group with friends they tend to believe the boys are in a gang or
The five boys from the central park case were never involved in gangs or drugs they were just five kids going to the park to hang out and ended up being charged with a crime that they did not commit. Due to the negative view that the public has againsit black males it helped conscrewed this image of them being wild and unfit to live in the community among others. The public reacted negatively toward the case. The emphomus Donald Trump made a headline statement that said, "Bring Back the Death Penalty.Bring Back Our Police!" (Holmes,2016). This is a very strong statement to make considering there was no enidence that connected these five boys to the crime. The only evidence that was used durring the case was a corhorced confession taht was coach throughout the whole video by the …show more content…
It is a known fact that there more afican amaerican in prison than there is of any race. African americans have always received the shorter end of the stick. In the article Crime, Cops, and Context speaks about the victimization of black and latino youth in New York specifically. These boys were victimized by New York police department. In the text it states, "Recent study figures predict that 80% of Black men ages 18 to 19 will likely bestopped by the police—versus 40% for Latino males, and about 12% for White males giving credence to the idea that 'race evidently became a factor in everyday policing'" (Rengifo, 2016,p. 456). This conveys the argument that blacks are targets to police officers. When a person sees a young black male in a group with friends they tend to believe the boys are in a gang or