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These are the user uploaded subtitles that are being translated: 1 00:00:06,000 --> 00:00:12,074 Advertise your product or brand here contact www.OpenSubtitles.org today 2 00:00:49,672 --> 00:00:51,608 Matias Reyes: I showed them the top of the entrance, 3 00:00:51,628 --> 00:00:53,851 the direction she came by. 4 00:00:55,919 --> 00:00:57,783 I showed them where she made the turn. 5 00:01:01,876 --> 00:01:04,937 I showed them where I picked up the tree branch 6 00:01:05,454 --> 00:01:07,947 and down the road where 7 00:01:07,967 --> 00:01:10,709 I struck her over the head with the tree branch 8 00:01:10,729 --> 00:01:13,276 and where I dragged her in. 9 00:01:16,723 --> 00:01:18,364 She just kept moaning, you know, 10 00:01:18,384 --> 00:01:20,692 saying stop, and grabbing her head. 11 00:01:20,712 --> 00:01:23,439 You know, because she was in pain and all that, you know. 12 00:01:25,672 --> 00:01:27,118 She was bleeding. 13 00:01:30,654 --> 00:01:33,438 I can't explain to you what happened after I left there, 14 00:01:33,458 --> 00:01:34,935 that park that night. 15 00:01:34,955 --> 00:01:38,429 But I can guarantee you, that there was no way these kids 16 00:01:38,449 --> 00:01:41,490 saw this woman come in or have a idea of 17 00:01:41,510 --> 00:01:43,295 where she was coming from. 18 00:01:45,530 --> 00:01:47,373 I'm the one that did this. 19 00:02:06,502 --> 00:02:08,003 - Ready? - Yeah. 20 00:02:08,399 --> 00:02:10,442 Approximately 1:30 this morning, ah, 21 00:02:10,462 --> 00:02:12,373 two males walking through Central Park 22 00:02:12,393 --> 00:02:16,732 north of the 102nd street jogging path found a female. 23 00:02:16,752 --> 00:02:19,311 She was still alive, and in fact still is alive. 24 00:02:19,331 --> 00:02:21,782 The female was clad only in a bra. 25 00:02:21,802 --> 00:02:24,320 She was lying exposed in the area, 26 00:02:24,340 --> 00:02:26,257 appeared to have been exposed for a couple of hours. 27 00:02:26,277 --> 00:02:28,662 Her body temperature was down very low. 28 00:02:28,682 --> 00:02:30,772 Around her mouth there's an article of clothing 29 00:02:30,792 --> 00:02:32,636 that was wrapped around her face, 30 00:02:32,656 --> 00:02:37,110 and the same article was used to bind her wrists to her face. 31 00:02:37,130 --> 00:02:39,248 She had been struck around the head repeatedly, 32 00:02:39,268 --> 00:02:40,550 mud on her body. 33 00:02:40,570 --> 00:02:43,041 She appears to have been dragged through the woods, 34 00:02:43,061 --> 00:02:45,660 north into the, ah, shrub area. 35 00:02:45,680 --> 00:02:48,402 She was taken to Metropolitan Hospital where she is classified 36 00:02:48,422 --> 00:02:50,573 as, ah, in serious condition. 37 00:02:57,901 --> 00:03:02,923 I look back at the jogger case and wish I had been 38 00:03:02,943 --> 00:03:05,150 more skeptical as a journalist. 39 00:03:05,816 --> 00:03:09,810 You know, a lot of people didn't do their jobs... 40 00:03:10,759 --> 00:03:15,280 reporters, police, prosecutors, defense lawyers. 41 00:03:15,300 --> 00:03:18,998 This was a proxy war being fought. 42 00:03:19,542 --> 00:03:22,705 And these young men were the proxies 43 00:03:22,725 --> 00:03:25,336 for all kinds of other agendas. 44 00:03:25,787 --> 00:03:30,213 And the truth and the reality and justice were not part of it. 45 00:03:47,563 --> 00:03:48,776 The bulls are galloping... 46 00:03:48,796 --> 00:03:50,780 Do you have a passport, Mr. Gotti? 47 00:03:50,800 --> 00:03:53,485 Given the alarming spread of aids, New York... 48 00:03:54,423 --> 00:03:56,073 If you don't like it, you're fired. 49 00:03:57,412 --> 00:03:58,727 Tom Brokaw: A savage racial attack... 50 00:03:58,747 --> 00:04:00,631 In the middle-class neighborhood of Howard Beach... 51 00:04:00,651 --> 00:04:02,869 A mob of whites attacked 3 black men... 52 00:04:02,889 --> 00:04:05,307 Peter Jennings: The mayor of New York called it a racial lynching. 53 00:04:05,327 --> 00:04:07,095 Yo, off with the camera, man. 54 00:04:10,936 --> 00:04:14,056 New York, under-policed city with crime out of control. 55 00:04:14,076 --> 00:04:16,446 The criminal justice system isn't working. 56 00:04:16,512 --> 00:04:18,662 They call him the subway vigilante. 57 00:04:18,682 --> 00:04:21,368 Dan Rather: Goetz bent over one of his wounded victims and said, 58 00:04:21,388 --> 00:04:23,172 "You don't look too bad. Here's another"... 59 00:04:23,192 --> 00:04:24,341 If I had more bullets, I would have shot them all 60 00:04:24,361 --> 00:04:25,542 again and again. 61 00:04:25,562 --> 00:04:27,264 It's about time someone stood up for himself. 62 00:04:29,736 --> 00:04:31,087 25-year-old Michael Stewart... 63 00:04:31,107 --> 00:04:32,524 16-year-old Yusef Hawkins... 64 00:04:32,544 --> 00:04:34,595 Where 67-year-old Eleanor Bumpers lived 65 00:04:34,615 --> 00:04:36,799 until police came to evict her and ended up killing her. 66 00:04:36,819 --> 00:04:40,004 New York is now the capital of racial violence. 67 00:04:40,024 --> 00:04:41,373 I am. People: I am! 68 00:04:41,393 --> 00:04:42,810 Somebody. Somebody! 69 00:04:42,830 --> 00:04:45,582 You want to use the gun, we'll use the gun. 70 00:04:45,602 --> 00:04:48,020 None of us is safe. Even if you lock yourself 71 00:04:48,040 --> 00:04:49,490 behind doors... 72 00:04:49,510 --> 00:04:51,728 There's now a new level of random violence in this city. 73 00:04:51,748 --> 00:04:56,103 It's intolerable and this city will rise up in its wrath 74 00:04:56,123 --> 00:04:58,726 against those who perpetrate monstrosities. 75 00:05:08,179 --> 00:05:10,331 Antron McCray: Harlem. 1989. 76 00:05:10,351 --> 00:05:14,306 My neighborhood, it's a small neighborhood. 77 00:05:14,326 --> 00:05:15,374 When I was younger, all the kids would say 78 00:05:15,394 --> 00:05:17,812 it was the suburbs of Harlem. 79 00:05:17,832 --> 00:05:20,102 It was like 3 different projects around my neighborhood. 80 00:05:22,607 --> 00:05:25,594 Raymond Santana, Kevin Richardson, 81 00:05:25,614 --> 00:05:30,236 Korey Wise, Yusef Salaam, I didn't know them, 82 00:05:30,256 --> 00:05:31,524 but I seen them around my neighborhood. 83 00:05:41,311 --> 00:05:42,895 I lived in the Bronx at one time, 84 00:05:42,915 --> 00:05:45,100 and the Bronx is more quiet life. 85 00:05:45,120 --> 00:05:47,571 You know, um, even though it was the projects. 86 00:05:47,591 --> 00:05:51,846 It was very secluded, everybody knew each other. 87 00:05:51,866 --> 00:05:54,852 When I moved to Harlem, Harlem was very fast-paced. 88 00:05:54,872 --> 00:05:55,987 Everything moved fast. 89 00:05:56,007 --> 00:05:59,628 The cars moved fast; The people; The, the lingo. 90 00:05:59,648 --> 00:06:00,815 It was a big culture shock. 91 00:06:04,022 --> 00:06:05,607 McCray: I was the only child. 92 00:06:05,627 --> 00:06:08,311 And me and my mother, we was close, 93 00:06:08,331 --> 00:06:11,217 but my father was my best friend. 94 00:06:11,237 --> 00:06:13,388 I thought he was like a superhero. 95 00:06:13,408 --> 00:06:16,361 He coached all of my little league teams. 96 00:06:16,381 --> 00:06:17,515 He was a great teacher. 97 00:06:19,419 --> 00:06:22,173 I played shortstop, I played pitcher. 98 00:06:22,193 --> 00:06:23,408 In little league, you get to play everything... 99 00:06:23,428 --> 00:06:26,114 outfield, catcher. 100 00:06:26,134 --> 00:06:27,701 But my favorite position was shortstop. 101 00:06:35,051 --> 00:06:36,801 Santana, Jr.: My dad is from Puerto Rico. 102 00:06:36,821 --> 00:06:39,507 My mother's a mix of Puerto Rican and Black. 103 00:06:39,527 --> 00:06:41,644 So, my dad is, like, light-skinned Puerto Ricans. 104 00:06:41,664 --> 00:06:44,282 And my mother's side was more, like, dark skin. 105 00:06:44,302 --> 00:06:46,839 You know, so we have, like, the best of both worlds. 106 00:06:52,919 --> 00:06:55,238 I used to ride skateboards. 107 00:06:55,258 --> 00:06:58,444 I used to play things like hide and go seek and, you know, 108 00:06:58,464 --> 00:07:00,515 used to run around with a lot of the people 109 00:07:00,535 --> 00:07:01,468 from the neighborhood. 110 00:07:03,840 --> 00:07:06,125 As a kid, I knew Yusef 111 00:07:06,145 --> 00:07:08,429 and I must say he was a good kid. 112 00:07:08,449 --> 00:07:13,841 Ah, he had, ah... Him and his family ah, had just moved 113 00:07:13,861 --> 00:07:15,796 into the Schomburg Complex. 114 00:07:19,071 --> 00:07:22,425 Korey and Yusef, we grew up in the same buildin'. 115 00:07:22,445 --> 00:07:25,298 So, you know, of course I've seen 'em around and our parents 116 00:07:25,318 --> 00:07:27,552 knew each other from just day-to-day. 117 00:07:31,662 --> 00:07:33,847 Salaam: It was my mother, my sister, and my brother. 118 00:07:33,867 --> 00:07:35,984 And my mother was a single parent, 119 00:07:36,004 --> 00:07:37,472 teaching at Parsons University. 120 00:07:39,344 --> 00:07:43,031 She encouraged all of us to do good work, good quality work. 121 00:07:43,051 --> 00:07:44,019 Whatever we did. 122 00:07:47,460 --> 00:07:49,678 Wise: When I was a kid, had a little hearin', 123 00:07:49,698 --> 00:07:50,832 little hearin' problem. 124 00:07:54,006 --> 00:07:57,660 But I just found myself just ignorin' it to the point 125 00:07:57,680 --> 00:08:00,183 where it affected my life. 126 00:08:03,725 --> 00:08:05,910 I grew up with a big family. 127 00:08:05,930 --> 00:08:07,813 A lot of women in my family. 128 00:08:07,833 --> 00:08:10,519 My mother plus 4 sisters. 129 00:08:10,539 --> 00:08:13,592 Woman: He's the baby and he was treated as such. 130 00:08:13,612 --> 00:08:19,236 And, you know, mama's only boy out of 5 children and the baby. 131 00:08:19,256 --> 00:08:22,226 So he was just our hearts', like, joy, everybody's. 132 00:08:25,334 --> 00:08:26,551 Santana, Jr.: At that time I was 133 00:08:26,571 --> 00:08:27,586 just getting into music. 134 00:08:27,606 --> 00:08:31,453 Watching videos. "MTV Raps" was kinda big, 135 00:08:31,473 --> 00:08:32,533 so, we, we watched that. 136 00:08:32,553 --> 00:08:35,182 We would record the videos and we would watch 'em over and over 137 00:08:35,202 --> 00:08:36,759 and over all day, you know. 138 00:08:36,779 --> 00:08:38,557 You know, my dad would come in the house, say, 139 00:08:38,577 --> 00:08:40,871 "You still watching that video from when I left?" 140 00:08:40,891 --> 00:08:42,961 You know, that's how far my range was. 141 00:08:44,238 --> 00:08:49,147 I think that I was at that point of coming into who I was, 142 00:08:49,167 --> 00:08:52,386 you know, but I never really... I never really got there. 143 00:09:09,681 --> 00:09:13,163 New York in the late 1980s was a completely 144 00:09:13,183 --> 00:09:16,632 schizophrenic, divided city. 145 00:09:16,652 --> 00:09:19,765 There was enormous wealth gushing into the city 146 00:09:19,785 --> 00:09:24,234 out of the rise of the financial industries, which had surged 147 00:09:24,254 --> 00:09:26,352 beginning around 1980. 148 00:09:27,655 --> 00:09:31,370 So, the city that had been in a big collapse 149 00:09:31,390 --> 00:09:35,070 for several decades had turned around. 150 00:09:35,090 --> 00:09:41,406 But there was a whole side to the city in which drug gangsters 151 00:09:41,426 --> 00:09:47,342 and crack and a kind of hard, permanently locked underclass 152 00:09:47,362 --> 00:09:48,341 was in place. 153 00:09:48,361 --> 00:09:49,928 And there was enormous suffering. 154 00:09:52,229 --> 00:09:55,710 It was as if there was a social moat 155 00:09:55,730 --> 00:09:57,863 that divided these two New Yorks. 156 00:10:06,633 --> 00:10:09,649 The city, when I came in, uh, was on the edge of, uh, 157 00:10:09,669 --> 00:10:14,084 bankruptcy, and people thought we would not, uh, recover. 158 00:10:14,104 --> 00:10:15,584 We were a city coming out of 159 00:10:15,604 --> 00:10:19,486 a series of crises and an enormous economic crisis. 160 00:10:19,506 --> 00:10:22,520 A school system that was in collapse; 161 00:10:22,540 --> 00:10:24,587 political institutions that seemed to be failing the people 162 00:10:24,607 --> 00:10:27,289 and not meeting their needs; 163 00:10:27,309 --> 00:10:29,222 old, fashionable, beautiful, 164 00:10:29,242 --> 00:10:32,257 noble neighborhoods falling apart. 165 00:10:32,277 --> 00:10:36,292 Koch: And, of course, overriding was crime. 166 00:10:36,312 --> 00:10:39,726 Several things happened to me that I just considered 167 00:10:39,746 --> 00:10:42,494 normal part of living in New York City. 168 00:10:42,514 --> 00:10:45,361 A couple of muggings and near muggings 169 00:10:45,381 --> 00:10:48,195 and I didn't even report any of these things. 170 00:10:48,215 --> 00:10:50,080 Just kind of figured it's the way it is. 171 00:10:51,382 --> 00:10:53,298 People had it worked out in their heads 172 00:10:53,318 --> 00:10:57,465 that their block was safe, the streets they walked 173 00:10:57,485 --> 00:11:00,299 to get to the subway to go to work, they were OK. 174 00:11:00,319 --> 00:11:03,000 Their subway line, they got on the same spot 175 00:11:03,020 --> 00:11:05,034 on the train every day. 176 00:11:05,054 --> 00:11:06,535 That was OK. 177 00:11:06,555 --> 00:11:12,269 They had figured out a safe path through this, ah... 178 00:11:12,289 --> 00:11:14,355 You know, garden of terrors. 179 00:11:17,191 --> 00:11:23,907 Koch: And then in about '84, crack came to New York City 180 00:11:23,927 --> 00:11:26,207 and that increased crime. 181 00:11:26,227 --> 00:11:29,509 No question, uh, about it. 182 00:11:29,529 --> 00:11:31,209 Wilder: When the crack wars happen, 183 00:11:31,229 --> 00:11:35,511 all of a sudden teenagers have lots of cash and guns. 184 00:11:35,531 --> 00:11:39,079 And all hell breaks loose in Bedford-Stuyvesant, 185 00:11:39,099 --> 00:11:40,646 all hell breaks loose in Harlem, 186 00:11:40,666 --> 00:11:43,914 all hell breaks loose in Brownsville, East New York. 187 00:11:43,934 --> 00:11:45,682 We were supposed to be afraid. 188 00:11:45,702 --> 00:11:48,848 It would have been irrational not to be afraid. 189 00:11:48,868 --> 00:11:52,850 But the people who suffered most with the rise of criminality, 190 00:11:52,870 --> 00:11:57,352 gang wars, drug wars, were actually the people we blamed. 191 00:11:57,372 --> 00:12:01,453 Most of the homicides were young, poor, 192 00:12:01,473 --> 00:12:05,020 working class black and brown kids. 193 00:12:05,040 --> 00:12:07,222 And the dominant social message was 194 00:12:07,242 --> 00:12:09,774 no one cared if you lived or died. 195 00:12:17,744 --> 00:12:20,726 As far as I'm concerned, in the late eighties, 196 00:12:20,746 --> 00:12:24,927 in New York City, the black community was under assault. 197 00:12:24,947 --> 00:12:28,462 "The most endangered species in America," 198 00:12:28,482 --> 00:12:33,415 that was a popular phrase, was the young black man. 199 00:12:47,520 --> 00:12:49,769 Richardson: It was a nice night. 200 00:12:49,789 --> 00:12:53,770 We was just, um, just hanging out outside, playing basketball 201 00:12:53,790 --> 00:12:55,055 where I lived at in Schomburg. 202 00:12:57,124 --> 00:12:58,772 Santana, Jr.: It was a holiday coming up. 203 00:12:58,792 --> 00:13:00,907 We didn't have school. 204 00:13:00,927 --> 00:13:02,540 A couple of friends wanted to go hang out. 205 00:13:02,560 --> 00:13:04,975 I told him, you know, ah, 206 00:13:04,995 --> 00:13:07,375 "Too much trouble in the corner. 207 00:13:07,395 --> 00:13:09,475 Um, go to the park." 208 00:13:09,495 --> 00:13:11,261 I sent him to that park that night. 209 00:13:13,963 --> 00:13:15,429 So, I feel guilt, too. 210 00:13:20,898 --> 00:13:22,580 Wise: I was comin' from a restaurant 211 00:13:22,600 --> 00:13:25,448 on the corner of 110th street. 212 00:13:25,468 --> 00:13:27,200 We walked over to 110th street. 213 00:13:28,801 --> 00:13:32,683 Almost in front of the entrance to Schomburg Plaza. 214 00:13:32,703 --> 00:13:37,552 Comin' from 110th and Madison, there was a group of people. 215 00:13:37,572 --> 00:13:42,805 I see this mob turning the corner. 216 00:13:44,440 --> 00:13:47,121 Wise: Good kids and bad kids. 217 00:13:47,141 --> 00:13:51,323 Kids just out to have some fun. 218 00:13:51,343 --> 00:13:53,624 McCray: Some of them I didn't know by face; 219 00:13:53,644 --> 00:13:55,458 some of them went to my school; 220 00:13:55,478 --> 00:13:56,909 some of them lived in my neighborhood. 221 00:13:58,311 --> 00:14:00,193 Yusef came my way. 222 00:14:00,213 --> 00:14:01,193 I see Korey. I said, 223 00:14:01,213 --> 00:14:02,626 "Hey, come and hang out. 224 00:14:02,646 --> 00:14:04,394 We're about to hang out in the park." 225 00:14:04,414 --> 00:14:08,395 A close friend of mine, he stayed back. 226 00:14:08,415 --> 00:14:11,130 We was all playing basketball and he was like, "Don't go." 227 00:14:11,150 --> 00:14:12,181 Like, stay here." 228 00:14:13,916 --> 00:14:15,416 Next thing I know, we was going into the park. 229 00:14:26,553 --> 00:14:28,736 Wise: Walk in, a few of the guys 230 00:14:28,756 --> 00:14:30,603 horse playin' with each other. 231 00:14:30,623 --> 00:14:32,636 Jumpin' on each other's back, beatin' each other up. 232 00:14:32,656 --> 00:14:33,770 Just horse playin'. 233 00:14:33,790 --> 00:14:35,722 We start going towards the main road. 234 00:14:38,057 --> 00:14:39,990 And people started throwing rocks at the cars. 235 00:14:42,226 --> 00:14:45,375 A couple, they was on a tandem bike. 236 00:14:45,395 --> 00:14:48,508 And some kids is harassing 'em or sayin' something to them. 237 00:14:48,528 --> 00:14:50,009 Looked like they was trying to pull 'em off 238 00:14:50,029 --> 00:14:53,777 and the bicyclists kept they, held their balance 239 00:14:53,797 --> 00:14:56,145 and they just kept goin'. 240 00:14:56,165 --> 00:14:58,912 A homeless person starts walking across the street 241 00:14:58,932 --> 00:15:00,964 and the guys surround him. 242 00:15:02,532 --> 00:15:04,547 McCray: He had some food. 243 00:15:04,567 --> 00:15:05,582 Some of the guys out of the group 244 00:15:05,602 --> 00:15:08,199 took his food, beat him up. 245 00:15:09,701 --> 00:15:11,783 Salaam: They were beating this guy up really badly, 246 00:15:11,803 --> 00:15:15,118 and at some point in time someone poured out 247 00:15:15,138 --> 00:15:19,252 a beer bottle, and then smashed him in the head with it. 248 00:15:19,272 --> 00:15:20,819 You know, it was kinda unbelievable 249 00:15:20,839 --> 00:15:23,654 to see that and, and to see, like, this guy getting, 250 00:15:23,674 --> 00:15:26,372 you know, jumped on by all these teenagers. 251 00:15:28,307 --> 00:15:32,224 McCray: I remember police coming, everybody split up. 252 00:15:32,244 --> 00:15:34,158 Santana, Jr.: They shined a light and the group kind of 253 00:15:34,178 --> 00:15:36,958 dispersed. Everybody ran. 254 00:15:36,978 --> 00:15:40,159 That's when it was time for me to go home. 255 00:15:40,179 --> 00:15:43,046 I left the park when everybody scattered. 256 00:15:45,247 --> 00:15:47,128 Santana, Jr.: We was gonna leave but somebody said, 257 00:15:47,148 --> 00:15:48,662 "Well, let's go find the rest of the guys 258 00:15:48,682 --> 00:15:49,796 "and we'll break out. 259 00:15:49,816 --> 00:15:51,681 "We'll go home." And that's what we did. 260 00:15:54,550 --> 00:15:58,120 Salaam: We crossed down onto the 96th street traverse 261 00:15:58,140 --> 00:16:00,792 and climbed up the rocks to the other side. 262 00:16:00,812 --> 00:16:02,011 We was by a reservoir. 263 00:16:04,149 --> 00:16:07,501 I remember a man running by and some kids that are 264 00:16:07,521 --> 00:16:09,605 throwing rocks at him. 265 00:16:09,625 --> 00:16:11,742 And he kept running. 266 00:16:11,762 --> 00:16:14,079 Another person came running by. 267 00:16:14,099 --> 00:16:16,115 And when he got in the middle, they kind of came out 268 00:16:16,135 --> 00:16:18,085 and they jumped on him. 269 00:16:18,105 --> 00:16:21,507 We was watching from a distance. I didn't take part in that. 270 00:16:23,946 --> 00:16:26,364 And I'm like, wow, this guy just picked him up 271 00:16:26,384 --> 00:16:27,933 and threw him into the gate. 272 00:16:27,953 --> 00:16:30,103 Then he just starts punching him and beating him. 273 00:16:30,123 --> 00:16:32,158 And then somebody yelled, "Police." 274 00:16:34,129 --> 00:16:36,612 Richardson: Commotion. 275 00:16:36,632 --> 00:16:37,981 Some kids, like, running that way, 276 00:16:38,001 --> 00:16:40,418 and some kids going the other way. 277 00:16:40,438 --> 00:16:42,122 Trying to find our way outside, 278 00:16:42,142 --> 00:16:43,174 out of the park. 279 00:16:44,778 --> 00:16:47,397 McCray: I think it was between, like, 9:00 and 10:00. 280 00:16:47,417 --> 00:16:49,700 I was leaving the park around that time, 281 00:16:49,720 --> 00:16:50,753 because I had a curfew. 282 00:16:54,159 --> 00:16:56,910 Salaam: I remember walking with this small group to the 1, 283 00:16:56,930 --> 00:16:58,565 2, and the 3 train on Broadway. 284 00:17:00,536 --> 00:17:02,085 The only crime I committed that night 285 00:17:02,105 --> 00:17:03,640 was I hopped the turnstile. 286 00:17:06,611 --> 00:17:08,495 Santana, Jr.: On Central Park West, 287 00:17:08,515 --> 00:17:10,131 a car pulled up in front of me 288 00:17:10,151 --> 00:17:11,766 and two officers jumped out. 289 00:17:11,786 --> 00:17:15,306 And one grabbed me. And, um... And, 290 00:17:15,326 --> 00:17:17,542 and when I turned back, the crowd scattered 291 00:17:17,562 --> 00:17:18,611 and everybody ran. 292 00:17:18,631 --> 00:17:21,549 Police was chasing me and I had 293 00:17:21,569 --> 00:17:24,387 nowhere else to go, so, there was a wall and you jump 294 00:17:24,407 --> 00:17:27,524 over the wall, you go back into the park. 295 00:17:27,544 --> 00:17:29,394 They handcuffed us and put in the car. 296 00:17:29,414 --> 00:17:31,364 And then his partner ran and he jumped over the wall 297 00:17:31,384 --> 00:17:33,351 into the park and he took off. 298 00:17:35,356 --> 00:17:38,842 Richardson: Somebody told me to, "Freeze or I will shoot." 299 00:17:38,862 --> 00:17:42,147 My fear even went up more so I just kept runnin'. 300 00:17:42,167 --> 00:17:44,350 One of the cops, he tackled me. 301 00:17:44,370 --> 00:17:48,089 All my clothes was just all dirty and muddy. 302 00:17:48,109 --> 00:17:52,897 And he had a helmet, and he swung it across my face. 303 00:17:52,917 --> 00:17:54,618 And he handcuffed me and I said, um... 304 00:18:06,470 --> 00:18:10,358 I thinks he said, um, like, "What's goin' on?" 305 00:18:10,378 --> 00:18:13,227 And he said, 306 00:18:13,247 --> 00:18:16,467 he was like, you know, "Didn't I tell you not to run?" 307 00:18:16,487 --> 00:18:19,037 Like, you, it's like "You little, little animal" 308 00:18:19,057 --> 00:18:21,707 or something. 309 00:18:21,727 --> 00:18:27,501 So, um, I basically said, "Oh, I didn't do nothin', you know." 310 00:18:31,476 --> 00:18:33,827 And we sat in the police cars for a while. 311 00:18:33,847 --> 00:18:35,228 They rounded up a few people 312 00:18:35,248 --> 00:18:38,184 and we proceeded to the precinct. 313 00:18:51,639 --> 00:18:53,189 Santana, Jr.: They brung us in. 314 00:18:53,209 --> 00:18:55,659 They took shots, ah... photos of us 315 00:18:55,679 --> 00:18:56,880 and then they put us in a room. 316 00:18:58,950 --> 00:19:01,401 Richardson: 14. Never got arrested. 317 00:19:01,421 --> 00:19:04,707 Never had handcuffs on me. 318 00:19:04,727 --> 00:19:05,828 Scared to death. 319 00:19:07,164 --> 00:19:09,915 I could recall one cop lookin' at me. 320 00:19:09,935 --> 00:19:14,788 He says, "What's that on your face?" 321 00:19:14,808 --> 00:19:18,862 And ha, I, I said, um, "One of your one, of your, 322 00:19:18,882 --> 00:19:20,532 your fellow workers hit me." 323 00:19:20,552 --> 00:19:23,737 And he said, "One of my, my fellow workers?" 324 00:19:23,757 --> 00:19:26,007 Where at? Come point him out to me." 325 00:19:26,027 --> 00:19:27,961 You know, like I was lying. 326 00:19:30,666 --> 00:19:33,518 They asked me what was going on next, and the guys are sayin', 327 00:19:33,538 --> 00:19:35,588 "wW'll give you a ticket for family court and you'll, 328 00:19:35,608 --> 00:19:38,126 you'll be right outta here in no, in no time soon." 329 00:19:38,146 --> 00:19:40,714 We were sitting there for a long time. 330 00:19:49,394 --> 00:19:51,479 Richardson: It took a while but they 331 00:19:51,499 --> 00:19:53,968 begin to call parents. 332 00:19:55,905 --> 00:19:59,209 Black: My mother received a call from the precinct 333 00:19:59,259 --> 00:20:02,408 and they told her to come pick up Kevin up from, um, 334 00:20:02,428 --> 00:20:05,144 it was the Central Park precinct and that he had been picked up 335 00:20:05,164 --> 00:20:08,614 for, I believe it was unlawful assembly. 336 00:20:08,634 --> 00:20:12,684 3 policemen knock on my door and say, 337 00:20:12,704 --> 00:20:15,320 "Oh, you ain't know your son was in the police station?" 338 00:20:15,340 --> 00:20:16,855 I said, "No." 339 00:20:16,875 --> 00:20:18,823 And they tell me, "Come on, let's go." 340 00:20:18,843 --> 00:20:20,325 I had to get dressed. 341 00:20:20,345 --> 00:20:22,594 And then my mother was there, 342 00:20:22,614 --> 00:20:23,928 and she got scared. 343 00:20:23,948 --> 00:20:25,764 And she said, "I going with you." 344 00:20:25,784 --> 00:20:28,767 So, she went with me. 345 00:20:28,787 --> 00:20:31,535 I started seeing a lot of parents. 346 00:20:31,555 --> 00:20:34,405 We feelin' a little better, you know, 347 00:20:34,425 --> 00:20:37,626 thinkin' that we, that we gonna be OK. 348 00:20:49,538 --> 00:20:51,154 Woman: The jogger was discovered about 349 00:20:51,174 --> 00:20:53,957 1:30 in the morning by passersby. 350 00:20:53,977 --> 00:20:58,861 She was in the underbrush in the northern reaches of the park 351 00:20:58,881 --> 00:21:02,464 and she was taken to Metropolitan Hospital. 352 00:21:02,484 --> 00:21:04,533 Dwyer: Her skull was fractured. 353 00:21:04,553 --> 00:21:09,172 She lost a good deal of her body fluids. 354 00:21:09,192 --> 00:21:12,759 She was virtually dead. 355 00:21:14,562 --> 00:21:18,513 The kids were about to be released when a detective 356 00:21:18,533 --> 00:21:21,916 who realized the gravity of the injuries of the victim 357 00:21:21,936 --> 00:21:26,620 called the precinct and said, "Hold on to those guys." 358 00:21:26,640 --> 00:21:28,255 And it was from that moment forward 359 00:21:28,275 --> 00:21:32,378 that everything plowed towards them. 360 00:21:35,181 --> 00:21:37,331 Black: The next time I heard from my mother, 361 00:21:37,351 --> 00:21:38,398 she woke me up. 362 00:21:38,418 --> 00:21:39,566 And, ah, she says, 363 00:21:39,586 --> 00:21:41,968 "I'm still here at the precinct." 364 00:21:41,988 --> 00:21:43,504 And I says, "Well, why are you still there?" 365 00:21:43,524 --> 00:21:46,239 And she said, um, "Well, they sayin' 366 00:21:46,259 --> 00:21:47,907 they waitin' for paperwork." 367 00:21:47,927 --> 00:21:49,509 I was wondering what's wrong. 368 00:21:49,529 --> 00:21:52,111 And I told 'em if I could see my son because I saw him next door 369 00:21:52,131 --> 00:21:54,079 in the room with all the kids. 370 00:21:54,099 --> 00:21:57,416 And they said, "No, you gotta wait till morning." 371 00:21:57,436 --> 00:22:01,086 So I tell my mother, "Stay with him and let me to go to work." 372 00:22:01,106 --> 00:22:03,555 They probably gonna release him in the morning anyway. 373 00:22:03,575 --> 00:22:07,377 I don't see nothin' wrong and I went to work. 374 00:22:20,891 --> 00:22:23,074 Dwyer: Initially, the case was going to be handled 375 00:22:23,094 --> 00:22:25,042 by the Central Park precinct. 376 00:22:25,062 --> 00:22:29,480 But she was thought to be near death, and homicide cases are 377 00:22:29,500 --> 00:22:32,215 handled typically by these homicide squads. 378 00:22:32,235 --> 00:22:36,319 And Manhattan North was a prestigious bunch 379 00:22:36,339 --> 00:22:37,320 of detectives 380 00:22:37,340 --> 00:22:39,423 with a great deal of pride in their work 381 00:22:39,443 --> 00:22:42,159 and swagger in their step. 382 00:22:42,179 --> 00:22:47,196 Two prosecutors, Linda Fairstein and Elizabeth Lederer. 383 00:22:47,216 --> 00:22:49,866 They were part of the investigation. 384 00:22:49,886 --> 00:22:52,835 And they were operating not only as prosecutors 385 00:22:52,855 --> 00:22:53,787 but investigators. 386 00:22:59,326 --> 00:23:02,244 Byfield: I was getting ready for work 387 00:23:02,264 --> 00:23:04,613 and I heard the news. 388 00:23:04,633 --> 00:23:09,585 And instantly your mind goes into the calculus. 389 00:23:09,605 --> 00:23:10,685 An unidentified white woman 390 00:23:10,705 --> 00:23:12,687 found raped in Northern Central Park. 391 00:23:12,707 --> 00:23:13,888 Oh. 392 00:23:13,908 --> 00:23:15,623 I think virtually every 393 00:23:15,643 --> 00:23:17,992 ethnic and racial group in New York has these moments where 394 00:23:18,012 --> 00:23:21,362 you, your, your heart just sort of stops and your stomach turns 395 00:23:21,382 --> 00:23:24,164 and you think to yourself, oh, please don't let it be us. 396 00:23:24,184 --> 00:23:27,134 ...Police have 5 teenagers in custody right now... 397 00:23:27,154 --> 00:23:29,336 Richardson: First we was all together. 398 00:23:29,356 --> 00:23:34,125 Then they started to put us in different rooms separately. 399 00:23:36,229 --> 00:23:37,911 Different cops coming back and forth. 400 00:23:37,931 --> 00:23:41,148 And one cop sayin', "Well, we just heard that a woman was" 401 00:23:41,168 --> 00:23:44,317 raped and beaten in the park." 402 00:23:44,337 --> 00:23:46,352 Now he says, "What happened to the lady?" 403 00:23:46,372 --> 00:23:48,654 And I'm saying, "What lady?" 404 00:23:48,674 --> 00:23:50,857 And he says, "What do you mean what lady?" 405 00:23:50,877 --> 00:23:53,558 The lady who got raped in the park." 406 00:23:53,578 --> 00:23:55,261 I say, "Yeah, I was in the park." 407 00:23:55,281 --> 00:23:59,197 "And I was, yeah, I was, you know, all around. 408 00:23:59,217 --> 00:24:00,198 But that I don't know about." 409 00:24:00,218 --> 00:24:01,300 "What do you mean you don't know? 410 00:24:01,320 --> 00:24:02,601 You just... " And I said, " No. 411 00:24:02,621 --> 00:24:05,871 Never came across no lady." 412 00:24:05,891 --> 00:24:07,539 So now we going back through the statement 413 00:24:07,559 --> 00:24:08,907 from the top, again. 414 00:24:08,927 --> 00:24:10,775 "What did you do?" "Who were you with?" 415 00:24:10,795 --> 00:24:14,845 "Who did you come with?" And, um, same answers again. 416 00:24:14,865 --> 00:24:17,014 They gettin' a little angry 'cause I guess 417 00:24:17,034 --> 00:24:19,536 they not gettin' a word outta anybody. 418 00:24:21,271 --> 00:24:23,654 Dwyer: The detectives are trying to piece together 419 00:24:23,674 --> 00:24:26,623 a narrative of what happened and they're trying to make it fit 420 00:24:26,643 --> 00:24:29,994 what they know happened: A woman ended up 421 00:24:30,014 --> 00:24:34,031 at the bottom of a ravine in the park almost dead 422 00:24:34,051 --> 00:24:37,433 and a bunch of other people got hassled or hurt 423 00:24:37,453 --> 00:24:38,735 in some way by these kids. 424 00:24:38,755 --> 00:24:43,473 So, they're trying to make the story climb 425 00:24:43,493 --> 00:24:45,341 some sort of ladder of facts. 426 00:24:45,361 --> 00:24:49,045 All hell is breaking loose in Central Park that night. 427 00:24:49,065 --> 00:24:52,682 And there are gangs of kids running around making mischief. 428 00:24:52,702 --> 00:24:55,851 It's not so hard to understand why these kids were brought in, 429 00:24:55,871 --> 00:24:58,921 why they were interrogated so aggressively, 430 00:24:58,941 --> 00:25:02,824 why police believed they had amongst them 431 00:25:02,844 --> 00:25:05,560 the culprit or culprits. 432 00:25:05,580 --> 00:25:07,247 Now they just have to get the proof of it. 433 00:25:09,550 --> 00:25:11,299 Santana, Jr.: Another detective came into the room, 434 00:25:11,319 --> 00:25:13,000 he called my grandmother. 435 00:25:13,020 --> 00:25:16,337 And he said, "Listen, can I talk to you outside for a minute?" 436 00:25:16,357 --> 00:25:19,473 And when he took her outside, that's when it started. 437 00:25:19,493 --> 00:25:20,841 He looks at me. He's like, 438 00:25:20,861 --> 00:25:24,010 "Oh, this is the scumbag right here that did it." 439 00:25:24,030 --> 00:25:26,447 Richardson: I remember one guy specifically tell me, 440 00:25:26,467 --> 00:25:29,149 "You want to spend 25 to life on Rikers Island?" 441 00:25:29,169 --> 00:25:30,550 You want to go to jail for rape? 442 00:25:30,570 --> 00:25:31,985 "'Cause they don't like guys that rape women," 443 00:25:32,005 --> 00:25:33,753 and things like that. 444 00:25:33,773 --> 00:25:38,390 You know, and I'm saying, like, I'm, I'm, I'm tellin' the guy, 445 00:25:38,410 --> 00:25:41,293 "I don't know what you're talkin' about." 446 00:25:41,313 --> 00:25:42,995 Santana, Jr.: Now the other officer comes in. 447 00:25:43,015 --> 00:25:45,164 He had about red hair, a short guy. 448 00:25:45,184 --> 00:25:48,167 And he was like, "Oh, so this is the... right here." 449 00:25:48,187 --> 00:25:50,436 And Arroyo says, "Yeah, this is the guy here." 450 00:25:50,456 --> 00:25:52,538 He doesn't want to tell us what happened." 451 00:25:52,558 --> 00:25:55,641 And I'm sittin' there like, "Ah, what's going on?" 452 00:25:55,661 --> 00:25:59,010 And now Arroyo starts to yell at me and then this guy 453 00:25:59,030 --> 00:26:00,378 pulls up a chair next to me. 454 00:26:00,398 --> 00:26:02,047 He starts to yell right in my ear. 455 00:26:02,067 --> 00:26:05,650 So I have Arroyo here yellin' at me, blowing smoke in my face 456 00:26:05,670 --> 00:26:07,585 with the cigarette, and then I have this guy on my side 457 00:26:07,605 --> 00:26:08,953 and he's yellin' at me. 458 00:26:08,973 --> 00:26:10,588 And they're like, "You know you... did it." 459 00:26:10,608 --> 00:26:12,790 You... stuck your... in her, right? Didn't you?" 460 00:26:12,810 --> 00:26:14,558 And I'm like, "What are you talkin' about?" 461 00:26:14,578 --> 00:26:17,061 I didn't stick nothin' in nobody." 462 00:26:17,081 --> 00:26:21,065 And I start to cry a little bit. And then Hartigan jumps in. 463 00:26:21,085 --> 00:26:24,635 And I was grateful, you know, at that point I was grateful 464 00:26:24,655 --> 00:26:27,037 'cause Hartigan stopped him from trying to hurt me. 465 00:26:27,057 --> 00:26:28,372 Then again, the other guy come back in 466 00:26:28,392 --> 00:26:32,609 screamin' and yellin, ' violating my personal space, 467 00:26:32,629 --> 00:26:35,044 so close to spittin' on me. 468 00:26:35,064 --> 00:26:37,480 And then my mother, she came to the door, and she said, 469 00:26:37,500 --> 00:26:38,514 "I need to see my son. 470 00:26:38,534 --> 00:26:39,882 I need to see my son." 471 00:26:39,902 --> 00:26:42,585 I looked out when I seen one of the detectives, um, you know, 472 00:26:42,605 --> 00:26:45,855 take her by the shoulder, put her back to her chair. 473 00:26:45,875 --> 00:26:48,357 And while he's talking to her, they close the door 474 00:26:48,377 --> 00:26:49,759 and they questioning me. 475 00:26:49,779 --> 00:26:57,399 They knew that my mother was, was a weak person, was disabled. 476 00:26:57,419 --> 00:26:59,301 And they, they used that, you know. 477 00:26:59,321 --> 00:27:00,336 They used that. 478 00:27:00,356 --> 00:27:04,072 The officers, they actually met me outside. 479 00:27:04,092 --> 00:27:05,973 They were like, "Oh, your mother's, you know", 480 00:27:05,993 --> 00:27:09,244 "she's not well and since you're, you know, of age, 481 00:27:09,264 --> 00:27:10,979 "you can stay and replace your mother and we'll 482 00:27:10,999 --> 00:27:15,582 send her on home in a squad car, and we'll make sure she's OK." 483 00:27:15,602 --> 00:27:18,952 And they said, "She was cooperating with this process." 484 00:27:18,972 --> 00:27:21,822 So we sure that you're gonna cooperate as well." 485 00:27:21,842 --> 00:27:24,324 So that, in they constantly kept saying, 486 00:27:24,344 --> 00:27:25,658 "So that your brother can go home." 487 00:27:25,678 --> 00:27:26,793 So that your brother could go home. 488 00:27:26,813 --> 00:27:28,394 "So that..." And that's all I wanted. 489 00:27:28,414 --> 00:27:29,947 I just wanted to get him back home. 490 00:27:43,462 --> 00:27:45,677 McCray: There was a loud knock at the door. 491 00:27:45,697 --> 00:27:47,913 It was 3 or 4 detectives. 492 00:27:47,933 --> 00:27:50,148 I thought they was there because of the assaults 493 00:27:50,168 --> 00:27:51,768 on the people in Central Park. 494 00:27:53,671 --> 00:27:56,354 My father, he let them come in. 495 00:27:56,374 --> 00:27:57,956 These men, they looked like giants, you know, 496 00:27:57,976 --> 00:28:00,091 compared to my father. 497 00:28:00,111 --> 00:28:02,426 He asked me to put some sneakers on. 498 00:28:02,446 --> 00:28:05,830 He told my father he was going to take me down to the precinct. 499 00:28:05,850 --> 00:28:07,798 My father called my mother, 500 00:28:07,818 --> 00:28:11,135 and my mother met us at the precinct. 501 00:28:11,155 --> 00:28:15,306 They was asking me questions a female jogger in Central Park. 502 00:28:15,326 --> 00:28:17,507 And I was like, "There was only one woman", 503 00:28:17,527 --> 00:28:19,510 "and she was with a man on a bike. 504 00:28:19,530 --> 00:28:21,177 But they rolled off." 505 00:28:21,197 --> 00:28:24,314 And he was like, "You sure?" I was like, "Yeah." 506 00:28:24,334 --> 00:28:26,583 "What about the lady that got raped?" 507 00:28:26,603 --> 00:28:30,220 I'm like, "What lady that got raped?" 508 00:28:30,240 --> 00:28:32,387 They just kept asking me about this lady that got raped. 509 00:28:32,407 --> 00:28:35,491 And I kept telling them, "There was only one lady." 510 00:28:35,511 --> 00:28:38,528 They asked my mother to leave the room. 511 00:28:38,548 --> 00:28:40,195 I'm looking at my father and he's like, 512 00:28:40,215 --> 00:28:41,363 "Are you telling the truth?" 513 00:28:41,383 --> 00:28:42,532 I was like, "Yeah, Dad, I'm telling the truth." 514 00:28:42,552 --> 00:28:44,333 I swear I'm telling the truth." 515 00:28:44,353 --> 00:28:46,869 I always told my father the truth. 516 00:28:46,889 --> 00:28:48,837 "I know nothing about no jogger. 517 00:28:48,857 --> 00:28:50,205 "I know some people got beaten up, 518 00:28:50,225 --> 00:28:52,708 but I had nothing to do with that." 519 00:28:52,728 --> 00:28:55,711 Then they asked me to tell my story again. 520 00:28:55,731 --> 00:28:57,513 This time yelling at me. 521 00:28:57,533 --> 00:29:01,667 All up in my face, pointing at me, poking me in my chest. 522 00:29:04,504 --> 00:29:07,155 It just kept going on and on and on. 523 00:29:07,175 --> 00:29:11,057 We stopped a few times because I was crying. 524 00:29:11,077 --> 00:29:15,963 And I had no protection. My father didn't do anything. 525 00:29:15,983 --> 00:29:17,982 I was scared. 526 00:29:20,920 --> 00:29:22,335 Santana, Jr.: Hours have passed. 527 00:29:22,355 --> 00:29:24,037 Richardson: Time kept going by. 528 00:29:24,057 --> 00:29:25,539 McCray: They kept asking questions. 529 00:29:25,559 --> 00:29:27,051 Santana, Jr.: No food, no drink. 530 00:29:27,071 --> 00:29:30,161 McCray: I didn't eat. I didn't get no sleep. 531 00:29:30,366 --> 00:29:33,070 Santana, Jr.: And I didn't know when it was gonna end. 532 00:29:40,370 --> 00:29:43,121 Kassin: Confrontation followed by denial, followed by: 533 00:29:43,141 --> 00:29:48,044 "You're a liar, I want to hear the truth" can go on for hours. 534 00:29:48,465 --> 00:29:51,809 And the, the goal there is to break the suspect down 535 00:29:51,829 --> 00:29:55,473 into a state of despair, into a state of helplessness, so that 536 00:29:55,493 --> 00:29:59,155 the suspect gets worn down and is looking for a way out. 537 00:30:00,931 --> 00:30:03,421 McCray: They pulled my father aside. 538 00:30:03,441 --> 00:30:04,792 Then my father came back in the room, 539 00:30:04,812 --> 00:30:06,432 it was like he just changed. 540 00:30:06,452 --> 00:30:07,737 He just changed. He was like, "Listen." 541 00:30:07,757 --> 00:30:08,974 He was like, "Tell these people what they want to hear" 542 00:30:08,994 --> 00:30:11,785 so you can go home." 543 00:30:11,805 --> 00:30:14,428 If he just would've stood his ground, 544 00:30:14,448 --> 00:30:15,464 I would've told the truth. 545 00:30:15,484 --> 00:30:16,789 I would've stuck to the truth. 546 00:30:20,837 --> 00:30:22,525 Santana, Jr.: Hartigan sat down and he said, 547 00:30:22,545 --> 00:30:25,569 "Look, Ray. I know you didn't do anything wrong. 548 00:30:25,589 --> 00:30:28,413 "But the other guys right now, they're in other precincts 549 00:30:28,433 --> 00:30:29,919 and they're saying that you did it." 550 00:30:29,939 --> 00:30:32,427 And they tellin' me, "Well, you're not 551 00:30:32,447 --> 00:30:35,004 sayin' nothin' but these guys put your name in it." 552 00:30:35,024 --> 00:30:36,978 And I'm like, "I didn't do anything." 553 00:30:36,998 --> 00:30:39,019 And he's like, "Well, this is why I'm here, to help." 554 00:30:39,039 --> 00:30:40,609 "Because I know you didn't do anything. 555 00:30:40,795 --> 00:30:43,240 You're a good kid. You know, this isn't you." 556 00:30:43,260 --> 00:30:45,638 He pulls out this picture of Kevin Richardson. 557 00:30:45,658 --> 00:30:47,337 And he goes, "You know this kid?" 558 00:30:47,357 --> 00:30:49,036 And I'm like, "No, I don't know him." 559 00:30:49,056 --> 00:30:51,202 And he goes, "You see the scratch under his eye?" 560 00:30:51,222 --> 00:30:54,099 "That came from the woman. We know he did it. 561 00:30:54,119 --> 00:30:56,050 He's going down." 562 00:30:57,516 --> 00:31:01,760 At this point I'm like, you know, like, I don't 563 00:31:01,780 --> 00:31:06,790 know these, these guys that's, that's there so I'm just gonna 564 00:31:06,810 --> 00:31:11,720 make up somethin' and, and, include these guys' names. 565 00:31:11,740 --> 00:31:14,152 Ok. If, if, you know, if you're 566 00:31:14,172 --> 00:31:15,983 going to do it to me, then I'm going to do it to you. 567 00:31:16,003 --> 00:31:18,116 They was coaching me and I was writing it down. 568 00:31:18,136 --> 00:31:19,748 Santana, Jr.: He just fed it to me. 569 00:31:19,768 --> 00:31:22,812 "Well, what did he do? What did Antron McCray do?" 570 00:31:22,832 --> 00:31:25,443 He gave me the names. I put 'em in. 571 00:31:25,463 --> 00:31:28,576 I couldn't tell you who they were, who they looked like. 572 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. 573 00:31:32,810 --> 00:31:35,009 McCray: And I was like, "How can they lie?" 574 00:31:35,029 --> 00:31:36,932 So I was like, "I'm going to get him back." 575 00:31:36,952 --> 00:31:42,441 At that point, I told myself I just, I just want to go home. 576 00:31:42,461 --> 00:31:44,844 I thought I had the upper hand because 577 00:31:44,864 --> 00:31:47,011 here I was, I had a detective who was saying, 578 00:31:47,031 --> 00:31:49,081 "I'll make sure you go home." 579 00:31:49,101 --> 00:31:52,047 McCray: I was thinking that I was never going to go home. 580 00:31:52,483 --> 00:31:54,530 I gave these people what they want to hear. 581 00:31:54,774 --> 00:31:56,094 So I lied. 582 00:31:57,234 --> 00:31:58,108 I lied. 583 00:31:59,582 --> 00:32:01,033 I say, "Well, you know, this is where" 584 00:32:01,053 --> 00:32:03,370 it happened at the reservoir." 585 00:32:03,390 --> 00:32:06,606 You know, I'm placing the scene of the crime at the reservoir. 586 00:32:06,626 --> 00:32:08,441 And, and he just, he doesn't really say 587 00:32:08,461 --> 00:32:11,209 but he gives me this look like, "What are you talking about?" 588 00:32:11,229 --> 00:32:13,479 McCray: He asked me what she was wearing. 589 00:32:13,499 --> 00:32:14,879 I didn't know because I wasn't there. 590 00:32:14,899 --> 00:32:18,551 So I remember one of the men joggers that got assaulted, 591 00:32:18,571 --> 00:32:20,553 he had blue shorts and a white shirt. 592 00:32:20,573 --> 00:32:22,955 That's what I said she had on. 593 00:32:22,975 --> 00:32:25,523 And then he said, "It's gotta be more believable." 594 00:32:25,543 --> 00:32:27,560 "You know, Ray, people don't fully believe it 595 00:32:27,580 --> 00:32:28,562 if you just saw it." 596 00:32:28,582 --> 00:32:29,561 He said, "Where were you?" 597 00:32:29,581 --> 00:32:31,063 And I said, "I saw it from a distance." 598 00:32:31,083 --> 00:32:32,230 I was watching." 599 00:32:32,250 --> 00:32:34,100 And he said, "No, you gotta be in it." 600 00:32:34,120 --> 00:32:36,668 Like, you have to be there." 601 00:32:36,688 --> 00:32:39,170 McCray: As the time just, you know, went on, 602 00:32:39,190 --> 00:32:41,540 and my father wasn't doing nothing. 603 00:32:41,560 --> 00:32:44,142 So, I was just like, "I, whatever, yeah. 604 00:32:44,162 --> 00:32:47,631 "I had something to do with it," just to get out of there. 605 00:32:49,467 --> 00:32:52,817 [Reading] Then we saw this lady jogger. 606 00:32:52,837 --> 00:32:55,054 She had on gray shorts with black biking pants 607 00:32:55,074 --> 00:32:56,554 and a white tank top. 608 00:32:56,574 --> 00:32:59,156 [Reading] I observed the male, black Kevin, 609 00:32:59,176 --> 00:33:02,627 with scratch on face was struggling with a female. 610 00:33:02,647 --> 00:33:04,429 McCray, reading: The tall, thin black guy 611 00:33:04,449 --> 00:33:05,930 hit her in the ribs with a pipe. 612 00:33:05,950 --> 00:33:08,066 [Reading] I moved back and everybody started 613 00:33:08,086 --> 00:33:09,366 feeling on her. 614 00:33:09,386 --> 00:33:12,504 [Reading] Antron came and started ripping her clothes off. 615 00:33:12,524 --> 00:33:14,524 McCray, reading: The Puerto Rican kid with the black hoodie 616 00:33:14,544 --> 00:33:15,623 jumped on her. 617 00:33:15,643 --> 00:33:19,662 [Reading] I tried to grab her. I got scratched on my face. 618 00:33:20,028 --> 00:33:23,580 Antron pulled her pants off and she was screaming. 619 00:33:23,600 --> 00:33:26,013 Richardson, reading: Antron had sex with her. 620 00:33:26,154 --> 00:33:27,442 McCray, reading: Then Kevin got on. 621 00:33:27,609 --> 00:33:28,734 Richardson, reading: That's when she was yelling, 622 00:33:28,754 --> 00:33:29,944 "Stop" and "help." 623 00:33:30,204 --> 00:33:32,322 I was the one that didn't rape her. 624 00:33:32,639 --> 00:33:35,597 [Reading] Kevin pulled down his pants and had sex with her. 625 00:33:36,113 --> 00:33:38,690 When she was on the floor I grabbed her tits. 626 00:33:47,421 --> 00:33:51,250 A 4, a 14-year-old boy doesn't talk like this. 627 00:33:51,270 --> 00:33:53,007 You know? 628 00:33:53,027 --> 00:33:54,103 At that time, being naive, 629 00:33:54,123 --> 00:33:58,779 I figured I'm not implicating myself. 630 00:33:58,799 --> 00:33:59,840 I was crying at that time. 631 00:33:59,860 --> 00:34:00,968 He said, "Don't worry. You did good." 632 00:34:00,988 --> 00:34:03,408 Everything's gonna be OK." 633 00:34:04,052 --> 00:34:05,927 McCray: When I first went there, they said I was going to 634 00:34:05,947 --> 00:34:09,488 be a witness, and then just, everything just flipped. 635 00:34:09,508 --> 00:34:14,711 You know, they had me raping a woman, beating her. 636 00:34:14,731 --> 00:34:17,272 And they read the statement to my mother. 637 00:34:17,292 --> 00:34:19,902 And she looked at me, and I was like, "Ma, I didn't do it." 638 00:34:19,922 --> 00:34:22,848 She was like, "OK, I know you didn't do it." 639 00:34:26,907 --> 00:34:29,383 Black: I walked in the room and I could see 640 00:34:29,403 --> 00:34:30,548 that he was terrified. 641 00:34:30,568 --> 00:34:33,909 I could see him, like, shivering. 642 00:34:33,929 --> 00:34:38,733 I said, "Kevin, I can't believe you saw this woman get raped." 643 00:34:38,753 --> 00:34:40,594 And he looked at me. 644 00:34:40,614 --> 00:34:42,976 He say, "Angie, I didn't see a rape." 645 00:34:50,396 --> 00:34:53,471 And I said, "Kevin, why did you say that then?" 646 00:34:53,491 --> 00:34:56,583 He said, "'Cause they told me to say it so I could go home." 647 00:34:58,015 --> 00:35:00,357 But they was like a orchestra, 648 00:35:00,377 --> 00:35:02,254 like they orchestrated this whole thing. 649 00:35:02,274 --> 00:35:06,314 And I felt so dumb for not realizing it 650 00:35:06,334 --> 00:35:07,996 till it was too late. 651 00:35:13,041 --> 00:35:16,029 When I came back, they disappeared my son. 652 00:35:16,049 --> 00:35:18,024 He wasn't there no more. 653 00:35:18,044 --> 00:35:19,221 I said, "Where's my son?" 654 00:35:19,241 --> 00:35:21,385 He said, "They took him to another police station." 655 00:35:21,405 --> 00:35:23,780 My father did make a return. 656 00:35:23,800 --> 00:35:26,483 Um... But when he came it was too late. 657 00:35:26,503 --> 00:35:29,103 And waited like 4 or 5 hours. 658 00:35:29,123 --> 00:35:32,032 And then he came in, handcuffed 659 00:35:32,052 --> 00:35:34,260 and a lot of policemen with, with him. 660 00:35:34,280 --> 00:35:36,123 My dad's sittin' there, so I go 661 00:35:36,143 --> 00:35:39,084 through the same story but now I add the woman in it. 662 00:35:39,104 --> 00:35:42,112 Now, my dad, this is the first time he hears this, 663 00:35:42,132 --> 00:35:45,573 so he looks at me and he goes, "What?" 664 00:35:45,593 --> 00:35:47,136 That happened?" 665 00:35:47,156 --> 00:35:49,183 And now I get quiet because now 666 00:35:49,203 --> 00:35:51,693 here's my dad, I can't lie to him. 667 00:35:51,713 --> 00:35:53,990 And I... I'm like, you know, I want to say, 668 00:35:54,010 --> 00:35:57,101 "Dad, don't say nothin', it's tooken care of." 669 00:35:59,651 --> 00:36:04,431 Dwyer: In those days, there were probably 6 murders a day. 670 00:36:04,592 --> 00:36:07,989 In the newsrooms, people didn't always pay attention 671 00:36:08,009 --> 00:36:11,048 to whatever grisly event of the day had happened. 672 00:36:11,068 --> 00:36:13,949 This one was different. 673 00:36:22,114 --> 00:36:24,573 Last night, a woman jogger was found 674 00:36:24,593 --> 00:36:28,085 unconscious and partially clothed in Central Park 675 00:36:28,105 --> 00:36:31,700 about 200 feet north of the 102nd street cross drive. 676 00:36:31,720 --> 00:36:35,079 What we, we believe happened is the following: The victim was 677 00:36:35,099 --> 00:36:38,391 jogging across the 102nd street cross drive when she was 678 00:36:38,411 --> 00:36:40,767 attacked by a dozen young males. 679 00:36:40,787 --> 00:36:43,412 She was dragged down in the bushes near what is called 680 00:36:43,432 --> 00:36:48,028 "The Loch," where she was beaten and sexually assaulted. 681 00:36:48,048 --> 00:36:50,473 5 youths were arrested at 96th street 682 00:36:50,493 --> 00:36:52,513 and the west bridle path. 683 00:36:52,533 --> 00:36:55,291 We believe these youths and others were responsible 684 00:36:55,311 --> 00:36:57,364 for two or 3 other incidents that occurred 685 00:36:57,384 --> 00:37:03,086 in the park last night, assaults on, on joggers and pedestrians. 686 00:37:03,106 --> 00:37:04,893 And we are currently looking for others 687 00:37:04,913 --> 00:37:06,183 we believe to be involved. 688 00:37:09,696 --> 00:37:11,685 Salaam: When I came home, I remember saying to myself, 689 00:37:11,705 --> 00:37:14,029 "Man, there's a whole bunch of unmarked police cars out here. 690 00:37:14,049 --> 00:37:15,869 I wonder what happened?" 691 00:37:15,889 --> 00:37:21,490 I bumps into Korey at some point and Korey says, um, he heard 692 00:37:21,510 --> 00:37:25,673 that they were... are looking for us. 693 00:37:25,693 --> 00:37:27,914 Wise: So, him and I went upstairs. 694 00:37:27,934 --> 00:37:30,056 He had the detectives at his door. 695 00:37:30,076 --> 00:37:31,761 And they said, "Oh, this is one of the guys" 696 00:37:31,781 --> 00:37:33,201 we were looking for." 697 00:37:33,221 --> 00:37:34,707 Checked my name off. 698 00:37:34,727 --> 00:37:36,748 And they asked Korey who he was. 699 00:37:36,768 --> 00:37:38,522 He looked at the list. 700 00:37:38,542 --> 00:37:41,735 Said, "No, your name ain't on here." 701 00:37:41,755 --> 00:37:45,380 So they said, "Ah, you can come down", 702 00:37:45,400 --> 00:37:47,354 come downtown with your buddy." 703 00:37:47,374 --> 00:37:48,444 You'll be right back." 704 00:37:50,285 --> 00:37:52,106 Salaam: We went to the precinct 705 00:37:52,126 --> 00:37:54,214 and I came home 7 years later. 706 00:37:54,234 --> 00:37:56,039 He came home 13 years later. 707 00:37:59,923 --> 00:38:01,041 Wise: They said, ah, 708 00:38:01,061 --> 00:38:02,212 "Something happened out in the park. 709 00:38:02,232 --> 00:38:04,721 You was out in the park that night, right?" 710 00:38:04,741 --> 00:38:07,766 I say, "I was in the park but I don't know" 711 00:38:07,786 --> 00:38:08,937 what you're talkin' about." 712 00:38:08,957 --> 00:38:12,719 "Kevin is saying this happened, you know. 713 00:38:12,739 --> 00:38:15,930 Antron is saying this happened." 714 00:38:15,950 --> 00:38:18,306 And they were stopping me during my retelling 715 00:38:18,326 --> 00:38:21,217 of the events and saying, "Is this where you got 716 00:38:21,237 --> 00:38:24,396 the woman? Is that where?" 717 00:38:24,416 --> 00:38:27,910 The tone was very, very scary. 718 00:38:27,930 --> 00:38:31,691 I felt like these guys are really angry. 719 00:38:31,711 --> 00:38:34,267 And you know what? 720 00:38:34,287 --> 00:38:37,699 They might take us to the back of the precinct and kill us. 721 00:38:39,473 --> 00:38:41,161 A lot of time had gone by. 722 00:38:41,181 --> 00:38:42,516 I didn't even know what time it was. 723 00:38:44,893 --> 00:38:47,618 Wise: Detective Hartigan says, "Korey?" 724 00:38:47,638 --> 00:38:50,495 "You look like you real tired, man. 725 00:38:50,515 --> 00:38:56,652 "Very tired, exhausted, and you want to go home. 726 00:38:56,672 --> 00:38:58,694 "But you're not gonna go home until you give up, 727 00:38:58,714 --> 00:39:01,672 till you say a story." 728 00:39:01,692 --> 00:39:04,450 They had made up a story saying something like, ah, 729 00:39:04,470 --> 00:39:06,992 "Well, we have your prints on her pants." 730 00:39:07,012 --> 00:39:09,233 I'm thinking, "How did they take my prints" 731 00:39:09,253 --> 00:39:10,690 and put it on her pants?" 732 00:39:13,839 --> 00:39:16,127 Wise: Detective Nugent, a young officer 733 00:39:16,147 --> 00:39:19,006 with a whole lot of energy, came in. 734 00:39:19,026 --> 00:39:22,886 He put his face to my face. Put his hand in my face. 735 00:39:22,906 --> 00:39:29,074 Grabbed my face, shook my face. "I want a story from you." 736 00:39:29,094 --> 00:39:33,641 I just gave a written statement just to satisfy them. 737 00:39:34,018 --> 00:39:36,872 Just to get them out of my face with it and trying to be 738 00:39:37,024 --> 00:39:38,394 on my way out their buildin'. 739 00:39:40,838 --> 00:39:44,680 And afterwards, he had me sign on it. 740 00:39:44,700 --> 00:39:47,367 So, I signed on it. Yeah. 741 00:39:49,537 --> 00:39:53,254 These boys were in custody and under varying 742 00:39:53,274 --> 00:39:57,926 degrees of interrogation for a range of 14 to 30 hours. 743 00:39:57,946 --> 00:40:02,064 And when you are stressed, when you are tired, 744 00:40:02,084 --> 00:40:06,233 when you are a juvenile and not fully mature and developed, 745 00:40:06,253 --> 00:40:09,222 you're thinking, "Right now I just want this to stop." 746 00:41:03,208 --> 00:41:04,725 Woman: My name is Elizabeth Lederer. 747 00:41:04,745 --> 00:41:07,560 I'm an assistant district attorney in New York county. 748 00:41:07,580 --> 00:41:10,997 I'd like to ask you some questions about a series of 749 00:41:11,017 --> 00:41:13,366 things that happened in Central Park on the night of 750 00:41:13,386 --> 00:41:16,136 April 19 of 1989. 751 00:41:16,156 --> 00:41:18,338 Before I do that, I'd like to, ah, advise you of your 752 00:41:18,358 --> 00:41:21,941 rights with respect to statements you may make now, OK? 753 00:41:21,961 --> 00:41:23,376 You have the right to remain silent 754 00:41:23,396 --> 00:41:25,078 and to refuse to answer any questions. 755 00:41:25,098 --> 00:41:26,146 Do you understand? 756 00:41:26,166 --> 00:41:27,781 Yes, I do. 757 00:41:27,801 --> 00:41:28,781 Anything that you say 758 00:41:28,801 --> 00:41:29,849 can be used against you in court. 759 00:41:29,869 --> 00:41:30,849 Do you understand? 760 00:41:30,869 --> 00:41:32,185 Yes, I do. 761 00:41:32,205 --> 00:41:33,686 You have the right to consult a lawyer now 762 00:41:33,706 --> 00:41:35,855 before any questioning and have a lawyer present 763 00:41:35,875 --> 00:41:36,856 during any questioning. 764 00:41:36,876 --> 00:41:38,758 Do you understand? 765 00:41:38,778 --> 00:41:40,192 Could you please answer out loud? 766 00:41:40,212 --> 00:41:41,326 Yes. 767 00:41:41,346 --> 00:41:42,461 If you have no lawyer 768 00:41:42,481 --> 00:41:44,597 or cannot afford a lawyer, a lawyer will be 769 00:41:44,617 --> 00:41:47,065 provided for you now free of charge before any questioning. 770 00:41:47,085 --> 00:41:48,133 Do you understand? 771 00:41:48,153 --> 00:41:50,636 Thank you. Yes. 772 00:41:50,656 --> 00:41:52,105 Now that I have advised you of your rights, 773 00:41:52,125 --> 00:41:53,972 are you willing to tell me the truth about what happened 774 00:41:53,992 --> 00:41:56,775 in Central Park on the night of April 19 of 1989? 775 00:41:56,795 --> 00:41:58,343 Yes. Ok. 776 00:41:58,363 --> 00:42:01,514 Present in this room is Detective Nugent, 777 00:42:01,534 --> 00:42:03,315 whom you have already met, I believe... 778 00:42:03,335 --> 00:42:06,919 Wise: Detective Nugent told me to, "Go in here." 779 00:42:06,939 --> 00:42:10,255 "You're gonna give this story which you, which you has, 780 00:42:10,275 --> 00:42:12,491 "which you have said to me and the rest of my coworkers, 781 00:42:12,511 --> 00:42:14,193 "you will go in here and give the story. 782 00:42:14,213 --> 00:42:15,828 "I'm gonna be in the room. 783 00:42:15,848 --> 00:42:17,681 And I'm gonna make sure, make sure you do it." 784 00:42:19,650 --> 00:42:20,865 Lederer: This is Detective McCabe 785 00:42:20,885 --> 00:42:22,367 and Detective Hildebrant. 786 00:42:22,387 --> 00:42:24,736 Ah, I think you've already met them. 787 00:42:24,756 --> 00:42:28,307 Also present are, I believe, your parents. 788 00:42:28,327 --> 00:42:32,376 Um, could you each please state your full name? 789 00:42:32,396 --> 00:42:34,012 My name is Linda McCray. 790 00:42:34,032 --> 00:42:35,280 Bobby McCray. 791 00:42:35,300 --> 00:42:37,081 And, ma'am, what is your relation? 792 00:42:37,101 --> 00:42:38,083 I'm his mother. 793 00:42:38,103 --> 00:42:39,318 And... his father. 794 00:42:39,338 --> 00:42:42,354 Ok. I want to warn you of your rights with, ah, 795 00:42:42,374 --> 00:42:44,523 respect to anything you say in this case... 796 00:42:44,543 --> 00:42:48,025 Why would a parent not say at that moment, 797 00:42:48,045 --> 00:42:51,430 we want to consult with an attorney? 798 00:42:51,450 --> 00:42:56,268 The reason is because of the setting and because of the way 799 00:42:56,288 --> 00:43:00,471 they're being treated by the police and because of being 800 00:43:00,491 --> 00:43:03,508 overwhelmed by the situation. 801 00:43:03,528 --> 00:43:06,612 It doesn't even register in their minds. 802 00:43:06,632 --> 00:43:07,845 Lederer: I just want to state it is now 803 00:43:07,865 --> 00:43:09,680 20 minutes to 5:00 in the morning 804 00:43:09,700 --> 00:43:12,250 on the morning of April 21 of 1989. 805 00:43:12,270 --> 00:43:15,186 There is another gentleman here in the room. 806 00:43:15,206 --> 00:43:16,254 Who is that man? 807 00:43:16,274 --> 00:43:17,255 My father. 808 00:43:17,275 --> 00:43:18,556 And, sir, could you please just 809 00:43:18,576 --> 00:43:19,690 state your name and address. 810 00:43:19,710 --> 00:43:22,025 Paul L. Richardson... 811 00:43:22,045 --> 00:43:25,997 Richardson: My father, he was a quiet, stern man, 812 00:43:26,017 --> 00:43:29,499 so.. 813 00:43:29,519 --> 00:43:34,604 I felt ashamed that I was even there doing that. 814 00:43:34,624 --> 00:43:38,708 And I shouldn't feel that way because I was innocent. 815 00:43:38,728 --> 00:43:40,677 Lederer: ...Also present in the room right now 816 00:43:40,697 --> 00:43:43,680 are Detective Arroyo and Detective Sheehan... 817 00:43:43,700 --> 00:43:44,982 Santana, Jr.: I was under the impression that 818 00:43:45,002 --> 00:43:48,652 I was going to be a witness, help out, or just give 'em 819 00:43:48,672 --> 00:43:49,954 the story and that was it. 820 00:43:49,974 --> 00:43:51,755 Lederer: Sir, could you please give your name? 821 00:43:51,775 --> 00:43:53,790 My name is Raymond Santana. 822 00:43:53,810 --> 00:43:55,558 Santana, Jr.: I didn't think about consequences. 823 00:43:55,578 --> 00:43:56,927 I didn't think about anything. 824 00:43:56,947 --> 00:43:58,628 The only thing that I thought about was 825 00:43:58,648 --> 00:44:00,664 he was gonna make sure I go home. 826 00:44:00,684 --> 00:44:02,565 That was it. 827 00:44:02,585 --> 00:44:03,900 Lederer: I'm gonna ask you a few questions... 828 00:44:03,920 --> 00:44:06,503 Richardson: Here I am doing a videotape 829 00:44:06,523 --> 00:44:14,244 and I'm already deep in this so I'm thinking now I gotta sell it 830 00:44:14,264 --> 00:44:18,081 to make sure that people know that I wasn't involved. 831 00:44:18,101 --> 00:44:19,982 Lederer: Were you trying to touch her? 832 00:44:20,002 --> 00:44:21,051 Not really. 833 00:44:21,071 --> 00:44:22,352 Didn't you tell the police earlier today 834 00:44:22,372 --> 00:44:23,720 that you had tried to grab her 835 00:44:23,740 --> 00:44:25,488 and that's when you got scratched? 836 00:44:25,508 --> 00:44:27,057 No, not like, 837 00:44:27,077 --> 00:44:28,624 like feeling her, feeling her up. 838 00:44:28,644 --> 00:44:30,125 Ok. Not like that? Trying to stop it. 839 00:44:30,145 --> 00:44:32,761 But you tried, you... 840 00:44:32,781 --> 00:44:34,496 To grab, like, grab the arms or something. 841 00:44:34,516 --> 00:44:35,731 You tried to grab her arms? 842 00:44:35,751 --> 00:44:37,733 I was trying to stop it. 843 00:44:37,753 --> 00:44:39,301 Did you see Antron have intercourse with her? 844 00:44:39,321 --> 00:44:40,303 Yes. 845 00:44:40,323 --> 00:44:41,503 Was he laying on top of her, 846 00:44:41,523 --> 00:44:43,406 or was he kneeling, or was he? 847 00:44:43,426 --> 00:44:44,908 Laying on top of her. 848 00:44:44,928 --> 00:44:47,943 Ok. And how long was he on top of her? 849 00:44:47,963 --> 00:44:50,379 For a short while, then Raymond, 850 00:44:50,399 --> 00:44:52,314 then Raymond went. 851 00:44:52,334 --> 00:44:53,416 We was headed to the West Side. 852 00:44:53,436 --> 00:44:55,151 That's when I seen Kevin. 853 00:44:55,171 --> 00:44:57,454 That's where you saw Kevin? 854 00:44:57,474 --> 00:44:58,754 Was anybody with Kevin? 855 00:44:58,774 --> 00:45:01,457 Yeah, a lady. 856 00:45:01,477 --> 00:45:02,458 Who was with Kevin? 857 00:45:02,478 --> 00:45:03,492 Some lady. 858 00:45:03,512 --> 00:45:06,028 A lady? Mm-hmm. 859 00:45:06,048 --> 00:45:07,262 How was she dressed? 860 00:45:07,282 --> 00:45:09,698 I couldn't tell. It was too dark. 861 00:45:09,718 --> 00:45:11,000 What was he doing with her? 862 00:45:11,020 --> 00:45:12,368 Struggling with her. 863 00:45:12,388 --> 00:45:13,769 What were the others doing while Kevin 864 00:45:13,789 --> 00:45:15,938 was struggling with her, with the wrists? 865 00:45:15,958 --> 00:45:17,472 Antron was going for her clothes 866 00:45:17,492 --> 00:45:20,542 and Lopez was holding her arms. 867 00:45:20,562 --> 00:45:22,945 What was Kevin doing while, um, 868 00:45:22,965 --> 00:45:24,446 Steve Lopez was holding her hands 869 00:45:24,466 --> 00:45:25,447 and hitting her with the brick? 870 00:45:25,467 --> 00:45:27,582 He was having sex with her. 871 00:45:27,602 --> 00:45:28,750 Where were you standing? 872 00:45:28,770 --> 00:45:31,020 I was on the side of Kevin. 873 00:45:31,040 --> 00:45:32,754 Were you watching? 874 00:45:32,774 --> 00:45:35,007 No, I was grabbing the lady's... 875 00:45:38,011 --> 00:45:40,061 Who else had sex with her besides Kevin Richardson? 876 00:45:40,081 --> 00:45:42,782 I didn't see anybody else who had sex, just him. 877 00:45:44,985 --> 00:45:47,935 Did somebody have sex with her? 878 00:45:47,955 --> 00:45:48,970 Yeah. 879 00:45:48,990 --> 00:45:51,339 Did a lot of people have sex with her? 880 00:45:51,359 --> 00:45:52,840 Yeah. First it was the black guy, 881 00:45:52,860 --> 00:45:54,475 then it was the Puerto Rican guy with the black hood? 882 00:45:54,495 --> 00:45:56,395 Then you got on top of her? 883 00:45:59,699 --> 00:46:01,182 Lederer: What's in that picture? 884 00:46:01,202 --> 00:46:02,183 Wise: It's her. 885 00:46:02,203 --> 00:46:03,251 Is that the woman that you saw? 886 00:46:03,271 --> 00:46:05,119 Yes. 887 00:46:05,139 --> 00:46:06,154 Is that sort of the way she looked 888 00:46:06,174 --> 00:46:07,155 when you saw her? 889 00:46:07,175 --> 00:46:09,208 Yes, yes, ma'am. 890 00:46:14,180 --> 00:46:16,596 Did you see anybody hit her with the, 891 00:46:16,616 --> 00:46:18,150 with anything but their hands? 892 00:46:21,254 --> 00:46:23,036 I seen... And I'm telling you, Korey... 893 00:46:23,056 --> 00:46:25,205 I don't want you to think that 894 00:46:25,225 --> 00:46:26,874 you have to say that, 895 00:46:26,894 --> 00:46:29,443 but I want to know what you saw 896 00:46:29,463 --> 00:46:32,597 that explains how she got so badly hurt. 897 00:46:36,002 --> 00:46:42,222 I did see Kevin pick up a, a hand rock, 898 00:46:42,242 --> 00:46:47,594 a small hand rock, and hit her across the face with it. 899 00:46:47,614 --> 00:46:49,062 How big was the rock? 900 00:46:49,082 --> 00:46:55,535 It was a hand, about that big, like, it was nice, 901 00:46:55,555 --> 00:46:58,271 it was big, it was a good-shaped rock. 902 00:46:58,291 --> 00:47:00,358 Hit her across like that. 903 00:47:05,197 --> 00:47:06,847 Are you just saying that because I... 904 00:47:06,867 --> 00:47:08,447 No. Uh, uh, no. I am asking you. 905 00:47:08,467 --> 00:47:09,850 Why didn't you say it before? 906 00:47:09,870 --> 00:47:11,784 - Huh? - Why didn't you say it before? 907 00:47:11,804 --> 00:47:13,385 Because I remember I was, 908 00:47:13,405 --> 00:47:15,155 me taking a quick glance in the dark. 909 00:47:15,175 --> 00:47:17,491 I remember him picking up a rock 910 00:47:17,511 --> 00:47:20,526 from out the, out the dirt. 911 00:47:20,546 --> 00:47:22,461 Woman: Why did you tell them something that wasn't true, 912 00:47:22,481 --> 00:47:24,048 that you hadn't seen? 913 00:47:28,420 --> 00:47:30,137 I guess... I would strongly guess 914 00:47:30,157 --> 00:47:33,439 just to save my own life. 915 00:47:33,459 --> 00:47:36,041 To get out, get out, get outta there 916 00:47:36,061 --> 00:47:38,444 as quickly as I, I can as possible 917 00:47:38,464 --> 00:47:42,114 because I been there too long as it was. 918 00:47:42,134 --> 00:47:44,216 And, you know, bein' a kid 919 00:47:44,236 --> 00:47:46,952 I never experienced that in my life. 920 00:47:46,972 --> 00:47:47,987 How old were you? 921 00:47:48,007 --> 00:47:49,522 16. 922 00:47:49,542 --> 00:47:54,360 16 and I felt like I was about 12. 923 00:47:54,380 --> 00:47:56,128 Lederer: Did you tell us the truth voluntarily? 924 00:47:56,148 --> 00:47:57,363 Yes, ma'am. 925 00:47:57,383 --> 00:47:58,563 Because you wanted to? Yes, ma'am. 926 00:47:58,583 --> 00:47:59,565 Did anyone force you? 927 00:47:59,585 --> 00:48:00,566 No, ma'am. 928 00:48:00,586 --> 00:48:01,666 Did anyone threaten you? 929 00:48:01,686 --> 00:48:03,202 No. 930 00:48:03,222 --> 00:48:05,271 Thank you very much. It is now 931 00:48:05,291 --> 00:48:09,507 20 minutes to 4:00 and the interview is concluded. 932 00:48:09,527 --> 00:48:12,577 Detective: Hey. Sit down... 933 00:48:12,597 --> 00:48:13,978 Got to get you to sign something, eh? 934 00:48:13,998 --> 00:48:15,164 Huh? 935 00:48:18,670 --> 00:48:19,884 Santana, Jr.: They put us in the cell 936 00:48:19,904 --> 00:48:21,786 with the rest of the guys. 937 00:48:21,806 --> 00:48:24,757 Now there's all these guys that I don't even know, you know. 938 00:48:24,777 --> 00:48:27,125 Who are you, you know? And, um... 939 00:48:27,145 --> 00:48:28,560 And everybody's asking each other. 940 00:48:28,580 --> 00:48:30,361 You know, "Well, what did you say?" 941 00:48:30,381 --> 00:48:31,764 What did you say?" 942 00:48:31,784 --> 00:48:33,865 And everybody's basically saying, 943 00:48:33,885 --> 00:48:36,100 "Well, I told 'em I was with my boy. 944 00:48:36,120 --> 00:48:39,103 And we left. I didn't see nothing." 945 00:48:39,123 --> 00:48:41,172 Nobody's saying what they actually said. 946 00:48:41,192 --> 00:48:44,709 Everybody had that sense of don't let it out the bag because 947 00:48:44,729 --> 00:48:48,463 if I let it out then I'm not gonna go home. 948 00:48:52,501 --> 00:48:54,519 Woman: In New York City this morning, a jogger is 949 00:48:54,539 --> 00:48:57,455 fighting for her life after a brutal attack in Central Park. 950 00:48:57,475 --> 00:48:59,524 Woman: Viciously battered and unconscious, 951 00:48:59,544 --> 00:49:03,027 wearing only a jogging bra, her hands tied over her mouth. 952 00:49:03,047 --> 00:49:05,829 Woman: The suspects are 14- and 15-year-olds 953 00:49:05,849 --> 00:49:08,299 who blazed a nighttime trail of terror. 954 00:49:08,319 --> 00:49:09,934 Assaulting an elderly man, 955 00:49:09,954 --> 00:49:13,238 attacking a male runner, hitting another person with a lead pipe. 956 00:49:13,258 --> 00:49:15,606 At one time, the group was running in a pack of 957 00:49:15,626 --> 00:49:17,374 more than 25 youths. 958 00:49:17,394 --> 00:49:19,509 Woman: The victim is now in critical condition 959 00:49:19,529 --> 00:49:20,511 at Metropolitan Hospital. 960 00:49:20,531 --> 00:49:21,779 Two skull fractures, 961 00:49:21,799 --> 00:49:24,815 a significant loss of blood, and advanced hypothermia. 962 00:49:24,835 --> 00:49:26,484 Woman: If she lives, it's likely she'll 963 00:49:26,504 --> 00:49:27,618 suffer from brain damage. 964 00:49:27,638 --> 00:49:30,387 8 suspects were arraigned this weekend, 965 00:49:30,407 --> 00:49:32,356 aged 14 to 17. 966 00:49:32,376 --> 00:49:33,457 Jennings: Some of the young men told police 967 00:49:33,477 --> 00:49:36,226 they were just out wilding. 968 00:49:36,246 --> 00:49:38,880 Woman: Wilding is a word you won't find in Webster's. 969 00:49:38,934 --> 00:49:40,942 Wilding. New York city police say 970 00:49:40,962 --> 00:49:44,682 that's new teenage slang for rampaging in wolfpacks, 971 00:49:44,702 --> 00:49:46,924 attacking people just for the fun of it. 972 00:49:46,944 --> 00:49:48,134 The district attorney's office says 973 00:49:48,154 --> 00:49:50,199 the teenagers have confessed. 974 00:49:50,219 --> 00:49:54,027 The spokesman said some of those confessions are on videotape. 975 00:49:55,398 --> 00:49:59,800 Koch: A woman jogging and Central Park. 976 00:50:00,150 --> 00:50:02,704 Central park was holy. 977 00:50:02,724 --> 00:50:06,615 If it had happened any place else other than Central Park, 978 00:50:06,635 --> 00:50:08,351 it would have been terrible, 979 00:50:08,371 --> 00:50:11,608 but it would not have been as terrible. 980 00:50:14,622 --> 00:50:18,215 It was for everybody, not just me, 981 00:50:18,235 --> 00:50:20,046 the crime of the century. 982 00:50:27,496 --> 00:50:30,416 During this whole process we were inside the precinct. 983 00:50:31,200 --> 00:50:34,449 I had no clue what was going on on the outside. 984 00:50:36,154 --> 00:50:37,767 Can you stop to talk to us for a couple seconds? 985 00:50:37,787 --> 00:50:39,346 Tell us what's going to happen now? 986 00:50:39,366 --> 00:50:43,318 They said, "Oh, yeah, the news got a little bit ahold of this story so..." 987 00:50:43,515 --> 00:50:45,487 there might be some reporters outside." 988 00:50:45,507 --> 00:50:48,144 "You know, just don't pay them any attention. Just keep walking." 989 00:50:52,932 --> 00:50:55,016 Colangelo: Today we are announcing the arrests of 990 00:50:55,036 --> 00:51:00,251 4 males, all between 14 and 15 years of age, in connection with 991 00:51:00,271 --> 00:51:03,934 the April 19 attempted murder, rape, and assault 992 00:51:03,954 --> 00:51:06,265 of a female in Central Park. 993 00:51:06,509 --> 00:51:09,042 "They got 'em!" That was the, uh, feelings. 994 00:51:09,062 --> 00:51:12,967 "Thank God, uh, for Ben Ward and the NYPD. 995 00:51:12,987 --> 00:51:14,076 They got 'em!" 996 00:51:16,017 --> 00:51:19,057 Kassin: Set against the backdrop of New York City 997 00:51:19,077 --> 00:51:22,249 and a crime that just about has everybody flipping out, 998 00:51:22,509 --> 00:51:25,484 you can only imagine the pressure that NYPD 999 00:51:25,504 --> 00:51:28,790 was under to have this crime solved and solved quickly. 1000 00:51:29,559 --> 00:51:31,270 Dwyer: Jack Maple, one of the architects of 1001 00:51:31,290 --> 00:51:34,746 the 1990s New York city police revolution, 1002 00:51:35,007 --> 00:51:38,722 once told me that he remembered seeing detectives 1003 00:51:38,742 --> 00:51:43,878 involved in the Central Park jogger case in Elaine's 1004 00:51:44,061 --> 00:51:46,541 within a day or so of the crime, 1005 00:51:46,702 --> 00:51:48,824 celebrating the arrests. 1006 00:51:49,615 --> 00:51:54,549 There was a sense that this had been a home run 1007 00:51:54,934 --> 00:51:57,113 from a law enforcement standpoint. 1008 00:52:06,713 --> 00:52:09,520 When they chained us up to go to another precinct, 1009 00:52:09,980 --> 00:52:11,212 pictures snapping. 1010 00:52:12,019 --> 00:52:14,292 Me and Yusef did the walk together 1011 00:52:14,477 --> 00:52:16,484 and we just kept our head down. 1012 00:52:16,888 --> 00:52:19,845 When we saw the lights we, we still didn't know. 1013 00:52:19,865 --> 00:52:21,245 We still didn't understand. 1014 00:52:22,021 --> 00:52:23,795 Richardson: I'm walking and I'm scared 1015 00:52:23,815 --> 00:52:24,903 but I had my head up high. 1016 00:52:24,923 --> 00:52:28,707 And all I think to myself, "OK, the truth is going to come out." 1017 00:52:30,781 --> 00:52:33,513 Dwyer: After they got out of the interrogation room, 1018 00:52:33,628 --> 00:52:34,632 they backed off. 1019 00:52:34,815 --> 00:52:37,534 Each one of them denied having done it. 1020 00:52:37,882 --> 00:52:40,117 Consistently, again and again and again. 1021 00:52:40,303 --> 00:52:42,463 They said, "No, we didn't do it." 1022 00:52:43,078 --> 00:52:45,104 For the first time since the April 19 1023 00:52:45,124 --> 00:52:48,639 rampage through Central Park, Manhattan D.A. Robert Morgenthau 1024 00:52:48,659 --> 00:52:51,541 spoke out publicly on the attacks to officially announce 1025 00:52:51,561 --> 00:52:53,652 indictments involving 6 of the 8 suspects 1026 00:52:53,672 --> 00:52:56,072 charged with the most serious crimes. 1027 00:52:56,092 --> 00:52:57,638 Morgenthau: Each is charged in this attack 1028 00:52:57,658 --> 00:53:00,812 with attempted murder, rape in the first degree, 1029 00:53:00,832 --> 00:53:02,799 sodomy in the first degree, 1030 00:53:02,819 --> 00:53:04,543 sexual abuse in the first degree, 1031 00:53:04,563 --> 00:53:06,710 two counts of assault in the first degree, 1032 00:53:06,866 --> 00:53:08,984 and riot in the first degree. 1033 00:53:43,349 --> 00:53:46,062 Hancock: There's no way that I as a woman 1034 00:53:46,082 --> 00:53:51,076 could not feel horrible for her and feel scared for myself 1035 00:53:51,096 --> 00:53:53,541 and every other woman walking the street. 1036 00:53:54,053 --> 00:53:57,611 And I was on the edge of my seat hoping that she would get better 1037 00:53:57,631 --> 00:54:01,438 but there was no indication that she would recover consciousness. 1038 00:54:07,590 --> 00:54:09,626 Byfield: For me, the one piece of information 1039 00:54:09,646 --> 00:54:12,641 that just got me was her friends coming in 1040 00:54:12,661 --> 00:54:14,697 to identify her and her being just 1041 00:54:14,717 --> 00:54:15,882 beaten beyond recognition. 1042 00:54:16,049 --> 00:54:19,824 And the only way that her friends could identify her 1043 00:54:19,844 --> 00:54:22,773 was by a ring that she wore. 1044 00:54:41,162 --> 00:54:43,658 The 28-year-old victim lies in a coma. 1045 00:54:43,678 --> 00:54:45,883 A teacher called her "golden girl," 1046 00:54:45,903 --> 00:54:48,757 an investment banker with a blue-chip background 1047 00:54:48,777 --> 00:54:51,940 whose savage beating and gang rape has provoked outrage 1048 00:54:51,960 --> 00:54:54,587 in a city famous for indifference. 1049 00:54:54,607 --> 00:54:57,263 Suspects in the crime were arraigned this weekend, 1050 00:54:57,283 --> 00:54:59,616 aged 14 to 17. 1051 00:54:59,636 --> 00:55:01,165 Lederer: Rape in the first degree; 1052 00:55:01,185 --> 00:55:02,799 sodomy in the first degree; 1053 00:55:02,819 --> 00:55:04,522 sexual abuse in the first degree... 1054 00:55:04,542 --> 00:55:07,057 We was at arraignment and, um, 1055 00:55:07,077 --> 00:55:09,621 I remember them reading charges off... 1056 00:55:09,641 --> 00:55:11,874 robbery in the first, attempted murder in the first, 1057 00:55:11,894 --> 00:55:13,226 rape in the first. 1058 00:55:13,246 --> 00:55:15,142 And the lawyer was like, "Don't say anything. 1059 00:55:15,162 --> 00:55:16,071 Just keep your head down." 1060 00:55:16,091 --> 00:55:17,536 Lederer: ...That he had her by the legs, 1061 00:55:17,556 --> 00:55:20,212 and that he raped her after defendant Santana did. 1062 00:55:20,232 --> 00:55:22,034 But it wasn't until 1063 00:55:22,054 --> 00:55:26,054 you got into that jail and, and you felt the impact. 1064 00:55:28,086 --> 00:55:30,913 McCray: Spofford Juvenile Detention. 1065 00:55:31,198 --> 00:55:34,311 You had kids that committed serious crimes. 1066 00:55:35,659 --> 00:55:37,668 Murder, rape. 1067 00:55:39,827 --> 00:55:41,343 Santana, Jr.: This counselor came down, 1068 00:55:41,465 --> 00:55:42,780 he sat there with us. 1069 00:55:42,985 --> 00:55:47,028 And he said, "You know, you know how serious y'all case is?" 1070 00:55:47,714 --> 00:55:50,532 And we was like, "What are you talking about?" 1071 00:55:51,011 --> 00:55:53,938 And he said, "You all, y'all over the paper." 1072 00:55:53,958 --> 00:55:56,034 "Y'all in every news station. 1073 00:55:56,392 --> 00:55:58,120 Everybody's talkin' about y'all." 1074 00:55:58,448 --> 00:56:01,960 He said, "It's so serious the whole jail want to get you." 1075 00:56:06,341 --> 00:56:08,087 Salaam: Because he was 16, 1076 00:56:08,320 --> 00:56:10,311 they sent Korey to Rikers Island. 1077 00:56:11,560 --> 00:56:15,081 Rikers Island would make Spofford... 1078 00:56:16,939 --> 00:56:18,522 Look like a country club, 1079 00:56:20,975 --> 00:56:23,238 'specially when you're in there 1080 00:56:23,258 --> 00:56:24,441 for a rape charge. 1081 00:56:25,459 --> 00:56:28,350 To be a child, to be 16 years old 1082 00:56:28,370 --> 00:56:32,003 and to be in an adult facility, I can't imagine that. 1083 00:56:33,965 --> 00:56:38,688 Rikers Island at the age of 16. 1084 00:56:40,354 --> 00:56:44,946 Bein' forced to grow up very fast. 1085 00:56:52,513 --> 00:56:54,879 Byfield: In the first few days after the incident, 1086 00:56:55,022 --> 00:56:57,567 the narrative that came out was that 1087 00:56:57,755 --> 00:56:59,802 these young men were guilty. 1088 00:57:00,287 --> 00:57:03,001 And it was almost unquestioned. 1089 00:57:04,108 --> 00:57:07,551 Koch: When parents or grandmothers, ahh, 1090 00:57:07,571 --> 00:57:10,698 of some of these, ah, alleged perpetrators... 1091 00:57:10,718 --> 00:57:14,887 we always have to say alleged because that's the requirement. 1092 00:57:16,882 --> 00:57:19,596 When those grandmothers say, "But he's a good boy." 1093 00:57:20,187 --> 00:57:21,850 He never did anything." 1094 00:57:21,959 --> 00:57:23,216 Don't you believe it! 1095 00:57:23,236 --> 00:57:25,012 Black: There was so much hate. 1096 00:57:25,549 --> 00:57:27,202 We couldn't watch TV. 1097 00:57:27,222 --> 00:57:29,155 There's something wrong with the parenting 1098 00:57:29,175 --> 00:57:31,972 and the families and the home life of our city. 1099 00:57:31,992 --> 00:57:34,359 It's an outrage. It's, it's... 1100 00:57:35,392 --> 00:57:36,726 The violence in this city, 1101 00:57:36,746 --> 00:57:38,191 the quality of life in this city, 1102 00:57:38,211 --> 00:57:39,327 is getting worse and worse. 1103 00:57:39,347 --> 00:57:45,790 This is the, the, mm, the ultimate shriek of alarm. 1104 00:57:45,810 --> 00:57:48,994 This is the ultimate siren that says none of us is safe. 1105 00:57:49,014 --> 00:57:50,985 The story has enraged many New Yorkers, 1106 00:57:51,005 --> 00:57:53,605 startled others, and started renewed talk of 1107 00:57:53,625 --> 00:57:56,299 an under-policed city with crime out of control. 1108 00:57:56,319 --> 00:58:01,844 Mayor Koch said, "This will be a test of the system." 1109 00:58:02,100 --> 00:58:07,031 People want to see how the, ah, criminal justice system 1110 00:58:07,051 --> 00:58:09,214 works, or if it works. 1111 00:58:09,571 --> 00:58:11,787 Woman: The brutal attack on the young investment banker 1112 00:58:11,807 --> 00:58:14,260 is fueling a new battle for the death penalty, 1113 00:58:14,382 --> 00:58:17,702 even though as the proposed law now stands, it would only apply 1114 00:58:17,722 --> 00:58:19,217 to those 18 or older. 1115 00:58:19,330 --> 00:58:20,682 Woman: I'm for the death penalty. 1116 00:58:20,702 --> 00:58:23,757 If someone were to hurt my family or a loved one 1117 00:58:23,777 --> 00:58:25,776 as they did this woman, 1118 00:58:25,796 --> 00:58:27,619 I would probably want them dead. 1119 00:58:27,639 --> 00:58:30,259 You better believe that I hate the people 1120 00:58:30,494 --> 00:58:33,498 that took this girl and raped her brutally. 1121 00:58:33,518 --> 00:58:34,681 You better believe it. 1122 00:58:34,701 --> 00:58:37,469 Woman: Trump put his money where his mouth is by taking out 1123 00:58:37,489 --> 00:58:41,292 this full-page ad in 4 New York City newspapers. 1124 00:58:41,434 --> 00:58:43,442 "Bring back the death penalty." 1125 00:58:43,602 --> 00:58:47,358 Trump's ads underscore a fierce debate going on right now in New York. 1126 00:58:47,461 --> 00:58:52,380 According to a recent Gallop pole a full 76% of all New York City residents 1127 00:58:52,484 --> 00:58:55,263 favor executing some convicted criminals. 1128 00:58:58,400 --> 00:59:00,096 Byfield: They were children. 1129 00:59:00,462 --> 00:59:01,898 They were children. 1130 00:59:02,349 --> 00:59:04,993 Bringing up the death penalty in the context of the case 1131 00:59:05,013 --> 00:59:09,201 in which you were discussing children was outrageous to me. 1132 00:59:09,221 --> 00:59:11,380 I think that if she had been a wa... young woman 1133 00:59:11,400 --> 00:59:17,511 who, ah, who had been found in an alley in Bedford-Stuyvesant; 1134 00:59:17,848 --> 00:59:21,246 if she had been found, ah, in Harlem; 1135 00:59:21,387 --> 00:59:26,373 ah, if she had been found in any of the, any of the, ah, ah, 1136 00:59:26,393 --> 00:59:30,171 darker enclaves in this city or in this state, 1137 00:59:30,546 --> 00:59:33,298 Donald trump wouldn't have spoken, he, he wouldn't have 1138 00:59:33,318 --> 00:59:35,036 even whispered a word. 1139 00:59:35,439 --> 00:59:38,367 Interracial rapes are covered differently. 1140 00:59:38,911 --> 00:59:42,598 And there was another major rape in the city at the time. 1141 00:59:43,640 --> 00:59:45,781 And this is the woman who was raped in Brooklyn 1142 00:59:45,801 --> 00:59:47,543 and thrown off a rooftop. 1143 00:59:47,563 --> 00:59:49,902 That got little to no coverage 1144 00:59:49,922 --> 00:59:52,222 because the assailants and the victim 1145 00:59:52,457 --> 00:59:54,541 were in the same racial group. 1146 00:59:55,607 --> 00:59:59,126 If there's a white woman and the accusation is that she's 1147 00:59:59,146 --> 01:00:02,810 been done-in by blacks, that by itself takes you back 1148 01:00:02,830 --> 01:00:07,431 to Emmett Till, who did nothing but whistle at a woman 1149 01:00:07,451 --> 01:00:11,421 and ended up in a shallow Mississippi grave. 1150 01:00:12,631 --> 01:00:19,299 If this had happened in 1901, they would have been lynched, 1151 01:00:20,003 --> 01:00:24,551 perhaps castrated, and their bodies burned and that 1152 01:00:24,571 --> 01:00:25,951 would have been the end of it. 1153 01:00:25,971 --> 01:00:28,331 But this was New York City, 1989. 1154 01:00:28,351 --> 01:00:31,056 It was not Jim Crow South. 1155 01:00:31,076 --> 01:00:33,645 And yet the same words are being used with the same 1156 01:00:33,665 --> 01:00:35,253 damaging results. 1157 01:00:36,591 --> 01:00:40,842 Butts: They seized on the fears of the people. 1158 01:00:40,862 --> 01:00:41,982 Wilding. 1159 01:00:42,002 --> 01:00:46,627 The bestial characterization of the black man, these young 1160 01:00:46,647 --> 01:00:49,165 hoodlums, these thugs. 1161 01:00:51,791 --> 01:00:55,904 Wilder: Once we were on the path to identifying these young men 1162 01:00:55,924 --> 01:00:59,707 as the culprits, it's hard to get off that path. 1163 01:01:00,110 --> 01:01:05,200 And race, power, and politics make it extremely difficult. 1164 01:01:05,220 --> 01:01:08,063 It requires extraordinary courage. 1165 01:01:08,315 --> 01:01:11,263 A lot of people in the black community went along 1166 01:01:11,283 --> 01:01:13,177 with the confessions. 1167 01:01:14,435 --> 01:01:17,928 Many of us were frightened by our own children. 1168 01:01:18,416 --> 01:01:26,322 Many of us had been pushed around, raped, burglarized, 1169 01:01:26,717 --> 01:01:29,990 pocketbooks snatched, harassed on the subway 1170 01:01:30,574 --> 01:01:32,724 often by young black men. 1171 01:01:35,211 --> 01:01:38,588 People just said, "Oh, how terrible. 1172 01:01:39,067 --> 01:01:40,241 How terrible." 1173 01:01:40,795 --> 01:01:43,519 Everyone turned against them, except a few. 1174 01:01:49,460 --> 01:01:52,509 Woman: The good news is, she continues to improve neurologically 1175 01:01:52,529 --> 01:01:53,980 from her attack. 1176 01:01:54,828 --> 01:01:57,522 For the first time, she called her father "Dad." 1177 01:01:57,634 --> 01:01:59,213 She did simple arithmetic. 1178 01:01:59,233 --> 01:02:01,765 Her brain is working, still abnormally... she thought 1179 01:02:01,785 --> 01:02:05,671 the year was 1952... but her brain is working. 1180 01:02:05,924 --> 01:02:10,611 She's getting better, and so far she looks good. 1181 01:02:10,733 --> 01:02:13,421 Woman: The medical case of the 28-year-old jogger 1182 01:02:13,441 --> 01:02:15,048 continues to improve. 1183 01:02:15,068 --> 01:02:17,705 She is undergoing physical and psychological therapy 1184 01:02:17,725 --> 01:02:19,134 at a Connecticut hospital. 1185 01:02:19,154 --> 01:02:21,724 The young woman attacked has apparently made a remarkable 1186 01:02:21,744 --> 01:02:24,880 recovery, although she reportedly cannot recall any 1187 01:02:24,900 --> 01:02:26,590 details about the attack. 1188 01:02:43,667 --> 01:02:46,220 McCray: When I was bailed out, I thought the case was over. 1189 01:02:46,240 --> 01:02:47,713 I thought the truth came out. 1190 01:02:47,733 --> 01:02:51,033 I didn't know nothing about bail until I got home. 1191 01:02:51,053 --> 01:02:53,589 My mother explained to me, "No, it's bail. We paid for you to get out." 1192 01:02:53,609 --> 01:02:55,290 We still got to go on with this." 1193 01:02:57,910 --> 01:02:59,412 I wasn't able to go to school, 1194 01:02:59,432 --> 01:03:01,118 so I got a tutor. 1195 01:03:01,557 --> 01:03:03,329 I didn't go outside a lot. 1196 01:03:04,082 --> 01:03:07,795 I stayed in the house, played video games, and just studied. 1197 01:03:11,375 --> 01:03:13,827 Hancock: The police controlled the story from the beginning. 1198 01:03:14,087 --> 01:03:18,752 They created the story and the theory, and all the pieces 1199 01:03:18,772 --> 01:03:19,566 fell into place. 1200 01:03:19,826 --> 01:03:23,845 The authorities release a chronology to the press 1201 01:03:24,130 --> 01:03:27,188 of what this wilding was all about. 1202 01:03:27,208 --> 01:03:29,876 Together at about 8:50 P.M., they entered... 1203 01:03:30,136 --> 01:03:32,670 Dwyer: The newspapers love chronologies. 1204 01:03:32,690 --> 01:03:33,994 We call 'em tick-tocks. 1205 01:03:34,014 --> 01:03:37,881 We like to say, "Here's how this night of terror unfolded" 1206 01:03:37,901 --> 01:03:38,634 in the park." 1207 01:03:38,928 --> 01:03:42,254 At 8:55, they attacked an older male. 1208 01:03:42,394 --> 01:03:47,877 The timeline says the kids did these attacks at this place with the homeless guy, 1209 01:03:47,897 --> 01:03:50,386 at this place with the taxi driver, over there with 1210 01:03:50,406 --> 01:03:53,578 the bicycle rider, and then with people running 1211 01:03:53,598 --> 01:03:54,789 around the reservoir. 1212 01:03:54,809 --> 01:03:55,758 At 9:25... 1213 01:03:55,778 --> 01:04:00,050 They did various acts of malice or mischief with these folks. 1214 01:04:00,400 --> 01:04:04,388 Now, those people reported these things either 1215 01:04:04,408 --> 01:04:07,769 simultaneously or right after to the police. 1216 01:04:07,789 --> 01:04:11,149 So there is a clear-cut timeline. 1217 01:04:12,783 --> 01:04:17,054 And what they do is they append to the end of this 1218 01:04:17,074 --> 01:04:20,609 sequence of crimes the attack on the jogger. 1219 01:04:21,097 --> 01:04:23,129 Then something happens. 1220 01:04:23,389 --> 01:04:28,168 Her movements that night start to become defined. 1221 01:04:28,906 --> 01:04:32,775 And all of a sudden we find out when she left her house,... 1222 01:04:32,795 --> 01:04:35,567 What route she normally took around the park. 1223 01:04:35,670 --> 01:04:39,500 And with not necessarily absolute certainty, 1224 01:04:39,520 --> 01:04:43,724 but with a good degree of certainty you can figure out 1225 01:04:43,744 --> 01:04:46,885 that Trisha Meili should have been in the park 1226 01:04:47,016 --> 01:04:51,840 around the place where she was attacked at around 20 after 9:00. 1227 01:04:52,807 --> 01:04:57,351 We know for certain that at that time, those kids were 1228 01:04:57,371 --> 01:05:01,953 beating up, hassling other people on the reservoir, 1229 01:05:02,094 --> 01:05:04,206 South of that spot in the park. 1230 01:05:04,620 --> 01:05:08,720 They weren't at that part of the park at the time she would 1231 01:05:08,740 --> 01:05:10,074 have been there. 1232 01:05:10,094 --> 01:05:14,895 And if you watch the videotape confessions, it turns out they 1233 01:05:14,915 --> 01:05:17,246 actually don't know where the crime took place; 1234 01:05:17,266 --> 01:05:19,512 they don't know when it took place; 1235 01:05:19,532 --> 01:05:20,957 and they don't know how it took place. 1236 01:05:20,977 --> 01:05:22,716 They just know that it happened. 1237 01:05:26,287 --> 01:05:30,856 Kassin: The problem is, once you form a strong belief that somebody is 1238 01:05:30,876 --> 01:05:33,084 guilty of a crime, 1239 01:05:33,104 --> 01:05:35,013 the contradictory details are just that. 1240 01:05:35,033 --> 01:05:38,072 They're details but they don't fundamentally 1241 01:05:38,092 --> 01:05:40,184 change our belief in their guilt. 1242 01:05:42,746 --> 01:05:46,085 But when the DNA results come back and none of their 1243 01:05:46,105 --> 01:05:50,674 DNA is present, that should have stopped the investigation 1244 01:05:50,695 --> 01:05:53,334 in its tracks and they should have at least paused and moved 1245 01:05:53,354 --> 01:05:55,695 in another direction. 1246 01:05:55,715 --> 01:05:59,552 Warren: Harlan Levy was a DNA prosecutor at the time. 1247 01:05:59,572 --> 01:06:04,806 And he recalls how Elizabeth Lederer said, "Please, come to my office." 1248 01:06:04,826 --> 01:06:07,399 And he could sense urgency in her voice. 1249 01:06:07,419 --> 01:06:10,026 And she said, "Look, I feel like I've been kicked" 1250 01:06:10,046 --> 01:06:12,021 "in the stomach. 1251 01:06:12,041 --> 01:06:14,448 "There's no DNA match whatsoever 1252 01:06:14,468 --> 01:06:17,043 to any of these boys." 1253 01:06:17,063 --> 01:06:20,200 Kassin: It is improbable, given the nature of this crime 1254 01:06:20,221 --> 01:06:24,224 and the scene, that these boys would not have left a single 1255 01:06:24,244 --> 01:06:28,247 trace of themselves on the scene or the scene a single trace on them. 1256 01:06:28,267 --> 01:06:32,703 The improbability of that is striking. 1257 01:06:32,723 --> 01:06:36,361 But the decision was we can still prosecute this case. 1258 01:06:36,381 --> 01:06:39,287 And the argument we will make to the jury is just because we 1259 01:06:39,307 --> 01:06:42,213 didn't get all of them, doesn't mean we didn't get 1260 01:06:42,233 --> 01:06:43,161 some of them. 1261 01:06:45,124 --> 01:06:49,461 They now created a scenario by which there is a 6th perpetrator 1262 01:06:49,482 --> 01:06:51,257 a 6th perpetrator who mysteriously 1263 01:06:51,277 --> 01:06:54,981 doesn't appear in any of the confessions. 1264 01:06:55,001 --> 01:06:58,439 But even if they were correct, that 6th perpetrator's 1265 01:06:58,459 --> 01:07:01,133 absence in their confessions makes the confessions 1266 01:07:01,153 --> 01:07:03,146 factually incorrect. 1267 01:07:04,477 --> 01:07:07,384 That should have been the dilemma. 1268 01:07:07,404 --> 01:07:12,337 Dwyer: The trail in the grass at the very spot where she was taken down 1269 01:07:12,357 --> 01:07:16,328 is 18 inches wide, that wide. 1270 01:07:16,348 --> 01:07:21,515 You can't tell me that 5 kids or 10 or whatever the number is 1271 01:07:21,535 --> 01:07:23,477 that were supposedly involved in this wilding 1272 01:07:23,497 --> 01:07:29,761 dragged this woman off the road and left an 18-inch-wide trail. 1273 01:07:29,781 --> 01:07:36,345 That trail was a photograph of the beginning of this attack. 1274 01:07:36,365 --> 01:07:41,433 And in that picture there are not 5 kids, there are only 1275 01:07:41,453 --> 01:07:45,923 2 people: The victim and her assailant. 1276 01:08:06,005 --> 01:08:08,884 Reyes: I asked her to get undressed. 1277 01:08:09,369 --> 01:08:12,123 When she was coming towards me, I picked up the knife. 1278 01:08:13,041 --> 01:08:16,627 And I shoved the knife and I caught her hair. 1279 01:08:17,116 --> 01:08:19,181 And she was saying, "Ah, you stabbed me." 1280 01:08:19,332 --> 01:08:22,149 And I don't know even where, I kept on stabbing her, 1281 01:08:22,169 --> 01:08:24,281 and I don't know what places I got her. 1282 01:08:24,301 --> 01:08:29,130 I see her on the floor, shaking and nervous, 1283 01:08:29,150 --> 01:08:31,599 so I run out the door. 1284 01:08:37,637 --> 01:08:44,341 Dwyer: Matias Reyes was a young man living essentially by himself 1285 01:08:44,361 --> 01:08:47,411 in his late teenage years. 1286 01:08:47,431 --> 01:08:50,031 He would steal Walkmans, he would steal watches, 1287 01:08:50,051 --> 01:08:51,631 he would steal jewelry. 1288 01:08:51,651 --> 01:08:56,059 Then he started sexually assaulting women, 1289 01:08:56,079 --> 01:09:00,144 attacking women all around that neighborhood. 1290 01:09:00,164 --> 01:09:05,857 On April 17, 1989, just two days before the jogger was attacked, 1291 01:09:05,877 --> 01:09:09,604 he attacked a woman in the northern part of Central Park. 1292 01:09:09,624 --> 01:09:14,131 But the woman noticed that he had fresh stitches on his chin, 1293 01:09:14,151 --> 01:09:16,469 and she told the police about this. 1294 01:09:16,489 --> 01:09:22,779 And a young detective went to the hospitals in the area 1295 01:09:22,799 --> 01:09:26,159 and found out that there had been a guy named Matias Reyes 1296 01:09:26,179 --> 01:09:29,708 who had these stitches on his chin. 1297 01:09:29,990 --> 01:09:32,018 That was ignored. 1298 01:09:32,469 --> 01:09:34,920 He was the "East Side Rapist" that we'd been covering 1299 01:09:34,940 --> 01:09:36,751 in the "Daily News." 1300 01:09:36,771 --> 01:09:39,282 And one of the police officers 1301 01:09:39,302 --> 01:09:41,193 who was working on the jogger case 1302 01:09:41,213 --> 01:09:45,342 and also working on one of the rapes that Reyes has 1303 01:09:45,362 --> 01:09:50,170 been accused of, has the DNA markers in both files. 1304 01:09:50,517 --> 01:09:54,564 Detective Mike Sheehan... he knew because he was working 1305 01:09:54,584 --> 01:09:56,649 with Linda Fairstein and Elizabeth Lederer 1306 01:09:56,669 --> 01:09:58,902 and all the other detectives... he knew that there 1307 01:09:58,922 --> 01:10:03,361 was no DNA match to these young Central Park Five. 1308 01:10:04,935 --> 01:10:07,235 TV reporter: The only real evidence the prosecutors have 1309 01:10:07,255 --> 01:10:10,656 is the evidence the defendants gave them: Hours of graphic 1310 01:10:10,676 --> 01:10:12,368 videotaped confessions. 1311 01:10:12,678 --> 01:10:15,866 Kassin: What is particularly disturbing about this case 1312 01:10:15,886 --> 01:10:19,774 and about so many other cases like it is that once that 1313 01:10:19,794 --> 01:10:23,602 confession is taken and once that confession is in the air, 1314 01:10:23,867 --> 01:10:25,861 it corrupts everything else. 1315 01:10:26,314 --> 01:10:31,160 And confessions will trump DNA, confessions will change 1316 01:10:31,180 --> 01:10:35,257 witnesses' testimony, confessions are irresistibly 1317 01:10:35,277 --> 01:10:38,672 persuasive, and almost the effects can't be reversed. 1318 01:10:51,876 --> 01:10:53,676 Rather: Screening for jurors began today 1319 01:10:53,696 --> 01:10:56,505 in a case that shocked New York and jolted the nation. 1320 01:10:56,525 --> 01:11:00,130 Prosecutors are expected to call 50 witnesses, possibly 1321 01:11:00,150 --> 01:11:01,558 including the victim herself. 1322 01:11:01,578 --> 01:11:06,131 Woman: Though she has no memory of the attack, prosecutors expect her to testify. 1323 01:11:06,151 --> 01:11:08,404 Her mere appearance will pack an emotional punch 1324 01:11:08,424 --> 01:11:10,262 for the prosecution's case. 1325 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. 1326 01:11:19,314 --> 01:11:21,342 It was in the paper too much. 1327 01:11:21,446 --> 01:11:23,314 Too many people were against us. 1328 01:11:26,460 --> 01:11:28,610 Everybody washed their hands from us, 1329 01:11:28,741 --> 01:11:33,714 and I felt like people accepted whatever happened to us. 1330 01:11:34,220 --> 01:11:37,949 It was like, "Whatever happens to those kids, forget 'em." 1331 01:11:43,842 --> 01:11:47,702 McCray: My father, as the trial came, he left me and my mother. 1332 01:11:48,011 --> 01:11:49,008 Disappeared. 1333 01:11:50,669 --> 01:11:51,845 I couldn't understand. 1334 01:11:51,865 --> 01:11:54,425 And I just, I hated him after that. 1335 01:11:57,826 --> 01:12:00,682 Me and my mother started going to court by ourself. 1336 01:12:03,198 --> 01:12:05,291 Demonstrators, you know people just shouting, 1337 01:12:05,311 --> 01:12:07,461 you know, "Rapist", "You animal." 1338 01:12:07,481 --> 01:12:09,386 "You don't deserve to be alive." 1339 01:12:10,813 --> 01:12:13,966 It just felt like the whole world hated us. 1340 01:12:17,481 --> 01:12:21,696 Joseph: The amazing thing to me in meeting Antron was that he was 1341 01:12:21,716 --> 01:12:26,535 the exact opposite of the way he was portrayed in the news. 1342 01:12:26,555 --> 01:12:31,164 He is a timid, calm, non-aggressive individual, 1343 01:12:31,184 --> 01:12:33,972 not anything as he was portrayed. 1344 01:12:38,974 --> 01:12:41,960 Woman: In her opening argument, the prosecutor made it clear 1345 01:12:41,980 --> 01:12:44,586 their own words would be the main evidence against 1346 01:12:44,606 --> 01:12:46,369 the first three defendants. 1347 01:12:46,389 --> 01:12:47,533 Lederer: Where were you standing? 1348 01:12:47,553 --> 01:12:49,358 Santana Jr.: I was on the side of Kevin. 1349 01:12:50,119 --> 01:12:51,668 Lederer: Were you watching? 1350 01:12:51,772 --> 01:12:53,527 Santana Jr.: No, I was grabbing the lady's tits. 1351 01:12:53,547 --> 01:12:56,154 It was very hard not to believe those confessions. 1352 01:12:56,174 --> 01:12:57,759 Lederer: What was Anton doing to her clothes? 1353 01:12:57,779 --> 01:12:59,524 Santana Jr.: Trying to pull them off. 1354 01:12:59,544 --> 01:13:00,695 It seemed genuine. 1355 01:13:00,715 --> 01:13:02,169 These confessions seemed genuine. 1356 01:13:02,189 --> 01:13:05,690 They didn't seem like they were rehearsed or made up or anything. 1357 01:13:06,000 --> 01:13:07,581 I think that Raymond lied. 1358 01:13:07,601 --> 01:13:09,469 It'll come out that Raymond lied. 1359 01:13:09,581 --> 01:13:13,264 He was lying when he was being asked questions by 1360 01:13:13,284 --> 01:13:14,456 the district attorney, 1361 01:13:14,476 --> 01:13:18,464 and I think that will come out very... graphically 1362 01:13:18,577 --> 01:13:20,502 in my cross examination tomorrow. 1363 01:13:20,522 --> 01:13:23,853 Woman: Yusef Salaam didn't make taped statements, but police say he 1364 01:13:23,873 --> 01:13:27,588 verbally admitted beating the female jogger with a lead pipe 1365 01:13:27,608 --> 01:13:29,578 while others climbed on top of her. 1366 01:13:32,238 --> 01:13:34,821 Salaam: Bobby burns... He was a friend of my mom's. 1367 01:13:35,262 --> 01:13:37,694 He was originally a divorce lawyer. 1368 01:13:40,315 --> 01:13:41,761 I thought he was a nice guy. 1369 01:13:41,958 --> 01:13:46,475 But at one point in time I remember looking over at him 1370 01:13:46,719 --> 01:13:48,470 and I thought he was sleeping. 1371 01:13:55,431 --> 01:13:58,398 Santana Jr.: Mentally, you know, physically it was draining, 1372 01:13:58,629 --> 01:14:00,686 not knowing what's going on, 1373 01:14:00,836 --> 01:14:04,254 seeing these people get on the stand, nobody actually saying 1374 01:14:04,274 --> 01:14:05,212 you did it. 1375 01:14:11,326 --> 01:14:13,823 Woman: ...That there is another perspective. 1376 01:14:13,946 --> 01:14:17,385 Crowd: No more Scottsboro boys! 1377 01:14:17,405 --> 01:14:18,446 No more Scottsboro boys! 1378 01:14:18,466 --> 01:14:22,276 Woman: There has been no evidence in any form that could show me, 1379 01:14:22,296 --> 01:14:29,506 for one moment, anything related to his being anything other than innocent. 1380 01:14:29,526 --> 01:14:31,223 Yusef is innocent. 1381 01:14:31,243 --> 01:14:32,545 Crowd shouting: No justice. No peace! 1382 01:14:32,565 --> 01:14:34,150 No justice. No peace! 1383 01:14:34,170 --> 01:14:35,581 No justice. No peace! 1384 01:14:35,601 --> 01:14:36,431 No justice. No peace! 1385 01:14:36,451 --> 01:14:39,070 There have been charges of racism, that authorities 1386 01:14:39,090 --> 01:14:42,042 aggressively pursued the case because the victim is white 1387 01:14:42,062 --> 01:14:44,307 and the suspects Black and Hispanic. 1388 01:14:44,327 --> 01:14:46,749 Woman: Meantime, a group of people came to demonstrate 1389 01:14:46,769 --> 01:14:49,582 for the female jogger and against a regular cadre 1390 01:14:49,602 --> 01:14:51,977 of protestors who have suggested that the jogger's 1391 01:14:51,997 --> 01:14:53,066 boyfriend raped her. 1392 01:14:53,086 --> 01:14:55,122 Where the jogger's boyfriend? 1393 01:14:55,142 --> 01:14:57,160 Where's the jogger's boyfriend? 1394 01:14:57,180 --> 01:14:59,181 Woman: All people should be outraged about this, 1395 01:14:59,294 --> 01:15:01,397 not any particular race. 1396 01:15:01,417 --> 01:15:04,734 We need to remember that this was a human being and people 1397 01:15:04,754 --> 01:15:05,897 need to support that. 1398 01:15:06,133 --> 01:15:08,596 Yesterday, Mayor David Dinkins also condemed 1399 01:15:08,616 --> 01:15:09,818 the regular protestors 1400 01:15:09,838 --> 01:15:13,255 who even jeered at the injured jogger the day she testified. 1401 01:15:17,676 --> 01:15:21,160 Woman: She walked with an unsteady gait, clutched the railing 1402 01:15:21,180 --> 01:15:22,698 as she stepped into the witness stand. 1403 01:15:23,375 --> 01:15:25,140 Her scars were evident, 1404 01:15:25,713 --> 01:15:28,605 but she spoke clearly in a strong, sweet voice. 1405 01:15:29,783 --> 01:15:31,978 Hancock: She was a miracle now at this point. 1406 01:15:32,572 --> 01:15:35,559 She couldn't contribute anything to the actual case 1407 01:15:35,579 --> 01:15:37,583 because thankfully she couldn't remember. 1408 01:15:37,997 --> 01:15:42,081 But the fact of her being on the stand galvanized 1409 01:15:42,101 --> 01:15:46,839 the public around her and against these young boys. 1410 01:15:49,122 --> 01:15:51,491 McCray: I was like just sitting there, like looking, like, "Man", 1411 01:15:51,512 --> 01:15:53,572 I really hope this lady can remember." 1412 01:15:53,593 --> 01:15:55,975 You know, I'm, like, "Why she can't remember?" 1413 01:15:56,209 --> 01:15:58,777 It's messed up what happened to her, but I didn't do it. 1414 01:16:02,851 --> 01:16:05,782 Woman: With the prosecution resting its case in the final hour today, 1415 01:16:05,802 --> 01:16:07,900 the defense begins its case tomorrow, starting 1416 01:16:07,920 --> 01:16:10,501 with the parents of Antron McCray. 1417 01:16:11,433 --> 01:16:17,444 Joseph: My strategy was obviously to try to convince the jury that 1418 01:16:17,464 --> 01:16:21,283 the statements were not accurate, were the product 1419 01:16:21,303 --> 01:16:24,322 of coercion, should be inadmissible, 1420 01:16:24,342 --> 01:16:26,232 and were not credible. 1421 01:16:26,252 --> 01:16:30,092 But when they testified in court, the police officers 1422 01:16:30,112 --> 01:16:33,951 said, "All we did is ask him what happened." 1423 01:16:34,326 --> 01:16:36,896 That seemed to me to be incredible. 1424 01:16:36,916 --> 01:16:40,709 They also denied that they ever made any 1425 01:16:40,729 --> 01:16:42,946 promises whatsoever. 1426 01:16:42,966 --> 01:16:47,199 They denied even knowing Antron was a suspect. 1427 01:16:47,875 --> 01:16:50,927 Gold: Even though he had asked him to tell the truth no matter what 1428 01:16:50,947 --> 01:16:53,387 and to bring the clothes he was wearing, and all kinds 1429 01:16:53,407 --> 01:16:57,244 of stuff, that made it perfectly obvious that he was a suspect, 1430 01:16:57,264 --> 01:16:59,027 he said he didn't think of him as a suspect. 1431 01:16:59,047 --> 01:17:00,586 That was just nonsense. 1432 01:17:00,878 --> 01:17:04,257 Some of the detectives were obviously lying through their teeth. 1433 01:17:05,679 --> 01:17:09,337 Dwyer: The lawyers in the case had another defense, 1434 01:17:09,357 --> 01:17:11,664 which is they had alibis. 1435 01:17:12,720 --> 01:17:18,835 They were not where the jogger was when she was attacked. 1436 01:17:18,855 --> 01:17:20,279 Why? 1437 01:17:20,299 --> 01:17:22,617 They were beating up other people. 1438 01:17:23,749 --> 01:17:27,736 That alibi defense was not offered. 1439 01:17:29,649 --> 01:17:31,730 Gold: The only evidence against Yusef was 1440 01:17:31,750 --> 01:17:34,766 the testimony of McKenna, the detective. 1441 01:17:34,913 --> 01:17:39,352 And Burns absolutely undercut Yusef in the most 1442 01:17:39,372 --> 01:17:41,404 terrifying way. 1443 01:17:41,781 --> 01:17:46,247 He put into evidence the notes of McKenna which hadn't been 1444 01:17:46,267 --> 01:17:48,140 put into evidence before. 1445 01:17:48,160 --> 01:17:51,164 And that was the only evidence against Yusef. 1446 01:17:53,598 --> 01:17:55,489 Santana Jr.: There was one part during trial 1447 01:17:55,509 --> 01:17:58,729 I think Peter Rivera, my lawyer, he woke up. 1448 01:17:58,749 --> 01:18:01,092 And they was talking about the statements, of how 1449 01:18:01,112 --> 01:18:03,606 the statements were coerced by the police. 1450 01:18:03,626 --> 01:18:08,181 I remember him reading something, and I heard him... 1451 01:18:08,201 --> 01:18:10,085 I heard him whisper it. 1452 01:18:10,105 --> 01:18:11,789 He didn't say it loud but he sat next to me. 1453 01:18:11,809 --> 01:18:15,061 He said, "They didn't do it." 1454 01:18:15,081 --> 01:18:17,901 And I heard him say that. 1455 01:18:17,921 --> 01:18:20,706 And I said, "All right, well, maybe now he gonna fight." 1456 01:18:20,726 --> 01:18:22,662 But it was too late. 1457 01:18:24,733 --> 01:18:26,519 Gold: No blood on the kids. 1458 01:18:26,539 --> 01:18:28,774 Nobody could identify them. 1459 01:18:29,671 --> 01:18:31,953 It was just a question of believing 1460 01:18:31,973 --> 01:18:33,390 the confessions or not. 1461 01:18:33,820 --> 01:18:38,220 And it was very hard to imagine why anybody would make up 1462 01:18:38,240 --> 01:18:42,502 something that not only incriminates them but is full 1463 01:18:42,522 --> 01:18:46,552 of details that sound like they actually happened. 1464 01:18:47,749 --> 01:18:51,336 Santana Jr.: It got to one point where they pulled me, Yusef, and Antron 1465 01:18:51,356 --> 01:18:52,973 in the conference room. 1466 01:18:52,993 --> 01:18:56,302 And the lawyer says, "You know, we're gonna lose this case." 1467 01:18:57,040 --> 01:19:00,714 What we're planning to do is see if we can get you a plea deal." 1468 01:19:01,662 --> 01:19:05,231 Salaam: And I remember telling them, you know, "You guys can cop out." 1469 01:19:05,251 --> 01:19:09,754 "But if I did something, I would cop out. 1470 01:19:10,101 --> 01:19:12,979 "I would want the least amount of time for what I did. 1471 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." 1472 01:19:17,131 --> 01:19:20,228 You know, I didn't know what that meant back then, but I 1473 01:19:20,248 --> 01:19:23,618 just knew that there would be no way that I would cop out 1474 01:19:23,638 --> 01:19:25,093 for something that I didn't do. 1475 01:19:25,224 --> 01:19:29,112 They said, "Well, it has to be all three of you guys or it's nobody." 1476 01:19:29,132 --> 01:19:32,286 And so we, you know, we looked at each other. 1477 01:19:32,306 --> 01:19:34,390 We was like, "Well, guess it's nobody." 1478 01:19:34,880 --> 01:19:36,828 Coming out. Let's roll. 1479 01:19:36,848 --> 01:19:39,521 The crimes and the colors in this case have been a focus 1480 01:19:39,541 --> 01:19:41,571 of attention here for more than a year. 1481 01:19:41,898 --> 01:19:45,061 It will now be up to a jury to decide the guilt or innocence 1482 01:19:45,081 --> 01:19:46,215 of the defendants. 1483 01:19:46,235 --> 01:19:49,322 John McKenzie, ABC News, New York. 1484 01:19:55,468 --> 01:19:59,269 It is day 10 of deliberations and the jogger jury appears to 1485 01:19:59,289 --> 01:20:00,969 be going back to what they were thinking 1486 01:20:00,989 --> 01:20:02,982 about on day one. 1487 01:20:03,002 --> 01:20:06,483 Were those damaging videotaped confessions coerced by cops, 1488 01:20:06,652 --> 01:20:08,108 overeager to solve the case? 1489 01:20:08,128 --> 01:20:09,162 Joseph: Each day that 1490 01:20:09,182 --> 01:20:11,546 the jury remained out, 1491 01:20:11,887 --> 01:20:15,481 I started to get a little more optimistic. 1492 01:20:15,741 --> 01:20:16,632 People were shocked. 1493 01:20:16,652 --> 01:20:20,095 What's taking them so long? They confessed to it! 1494 01:20:21,947 --> 01:20:24,880 I was going nuts, quite frankly. 1495 01:20:24,900 --> 01:20:27,744 I mean, everyone was blaming the fact that we were there 1496 01:20:27,764 --> 01:20:29,245 so long on me. 1497 01:20:29,492 --> 01:20:33,150 And I had to fight with my fellow jurors to consider 1498 01:20:33,170 --> 01:20:36,477 the discrepancies between the 3 statements, 1499 01:20:36,608 --> 01:20:39,192 but it didn't matter to them. 1500 01:20:39,397 --> 01:20:42,035 If they confessed, they confessed, and that was that. 1501 01:20:42,827 --> 01:20:45,661 Everyone's hurling imprecations at me and 1502 01:20:45,681 --> 01:20:47,259 telling me what a rat I am. 1503 01:20:47,616 --> 01:20:51,174 And I just went along with it at the end because, 1504 01:20:51,559 --> 01:20:53,531 frankly, I was wiped out. 1505 01:20:54,029 --> 01:20:59,136 I found some cockamamie excuse to vote guilty, 1506 01:20:59,156 --> 01:21:00,471 just to get outta there. 1507 01:21:14,887 --> 01:21:18,744 Santana Jr.: When the verdict came out, they brung us out. 1508 01:21:18,959 --> 01:21:20,446 The courtroom was packed. 1509 01:21:22,000 --> 01:21:24,789 As they started to read, everything kinda got numb. 1510 01:21:25,133 --> 01:21:27,549 McCray: I remember standing there and just, 1511 01:21:27,569 --> 01:21:28,958 they found me guilty. 1512 01:21:28,978 --> 01:21:32,155 That's when I was just... the world just collapsed. 1513 01:21:32,675 --> 01:21:34,591 Salaam: My whole insides dropped. 1514 01:21:34,611 --> 01:21:38,336 Just... like this is crazy. 1515 01:21:38,356 --> 01:21:39,304 Are you... are you kidding me? 1516 01:21:39,324 --> 01:21:41,501 Like, I couldn't believe it at all. 1517 01:21:42,320 --> 01:21:45,238 McCray: I couldn't hear nothing after that. I just sat down. 1518 01:21:45,398 --> 01:21:47,707 I looked back at my mother. She was crying. 1519 01:21:51,257 --> 01:21:52,513 You know, that was it. 1520 01:21:52,533 --> 01:21:54,949 Woman: After the jury foreman, a law school graduate... 1521 01:21:54,969 --> 01:21:57,853 One of my friends had a radio, and then I heard it. 1522 01:21:57,873 --> 01:22:01,806 Woman, continuing: Guilty, guilty, guilty on rape, robbery, riot, and assault... 1523 01:22:01,975 --> 01:22:03,562 Tears came out of my eye. 1524 01:22:03,918 --> 01:22:04,962 And I was mad. 1525 01:22:04,982 --> 01:22:08,899 Woman, continuing: 16-year-old McCray clenched his jaw and brushed away tears. 1526 01:22:09,254 --> 01:22:11,837 15-year-old Santana looked wide-eyed ahead, 1527 01:22:12,022 --> 01:22:15,168 while Salaam stared at the jurors, then back at the courtroom. 1528 01:22:15,299 --> 01:22:17,643 Pure anguish. 1529 01:22:18,088 --> 01:22:22,760 Joseph: Antron leaned over to me and said, "Thank you very much" 1530 01:22:22,780 --> 01:22:24,771 for all of your efforts." 1531 01:22:25,270 --> 01:22:30,593 That's not something that you see from clients in general 1532 01:22:30,613 --> 01:22:34,717 and certainly not something you would expect to see 1533 01:22:34,737 --> 01:22:36,013 from a young man, 1534 01:22:36,033 --> 01:22:37,856 and I truly appreciated it. 1535 01:22:39,055 --> 01:22:41,573 McCray: I just looked at him, and I was like, "Thank you for helping me." 1536 01:22:41,593 --> 01:22:43,373 He did his best. 1537 01:22:43,861 --> 01:22:46,263 He did his best, you know, in my eyes. 1538 01:22:48,967 --> 01:22:50,772 Santana Jr.: They took me out first. 1539 01:22:51,639 --> 01:22:54,838 They asked for my belt, they asked for my laces. 1540 01:22:55,609 --> 01:22:59,777 And then Yusef and Antron came out like a little bit after me. 1541 01:23:00,549 --> 01:23:01,758 And then we cried. 1542 01:23:01,778 --> 01:23:03,636 We cried inside the bull pen. 1543 01:23:03,842 --> 01:23:07,437 We didn't... it was like you didn't wanna show them that, 1544 01:23:07,457 --> 01:23:12,110 you know, because you didn't want them to see defeat. 1545 01:23:12,355 --> 01:23:14,682 So you know we did it when we went in the back. 1546 01:23:16,228 --> 01:23:18,312 Woman: The defendants' families left the courtroom 1547 01:23:18,332 --> 01:23:19,964 quickly, in tears. 1548 01:23:19,984 --> 01:23:22,435 They left without their teenage sons. 1549 01:23:27,480 --> 01:23:28,519 All right! 1550 01:23:28,539 --> 01:23:30,077 Thank you! 1551 01:23:32,087 --> 01:23:34,977 Law and order in the nation's largest city seemed to get 1552 01:23:34,997 --> 01:23:37,908 a boost tonight as the first three youths to be tried 1553 01:23:37,928 --> 01:23:40,477 in the Central Park jogger case were found guilty 1554 01:23:40,497 --> 01:23:43,325 of gang rape and brutal assault and robbery. 1555 01:23:44,255 --> 01:23:45,517 Woman: You're pleased with the verdicts? 1556 01:23:45,537 --> 01:23:46,339 I am. 1557 01:23:46,359 --> 01:23:50,000 How much of a help has your detectives... have your detectives 1558 01:23:50,020 --> 01:23:51,459 been to you during this case? 1559 01:23:51,479 --> 01:23:53,718 Lederer: They've been the best. They're terrific. 1560 01:23:53,854 --> 01:23:56,736 Woman: Were you concerned about the lack of genetic evidence? 1561 01:23:56,756 --> 01:23:59,862 A lot of people made a big deal about that, that none 1562 01:23:59,882 --> 01:24:02,029 of the semen from the defendants matched that 1563 01:24:02,049 --> 01:24:03,503 that was found in the jogger. 1564 01:24:03,523 --> 01:24:05,356 I think, because there's another trial, 1565 01:24:05,376 --> 01:24:06,981 it's better not to discuss the evidence. 1566 01:24:07,001 --> 01:24:09,470 Woman: How do you feel about the prospect of another trial? 1567 01:24:09,490 --> 01:24:11,706 I think I could use a vacation before we start. 1568 01:24:11,726 --> 01:24:14,487 - Are you going to give it to her? - I'm going to give it to her. 1569 01:24:44,625 --> 01:24:46,042 Richardson: They offered me a plea. 1570 01:24:46,062 --> 01:24:49,460 And I said, "I will never plead to anything 'cause I was innocent." 1571 01:24:49,480 --> 01:24:54,526 And that we gonna fight this the whole way through." 1572 01:24:58,847 --> 01:25:01,042 It was just really a circus. 1573 01:25:01,464 --> 01:25:03,502 At this time, I was 16 now. 1574 01:25:04,065 --> 01:25:07,098 So it was already two years of going through that. 1575 01:25:09,347 --> 01:25:12,520 Wise: I'm just goin' from Rikers Island, back and forth, 1576 01:25:12,642 --> 01:25:15,225 goin' to this court thing like it's a job. 1577 01:25:16,548 --> 01:25:20,498 Her only argument on me is my confession tapes. 1578 01:25:20,518 --> 01:25:21,900 Lederer: Did you hold her legs down? 1579 01:25:21,920 --> 01:25:25,071 Wise, on tape: I hold her legs down for what? 5 seconds. 1580 01:25:25,091 --> 01:25:31,176 Wise: So I'm lookin' at this like..."That's me? 1581 01:25:32,834 --> 01:25:37,202 "Is that me? She usin' me against me." 1582 01:25:38,770 --> 01:25:41,510 16-year-old Kevin Richardson has been quiet through most 1583 01:25:41,530 --> 01:25:43,760 of the trial, but his mother has not. 1584 01:25:43,920 --> 01:25:46,388 Cuffie: He was set up, he was set up. 1585 01:25:46,408 --> 01:25:47,430 Richardson's attorney 1586 01:25:47,450 --> 01:25:50,601 says he won't claim his client's taped confession was coerced. 1587 01:25:50,882 --> 01:25:53,669 Instead, he'll argue Richardson was with the gang 1588 01:25:53,689 --> 01:25:55,885 but never took part in any of the crimes. 1589 01:25:55,905 --> 01:25:58,223 Wise's attorney said he'll try to show the confessions 1590 01:25:58,243 --> 01:25:59,519 were coerced. 1591 01:25:59,660 --> 01:26:01,857 By putting him under continuous pressure 1592 01:26:01,960 --> 01:26:03,519 for 1 hour and 24 minutes, 1593 01:26:03,631 --> 01:26:06,392 after he had been interrogated for over 24 hours, 1594 01:26:06,570 --> 01:26:08,757 that amounts to pressure. 1595 01:26:08,777 --> 01:26:13,029 I was asked from my lawyer, Colin Moore, 1596 01:26:13,301 --> 01:26:15,140 do I wanna testify? 1597 01:26:16,249 --> 01:26:20,347 And the D.A., she came up there tearin' me apart. 1598 01:26:21,207 --> 01:26:24,576 I had wanted to get up and say, "Woman you don't know me!" 1599 01:26:24,596 --> 01:26:26,963 You talkin' like you know me. You don't know me." 1600 01:26:31,433 --> 01:26:32,962 Black: The reporters were runnin', 1601 01:26:32,982 --> 01:26:36,555 and people were runnin', and we were like, "What's goin' on?" 1602 01:26:36,575 --> 01:26:38,160 And somebody said, "The verdict is in." 1603 01:26:41,965 --> 01:26:43,749 Richardson: The first thing I heard was "Guilty," 1604 01:26:44,262 --> 01:26:47,472 and everything else was just like fading out. 1605 01:26:48,697 --> 01:26:51,275 Wise: The judge said, "How do you find?" 1606 01:26:51,458 --> 01:26:55,814 "Guilty: Assault, riot, and sexual abuse." 1607 01:26:57,570 --> 01:26:58,884 So that was that. 1608 01:27:00,138 --> 01:27:02,889 I remember being handcuffed right on the spot, 1609 01:27:04,419 --> 01:27:07,593 and that's when I felt completely alone, 1610 01:27:08,221 --> 01:27:11,244 'cause, you know, before I had my family at least supportin' me, you know. 1611 01:27:13,366 --> 01:27:18,875 But at that point once the gates closed and I was in the cell, 1612 01:27:19,340 --> 01:27:23,969 and I just thought my life was pretty much over. 1613 01:27:33,227 --> 01:27:36,418 Get the... out of my face! 1614 01:27:36,438 --> 01:27:37,570 Outside the courthouse, 1615 01:27:37,590 --> 01:27:39,505 supporters of the two teenagers erupted 1616 01:27:39,525 --> 01:27:40,763 with violent emotion. 1617 01:27:42,557 --> 01:27:45,741 Get the... out! 1618 01:27:45,761 --> 01:27:49,210 Inside, 16-year-old Kevin Richardson cried loudly. 1619 01:27:49,380 --> 01:27:52,120 His mother screamed, "We love you", and collapsed, 1620 01:27:52,140 --> 01:27:54,184 later to be taken to a hospital. 1621 01:27:54,204 --> 01:27:57,222 18-year-old Korey Wise shouted, "Racism," 1622 01:27:57,242 --> 01:27:58,556 as he was led from court. 1623 01:27:58,576 --> 01:28:01,219 The prosecutor was taken from court under heavy guard 1624 01:28:01,239 --> 01:28:03,435 as an angry crowd swirled around her. 1625 01:28:03,455 --> 01:28:05,331 You lying ...! You lied! 1626 01:28:05,651 --> 01:28:08,234 This was the second trial in the jogger case. 1627 01:28:08,254 --> 01:28:10,716 Last summer, three teenagers were convicted of rape 1628 01:28:10,736 --> 01:28:13,647 and assault and are now serving their juvenile terms. 1629 01:28:37,489 --> 01:28:39,706 This is the test Mayor Koch had laid out. 1630 01:28:39,726 --> 01:28:45,598 He was out of office now but people felt the system had passed. 1631 01:28:56,179 --> 01:29:00,165 Richardson: I went to a maximum security for juveniles. 1632 01:29:00,185 --> 01:29:05,077 Me and Yusef Salaam, we wound up being in the same place. 1633 01:29:07,345 --> 01:29:14,215 I remember sayin' that we just have to stay strong together 1634 01:29:14,235 --> 01:29:15,671 and try to get through this together 'cause 1635 01:29:15,691 --> 01:29:17,989 all we have is each other right at this point. 1636 01:29:19,575 --> 01:29:22,358 Santana Jr.: In the beginning, it was very hard because they perceived me 1637 01:29:22,378 --> 01:29:26,229 as this was a rapist and, uh... he committed 1638 01:29:26,249 --> 01:29:29,624 one of the most heinous crimes in New York State history. 1639 01:29:30,413 --> 01:29:33,438 You could be the most peaceful person, but then you come to 1640 01:29:33,458 --> 01:29:36,775 the point where you have to defend yourself to avoid 1641 01:29:36,795 --> 01:29:41,641 possibly being beaten, or worse, even, you know, killed. 1642 01:29:41,661 --> 01:29:45,535 So I had to adjust to that environment and basically 1643 01:29:45,555 --> 01:29:47,705 I had to grow up really fast. 1644 01:29:49,142 --> 01:29:52,822 McCray: And it's real hectic in there, you know, people dying 1645 01:29:52,842 --> 01:29:54,288 over cigarettes. 1646 01:29:55,184 --> 01:29:56,617 It's real crazy. 1647 01:30:10,994 --> 01:30:12,487 Santana Jr.: Why me? 1648 01:30:13,006 --> 01:30:15,580 Cursed God out a coup of times. 1649 01:30:15,990 --> 01:30:18,192 You know, my faith was gone. 1650 01:30:18,212 --> 01:30:22,698 I lost that, um, ah... 1651 01:30:22,718 --> 01:30:25,316 Just my faith was gone and, um... 1652 01:30:26,096 --> 01:30:29,156 I didn't, um... Know what to do. 1653 01:30:33,682 --> 01:30:35,714 My father came once in a while. 1654 01:30:35,734 --> 01:30:38,386 He apologized to me, but I didn't accept it. 1655 01:30:39,904 --> 01:30:41,709 My mother came a lot. 1656 01:30:42,282 --> 01:30:44,555 I mean, there was sometimes I had to tell her to stay home 1657 01:30:44,575 --> 01:30:47,092 because the weather would be so messed up. 1658 01:30:47,693 --> 01:30:49,682 She'd still come. 1659 01:30:54,188 --> 01:30:56,516 Wise: When I heard that my dad had passed, 1660 01:30:57,282 --> 01:30:58,826 it was hurtin', uh... 1661 01:30:59,831 --> 01:31:04,114 It was hurting and I would think, surely think, he just... 1662 01:31:04,134 --> 01:31:06,200 he drunk hisself to death. 1663 01:31:07,440 --> 01:31:11,721 You know, through... what do they call that? Cirrhosis of the liver? 1664 01:31:12,160 --> 01:31:16,835 But no one shared it with me or gave me the chance 1665 01:31:16,855 --> 01:31:18,599 to come down. 1666 01:31:18,619 --> 01:31:21,583 So I just learned it and that was that. 1667 01:31:23,211 --> 01:31:24,657 That was that. 1668 01:31:33,202 --> 01:31:37,495 But as time passed, I started to make changes. 1669 01:31:38,409 --> 01:31:40,858 I was able to get my G.E.D. 1670 01:31:40,878 --> 01:31:42,761 I was able to get a degree, you know. 1671 01:31:42,781 --> 01:31:44,163 I got an associate's. 1672 01:31:44,183 --> 01:31:47,567 I jumped on the opportunity to go to college. 1673 01:31:47,587 --> 01:31:51,006 It was a real graduation, the Dean and everybody. 1674 01:31:51,659 --> 01:31:55,167 Salaam: I was able to get a college degree before they took 1675 01:31:55,187 --> 01:31:57,046 education out of prison. 1676 01:31:57,600 --> 01:32:01,008 McCray: They stopped the program, so I didn't get a degree. 1677 01:32:01,774 --> 01:32:04,153 After that, I just started doing trades and stuff like that. 1678 01:32:04,173 --> 01:32:05,735 Like I worked in the tailor shop, and that was like 1679 01:32:05,755 --> 01:32:07,831 the highest-paying job in prison. 1680 01:32:08,629 --> 01:32:11,062 I think it was, like, 30 cents an hour. 1681 01:32:13,219 --> 01:32:15,067 woman on radio: Good afternoon, 47 degrees... 1682 01:32:15,087 --> 01:32:17,172 In New York, republican Rudolph Giuliani 1683 01:32:17,192 --> 01:32:18,804 defeated incumbent David Dinkins... 1684 01:32:18,824 --> 01:32:20,040 Mayor Dinkins' handling 1685 01:32:20,060 --> 01:32:22,909 of the Black on Jewish Crown Heights rioting hurt him. 1686 01:32:22,929 --> 01:32:25,895 Giuliani promises tougher approaches to homelessness 1687 01:32:25,915 --> 01:32:26,681 and crime... 1688 01:32:26,701 --> 01:32:28,617 Giuliani: Squeegee operators and excessive noise 1689 01:32:28,637 --> 01:32:30,018 and aggressive panhandling... 1690 01:32:30,038 --> 01:32:32,322 Woman: Crime has plunged 33% 1691 01:32:32,342 --> 01:32:33,655 from the same month a year ago... 1692 01:32:33,675 --> 01:32:34,858 Since 1990, 1693 01:32:34,878 --> 01:32:37,126 homicides have fallen dramatically in New York... 1694 01:32:37,146 --> 01:32:39,730 Brokaw: New York City is no longer a crime capital. 1695 01:32:47,258 --> 01:32:49,108 Richardson: I came up to parole. 1696 01:32:49,128 --> 01:32:53,247 And my hearing lasted a couple of minutes. 1697 01:32:53,267 --> 01:32:54,667 I walked in. 1698 01:32:55,769 --> 01:32:58,038 You know, said who I was. 1699 01:32:58,873 --> 01:33:01,788 They looked at the time that I'd been there 1700 01:33:01,808 --> 01:33:03,638 and realized that I haven't gotten into no trouble 1701 01:33:03,658 --> 01:33:04,963 the whole time. 1702 01:33:06,409 --> 01:33:08,203 They just wanted to know one thing. 1703 01:33:08,551 --> 01:33:11,202 They said, "Did you do the crime?" 1704 01:33:11,495 --> 01:33:12,715 I said, "No." 1705 01:33:13,224 --> 01:33:15,513 They told me, "Have a good day." 1706 01:33:42,792 --> 01:33:45,242 McCray: Got my stuff, my personal stuff, 1707 01:33:45,262 --> 01:33:47,645 had my money in my account, 1708 01:33:47,665 --> 01:33:49,761 and they took me to the bus stop. 1709 01:33:51,704 --> 01:33:54,172 Called my mother every stop we made, 1710 01:33:54,369 --> 01:33:56,533 let her know where I was at. 1711 01:33:57,585 --> 01:34:00,336 And I'm just looking around, like, wow, free. 1712 01:34:05,720 --> 01:34:07,403 Got home, forgot the building I lived in 1713 01:34:07,423 --> 01:34:08,805 'cause all the buildings look alike. 1714 01:34:08,825 --> 01:34:10,937 I went in the wrong building. 1715 01:34:11,862 --> 01:34:14,262 My mother and my father ran downstairs. 1716 01:34:16,603 --> 01:34:19,150 The day he was actually released he said, "They're 1717 01:34:19,170 --> 01:34:20,166 sending me home on a bus." 1718 01:34:20,186 --> 01:34:22,320 We're like, "Nope. We're comin' to get you." 1719 01:34:22,340 --> 01:34:24,056 And of course, my family was crying which made me 1720 01:34:24,076 --> 01:34:26,025 start to cry. 1721 01:34:26,045 --> 01:34:30,163 And everybody jumped up. You know, we jumped for joy 1722 01:34:30,183 --> 01:34:34,921 and we got in the car, 1723 01:34:34,941 --> 01:34:37,235 and we sped off and never looked back. 1724 01:34:37,255 --> 01:34:40,503 And we drove. It was about 3 hours from the city. 1725 01:34:41,442 --> 01:34:45,134 And so we went straight, like, not even stoppin'. 1726 01:34:47,003 --> 01:34:47,936 Beautiful. 1727 01:34:50,111 --> 01:34:52,324 Santana Jr.: When I was released... 1728 01:34:52,344 --> 01:34:54,259 Best feeling in the world, you know. 1729 01:34:54,279 --> 01:34:55,828 I said, "Wow." 1730 01:34:55,848 --> 01:34:58,064 You know, I got a fresh start. 1731 01:34:58,084 --> 01:35:00,853 I can try to pick up, put my life back together. 1732 01:35:00,873 --> 01:35:02,569 Yeah, he came home. 1733 01:35:02,589 --> 01:35:06,741 And I was happy he's home and all that. 1734 01:35:06,761 --> 01:35:10,671 But you know, I brung a lot of stuff with me, you know, 1735 01:35:10,830 --> 01:35:12,887 that I didn't even know exists. 1736 01:35:13,269 --> 01:35:15,411 I loved to stay inside my room, 'cause my room was like 1737 01:35:15,431 --> 01:35:17,054 the size of a cell. 1738 01:35:17,074 --> 01:35:19,590 I would go in the shower and wash in my boxers, 1739 01:35:19,610 --> 01:35:21,993 wash my boxers in the shower. 1740 01:35:22,013 --> 01:35:23,962 I had this aggression. 1741 01:35:23,982 --> 01:35:26,965 You know, if I'm in a room with too many people, 1742 01:35:26,985 --> 01:35:30,503 I can talk to you but I won't give you eye-to-eye contact 1743 01:35:30,523 --> 01:35:32,190 'cause I'm too busy watching the room. 1744 01:35:34,697 --> 01:35:36,744 McCray: When I got home, my father, he was living, you know, 1745 01:35:36,764 --> 01:35:39,072 with my mother because they were back together. 1746 01:35:40,965 --> 01:35:43,886 But I didn't really... I didn't talk to him. 1747 01:35:43,906 --> 01:35:46,344 We lived in the same house, but I didn't even talk to him. 1748 01:35:47,544 --> 01:35:50,195 I noticed he was getting sick, 'cause he lost a lot of weight. 1749 01:35:50,215 --> 01:35:53,402 He was real sick. I didn't even care. 1750 01:35:55,774 --> 01:35:57,769 My mother, she would try to get us to talk. 1751 01:35:57,924 --> 01:35:59,961 I was just like, "You don't remember what he did to us?" 1752 01:35:59,981 --> 01:36:01,795 "You know, he left you." 1753 01:36:03,597 --> 01:36:07,371 My mother, you know, got that call, and she was like, 1754 01:36:07,391 --> 01:36:09,885 "Your father just passed away." 1755 01:36:09,905 --> 01:36:12,193 I was still was like, "All right." 1756 01:36:13,308 --> 01:36:16,531 But seeing him laying there, it just hit me. 1757 01:36:17,647 --> 01:36:19,680 You know, he used to be my best friend. 1758 01:36:26,538 --> 01:36:29,787 Richardson: I was a sex offender, labeled as that. 1759 01:36:30,557 --> 01:36:35,038 And I had to register, um, every month. 1760 01:36:36,268 --> 01:36:39,084 I applied for the post office at one point. 1761 01:36:39,104 --> 01:36:41,256 And I was about to get the job. 1762 01:36:41,559 --> 01:36:44,400 But I'm an honest person and so they asked me have I ever 1763 01:36:44,420 --> 01:36:46,228 been incarcerated? 1764 01:36:46,248 --> 01:36:47,537 I put yes. 1765 01:36:48,204 --> 01:36:49,753 And they didn't hire me. 1766 01:36:51,055 --> 01:36:53,415 McCray: I just wanted to get out of New York. 1767 01:36:53,547 --> 01:36:55,339 I had a cousin that lived in Maryland. 1768 01:36:55,359 --> 01:36:57,254 I kind of liked Maryland. 1769 01:36:57,629 --> 01:37:01,442 So I went out there job hunting for the whole day, 1770 01:37:01,934 --> 01:37:04,338 and on the spot I got a sanitation job. 1771 01:37:06,639 --> 01:37:09,723 Santana Jr.: Months went by where I didn't have no money, 1772 01:37:09,743 --> 01:37:11,438 and there's nothin' I could do. 1773 01:37:11,458 --> 01:37:13,595 I can't get a job. 1774 01:37:13,759 --> 01:37:15,530 I was becoming a burden. 1775 01:37:15,684 --> 01:37:17,635 You know, here I am in my father's house, I'm eating 1776 01:37:17,655 --> 01:37:20,180 the food, you know, 'cause I'm a bigger guy 1777 01:37:20,200 --> 01:37:21,996 and I'm not contributin'. 1778 01:37:22,593 --> 01:37:24,676 I said, "I can't function." 1779 01:37:24,696 --> 01:37:26,747 That was my breaking point. 1780 01:37:27,331 --> 01:37:28,913 And so I said, "You know what?" 1781 01:37:28,933 --> 01:37:31,449 "I'm gonna just, I'm gonna get in the drug game." 1782 01:37:31,469 --> 01:37:33,203 And I started to sell drugs. 1783 01:37:54,204 --> 01:37:57,893 Dwyer: All of the jogger defendants have gone home 1784 01:37:57,913 --> 01:37:59,255 except one, Korey Wise. 1785 01:37:59,275 --> 01:38:01,478 He was the eldest of the group convicted and he had 1786 01:38:01,498 --> 01:38:02,988 the longest sentence. 1787 01:38:03,179 --> 01:38:05,328 And he had stopped going to the parole board... didn't even 1788 01:38:05,348 --> 01:38:07,846 bother going anymore to deny his guilt. 1789 01:38:09,198 --> 01:38:13,740 One day in late 2001, Matias Reyes meets him 1790 01:38:14,351 --> 01:38:16,125 at the Auburn prison. 1791 01:38:17,262 --> 01:38:19,552 Warren: This is the first time they had seen each other 1792 01:38:19,572 --> 01:38:23,393 since 1989, when both of them were at Rikers Island. 1793 01:38:23,995 --> 01:38:28,552 And at that time, they had a little incident in the TV room. 1794 01:38:28,791 --> 01:38:32,303 And it almost, you know escalated to blows. 1795 01:38:33,138 --> 01:38:35,561 Wise: He said, "I would like to apologize to you." 1796 01:38:35,730 --> 01:38:39,599 We had a fight at Rikers Island about a TV, and so forth. 1797 01:38:40,009 --> 01:38:43,502 I said, "Matias, ain't about nothin' man. Ha!" 1798 01:38:44,140 --> 01:38:48,493 "We here. It's not gonna free neither one of us. 1799 01:38:48,572 --> 01:38:49,567 Don't worry about it." 1800 01:38:49,587 --> 01:38:51,580 Reyes doesn't say anything to him, 1801 01:38:51,844 --> 01:38:55,584 but he starts talking to people in the prison. 1802 01:38:55,912 --> 01:38:58,840 "Hey, I met somebody who's doing time for a crime that he 1803 01:38:58,860 --> 01:39:01,010 didn't have anything to do with that I did myself." 1804 01:39:01,236 --> 01:39:04,263 They send up an investigator, and he takes this statement. 1805 01:39:04,538 --> 01:39:06,856 They send it down to the Manhattan D.A.'s office which 1806 01:39:06,876 --> 01:39:10,737 has no idea that this case from 13 years earlier, 1807 01:39:11,468 --> 01:39:14,352 which has long been stored and forgotten by everybody except 1808 01:39:14,372 --> 01:39:17,394 the people involved, is suddenly gonna come 1809 01:39:17,414 --> 01:39:18,698 back to life. 1810 01:39:21,377 --> 01:39:25,473 I showed them the top of the entrance, the direction she came by. 1811 01:39:27,163 --> 01:39:31,023 I showed them where I picked up the tree branch and down 1812 01:39:31,043 --> 01:39:34,161 the road where I dragged her in. 1813 01:39:35,945 --> 01:39:37,721 I'm the one that did this. 1814 01:39:42,657 --> 01:39:45,615 When I saw Korey Wise in Auburn, I saw in his eyes, 1815 01:39:45,635 --> 01:39:48,216 you know, the suffering that he's been going through, 1816 01:39:48,742 --> 01:39:51,887 to know that a man has suffered 13 years of his life 1817 01:39:51,907 --> 01:39:54,512 in jail for something that he has not done, 1818 01:39:54,616 --> 01:39:58,361 to know that all these kids got arrested for something 1819 01:39:58,381 --> 01:40:00,099 that they didn't do. 1820 01:40:00,881 --> 01:40:02,703 You want to know something? 1821 01:40:02,723 --> 01:40:04,889 I have done everything possible that I can come 1822 01:40:04,909 --> 01:40:06,674 forward and admit the truth. 1823 01:40:06,984 --> 01:40:10,145 I'm to the point where if people don't do something, 1824 01:40:10,165 --> 01:40:13,394 or if they don't do what's right, then, hey, 1825 01:40:13,647 --> 01:40:15,332 there's nothing else I can do. 1826 01:40:20,569 --> 01:40:26,394 To hear this after all the trials and tribulations 1827 01:40:26,414 --> 01:40:28,156 that I done been through... 1828 01:40:30,991 --> 01:40:38,913 the scuffle, the jumping on, the stabbin', 1829 01:40:41,867 --> 01:40:44,468 the whole unneeded package... 1830 01:40:47,240 --> 01:40:49,482 It felt so good! 1831 01:40:51,067 --> 01:40:54,596 Dwyer: Morgenthau's office begins an exhaustive re-examination 1832 01:40:54,616 --> 01:40:55,217 of the case. 1833 01:40:55,237 --> 01:40:58,175 And they pulled out the old files and they found the 1834 01:40:58,195 --> 01:41:02,813 unknown semen from the rape kit, and they matched Reyes. 1835 01:41:04,080 --> 01:41:05,921 Then they began to interview Reyes. 1836 01:41:06,033 --> 01:41:10,000 Reyes steps in 13 years later and immediately gives off 1837 01:41:10,020 --> 01:41:12,386 details that turn out to be verified and accurate that 1838 01:41:12,406 --> 01:41:13,654 the police didn't know. 1839 01:41:13,674 --> 01:41:17,419 He described her as having black running tights on 1840 01:41:17,439 --> 01:41:18,792 and a white T-shirt. 1841 01:41:18,812 --> 01:41:21,176 That's what Ms. Meili was wearing. 1842 01:41:21,196 --> 01:41:22,941 He tells them about the Walkman. 1843 01:41:23,072 --> 01:41:25,561 Turns out she did run with a Walkman. 1844 01:41:25,581 --> 01:41:28,119 Nobody knew it 'cause it wasn't found at the scene. 1845 01:41:28,246 --> 01:41:30,939 He describes how he took off her sneakers. 1846 01:41:30,959 --> 01:41:34,944 When the police came on the scene and they found her, 1847 01:41:34,964 --> 01:41:38,949 her sneakers were... one sneaker was in one location, 1848 01:41:38,969 --> 01:41:40,951 another sneaker was in another location. 1849 01:41:40,971 --> 01:41:44,097 He talked about taking her keys and trying to get her address 1850 01:41:44,219 --> 01:41:45,958 and then tossing the keys. 1851 01:41:45,978 --> 01:41:49,095 Well, that explained the dilemma about where her key was 1852 01:41:49,115 --> 01:41:50,476 'cause her door was locked. 1853 01:41:50,496 --> 01:41:54,868 These were details that even the most assiduous student 1854 01:41:54,888 --> 01:41:59,308 of the case would have had a hard time coming up with 1855 01:41:59,328 --> 01:42:00,876 as some kind of fake story. 1856 01:42:00,896 --> 01:42:06,716 There was no question that Reyes knew what had happened. 1857 01:42:06,736 --> 01:42:10,353 And his DNA was present on the scene and the way in which 1858 01:42:10,373 --> 01:42:12,224 he committed this crime was perfectly consistent with 1859 01:42:12,244 --> 01:42:14,559 the way he committed other crimes. 1860 01:42:14,579 --> 01:42:16,461 It stands to reason that Reyes was giving 1861 01:42:16,481 --> 01:42:18,202 an accurate statement. 1862 01:42:25,332 --> 01:42:26,796 McCray: I worked the third shift. 1863 01:42:26,816 --> 01:42:30,111 It was from 8:00 to 6:30 in the morning. 1864 01:42:30,825 --> 01:42:33,716 I got home, got out of the shower, about to watch 1865 01:42:33,736 --> 01:42:36,252 "Sportscenter," and my cousin called. 1866 01:42:36,272 --> 01:42:38,821 She was like, "Tron, Tron, turn on CNN." 1867 01:42:38,841 --> 01:42:40,290 And I'm like, "Why? What's going on?" 1868 01:42:40,310 --> 01:42:42,327 She was like, "The truth came out. The truth came out." 1869 01:42:42,347 --> 01:42:43,660 "The truth came out? What are you talking about?" 1870 01:42:43,680 --> 01:42:45,164 "Your case! Somebody that did it, 1871 01:42:45,184 --> 01:42:48,467 he told the truth, he confessed. He did it." 1872 01:42:48,487 --> 01:42:50,035 And I'm like, "Are you serious? 1873 01:42:50,055 --> 01:42:51,837 "Are you serious?" And I just started crying. 1874 01:42:51,857 --> 01:42:56,731 New DNA evidence conclusively connects Reyes to the victim. 1875 01:42:56,751 --> 01:42:58,546 Santana, Sr.: My son called me on a Saturday, 1876 01:42:58,566 --> 01:43:01,048 and I said, "I want you to sit down." 1877 01:43:01,068 --> 01:43:02,564 I got news for you." 1878 01:43:03,219 --> 01:43:05,438 And he said, "What news you got for me?" 1879 01:43:05,458 --> 01:43:07,156 "Get a chair, sit down. I'm gonna tell you." 1880 01:43:07,176 --> 01:43:09,960 He says, "Oh, you know, they found the guy that did it." 1881 01:43:09,980 --> 01:43:11,175 And I said, "What?" 1882 01:43:11,898 --> 01:43:14,263 And he says, "Yeah, they found the guy that 1883 01:43:14,283 --> 01:43:16,394 committed your case." 1884 01:43:16,667 --> 01:43:19,171 And I said... man, I gotta curse. 1885 01:43:19,191 --> 01:43:21,626 I said, "Get the fuck outta here." 1886 01:43:21,870 --> 01:43:24,478 He said, "No, for real. They found the guy." 1887 01:43:24,498 --> 01:43:26,370 "You're gonna be comin' home soon." 1888 01:43:26,390 --> 01:43:28,548 And I'm like, "Yeah, OK. Whatever." 1889 01:43:28,568 --> 01:43:29,885 He's the only one that has the hope. 1890 01:43:29,905 --> 01:43:32,320 But I'm like, "You know what? I'll talk to you later." 1891 01:43:34,108 --> 01:43:36,260 It started raining outside. 1892 01:43:36,655 --> 01:43:39,874 And I'm looking out the window, and I'm like, 1893 01:43:39,894 --> 01:43:42,439 "Damn. Did they really find this dude?" 1894 01:43:43,387 --> 01:43:45,990 And I'm thinking about this. Then I start crying. 1895 01:43:55,435 --> 01:43:57,885 Why are we here? The Central Park five! 1896 01:43:57,905 --> 01:44:00,521 Why are we here? The Central Park five! 1897 01:44:00,541 --> 01:44:01,928 In the snow! 1898 01:44:02,381 --> 01:44:05,104 Dwyer: There was a motion by the defense to overturn 1899 01:44:05,291 --> 01:44:07,845 the convictions on the grounds of newly discovered evidence. 1900 01:44:08,108 --> 01:44:12,732 And Morgenthau not only said that the new evidence 1901 01:44:12,752 --> 01:44:14,413 likely would have led to a different verdict, 1902 01:44:14,433 --> 01:44:19,877 he said to me and he said to others, "If we knew then 1903 01:44:20,056 --> 01:44:25,650 what we know now, we wouldn't have indicted these guys." 1904 01:44:26,833 --> 01:44:31,228 Koch: My faith in Robert Morgenthau is such that I don't 1905 01:44:31,248 --> 01:44:33,281 quarrel with his decision. 1906 01:44:33,301 --> 01:44:34,517 Warren: This is step one. 1907 01:44:34,537 --> 01:44:37,888 The response from the district attorney's office has been to 1908 01:44:37,908 --> 01:44:42,075 concede, or agree, or consent to our application that 1909 01:44:42,095 --> 01:44:43,497 the verdicts be set aside. 1910 01:44:43,517 --> 01:44:46,933 The judge has to make a formal ruling in that regard. 1911 01:44:47,130 --> 01:44:50,379 We expect for that ruling to be made forthwith. 1912 01:44:52,077 --> 01:44:54,913 Dinkins: I wanna share with you a statement from 1913 01:44:54,933 --> 01:44:58,086 District Attorney Robert Morgenthau's office. 1914 01:44:58,819 --> 01:45:00,309 The office said, 1915 01:45:00,329 --> 01:45:05,107 "A comparison of the statement... statements, reveals troubling discrepancies." 1916 01:45:06,121 --> 01:45:09,064 "Accounts given by the five defendants differed from one 1917 01:45:09,084 --> 01:45:12,531 another on the specific details of virtually every 1918 01:45:12,551 --> 01:45:14,718 major aspect of the crime: 1919 01:45:14,850 --> 01:45:16,568 Who initiated the attack; 1920 01:45:16,671 --> 01:45:18,229 Who knocked the victim down; 1921 01:45:18,249 --> 01:45:19,794 Who undressed her; Who struck her; 1922 01:45:20,070 --> 01:45:21,723 Who held her; Who raped her; 1923 01:45:21,836 --> 01:45:22,906 What weapons were used 1924 01:45:22,926 --> 01:45:24,518 in the course of the assault." 1925 01:45:24,538 --> 01:45:27,524 And went into the sequence of events the attack took place. 1926 01:45:28,041 --> 01:45:31,139 And some of what they said was simply contrary to 1927 01:45:31,159 --> 01:45:32,567 established fact. 1928 01:45:32,933 --> 01:45:36,383 Now, this is a damned shame. 1929 01:45:39,955 --> 01:45:41,953 Warren: I have an application at this time 1930 01:45:41,973 --> 01:45:45,869 on the behalf of all of the defendants: Korey Wise, 1931 01:45:45,889 --> 01:45:49,767 Yusef Salaam, Kevin Richardson, Raymond Santana, 1932 01:45:49,787 --> 01:45:52,779 and Antron McCray, all the indictments against each one 1933 01:45:52,799 --> 01:45:55,313 of them in their entirety be dismissed. 1934 01:45:55,596 --> 01:45:56,919 Motion is granted. 1935 01:45:56,939 --> 01:46:00,572 Everyone have a very Merry Christmas. Happy New Year. 1936 01:46:00,592 --> 01:46:01,708 Thank you! 1937 01:46:05,226 --> 01:46:07,841 Woman: The judge handling the review of the Central Park jogger case 1938 01:46:07,861 --> 01:46:09,972 has just ruled in the last hour that those 1939 01:46:09,992 --> 01:46:13,637 convictions against the five young men must be set aside. 1940 01:46:13,657 --> 01:46:16,194 It is a stunning reversal in one of the most controversial 1941 01:46:16,214 --> 01:46:18,553 crime cases in the city's history. 1942 01:46:20,808 --> 01:46:24,855 That was the best Christmas, ever... first... excuse me. 1943 01:46:24,875 --> 01:46:28,099 Best Christmas gift ever, and me and my mother, 1944 01:46:28,119 --> 01:46:29,697 we just hugged each other in our apartment 1945 01:46:29,717 --> 01:46:32,280 for seemed like forever. 1946 01:46:35,005 --> 01:46:36,771 That was a beautiful thing. 1947 01:46:39,400 --> 01:46:40,489 Still is. 1948 01:46:42,577 --> 01:46:44,912 I would always see these photos of my mother walking around 1949 01:46:44,932 --> 01:46:47,657 with a "Yusef is Innocent" shirt. 1950 01:46:47,677 --> 01:46:51,842 And then when they dropped all the charges, 1951 01:46:52,102 --> 01:46:54,009 she had her coat open 1952 01:46:54,029 --> 01:46:57,719 and the "Yusef is Innocent" shirt on and this huge smile 1953 01:46:57,739 --> 01:47:01,935 on her face like, not only did I told you so, but I'm 1954 01:47:01,955 --> 01:47:03,597 so happy today. 1955 01:47:05,916 --> 01:47:08,681 Woman: Now 4 of the 5 are out... they served long prison terms, 1956 01:47:08,701 --> 01:47:10,790 but Raymond Santana remains behind bars 1957 01:47:10,810 --> 01:47:12,446 on an unrelated conviction. 1958 01:47:12,466 --> 01:47:15,109 But the length of time that he's serving on a drug charge 1959 01:47:15,129 --> 01:47:17,609 was based upon the fact that he was a predicate felon, 1960 01:47:17,629 --> 01:47:19,852 his conviction in the Central Park jogger case. 1961 01:47:19,872 --> 01:47:23,341 So lawyers close to the case representing the five are telling me that they expect 1962 01:47:23,361 --> 01:47:26,530 to challenge that and try to get Raymond Santana home to 1963 01:47:26,550 --> 01:47:28,819 his parents before Christmas. 1964 01:47:29,525 --> 01:47:31,171 Santana Jr.: It was celebration. 1965 01:47:31,191 --> 01:47:33,734 All the guys jumped around. They, "Waaaa!" 1966 01:47:33,754 --> 01:47:35,302 They were all cheering. 1967 01:47:35,322 --> 01:47:39,133 "You goin' home. It's over. You goin' home." 1968 01:47:39,153 --> 01:47:41,030 The correctional officer said, "Well you know, there's a lot 1969 01:47:41,050 --> 01:47:42,566 of people out there." 1970 01:47:42,586 --> 01:47:45,040 "You wanna go through the back? I'll get a car for you." 1971 01:47:45,060 --> 01:47:46,898 "You know, you can go out the back way." 1972 01:47:47,089 --> 01:47:48,900 And I said, "Well, I'm a free man." 1973 01:47:48,920 --> 01:47:52,662 "I'm goin' out the front! Open that door and let's go!" 1974 01:47:52,964 --> 01:47:56,110 Amid a crush of cameras, Raymond Santana left jail 1975 01:47:56,130 --> 01:47:59,125 a free man, much to his father's joy. 1976 01:47:59,145 --> 01:48:02,341 I always believed he was innocent, from the beginning. 1977 01:48:03,576 --> 01:48:07,221 Santana Jr.: It took me back to that perp walk that they do. 1978 01:48:07,241 --> 01:48:11,321 And then now this time, it was a free man walk. 1979 01:48:11,341 --> 01:48:14,157 And it was definitely great to walk through that, you know, 1980 01:48:14,177 --> 01:48:16,384 and to hold my head up high. 1981 01:48:16,404 --> 01:48:18,768 And I said, "I told you we were innocent." 1982 01:48:20,535 --> 01:48:22,263 Santana, Sr.: This is a miracle. 1983 01:48:23,069 --> 01:48:26,614 And let me tell you, when I was in that yard, I was saying 1984 01:48:26,634 --> 01:48:29,928 I need to pray for him a lot. 1985 01:48:31,196 --> 01:48:35,110 They say if your prayer don't come out it did for me. 1986 01:48:35,130 --> 01:48:38,080 Because I pray a lot for that kid, and look. 1987 01:48:39,062 --> 01:48:41,835 That was the happiest day of my life, boy. 1988 01:48:50,146 --> 01:48:54,533 Wilder: I felt ashamed, actually, for New York and I also felt 1989 01:48:54,553 --> 01:48:59,991 extremely angry, because their innocence never got 1990 01:49:00,011 --> 01:49:02,066 the attention that their guilt did. 1991 01:49:02,508 --> 01:49:08,973 The furor around prosecuting them still drowns out 1992 01:49:09,846 --> 01:49:11,827 the good news of their innocence. 1993 01:49:12,072 --> 01:49:20,364 These were 5 kids who we tormented, we falsely accused, 1994 01:49:20,881 --> 01:49:26,416 we pilloried in the press, we attacked, we invented 1995 01:49:26,436 --> 01:49:29,856 phrases for the imagined crimes that we're 1996 01:49:29,876 --> 01:49:31,529 accusing them of. 1997 01:49:32,186 --> 01:49:34,517 And then we put them in jail. 1998 01:49:34,712 --> 01:49:36,531 We falsely convicted them. 1999 01:49:36,644 --> 01:49:39,281 And when the evidence turned out that they were 2000 01:49:39,301 --> 01:49:45,875 innocent and they were released, we gave a modest nod 2001 01:49:46,476 --> 01:49:50,054 to fairness, and we walked away from our crime. 2002 01:49:50,314 --> 01:49:55,538 It was a more interesting story when it was all about 2003 01:49:55,669 --> 01:50:00,140 a white woman that was raped by 5 black boys. 2004 01:50:00,490 --> 01:50:09,204 The coverage in 2002 was worse than what had happened in 1989. 2005 01:50:09,885 --> 01:50:15,699 More resistant to fact, more obstinate 2006 01:50:16,273 --> 01:50:17,950 about being wrong. 2007 01:50:20,617 --> 01:50:24,804 The police department commissioned this panel led by 2008 01:50:24,824 --> 01:50:27,028 a very distinguished lawyer named Mike Armstrong, 2009 01:50:27,169 --> 01:50:30,285 to review what had happened in the jogger case. 2010 01:50:30,305 --> 01:50:32,642 And the police department found that the police 2011 01:50:32,662 --> 01:50:35,093 department had done nothing wrong even though it had let 2012 01:50:35,113 --> 01:50:38,004 the right man get away and apparently had put the wrong 2013 01:50:38,024 --> 01:50:39,418 people in prison. 2014 01:50:40,863 --> 01:50:45,305 This was institutional protectionism that was going on. 2015 01:50:47,747 --> 01:50:51,868 Hancock: Linda Fairstein made a huge name for herself in part 2016 01:50:51,888 --> 01:50:53,644 because of this case. 2017 01:50:54,671 --> 01:50:56,829 It was extremely important to her profession 2018 01:50:56,849 --> 01:50:58,953 and her reputation. 2019 01:51:05,897 --> 01:51:10,637 So she's got a lot to lose by saying, "I got everything wrong" 2020 01:51:10,657 --> 01:51:13,291 "and I railroaded these kids into jail." 2021 01:51:15,018 --> 01:51:18,752 Whatever you do in life, you make mistakes, 2022 01:51:19,456 --> 01:51:22,254 and you either face your mistakes or you don't. 2023 01:51:23,475 --> 01:51:26,677 I don't think the press faced its mistakes. 2024 01:51:29,953 --> 01:51:32,264 I don't think the police department faced the truth 2025 01:51:32,284 --> 01:51:35,577 of what had happened because the truth of what had happened 2026 01:51:35,597 --> 01:51:37,097 is almost unbearable. 2027 01:51:37,660 --> 01:51:42,107 By prosecuting the wrong people for the Central Park 2028 01:51:42,127 --> 01:51:47,159 jogger case, Matias Reyes continued to hurt, 2029 01:51:47,179 --> 01:51:49,059 maim, and kill. 2030 01:51:49,661 --> 01:51:53,981 And they could have had him but they got stuck 2031 01:51:54,178 --> 01:51:55,324 with a mistake. 2032 01:51:55,999 --> 01:51:58,741 And they're still invested in that mistake. 2033 01:52:00,035 --> 01:52:01,829 Patricia Meili... 2034 01:52:04,768 --> 01:52:07,191 My brother, all the boys, 2035 01:52:07,451 --> 01:52:09,365 all of our families... 2036 01:52:10,219 --> 01:52:12,050 all of us are victims. 2037 01:52:15,435 --> 01:52:20,025 Nobody wants to look at the damage, the terror that they 2038 01:52:20,045 --> 01:52:22,015 put my family through. 2039 01:52:22,035 --> 01:52:25,013 Nobody wants to take responsibility. 2040 01:52:25,952 --> 01:52:29,377 I want us to remember what happened that day and be 2041 01:52:29,397 --> 01:52:33,389 horrified by ourselves because it really is a mirror 2042 01:52:33,617 --> 01:52:34,997 on our society. 2043 01:52:35,223 --> 01:52:38,686 And rather than tying it up in a bow and thinking that 2044 01:52:38,706 --> 01:52:40,685 there was something that we can take away from it 2045 01:52:40,705 --> 01:52:43,860 and we'll be better people, I think what we really need to 2046 01:52:43,880 --> 01:52:46,462 realize is that we're not very good people. 2047 01:52:47,105 --> 01:52:48,761 And we're often not. 2048 01:52:59,506 --> 01:53:01,130 Santana Jr.: I'm always behind. 2049 01:53:01,994 --> 01:53:04,859 Those years that it took from me, I lost a lot. 2050 01:53:04,879 --> 01:53:09,203 And even now at the age of 36 where I should be 2051 01:53:09,462 --> 01:53:13,987 fully in a career, have a house, a car, maybe married, 2052 01:53:14,007 --> 01:53:15,869 I don't have any of that. 2053 01:53:16,153 --> 01:53:18,650 And so I don't know how to regain that stuff anymore. 2054 01:53:18,847 --> 01:53:20,368 So I'm just here. 2055 01:53:22,922 --> 01:53:25,692 I lost my youth. 2056 01:53:26,788 --> 01:53:28,972 I lost 7 years of my life. 2057 01:53:31,230 --> 01:53:38,494 I lost that sense of being youthful and missing the 2058 01:53:38,514 --> 01:53:43,213 average things of going to school and going to the prom 2059 01:53:43,233 --> 01:53:46,428 and just livin' like average 14, 15 year-old kid. 2060 01:53:54,039 --> 01:53:56,537 Wise: You can forgive but you won't forget. 2061 01:53:57,937 --> 01:53:59,920 You won't forget what you done lost. 2062 01:54:02,512 --> 01:54:05,676 No money could bring that time back. 2063 01:54:06,386 --> 01:54:11,174 No money could bring the life that was missin' or the time 2064 01:54:11,194 --> 01:54:13,245 that was taken away bring back. 2065 01:54:14,285 --> 01:54:15,710 Nothin'. 2066 01:54:17,973 --> 01:54:21,832 Salaam: It hasn't become easier to live as an adult. 2067 01:54:21,852 --> 01:54:23,160 It's become harder. 2068 01:54:24,598 --> 01:54:28,623 It's always more difficult to do something if you have this 2069 01:54:28,643 --> 01:54:31,605 huge gap of your life taken away from you. 2070 01:54:32,581 --> 01:54:35,919 And it's not like just because they said, "OK, we're 2071 01:54:35,939 --> 01:54:39,957 vacating the convictions", that that vacated the whole prison term. 2072 01:54:40,126 --> 01:54:42,041 That whole prison term happened. 2073 01:54:42,191 --> 01:54:45,037 It was a reality. We really went through that. 2074 01:54:51,021 --> 01:54:52,927 McCray: I still struggle every day, 2075 01:54:53,581 --> 01:54:55,550 but I made it, you know. 2076 01:54:55,570 --> 01:54:57,396 Came home, didn't get in trouble. 2077 01:54:57,759 --> 01:54:59,677 Worked ever since I came home. 2078 01:54:59,981 --> 01:55:02,625 Pay taxes, take care of my kids. 2079 01:55:04,390 --> 01:55:06,123 I'm doing the best I can, so... 2080 01:55:07,276 --> 01:55:10,874 I told them I was going to make it. Told 'em. 2081 01:55:11,853 --> 01:55:13,629 The truth came out. 2082 01:55:14,770 --> 01:55:16,460 Truth came out. 2082 01:55:17,305 --> 01:55:23,839 Support us and become VIP member to remove all ads from www.OpenSubtitles.org 168776

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