The Central Park 5

  The Central Park 5 focuses on 5 young men from New York who are coerced to concede to a gang rape and beating of a white woman. The central park five case has been an iconic case in African American history, and is often compared to the notorious Scottsboro Boys case.
  These five young men,who range from the ages of 14-17, were basically in the wrong place at the wrong time. This documentary truly shows the difference of maturity and immaturity.But not in the aspect that these young boys were childish, but that they were still children. They said just about anything they could to get out of their situations, so as the police feed the made up scenario to them, they put it in their witness statement, unaware that they were convicting themselves.
  The discrepancies is this case helps highlight how prevalent racism's role was in this situation. DNA evidence didn't link the rape of the woman to any of these five suspects. More importantly, none of their stories linked to one another because each of them told a different story. According to the time line of each of their stories, it would have been impossible for them to have raped the woman in correlation to when she said she was in the park and when the rape happened.In addition, at three time of their arrest another man who was a little bit older than them had been arrested for serial sexual assault offenses but the police never even considered him being the one who raped the woman.
   What's striking to me about this case is that these young boy's freedom didn't get nor as much attention as their guilt. It wasn't until over a decade later that their cases were overturned, reasons due to that other man who had been arrested at the same time as them, confessing. Each of them, except the eldest had served their time.And to this day, the prosecuters of the case still maintains that the five has some relation to the case.Today, the central park five has a pending civil rights law suit against the New York police department. Due to our courts' ridiculous judicial system, their case still hasn't been heard. Even though the justice system says that these men got their freedom back, it's a lie. These men will forever have the stigma of the central park rape case over their head, and they will forever be known as the central park five.
   They will never get back their innocent years they spent in prison, they will never remember high school prom or graduation with their friends.Their childhood and life has forever been tainted and we all know that ain't freedom.