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These are the user uploaded subtitles that are being translated: 1 00:01:33,772 --> 00:01:35,708 Matias Reyes: I showed them the top of the entrance, 2 00:01:35,728 --> 00:01:37,951 the direction she came by. 3 00:01:40,019 --> 00:01:41,883 I showed them where she made the turn. 4 00:01:45,976 --> 00:01:49,037 I showed them where I picked up the tree branch 5 00:01:49,554 --> 00:01:52,047 and down the road where 6 00:01:52,067 --> 00:01:54,809 I struck her over the head with the tree branch 7 00:01:54,829 --> 00:01:57,376 and where I dragged her in. 8 00:02:00,823 --> 00:02:02,464 She just kept moaning, you know, 9 00:02:02,484 --> 00:02:04,792 saying stop, and grabbing her head. 10 00:02:04,812 --> 00:02:07,539 You know, because she was in pain and all that, you know. 11 00:02:09,772 --> 00:02:11,218 She was bleeding. 12 00:02:14,754 --> 00:02:17,538 I can't explain to you what happened after I left there, 13 00:02:17,558 --> 00:02:19,035 that park that night. 14 00:02:19,055 --> 00:02:22,529 But I can guarantee you, that there was no way these kids 15 00:02:22,549 --> 00:02:25,590 saw this woman come in or have a idea of 16 00:02:25,610 --> 00:02:27,395 where she was coming from. 17 00:02:29,630 --> 00:02:31,473 I'm the one that did this. 18 00:02:50,602 --> 00:02:52,103 - Ready? - Yeah. 19 00:02:52,499 --> 00:02:54,542 Approximately 1:30 this morning, ah, 20 00:02:54,562 --> 00:02:56,473 two males walking through Central Park 21 00:02:56,493 --> 00:03:00,832 north of the 102nd street jogging path found a female. 22 00:03:00,852 --> 00:03:03,411 She was still alive, and in fact still is alive. 23 00:03:03,431 --> 00:03:05,882 The female was clad only in a bra. 24 00:03:05,902 --> 00:03:08,420 She was lying exposed in the area, 25 00:03:08,440 --> 00:03:10,357 appeared to have been exposed for a couple of hours. 26 00:03:10,377 --> 00:03:12,762 Her body temperature was down very low. 27 00:03:12,782 --> 00:03:14,872 Around her mouth there's an article of clothing 28 00:03:14,892 --> 00:03:16,736 that was wrapped around her face, 29 00:03:16,756 --> 00:03:21,210 and the same article was used to bind her wrists to her face. 30 00:03:21,230 --> 00:03:23,348 She had been struck around the head repeatedly, 31 00:03:23,368 --> 00:03:24,650 mud on her body. 32 00:03:24,670 --> 00:03:27,141 She appears to have been dragged through the woods, 33 00:03:27,161 --> 00:03:29,760 north into the, ah, shrub area. 34 00:03:29,780 --> 00:03:32,502 She was taken to Metropolitan Hospital where she is classified 35 00:03:32,522 --> 00:03:34,673 as, ah, in serious condition. 36 00:03:42,001 --> 00:03:47,023 I look back at the jogger case and wish I had been 37 00:03:47,043 --> 00:03:49,250 more skeptical as a journalist. 38 00:03:49,916 --> 00:03:53,910 You know, a lot of people didn't do their jobs... 39 00:03:54,859 --> 00:03:59,380 reporters, police, prosecutors, defense lawyers. 40 00:03:59,400 --> 00:04:03,098 This was a proxy war being fought. 41 00:04:03,642 --> 00:04:06,805 And these young men were the proxies 42 00:04:06,825 --> 00:04:09,436 for all kinds of other agendas. 43 00:04:09,887 --> 00:04:14,313 And the truth and the reality and justice were not part of it. 44 00:04:31,663 --> 00:04:32,876 The bulls are galloping... 45 00:04:32,896 --> 00:04:34,880 Do you have a passport, Mr. Gotti? 46 00:04:34,900 --> 00:04:37,585 Given the alarming spread of aids, New York... 47 00:04:38,523 --> 00:04:40,173 If you don't like it, you're fired. 48 00:04:41,512 --> 00:04:42,827 Tom Brokaw: A savage racial attack... 49 00:04:42,847 --> 00:04:44,731 In the middle-class neighborhood of Howard Beach... 50 00:04:44,751 --> 00:04:46,969 A mob of whites attacked 3 black men... 51 00:04:46,989 --> 00:04:49,407 Peter Jennings: The mayor of New York called it a racial lynching. 52 00:04:49,427 --> 00:04:51,195 Yo, off with the camera, man. 53 00:04:55,036 --> 00:04:58,156 New York, under-policed city with crime out of control. 54 00:04:58,176 --> 00:05:00,546 The criminal justice system isn't working. 55 00:05:00,612 --> 00:05:02,762 They call him the subway vigilante. 56 00:05:02,782 --> 00:05:05,468 Dan Rather: Goetz bent over one of his wounded victims and said, 57 00:05:05,488 --> 00:05:07,272 "You don't look too bad. Here's another"... 58 00:05:07,292 --> 00:05:08,441 If I had more bullets, I would have shot them all 59 00:05:08,461 --> 00:05:09,642 again and again. 60 00:05:09,662 --> 00:05:11,364 It's about time someone stood up for himself. 61 00:05:13,836 --> 00:05:15,187 25-year-old Michael Stewart... 62 00:05:15,207 --> 00:05:16,624 16-year-old Yusef Hawkins... 63 00:05:16,644 --> 00:05:18,695 Where 67-year-old Eleanor Bumpers lived 64 00:05:18,715 --> 00:05:20,899 until police came to evict her and ended up killing her. 65 00:05:20,919 --> 00:05:24,104 New York is now the capital of racial violence. 66 00:05:24,124 --> 00:05:25,473 I am. People: I am! 67 00:05:25,493 --> 00:05:26,910 Somebody. Somebody! 68 00:05:26,930 --> 00:05:29,682 You want to use the gun, we'll use the gun. 69 00:05:29,702 --> 00:05:32,120 None of us is safe. Even if you lock yourself 70 00:05:32,140 --> 00:05:33,590 behind doors... 71 00:05:33,610 --> 00:05:35,828 There's now a new level of random violence in this city. 72 00:05:35,848 --> 00:05:40,203 It's intolerable and this city will rise up in its wrath 73 00:05:40,223 --> 00:05:42,826 against those who perpetrate monstrosities. 74 00:05:52,279 --> 00:05:54,431 Antron McCray: Harlem. 1989. 75 00:05:54,451 --> 00:05:58,406 My neighborhood, it's a small neighborhood. 76 00:05:58,426 --> 00:05:59,474 When I was younger, all the kids would say 77 00:05:59,494 --> 00:06:01,912 it was the suburbs of Harlem. 78 00:06:01,932 --> 00:06:04,202 It was like 3 different projects around my neighborhood. 79 00:06:06,707 --> 00:06:09,694 Raymond Santana, Kevin Richardson, 80 00:06:09,714 --> 00:06:14,336 Korey Wise, Yusef Salaam, I didn't know them, 81 00:06:14,356 --> 00:06:15,624 but I seen them around my neighborhood. 82 00:06:25,411 --> 00:06:26,995 I lived in the Bronx at one time, 83 00:06:27,015 --> 00:06:29,200 and the Bronx is more quiet life. 84 00:06:29,220 --> 00:06:31,671 You know, um, even though it was the projects. 85 00:06:31,691 --> 00:06:35,946 It was very secluded, everybody knew each other. 86 00:06:35,966 --> 00:06:38,952 When I moved to Harlem, Harlem was very fast-paced. 87 00:06:38,972 --> 00:06:40,087 Everything moved fast. 88 00:06:40,107 --> 00:06:43,728 The cars moved fast; The people; The, the lingo. 89 00:06:43,748 --> 00:06:44,915 It was a big culture shock. 90 00:06:48,122 --> 00:06:49,707 McCray: I was the only child. 91 00:06:49,727 --> 00:06:52,411 And me and my mother, we was close, 92 00:06:52,431 --> 00:06:55,317 but my father was my best friend. 93 00:06:55,337 --> 00:06:57,488 I thought he was like a superhero. 94 00:06:57,508 --> 00:07:00,461 He coached all of my little league teams. 95 00:07:00,481 --> 00:07:01,615 He was a great teacher. 96 00:07:03,519 --> 00:07:06,273 I played shortstop, I played pitcher. 97 00:07:06,293 --> 00:07:07,508 In little league, you get to play everything... 98 00:07:07,528 --> 00:07:10,214 outfield, catcher. 99 00:07:10,234 --> 00:07:11,801 But my favorite position was shortstop. 100 00:07:19,151 --> 00:07:20,901 Santana, Jr.: My dad is from Puerto Rico. 101 00:07:20,921 --> 00:07:23,607 My mother's a mix of Puerto Rican and Black. 102 00:07:23,627 --> 00:07:25,744 So, my dad is, like, light-skinned Puerto Ricans. 103 00:07:25,764 --> 00:07:28,382 And my mother's side was more, like, dark skin. 104 00:07:28,402 --> 00:07:30,939 You know, so we have, like, the best of both worlds. 105 00:07:37,019 --> 00:07:39,338 I used to ride skateboards. 106 00:07:39,358 --> 00:07:42,544 I used to play things like hide and go seek and, you know, 107 00:07:42,564 --> 00:07:44,615 used to run around with a lot of the people 108 00:07:44,635 --> 00:07:45,568 from the neighborhood. 109 00:07:47,940 --> 00:07:50,225 As a kid, I knew Yusef 110 00:07:50,245 --> 00:07:52,529 and I must say he was a good kid. 111 00:07:52,549 --> 00:07:57,941 Ah, he had, ah... Him and his family ah, had just moved 112 00:07:57,961 --> 00:07:59,896 into the Schomburg Complex. 113 00:08:03,171 --> 00:08:06,525 Korey and Yusef, we grew up in the same buildin'. 114 00:08:06,545 --> 00:08:09,398 So, you know, of course I've seen 'em around and our parents 115 00:08:09,418 --> 00:08:11,652 knew each other from just day-to-day. 116 00:08:15,762 --> 00:08:17,947 Salaam: It was my mother, my sister, and my brother. 117 00:08:17,967 --> 00:08:20,084 And my mother was a single parent, 118 00:08:20,104 --> 00:08:21,572 teaching at Parsons University. 119 00:08:23,444 --> 00:08:27,131 She encouraged all of us to do good work, good quality work. 120 00:08:27,151 --> 00:08:28,119 Whatever we did. 121 00:08:31,560 --> 00:08:33,778 Wise: When I was a kid, had a little hearin', 122 00:08:33,798 --> 00:08:34,932 little hearin' problem. 123 00:08:38,106 --> 00:08:41,760 But I just found myself just ignorin' it to the point 124 00:08:41,780 --> 00:08:44,283 where it affected my life. 125 00:08:47,825 --> 00:08:50,010 I grew up with a big family. 126 00:08:50,030 --> 00:08:51,913 A lot of women in my family. 127 00:08:51,933 --> 00:08:54,619 My mother plus 4 sisters. 128 00:08:54,639 --> 00:08:57,692 Woman: He's the baby and he was treated as such. 129 00:08:57,712 --> 00:09:03,336 And, you know, mama's only boy out of 5 children and the baby. 130 00:09:03,356 --> 00:09:06,326 So he was just our hearts', like, joy, everybody's. 131 00:09:09,434 --> 00:09:10,651 Santana, Jr.: At that time I was 132 00:09:10,671 --> 00:09:11,686 just getting into music. 133 00:09:11,706 --> 00:09:15,553 Watching videos. "MTV Raps" was kinda big, 134 00:09:15,573 --> 00:09:16,633 so, we, we watched that. 135 00:09:16,653 --> 00:09:19,282 We would record the videos and we would watch 'em over and over 136 00:09:19,302 --> 00:09:20,859 and over all day, you know. 137 00:09:20,879 --> 00:09:22,657 You know, my dad would come in the house, say, 138 00:09:22,677 --> 00:09:24,971 "You still watching that video from when I left?" 139 00:09:24,991 --> 00:09:27,061 You know, that's how far my range was. 140 00:09:28,338 --> 00:09:33,247 I think that I was at that point of coming into who I was, 141 00:09:33,267 --> 00:09:36,486 you know, but I never really... I never really got there. 142 00:09:53,781 --> 00:09:57,263 New York in the late 1980s was a completely 143 00:09:57,283 --> 00:10:00,732 schizophrenic, divided city. 144 00:10:00,752 --> 00:10:03,865 There was enormous wealth gushing into the city 145 00:10:03,885 --> 00:10:08,334 out of the rise of the financial industries, which had surged 146 00:10:08,354 --> 00:10:10,452 beginning around 1980. 147 00:10:11,755 --> 00:10:15,470 So, the city that had been in a big collapse 148 00:10:15,490 --> 00:10:19,170 for several decades had turned around. 149 00:10:19,190 --> 00:10:25,506 But there was a whole side to the city in which drug gangsters 150 00:10:25,526 --> 00:10:31,442 and crack and a kind of hard, permanently locked underclass 151 00:10:31,462 --> 00:10:32,441 was in place. 152 00:10:32,461 --> 00:10:34,028 And there was enormous suffering. 153 00:10:36,329 --> 00:10:39,810 It was as if there was a social moat 154 00:10:39,830 --> 00:10:41,963 that divided these two New Yorks. 155 00:10:50,733 --> 00:10:53,749 The city, when I came in, uh, was on the edge of, uh, 156 00:10:53,769 --> 00:10:58,184 bankruptcy, and people thought we would not, uh, recover. 157 00:10:58,204 --> 00:10:59,684 We were a city coming out of 158 00:10:59,704 --> 00:11:03,586 a series of crises and an enormous economic crisis. 159 00:11:03,606 --> 00:11:06,620 A school system that was in collapse; 160 00:11:06,640 --> 00:11:08,687 political institutions that seemed to be failing the people 161 00:11:08,707 --> 00:11:11,389 and not meeting their needs; 162 00:11:11,409 --> 00:11:13,322 old, fashionable, beautiful, 163 00:11:13,342 --> 00:11:16,357 noble neighborhoods falling apart. 164 00:11:16,377 --> 00:11:20,392 Koch: And, of course, overriding was crime. 165 00:11:20,412 --> 00:11:23,826 Several things happened to me that I just considered 166 00:11:23,846 --> 00:11:26,594 normal part of living in New York City. 167 00:11:26,614 --> 00:11:29,461 A couple of muggings and near muggings 168 00:11:29,481 --> 00:11:32,295 and I didn't even report any of these things. 169 00:11:32,315 --> 00:11:34,180 Just kind of figured it's the way it is. 170 00:11:35,482 --> 00:11:37,398 People had it worked out in their heads 171 00:11:37,418 --> 00:11:41,565 that their block was safe, the streets they walked 172 00:11:41,585 --> 00:11:44,399 to get to the subway to go to work, they were OK. 173 00:11:44,419 --> 00:11:47,100 Their subway line, they got on the same spot 174 00:11:47,120 --> 00:11:49,134 on the train every day. 175 00:11:49,154 --> 00:11:50,635 That was OK. 176 00:11:50,655 --> 00:11:56,369 They had figured out a safe path through this, ah... 177 00:11:56,389 --> 00:11:58,455 You know, garden of terrors. 178 00:12:01,291 --> 00:12:08,007 Koch: And then in about '84, crack came to New York City 179 00:12:08,027 --> 00:12:10,307 and that increased crime. 180 00:12:10,327 --> 00:12:13,609 No question, uh, about it. 181 00:12:13,629 --> 00:12:15,309 Wilder: When the crack wars happen, 182 00:12:15,329 --> 00:12:19,611 all of a sudden teenagers have lots of cash and guns. 183 00:12:19,631 --> 00:12:23,179 And all hell breaks loose in Bedford-Stuyvesant, 184 00:12:23,199 --> 00:12:24,746 all hell breaks loose in Harlem, 185 00:12:24,766 --> 00:12:28,014 all hell breaks loose in Brownsville, East New York. 186 00:12:28,034 --> 00:12:29,782 We were supposed to be afraid. 187 00:12:29,802 --> 00:12:32,948 It would have been irrational not to be afraid. 188 00:12:32,968 --> 00:12:36,950 But the people who suffered most with the rise of criminality, 189 00:12:36,970 --> 00:12:41,452 gang wars, drug wars, were actually the people we blamed. 190 00:12:41,472 --> 00:12:45,553 Most of the homicides were young, poor, 191 00:12:45,573 --> 00:12:49,120 working class black and brown kids. 192 00:12:49,140 --> 00:12:51,322 And the dominant social message was 193 00:12:51,342 --> 00:12:53,874 no one cared if you lived or died. 194 00:13:01,844 --> 00:13:04,826 As far as I'm concerned, in the late eighties, 195 00:13:04,846 --> 00:13:09,027 in New York City, the black community was under assault. 196 00:13:09,047 --> 00:13:12,562 "The most endangered species in America," 197 00:13:12,582 --> 00:13:17,515 that was a popular phrase, was the young black man. 198 00:13:31,620 --> 00:13:33,869 Richardson: It was a nice night. 199 00:13:33,889 --> 00:13:37,870 We was just, um, just hanging out outside, playing basketball 200 00:13:37,890 --> 00:13:39,155 where I lived at in Schomburg. 201 00:13:41,224 --> 00:13:42,872 Santana, Jr.: It was a holiday coming up. 202 00:13:42,892 --> 00:13:45,007 We didn't have school. 203 00:13:45,027 --> 00:13:46,640 A couple of friends wanted to go hang out. 204 00:13:46,660 --> 00:13:49,075 I told him, you know, ah, 205 00:13:49,095 --> 00:13:51,475 "Too much trouble in the corner. 206 00:13:51,495 --> 00:13:53,575 Um, go to the park." 207 00:13:53,595 --> 00:13:55,361 I sent him to that park that night. 208 00:13:58,063 --> 00:13:59,529 So, I feel guilt, too. 209 00:14:04,998 --> 00:14:06,680 Wise: I was comin' from a restaurant 210 00:14:06,700 --> 00:14:09,548 on the corner of 110th street. 211 00:14:09,568 --> 00:14:11,300 We walked over to 110th street. 212 00:14:12,901 --> 00:14:16,783 Almost in front of the entrance to Schomburg Plaza. 213 00:14:16,803 --> 00:14:21,652 Comin' from 110th and Madison, there was a group of people. 214 00:14:21,672 --> 00:14:26,905 I see this mob turning the corner. 215 00:14:28,540 --> 00:14:31,221 Wise: Good kids and bad kids. 216 00:14:31,241 --> 00:14:35,423 Kids just out to have some fun. 217 00:14:35,443 --> 00:14:37,724 McCray: Some of them I didn't know by face; 218 00:14:37,744 --> 00:14:39,558 some of them went to my school; 219 00:14:39,578 --> 00:14:41,009 some of them lived in my neighborhood. 220 00:14:42,411 --> 00:14:44,293 Yusef came my way. 221 00:14:44,313 --> 00:14:45,293 I see Korey. I said, 222 00:14:45,313 --> 00:14:46,726 "Hey, come and hang out. 223 00:14:46,746 --> 00:14:48,494 We're about to hang out in the park." 224 00:14:48,514 --> 00:14:52,495 A close friend of mine, he stayed back. 225 00:14:52,515 --> 00:14:55,230 We was all playing basketball and he was like, "Don't go." 226 00:14:55,250 --> 00:14:56,281 Like, stay here." 227 00:14:58,016 --> 00:14:59,516 Next thing I know, we was going into the park. 228 00:15:10,653 --> 00:15:12,836 Wise: Walk in, a few of the guys 229 00:15:12,856 --> 00:15:14,703 horse playin' with each other. 230 00:15:14,723 --> 00:15:16,736 Jumpin' on each other's back, beatin' each other up. 231 00:15:16,756 --> 00:15:17,870 Just horse playin'. 232 00:15:17,890 --> 00:15:19,822 We start going towards the main road. 233 00:15:22,157 --> 00:15:24,090 And people started throwing rocks at the cars. 234 00:15:26,326 --> 00:15:29,475 A couple, they was on a tandem bike. 235 00:15:29,495 --> 00:15:32,608 And some kids is harassing 'em or sayin' something to them. 236 00:15:32,628 --> 00:15:34,109 Looked like they was trying to pull 'em off 237 00:15:34,129 --> 00:15:37,877 and the bicyclists kept they, held their balance 238 00:15:37,897 --> 00:15:40,245 and they just kept goin'. 239 00:15:40,265 --> 00:15:43,012 A homeless person starts walking across the street 240 00:15:43,032 --> 00:15:45,064 and the guys surround him. 241 00:15:46,632 --> 00:15:48,647 McCray: He had some food. 242 00:15:48,667 --> 00:15:49,682 Some of the guys out of the group 243 00:15:49,702 --> 00:15:52,299 took his food, beat him up. 244 00:15:53,801 --> 00:15:55,883 Salaam: They were beating this guy up really badly, 245 00:15:55,903 --> 00:15:59,218 and at some point in time someone poured out 246 00:15:59,238 --> 00:16:03,352 a beer bottle, and then smashed him in the head with it. 247 00:16:03,372 --> 00:16:04,919 You know, it was kinda unbelievable 248 00:16:04,939 --> 00:16:07,754 to see that and, and to see, like, this guy getting, 249 00:16:07,774 --> 00:16:10,472 you know, jumped on by all these teenagers. 250 00:16:12,407 --> 00:16:16,324 McCray: I remember police coming, everybody split up. 251 00:16:16,344 --> 00:16:18,258 Santana, Jr.: They shined a light and the group kind of 252 00:16:18,278 --> 00:16:21,058 dispersed. Everybody ran. 253 00:16:21,078 --> 00:16:24,259 That's when it was time for me to go home. 254 00:16:24,279 --> 00:16:27,146 I left the park when everybody scattered. 255 00:16:29,347 --> 00:16:31,228 Santana, Jr.: We was gonna leave but somebody said, 256 00:16:31,248 --> 00:16:32,762 "Well, let's go find the rest of the guys 257 00:16:32,782 --> 00:16:33,896 "and we'll break out. 258 00:16:33,916 --> 00:16:35,781 "We'll go home." And that's what we did. 259 00:16:38,650 --> 00:16:42,220 Salaam: We crossed down onto the 96th street traverse 260 00:16:42,240 --> 00:16:44,892 and climbed up the rocks to the other side. 261 00:16:44,912 --> 00:16:46,111 We was by a reservoir. 262 00:16:48,249 --> 00:16:51,601 I remember a man running by and some kids that are 263 00:16:51,621 --> 00:16:53,705 throwing rocks at him. 264 00:16:53,725 --> 00:16:55,842 And he kept running. 265 00:16:55,862 --> 00:16:58,179 Another person came running by. 266 00:16:58,199 --> 00:17:00,215 And when he got in the middle, they kind of came out 267 00:17:00,235 --> 00:17:02,185 and they jumped on him. 268 00:17:02,205 --> 00:17:05,607 We was watching from a distance. I didn't take part in that. 269 00:17:08,046 --> 00:17:10,464 And I'm like, wow, this guy just picked him up 270 00:17:10,484 --> 00:17:12,033 and threw him into the gate. 271 00:17:12,053 --> 00:17:14,203 Then he just starts punching him and beating him. 272 00:17:14,223 --> 00:17:16,258 And then somebody yelled, "Police." 273 00:17:18,229 --> 00:17:20,712 Richardson: Commotion. 274 00:17:20,732 --> 00:17:22,081 Some kids, like, running that way, 275 00:17:22,101 --> 00:17:24,518 and some kids going the other way. 276 00:17:24,538 --> 00:17:26,222 Trying to find our way outside, 277 00:17:26,242 --> 00:17:27,274 out of the park. 278 00:17:28,878 --> 00:17:31,497 McCray: I think it was between, like, 9:00 and 10:00. 279 00:17:31,517 --> 00:17:33,800 I was leaving the park around that time, 280 00:17:33,820 --> 00:17:34,853 because I had a curfew. 281 00:17:38,259 --> 00:17:41,010 Salaam: I remember walking with this small group to the 1, 282 00:17:41,030 --> 00:17:42,665 2, and the 3 train on Broadway. 283 00:17:44,636 --> 00:17:46,185 The only crime I committed that night 284 00:17:46,205 --> 00:17:47,740 was I hopped the turnstile. 285 00:17:50,711 --> 00:17:52,595 Santana, Jr.: On Central Park West, 286 00:17:52,615 --> 00:17:54,231 a car pulled up in front of me 287 00:17:54,251 --> 00:17:55,866 and two officers jumped out. 288 00:17:55,886 --> 00:17:59,406 And one grabbed me. And, um... And, 289 00:17:59,426 --> 00:18:01,642 and when I turned back, the crowd scattered 290 00:18:01,662 --> 00:18:02,711 and everybody ran. 291 00:18:02,731 --> 00:18:05,649 Police was chasing me and I had 292 00:18:05,669 --> 00:18:08,487 nowhere else to go, so, there was a wall and you jump 293 00:18:08,507 --> 00:18:11,624 over the wall, you go back into the park. 294 00:18:11,644 --> 00:18:13,494 They handcuffed us and put in the car. 295 00:18:13,514 --> 00:18:15,464 And then his partner ran and he jumped over the wall 296 00:18:15,484 --> 00:18:17,451 into the park and he took off. 297 00:18:19,456 --> 00:18:22,942 Richardson: Somebody told me to, "Freeze or I will shoot." 298 00:18:22,962 --> 00:18:26,247 My fear even went up more so I just kept runnin'. 299 00:18:26,267 --> 00:18:28,450 One of the cops, he tackled me. 300 00:18:28,470 --> 00:18:32,189 All my clothes was just all dirty and muddy. 301 00:18:32,209 --> 00:18:36,997 And he had a helmet, and he swung it across my face. 302 00:18:37,017 --> 00:18:38,718 And he handcuffed me and I said, um... 303 00:18:50,570 --> 00:18:54,458 I thinks he said, um, like, "What's goin' on?" 304 00:18:54,478 --> 00:18:57,327 And he said, 305 00:18:57,347 --> 00:19:00,567 he was like, you know, "Didn't I tell you not to run?" 306 00:19:00,587 --> 00:19:03,137 Like, you, it's like "You little, little animal" 307 00:19:03,157 --> 00:19:05,807 or something. 308 00:19:05,827 --> 00:19:11,601 So, um, I basically said, "Oh, I didn't do nothin', you know." 309 00:19:15,576 --> 00:19:17,927 And we sat in the police cars for a while. 310 00:19:17,947 --> 00:19:19,328 They rounded up a few people 311 00:19:19,348 --> 00:19:22,284 and we proceeded to the precinct. 312 00:19:35,739 --> 00:19:37,289 Santana, Jr.: They brung us in. 313 00:19:37,309 --> 00:19:39,759 They took shots, ah... photos of us 314 00:19:39,779 --> 00:19:40,980 and then they put us in a room. 315 00:19:43,050 --> 00:19:45,501 Richardson: 14. Never got arrested. 316 00:19:45,521 --> 00:19:48,807 Never had handcuffs on me. 317 00:19:48,827 --> 00:19:49,928 Scared to death. 318 00:19:51,264 --> 00:19:54,015 I could recall one cop lookin' at me. 319 00:19:54,035 --> 00:19:58,888 He says, "What's that on your face?" 320 00:19:58,908 --> 00:20:02,962 And ha, I, I said, um, "One of your one, of your, 321 00:20:02,982 --> 00:20:04,632 your fellow workers hit me." 322 00:20:04,652 --> 00:20:07,837 And he said, "One of my, my fellow workers?" 323 00:20:07,857 --> 00:20:10,107 Where at? Come point him out to me." 324 00:20:10,127 --> 00:20:12,061 You know, like I was lying. 325 00:20:14,766 --> 00:20:17,618 They asked me what was going on next, and the guys are sayin', 326 00:20:17,638 --> 00:20:19,688 "We'll give you a ticket for family court and you'll, 327 00:20:19,708 --> 00:20:22,226 you'll be right outta here in no, in no time soon." 328 00:20:22,246 --> 00:20:24,814 We were sitting there for a long time. 329 00:20:33,494 --> 00:20:35,579 Richardson: It took a while but they 330 00:20:35,599 --> 00:20:38,068 begin to call parents. 331 00:20:40,005 --> 00:20:43,309 Black: My mother received a call from the precinct 332 00:20:43,359 --> 00:20:46,508 and they told her to come pick up Kevin up from, um, 333 00:20:46,528 --> 00:20:49,244 it was the Central Park precinct and that he had been picked up 334 00:20:49,264 --> 00:20:52,714 for, I believe it was unlawful assembly. 335 00:20:52,734 --> 00:20:56,784 3 policemen knock on my door and say, 336 00:20:56,804 --> 00:20:59,420 "Oh, you ain't know your son was in the police station?" 337 00:20:59,440 --> 00:21:00,955 I said, "No." 338 00:21:00,975 --> 00:21:02,923 And they tell me, "Come on, let's go." 339 00:21:02,943 --> 00:21:04,425 I had to get dressed. 340 00:21:04,445 --> 00:21:06,694 And then my mother was there, 341 00:21:06,714 --> 00:21:08,028 and she got scared. 342 00:21:08,048 --> 00:21:09,864 And she said, "I going with you." 343 00:21:09,884 --> 00:21:12,867 So, she went with me. 344 00:21:12,887 --> 00:21:15,635 I started seeing a lot of parents. 345 00:21:15,655 --> 00:21:18,505 We feelin' a little better, you know, 346 00:21:18,525 --> 00:21:21,726 thinkin' that we, that we gonna be OK. 347 00:21:33,638 --> 00:21:35,254 Woman: The jogger was discovered about 348 00:21:35,274 --> 00:21:38,057 1:30 in the morning by passersby. 349 00:21:38,077 --> 00:21:42,961 She was in the underbrush in the northern reaches of the park 350 00:21:42,981 --> 00:21:46,564 and she was taken to Metropolitan Hospital. 351 00:21:46,584 --> 00:21:48,633 Dwyer: Her skull was fractured. 352 00:21:48,653 --> 00:21:53,272 She lost a good deal of her body fluids. 353 00:21:53,292 --> 00:21:56,859 She was virtually dead. 354 00:21:58,662 --> 00:22:02,613 The kids were about to be released when a detective 355 00:22:02,633 --> 00:22:06,016 who realized the gravity of the injuries of the victim 356 00:22:06,036 --> 00:22:10,720 called the precinct and said, "Hold on to those guys." 357 00:22:10,740 --> 00:22:12,355 And it was from that moment forward 358 00:22:12,375 --> 00:22:16,478 that everything plowed towards them. 359 00:22:19,281 --> 00:22:21,431 Black: The next time I heard from my mother, 360 00:22:21,451 --> 00:22:22,498 she woke me up. 361 00:22:22,518 --> 00:22:23,666 And, ah, she says, 362 00:22:23,686 --> 00:22:26,068 "I'm still here at the precinct." 363 00:22:26,088 --> 00:22:27,604 And I says, "Well, why are you still there?" 364 00:22:27,624 --> 00:22:30,339 And she said, um, "Well, they sayin' 365 00:22:30,359 --> 00:22:32,007 they waitin' for paperwork." 366 00:22:32,027 --> 00:22:33,609 I was wondering what's wrong. 367 00:22:33,629 --> 00:22:36,211 And I told 'em if I could see my son because I saw him next door 368 00:22:36,231 --> 00:22:38,179 in the room with all the kids. 369 00:22:38,199 --> 00:22:41,516 And they said, "No, you gotta wait till morning." 370 00:22:41,536 --> 00:22:45,186 So I tell my mother, "Stay with him and let me to go to work." 371 00:22:45,206 --> 00:22:47,655 They probably gonna release him in the morning anyway. 372 00:22:47,675 --> 00:22:51,477 I don't see nothin' wrong and I went to work. 373 00:23:04,991 --> 00:23:07,174 Dwyer: Initially, the case was going to be handled 374 00:23:07,194 --> 00:23:09,142 by the Central Park precinct. 375 00:23:09,162 --> 00:23:13,580 But she was thought to be near death, and homicide cases are 376 00:23:13,600 --> 00:23:16,315 handled typically by these homicide squads. 377 00:23:16,335 --> 00:23:20,419 And Manhattan North was a prestigious bunch 378 00:23:20,439 --> 00:23:21,420 of detectives 379 00:23:21,440 --> 00:23:23,523 with a great deal of pride in their work 380 00:23:23,543 --> 00:23:26,259 and swagger in their step. 381 00:23:26,279 --> 00:23:31,296 Two prosecutors, Linda Fairstein and Elizabeth Lederer. 382 00:23:31,316 --> 00:23:33,966 They were part of the investigation. 383 00:23:33,986 --> 00:23:36,935 And they were operating not only as prosecutors 384 00:23:36,955 --> 00:23:37,887 but investigators. 385 00:23:43,426 --> 00:23:46,344 Byfield: I was getting ready for work 386 00:23:46,364 --> 00:23:48,713 and I heard the news. 387 00:23:48,733 --> 00:23:53,685 And instantly your mind goes into the calculus. 388 00:23:53,705 --> 00:23:54,785 An unidentified white woman 389 00:23:54,805 --> 00:23:56,787 found raped in Northern Central Park. 390 00:23:56,807 --> 00:23:57,988 Oh. 391 00:23:58,008 --> 00:23:59,723 I think virtually every 392 00:23:59,743 --> 00:24:02,092 ethnic and racial group in New York has these moments where 393 00:24:02,112 --> 00:24:05,462 you, your, your heart just sort of stops and your stomach turns 394 00:24:05,482 --> 00:24:08,264 and you think to yourself, oh, please don't let it be us. 395 00:24:08,284 --> 00:24:11,234 ...Police have 5 teenagers in custody right now... 396 00:24:11,254 --> 00:24:13,436 Richardson: First we was all together. 397 00:24:13,456 --> 00:24:18,225 Then they started to put us in different rooms separately. 398 00:24:20,329 --> 00:24:22,011 Different cops coming back and forth. 399 00:24:22,031 --> 00:24:25,248 And one cop sayin', "Well, we just heard that a woman was" 400 00:24:25,268 --> 00:24:28,417 raped and beaten in the park." 401 00:24:28,437 --> 00:24:30,452 Now he says, "What happened to the lady?" 402 00:24:30,472 --> 00:24:32,754 And I'm saying, "What lady?" 403 00:24:32,774 --> 00:24:34,957 And he says, "What do you mean what lady?" 404 00:24:34,977 --> 00:24:37,658 The lady who got raped in the park." 405 00:24:37,678 --> 00:24:39,361 I say, "Yeah, I was in the park." 406 00:24:39,381 --> 00:24:43,297 "And I was, yeah, I was, you know, all around. 407 00:24:43,317 --> 00:24:44,298 But that I don't know about." 408 00:24:44,318 --> 00:24:45,400 "What do you mean you don't know? 409 00:24:45,420 --> 00:24:46,701 You just... " And I said, " No. 410 00:24:46,721 --> 00:24:49,971 Never came across no lady." 411 00:24:49,991 --> 00:24:51,639 So now we going back through the statement 412 00:24:51,659 --> 00:24:53,007 from the top, again. 413 00:24:53,027 --> 00:24:54,875 "What did you do?" "Who were you with?" 414 00:24:54,895 --> 00:24:58,945 "Who did you come with?" And, um, same answers again. 415 00:24:58,965 --> 00:25:01,114 They gettin' a little angry 'cause I guess 416 00:25:01,134 --> 00:25:03,636 they not gettin' a word outta anybody. 417 00:25:05,371 --> 00:25:07,754 Dwyer: The detectives are trying to piece together 418 00:25:07,774 --> 00:25:10,723 a narrative of what happened and they're trying to make it fit 419 00:25:10,743 --> 00:25:14,094 what they know happened: A woman ended up 420 00:25:14,114 --> 00:25:18,131 at the bottom of a ravine in the park almost dead 421 00:25:18,151 --> 00:25:21,533 and a bunch of other people got hassled or hurt 422 00:25:21,553 --> 00:25:22,835 in some way by these kids. 423 00:25:22,855 --> 00:25:27,573 So, they're trying to make the story climb 424 00:25:27,593 --> 00:25:29,441 some sort of ladder of facts. 425 00:25:29,461 --> 00:25:33,145 All hell is breaking loose in Central Park that night. 426 00:25:33,165 --> 00:25:36,782 And there are gangs of kids running around making mischief. 427 00:25:36,802 --> 00:25:39,951 It's not so hard to understand why these kids were brought in, 428 00:25:39,971 --> 00:25:43,021 why they were interrogated so aggressively, 429 00:25:43,041 --> 00:25:46,924 why police believed they had amongst them 430 00:25:46,944 --> 00:25:49,660 the culprit or culprits. 431 00:25:49,680 --> 00:25:51,347 Now they just have to get the proof of it. 432 00:25:53,650 --> 00:25:55,399 Santana, Jr.: Another detective came into the room, 433 00:25:55,419 --> 00:25:57,100 he called my grandmother. 434 00:25:57,120 --> 00:26:00,437 And he said, "Listen, can I talk to you outside for a minute?" 435 00:26:00,457 --> 00:26:03,573 And when he took her outside, that's when it started. 436 00:26:03,593 --> 00:26:04,941 He looks at me. He's like, 437 00:26:04,961 --> 00:26:08,110 "Oh, this is the scumbag right here that did it." 438 00:26:08,130 --> 00:26:10,547 Richardson: I remember one guy specifically tell me, 439 00:26:10,567 --> 00:26:13,249 "You want to spend 25 to life on Rikers Island?" 440 00:26:13,269 --> 00:26:14,650 You want to go to jail for rape? 441 00:26:14,670 --> 00:26:16,085 "'Cause they don't like guys that rape women," 442 00:26:16,105 --> 00:26:17,853 and things like that. 443 00:26:17,873 --> 00:26:22,490 You know, and I'm saying, like, I'm, I'm, I'm tellin' the guy, 444 00:26:22,510 --> 00:26:25,393 "I don't know what you're talkin' about." 445 00:26:25,413 --> 00:26:27,095 Santana, Jr.: Now the other officer comes in. 446 00:26:27,115 --> 00:26:29,264 He had about red hair, a short guy. 447 00:26:29,284 --> 00:26:32,267 And he was like, "Oh, so this is the prick right here." 448 00:26:32,287 --> 00:26:34,536 And Arroyo says, "Yeah, this is the guy here." 449 00:26:34,556 --> 00:26:36,638 He doesn't want to tell us what happened." 450 00:26:36,658 --> 00:26:39,741 And I'm sittin' there like, "Ah, what's going on?" 451 00:26:39,761 --> 00:26:43,110 And now Arroyo starts to yell at me and then this guy 452 00:26:43,130 --> 00:26:44,478 pulls up a chair next to me. 453 00:26:44,498 --> 00:26:46,147 He starts to yell right in my ear. 454 00:26:46,167 --> 00:26:49,750 So I have Arroyo here yellin' at me, blowing smoke in my face 455 00:26:49,770 --> 00:26:51,685 with the cigarette, and then I have this guy on my side 456 00:26:51,705 --> 00:26:53,053 and he's yellin' at me. 457 00:26:53,073 --> 00:26:54,688 And they're like, "You know you... did it." 458 00:26:54,708 --> 00:26:56,890 You... stuck your... in her, right? Didn't you?" 459 00:26:56,910 --> 00:26:58,658 And I'm like, "What are you talkin' about?" 460 00:26:58,678 --> 00:27:01,161 I didn't stick nothin' in nobody." 461 00:27:01,181 --> 00:27:05,165 And I start to cry a little bit. And then Hartigan jumps in. 462 00:27:05,185 --> 00:27:08,735 And I was grateful, you know, at that point I was grateful 463 00:27:08,755 --> 00:27:11,137 'cause Hartigan stopped him from trying to hurt me. 464 00:27:11,157 --> 00:27:12,472 Then again, the other guy come back in 465 00:27:12,492 --> 00:27:16,709 screamin' and yellin, ' violating my personal space, 466 00:27:16,729 --> 00:27:19,144 so close to spittin' on me. 467 00:27:19,164 --> 00:27:21,580 And then my mother, she came to the door, and she said, 468 00:27:21,600 --> 00:27:22,614 "I need to see my son. 469 00:27:22,634 --> 00:27:23,982 I need to see my son." 470 00:27:24,002 --> 00:27:26,685 I looked out when I seen one of the detectives, um, you know, 471 00:27:26,705 --> 00:27:29,955 take her by the shoulder, put her back to her chair. 472 00:27:29,975 --> 00:27:32,457 And while he's talking to her, they close the door 473 00:27:32,477 --> 00:27:33,859 and they questioning me. 474 00:27:33,879 --> 00:27:41,499 They knew that my mother was, was a weak person, was disabled. 475 00:27:41,519 --> 00:27:43,401 And they, they used that, you know. 476 00:27:43,421 --> 00:27:44,436 They used that. 477 00:27:44,456 --> 00:27:48,172 The officers, they actually met me outside. 478 00:27:48,192 --> 00:27:50,073 They were like, "Oh, your mother's, you know", 479 00:27:50,093 --> 00:27:53,344 "she's not well and since you're, you know, of age, 480 00:27:53,364 --> 00:27:55,079 "you can stay and replace your mother and we'll 481 00:27:55,099 --> 00:27:59,682 send her on home in a squad car, and we'll make sure she's OK." 482 00:27:59,702 --> 00:28:03,052 And they said, "She was cooperating with this process." 483 00:28:03,072 --> 00:28:05,922 So we sure that you're gonna cooperate as well." 484 00:28:05,942 --> 00:28:08,424 So that, in they constantly kept saying, 485 00:28:08,444 --> 00:28:09,758 "So that your brother can go home." 486 00:28:09,778 --> 00:28:10,893 So that your brother could go home. 487 00:28:10,913 --> 00:28:12,494 "So that..." And that's all I wanted. 488 00:28:12,514 --> 00:28:14,047 I just wanted to get him back home. 489 00:28:27,562 --> 00:28:29,777 McCray: There was a loud knock at the door. 490 00:28:29,797 --> 00:28:32,013 It was 3 or 4 detectives. 491 00:28:32,033 --> 00:28:34,248 I thought they was there because of the assaults 492 00:28:34,268 --> 00:28:35,868 on the people in Central Park. 493 00:28:37,771 --> 00:28:40,454 My father, he let them come in. 494 00:28:40,474 --> 00:28:42,056 These men, they looked like giants, you know, 495 00:28:42,076 --> 00:28:44,191 compared to my father. 496 00:28:44,211 --> 00:28:46,526 He asked me to put some sneakers on. 497 00:28:46,546 --> 00:28:49,930 He told my father he was going to take me down to the precinct. 498 00:28:49,950 --> 00:28:51,898 My father called my mother, 499 00:28:51,918 --> 00:28:55,235 and my mother met us at the precinct. 500 00:28:55,255 --> 00:28:59,406 They was asking me questions a female jogger in Central Park. 501 00:28:59,426 --> 00:29:01,607 And I was like, "There was only one woman", 502 00:29:01,627 --> 00:29:03,610 "and she was with a man on a bike. 503 00:29:03,630 --> 00:29:05,277 But they rolled off." 504 00:29:05,297 --> 00:29:08,414 And he was like, "You sure?" I was like, "Yeah." 505 00:29:08,434 --> 00:29:10,683 "What about the lady that got raped?" 506 00:29:10,703 --> 00:29:14,320 I'm like, "What lady that got raped?" 507 00:29:14,340 --> 00:29:16,487 They just kept asking me about this lady that got raped. 508 00:29:16,507 --> 00:29:19,591 And I kept telling them, "There was only one lady." 509 00:29:19,611 --> 00:29:22,628 They asked my mother to leave the room. 510 00:29:22,648 --> 00:29:24,295 I'm looking at my father and he's like, 511 00:29:24,315 --> 00:29:25,463 "Are you telling the truth?" 512 00:29:25,483 --> 00:29:26,632 I was like, "Yeah, Dad, I'm telling the truth." 513 00:29:26,652 --> 00:29:28,433 I swear I'm telling the truth." 514 00:29:28,453 --> 00:29:30,969 I always told my father the truth. 515 00:29:30,989 --> 00:29:32,937 "I know nothing about no jogger. 516 00:29:32,957 --> 00:29:34,305 "I know some people got beaten up, 517 00:29:34,325 --> 00:29:36,808 but I had nothing to do with that." 518 00:29:36,828 --> 00:29:39,811 Then they asked me to tell my story again. 519 00:29:39,831 --> 00:29:41,613 This time yelling at me. 520 00:29:41,633 --> 00:29:45,767 All up in my face, pointing at me, poking me in my chest. 521 00:29:48,604 --> 00:29:51,255 It just kept going on and on and on. 522 00:29:51,275 --> 00:29:55,157 We stopped a few times because I was crying. 523 00:29:55,177 --> 00:30:00,063 And I had no protection. My father didn't do anything. 524 00:30:00,083 --> 00:30:02,082 I was scared. 525 00:30:05,020 --> 00:30:06,435 Santana, Jr.: Hours have passed. 526 00:30:06,455 --> 00:30:08,137 Richardson: Time kept going by. 527 00:30:08,157 --> 00:30:09,639 McCray: They kept asking questions. 528 00:30:09,659 --> 00:30:11,151 Santana, Jr.: No food, no drink. 529 00:30:11,171 --> 00:30:14,261 McCray: I didn't eat. I didn't get no sleep. 530 00:30:14,466 --> 00:30:17,170 Santana, Jr.: And I didn't know when it was gonna end. 531 00:30:24,470 --> 00:30:27,221 Kassin: Confrontation followed by denial, followed by: 532 00:30:27,241 --> 00:30:32,144 "You're a liar, I want to hear the truth" can go on for hours. 533 00:30:32,565 --> 00:30:35,909 And the, the goal there is to break the suspect down 534 00:30:35,929 --> 00:30:39,573 into a state of despair, into a state of helplessness, so that 535 00:30:39,593 --> 00:30:43,255 the suspect gets worn down and is looking for a way out. 536 00:30:45,031 --> 00:30:47,521 McCray: They pulled my father aside. 537 00:30:47,541 --> 00:30:48,892 Then my father came back in the room, 538 00:30:48,912 --> 00:30:50,532 it was like he just changed. 539 00:30:50,552 --> 00:30:51,837 He just changed. He was like, "Listen." 540 00:30:51,857 --> 00:30:53,074 He was like, "Tell these people what they want to hear" 541 00:30:53,094 --> 00:30:55,885 so you can go home." 542 00:30:55,905 --> 00:30:58,528 If he just would've stood his ground, 543 00:30:58,548 --> 00:30:59,564 I would've told the truth. 544 00:30:59,584 --> 00:31:00,889 I would've stuck to the truth. 545 00:31:04,937 --> 00:31:06,625 Santana, Jr.: Hartigan sat down and he said, 546 00:31:06,645 --> 00:31:09,669 "Look, Ray. I know you didn't do anything wrong. 547 00:31:09,689 --> 00:31:12,513 "But the other guys right now, they're in other precincts 548 00:31:12,533 --> 00:31:14,019 and they're saying that you did it." 549 00:31:14,039 --> 00:31:16,527 And they tellin' me, "Well, you're not 550 00:31:16,547 --> 00:31:19,104 sayin' nothin' but these guys put your name in it." 551 00:31:19,124 --> 00:31:21,078 And I'm like, "I didn't do anything." 552 00:31:21,098 --> 00:31:23,119 And he's like, "Well, this is why I'm here, to help." 553 00:31:23,139 --> 00:31:24,709 "Because I know you didn't do anything. 554 00:31:24,895 --> 00:31:27,340 You're a good kid. You know, this isn't you." 555 00:31:27,360 --> 00:31:29,738 He pulls out this picture of Kevin Richardson. 556 00:31:29,758 --> 00:31:31,437 And he goes, "You know this kid?" 557 00:31:31,457 --> 00:31:33,136 And I'm like, "No, I don't know him." 558 00:31:33,156 --> 00:31:35,302 And he goes, "You see the scratch under his eye?" 559 00:31:35,322 --> 00:31:38,199 "That came from the woman. We know he did it. 560 00:31:38,219 --> 00:31:40,150 He's going down." 561 00:31:41,616 --> 00:31:45,860 At this point I'm like, you know, like, I don't 562 00:31:45,880 --> 00:31:50,890 know these, these guys that's, that's there so I'm just gonna 563 00:31:50,910 --> 00:31:55,820 make up somethin' and, and, include these guys' names. 564 00:31:55,840 --> 00:31:58,252 Ok. If, if, you know, if you're 565 00:31:58,272 --> 00:32:00,083 going to do it to me, then I'm going to do it to you. 566 00:32:00,103 --> 00:32:02,216 They was coaching me and I was writing it down. 567 00:32:02,236 --> 00:32:03,848 Santana, Jr.: He just fed it to me. 568 00:32:03,868 --> 00:32:06,912 "Well, what did he do? What did Antron McCray do?" 569 00:32:06,932 --> 00:32:09,543 He gave me the names. I put 'em in. 570 00:32:09,563 --> 00:32:12,676 I couldn't tell you who they were, who they looked like. 571 00:32:12,696 --> 00:32:16,890 If he woulda gave me a hundred names, I woulda put a hundred people at the crime scene. 572 00:32:16,910 --> 00:32:19,109 McCray: And I was like, "How can they lie?" 573 00:32:19,129 --> 00:32:21,032 So I was like, "I'm going to get him back." 574 00:32:21,052 --> 00:32:26,541 At that point, I told myself I just, I just want to go home. 575 00:32:26,561 --> 00:32:28,944 I thought I had the upper hand because 576 00:32:28,964 --> 00:32:31,111 here I was, I had a detective who was saying, 577 00:32:31,131 --> 00:32:33,181 "I'll make sure you go home." 578 00:32:33,201 --> 00:32:36,147 McCray: I was thinking that I was never going to go home. 579 00:32:36,583 --> 00:32:38,630 I gave these people what they want to hear. 580 00:32:38,874 --> 00:32:40,194 So I lied. 581 00:32:41,334 --> 00:32:42,208 I lied. 582 00:32:43,682 --> 00:32:45,133 I say, "Well, you know, this is where" 583 00:32:45,153 --> 00:32:47,470 it happened at the reservoir." 584 00:32:47,490 --> 00:32:50,706 You know, I'm placing the scene of the crime at the reservoir. 585 00:32:50,726 --> 00:32:52,541 And, and he just, he doesn't really say 586 00:32:52,561 --> 00:32:55,309 but he gives me this look like, "What are you talking about?" 587 00:32:55,329 --> 00:32:57,579 McCray: He asked me what she was wearing. 588 00:32:57,599 --> 00:32:58,979 I didn't know because I wasn't there. 589 00:32:58,999 --> 00:33:02,651 So I remember one of the men joggers that got assaulted, 590 00:33:02,671 --> 00:33:04,653 he had blue shorts and a white shirt. 591 00:33:04,673 --> 00:33:07,055 That's what I said she had on. 592 00:33:07,075 --> 00:33:09,623 And then he said, "It's gotta be more believable." 593 00:33:09,643 --> 00:33:11,660 "You know, Ray, people don't fully believe it 594 00:33:11,680 --> 00:33:12,662 if you just saw it." 595 00:33:12,682 --> 00:33:13,661 He said, "Where were you?" 596 00:33:13,681 --> 00:33:15,163 And I said, "I saw it from a distance." 597 00:33:15,183 --> 00:33:16,330 I was watching." 598 00:33:16,350 --> 00:33:18,200 And he said, "No, you gotta be in it." 599 00:33:18,220 --> 00:33:20,768 Like, you have to be there." 600 00:33:20,788 --> 00:33:23,270 McCray: As the time just, you know, went on, 601 00:33:23,290 --> 00:33:25,640 and my father wasn't doing nothing. 602 00:33:25,660 --> 00:33:28,242 So, I was just like, "I, whatever, yeah. 603 00:33:28,262 --> 00:33:31,731 "I had something to do with it," just to get out of there. 604 00:33:33,567 --> 00:33:36,917 [Reading] Then we saw this lady jogger. 605 00:33:36,937 --> 00:33:39,154 She had on gray shorts with black biking pants 606 00:33:39,174 --> 00:33:40,654 and a white tank top. 607 00:33:40,674 --> 00:33:43,256 [Reading] I observed the male, black Kevin, 608 00:33:43,276 --> 00:33:46,727 with scratch on face was struggling with a female. 609 00:33:46,747 --> 00:33:48,529 McCray, reading: The tall, thin black guy 610 00:33:48,549 --> 00:33:50,030 hit her in the ribs with a pipe. 611 00:33:50,050 --> 00:33:52,166 [Reading] I moved back and everybody started 612 00:33:52,186 --> 00:33:53,466 feeling on her. 613 00:33:53,486 --> 00:33:56,604 [Reading] Antron came and started ripping her clothes off. 614 00:33:56,624 --> 00:33:58,624 McCray, reading: The Puerto Rican kid with the black hoodie 615 00:33:58,644 --> 00:33:59,723 jumped on her. 616 00:33:59,743 --> 00:34:03,762 [Reading] I tried to grab her. I got scratched on my face. 617 00:34:04,128 --> 00:34:07,680 Antron pulled her pants off and she was screaming. 618 00:34:07,700 --> 00:34:10,113 Richardson, reading: Antron had sex with her. 619 00:34:10,254 --> 00:34:11,542 McCray, reading: Then Kevin got on. 620 00:34:11,709 --> 00:34:12,834 Richardson, reading: That's when she was yelling, 621 00:34:12,854 --> 00:34:14,044 "Stop" and "help." 622 00:34:14,304 --> 00:34:16,422 I was the one that didn't rape her. 623 00:34:16,739 --> 00:34:19,697 [Reading] Kevin pulled down his pants and had sex with her. 624 00:34:20,213 --> 00:34:22,790 When she was on the floor I grabbed her tits. 625 00:34:31,521 --> 00:34:35,350 A 4, a 14-year-old boy doesn't talk like this. 626 00:34:35,370 --> 00:34:37,107 You know? 627 00:34:37,127 --> 00:34:38,203 At that time, being naive, 628 00:34:38,223 --> 00:34:42,879 I figured I'm not implicating myself. 629 00:34:42,899 --> 00:34:43,940 I was crying at that time. 630 00:34:43,960 --> 00:34:45,068 He said, "Don't worry. You did good." 631 00:34:45,088 --> 00:34:47,508 Everything's gonna be OK." 632 00:34:48,152 --> 00:34:50,027 McCray: When I first went there, they said I was going to 633 00:34:50,047 --> 00:34:53,588 be a witness, and then just, everything just flipped. 634 00:34:53,608 --> 00:34:58,811 You know, they had me raping a woman, beating her. 635 00:34:58,831 --> 00:35:01,372 And they read the statement to my mother. 636 00:35:01,392 --> 00:35:04,002 And she looked at me, and I was like, "Ma, I didn't do it." 637 00:35:04,022 --> 00:35:06,948 She was like, "OK, I know you didn't do it." 638 00:35:11,007 --> 00:35:13,483 Black: I walked in the room and I could see 639 00:35:13,503 --> 00:35:14,648 that he was terrified. 640 00:35:14,668 --> 00:35:18,009 I could see him, like, shivering. 641 00:35:18,029 --> 00:35:22,833 I said, "Kevin, I can't believe you saw this woman get raped." 642 00:35:22,853 --> 00:35:24,694 And he looked at me. 643 00:35:24,714 --> 00:35:27,076 He say, "Angie, I didn't see a rape." 644 00:35:34,496 --> 00:35:37,571 And I said, "Kevin, why did you say that then?" 645 00:35:37,591 --> 00:35:40,683 He said, "'Cause they told me to say it so I could go home." 646 00:35:42,115 --> 00:35:44,457 But they was like a orchestra, 647 00:35:44,477 --> 00:35:46,354 like they orchestrated this whole thing. 648 00:35:46,374 --> 00:35:50,414 And I felt so dumb for not realizing it 649 00:35:50,434 --> 00:35:52,096 till it was too late. 650 00:35:57,141 --> 00:36:00,129 When I came back, they disappeared my son. 651 00:36:00,149 --> 00:36:02,124 He wasn't there no more. 652 00:36:02,144 --> 00:36:03,321 I said, "Where's my son?" 653 00:36:03,341 --> 00:36:05,485 He said, "They took him to another police station." 654 00:36:05,505 --> 00:36:07,880 My father did make a return. 655 00:36:07,900 --> 00:36:10,583 Um... But when he came it was too late. 656 00:36:10,603 --> 00:36:13,203 And waited like 4 or 5 hours. 657 00:36:13,223 --> 00:36:16,132 And then he came in, handcuffed 658 00:36:16,152 --> 00:36:18,360 and a lot of policemen with, with him. 659 00:36:18,380 --> 00:36:20,223 My dad's sittin' there, so I go 660 00:36:20,243 --> 00:36:23,184 through the same story but now I add the woman in it. 661 00:36:23,204 --> 00:36:26,212 Now, my dad, this is the first time he hears this, 662 00:36:26,232 --> 00:36:29,673 so he looks at me and he goes, "What?" 663 00:36:29,693 --> 00:36:31,236 That happened?" 664 00:36:31,256 --> 00:36:33,283 And now I get quiet because now 665 00:36:33,303 --> 00:36:35,793 here's my dad, I can't lie to him. 666 00:36:35,813 --> 00:36:38,090 And I... I'm like, you know, I want to say, 667 00:36:38,110 --> 00:36:41,201 "Dad, don't say nothin', it's tooken care of." 668 00:36:43,751 --> 00:36:48,531 Dwyer: In those days, there were probably 6 murders a day. 669 00:36:48,692 --> 00:36:52,089 In the newsrooms, people didn't always pay attention 670 00:36:52,109 --> 00:36:55,148 to whatever grisly event of the day had happened. 671 00:36:55,168 --> 00:36:58,049 This one was different. 672 00:37:06,214 --> 00:37:08,673 Last night, a woman jogger was found 673 00:37:08,693 --> 00:37:12,185 unconscious and partially clothed in Central Park 674 00:37:12,205 --> 00:37:15,800 about 200 feet north of the 102nd street cross drive. 675 00:37:15,820 --> 00:37:19,179 What we, we believe happened is the following: The victim was 676 00:37:19,199 --> 00:37:22,491 jogging across the 102nd street cross drive when she was 677 00:37:22,511 --> 00:37:24,867 attacked by a dozen young males. 678 00:37:24,887 --> 00:37:27,512 She was dragged down in the bushes near what is called 679 00:37:27,532 --> 00:37:32,128 "The Loch," where she was beaten and sexually assaulted. 680 00:37:32,148 --> 00:37:34,573 5 youths were arrested at 96th street 681 00:37:34,593 --> 00:37:36,613 and the west bridle path. 682 00:37:36,633 --> 00:37:39,391 We believe these youths and others were responsible 683 00:37:39,411 --> 00:37:41,464 for two or 3 other incidents that occurred 684 00:37:41,484 --> 00:37:47,186 in the park last night, assaults on, on joggers and pedestrians. 685 00:37:47,206 --> 00:37:48,993 And we are currently looking for others 686 00:37:49,013 --> 00:37:50,283 we believe to be involved. 687 00:37:53,796 --> 00:37:55,785 Salaam: When I came home, I remember saying to myself, 688 00:37:55,805 --> 00:37:58,129 "Man, there's a whole bunch of unmarked police cars out here. 689 00:37:58,149 --> 00:37:59,969 I wonder what happened?" 690 00:37:59,989 --> 00:38:05,590 I bumps into Korey at some point and Korey says, um, he heard 691 00:38:05,610 --> 00:38:09,773 that they were... are looking for us. 692 00:38:09,793 --> 00:38:12,014 Wise: So, him and I went upstairs. 693 00:38:12,034 --> 00:38:14,156 He had the detectives at his door. 694 00:38:14,176 --> 00:38:15,861 And they said, "Oh, this is one of the guys" 695 00:38:15,881 --> 00:38:17,301 we were looking for." 696 00:38:17,321 --> 00:38:18,807 Checked my name off. 697 00:38:18,827 --> 00:38:20,848 And they asked Korey who he was. 698 00:38:20,868 --> 00:38:22,622 He looked at the list. 699 00:38:22,642 --> 00:38:25,835 Said, "No, your name ain't on here." 700 00:38:25,855 --> 00:38:29,480 So they said, "Ah, you can come down", 701 00:38:29,500 --> 00:38:31,454 come downtown with your buddy." 702 00:38:31,474 --> 00:38:32,544 You'll be right back." 703 00:38:34,385 --> 00:38:36,206 Salaam: We went to the precinct 704 00:38:36,226 --> 00:38:38,314 and I came home 7 years later. 705 00:38:38,334 --> 00:38:40,139 He came home 13 years later. 706 00:38:44,023 --> 00:38:45,141 Wise: They said, ah, 707 00:38:45,161 --> 00:38:46,312 "Something happened out in the park. 708 00:38:46,332 --> 00:38:48,821 You was out in the park that night, right?" 709 00:38:48,841 --> 00:38:51,866 I say, "I was in the park but I don't know" 710 00:38:51,886 --> 00:38:53,037 what you're talkin' about." 711 00:38:53,057 --> 00:38:56,819 "Kevin is saying this happened, you know. 712 00:38:56,839 --> 00:39:00,030 Antron is saying this happened." 713 00:39:00,050 --> 00:39:02,406 And they were stopping me during my retelling 714 00:39:02,426 --> 00:39:05,317 of the events and saying, "Is this where you got 715 00:39:05,337 --> 00:39:08,496 the woman? Is that where?" 716 00:39:08,516 --> 00:39:12,010 The tone was very, very scary. 717 00:39:12,030 --> 00:39:15,791 I felt like these guys are really angry. 718 00:39:15,811 --> 00:39:18,367 And you know what? 719 00:39:18,387 --> 00:39:21,799 They might take us to the back of the precinct and kill us. 720 00:39:23,573 --> 00:39:25,261 A lot of time had gone by. 721 00:39:25,281 --> 00:39:26,616 I didn't even know what time it was. 722 00:39:28,993 --> 00:39:31,718 Wise: Detective Hartigan says, "Korey?" 723 00:39:31,738 --> 00:39:34,595 "You look like you real tired, man. 724 00:39:34,615 --> 00:39:40,752 "Very tired, exhausted, and you want to go home. 725 00:39:40,772 --> 00:39:42,794 "But you're not gonna go home until you give up, 726 00:39:42,814 --> 00:39:45,772 till you say a story." 727 00:39:45,792 --> 00:39:48,550 They had made up a story saying something like, ah, 728 00:39:48,570 --> 00:39:51,092 "Well, we have your prints on her pants." 729 00:39:51,112 --> 00:39:53,333 I'm thinking, "How did they take my prints" 730 00:39:53,353 --> 00:39:54,790 and put it on her pants?" 731 00:39:57,939 --> 00:40:00,227 Wise: Detective Nugent, a young officer 732 00:40:00,247 --> 00:40:03,106 with a whole lot of energy, came in. 733 00:40:03,126 --> 00:40:06,986 He put his face to my face. Put his hand in my face. 734 00:40:07,006 --> 00:40:13,174 Grabbed my face, shook my face. "I want a story from you." 735 00:40:13,194 --> 00:40:17,741 I just gave a written statement just to satisfy them. 736 00:40:18,118 --> 00:40:20,972 Just to get them out of my face with it and trying to be 737 00:40:21,124 --> 00:40:22,494 on my way out their buildin'. 738 00:40:24,938 --> 00:40:28,780 And afterwards, he had me sign on it. 739 00:40:28,800 --> 00:40:31,467 So, I signed on it. Yeah. 740 00:40:33,637 --> 00:40:37,354 These boys were in custody and under varying 741 00:40:37,374 --> 00:40:42,026 degrees of interrogation for a range of 14 to 30 hours. 742 00:40:42,046 --> 00:40:46,164 And when you are stressed, when you are tired, 743 00:40:46,184 --> 00:40:50,333 when you are a juvenile and not fully mature and developed, 744 00:40:50,353 --> 00:40:53,322 you're thinking, "Right now I just want this to stop." 745 00:41:47,308 --> 00:41:48,825 Woman: My name is Elizabeth Lederer. 746 00:41:48,845 --> 00:41:51,660 I'm an assistant district attorney in New York county. 747 00:41:51,680 --> 00:41:55,097 I'd like to ask you some questions about a series of 748 00:41:55,117 --> 00:41:57,466 things that happened in Central Park on the night of 749 00:41:57,486 --> 00:42:00,236 April 19 of 1989. 750 00:42:00,256 --> 00:42:02,438 Before I do that, I'd like to, ah, advise you of your 751 00:42:02,458 --> 00:42:06,041 rights with respect to statements you may make now, OK? 752 00:42:06,061 --> 00:42:07,476 You have the right to remain silent 753 00:42:07,496 --> 00:42:09,178 and to refuse to answer any questions. 754 00:42:09,198 --> 00:42:10,246 Do you understand? 755 00:42:10,266 --> 00:42:11,881 Yes, I do. 756 00:42:11,901 --> 00:42:12,881 Anything that you say 757 00:42:12,901 --> 00:42:13,949 can be used against you in court. 758 00:42:13,969 --> 00:42:14,949 Do you understand? 759 00:42:14,969 --> 00:42:16,285 Yes, I do. 760 00:42:16,305 --> 00:42:17,786 You have the right to consult a lawyer now 761 00:42:17,806 --> 00:42:19,955 before any questioning and have a lawyer present 762 00:42:19,975 --> 00:42:20,956 during any questioning. 763 00:42:20,976 --> 00:42:22,858 Do you understand? 764 00:42:22,878 --> 00:42:24,292 Could you please answer out loud? 765 00:42:24,312 --> 00:42:25,426 Yes. 766 00:42:25,446 --> 00:42:26,561 If you have no lawyer 767 00:42:26,581 --> 00:42:28,697 or cannot afford a lawyer, a lawyer will be 768 00:42:28,717 --> 00:42:31,165 provided for you now free of charge before any questioning. 769 00:42:31,185 --> 00:42:32,233 Do you understand? 770 00:42:32,253 --> 00:42:34,736 Thank you. Yes. 771 00:42:34,756 --> 00:42:36,205 Now that I have advised you of your rights, 772 00:42:36,225 --> 00:42:38,072 are you willing to tell me the truth about what happened 773 00:42:38,092 --> 00:42:40,875 in Central Park on the night of April 19 of 1989? 774 00:42:40,895 --> 00:42:42,443 Yes. Ok. 775 00:42:42,463 --> 00:42:45,614 Present in this room is Detective Nugent, 776 00:42:45,634 --> 00:42:47,415 whom you have already met, I believe... 777 00:42:47,435 --> 00:42:51,019 Wise: Detective Nugent told me to, "Go in here." 778 00:42:51,039 --> 00:42:54,355 "You're gonna give this story which you, which you has, 779 00:42:54,375 --> 00:42:56,591 "which you have said to me and the rest of my coworkers, 780 00:42:56,611 --> 00:42:58,293 "you will go in here and give the story. 781 00:42:58,313 --> 00:42:59,928 "I'm gonna be in the room. 782 00:42:59,948 --> 00:43:01,781 And I'm gonna make sure, make sure you do it." 783 00:43:03,750 --> 00:43:04,965 Lederer: This is Detective McCabe 784 00:43:04,985 --> 00:43:06,467 and Detective Hildebrant. 785 00:43:06,487 --> 00:43:08,836 Ah, I think you've already met them. 786 00:43:08,856 --> 00:43:12,407 Also present are, I believe, your parents. 787 00:43:12,427 --> 00:43:16,476 Um, could you each please state your full name? 788 00:43:16,496 --> 00:43:18,112 My name is Linda McCray. 789 00:43:18,132 --> 00:43:19,380 Bobby McCray. 790 00:43:19,400 --> 00:43:21,181 And, ma'am, what is your relation? 791 00:43:21,201 --> 00:43:22,183 I'm his mother. 792 00:43:22,203 --> 00:43:23,418 And... his father. 793 00:43:23,438 --> 00:43:26,454 Ok. I want to warn you of your rights with, ah, 794 00:43:26,474 --> 00:43:28,623 respect to anything you say in this case... 795 00:43:28,643 --> 00:43:32,125 Why would a parent not say at that moment, 796 00:43:32,145 --> 00:43:35,530 we want to consult with an attorney? 797 00:43:35,550 --> 00:43:40,368 The reason is because of the setting and because of the way 798 00:43:40,388 --> 00:43:44,571 they're being treated by the police and because of being 799 00:43:44,591 --> 00:43:47,608 overwhelmed by the situation. 800 00:43:47,628 --> 00:43:50,712 It doesn't even register in their minds. 801 00:43:50,732 --> 00:43:51,945 Lederer: I just want to state it is now 802 00:43:51,965 --> 00:43:53,780 20 minutes to 5:00 in the morning 803 00:43:53,800 --> 00:43:56,350 on the morning of April 21 of 1989. 804 00:43:56,370 --> 00:43:59,286 There is another gentleman here in the room. 805 00:43:59,306 --> 00:44:00,354 Who is that man? 806 00:44:00,374 --> 00:44:01,355 My father. 807 00:44:01,375 --> 00:44:02,656 And, sir, could you please just 808 00:44:02,676 --> 00:44:03,790 state your name and address. 809 00:44:03,810 --> 00:44:06,125 Paul L. Richardson... 810 00:44:06,145 --> 00:44:10,097 Richardson: My father, he was a quiet, stern man, 811 00:44:10,117 --> 00:44:13,599 so.. 812 00:44:13,619 --> 00:44:18,704 I felt ashamed that I was even there doing that. 813 00:44:18,724 --> 00:44:22,808 And I shouldn't feel that way because I was innocent. 814 00:44:22,828 --> 00:44:24,777 Lederer: ...Also present in the room right now 815 00:44:24,797 --> 00:44:27,780 are Detective Arroyo and Detective Sheehan... 816 00:44:27,800 --> 00:44:29,082 Santana, Jr.: I was under the impression that 817 00:44:29,102 --> 00:44:32,752 I was going to be a witness, help out, or just give 'em 818 00:44:32,772 --> 00:44:34,054 the story and that was it. 819 00:44:34,074 --> 00:44:35,855 Lederer: Sir, could you please give your name? 820 00:44:35,875 --> 00:44:37,890 My name is Raymond Santana. 821 00:44:37,910 --> 00:44:39,658 Santana, Jr.: I didn't think about consequences. 822 00:44:39,678 --> 00:44:41,027 I didn't think about anything. 823 00:44:41,047 --> 00:44:42,728 The only thing that I thought about was 824 00:44:42,748 --> 00:44:44,764 he was gonna make sure I go home. 825 00:44:44,784 --> 00:44:46,665 That was it. 826 00:44:46,685 --> 00:44:48,000 Lederer: I'm gonna ask you a few questions... 827 00:44:48,020 --> 00:44:50,603 Richardson: Here I am doing a videotape 828 00:44:50,623 --> 00:44:58,344 and I'm already deep in this so I'm thinking now I gotta sell it 829 00:44:58,364 --> 00:45:02,181 to make sure that people know that I wasn't involved. 830 00:45:02,201 --> 00:45:04,082 Lederer: Were you trying to touch her? 831 00:45:04,102 --> 00:45:05,151 Not really. 832 00:45:05,171 --> 00:45:06,452 Didn't you tell the police earlier today 833 00:45:06,472 --> 00:45:07,820 that you had tried to grab her 834 00:45:07,840 --> 00:45:09,588 and that's when you got scratched? 835 00:45:09,608 --> 00:45:11,157 No, not like, 836 00:45:11,177 --> 00:45:12,724 like feeling her, feeling her up. 837 00:45:12,744 --> 00:45:14,225 Ok. Not like that? Trying to stop it. 838 00:45:14,245 --> 00:45:16,861 But you tried, you... 839 00:45:16,881 --> 00:45:18,596 To grab, like, grab the arms or something. 840 00:45:18,616 --> 00:45:19,831 You tried to grab her arms? 841 00:45:19,851 --> 00:45:21,833 I was trying to stop it. 842 00:45:21,853 --> 00:45:23,401 Did you see Antron have intercourse with her? 843 00:45:23,421 --> 00:45:24,403 Yes. 844 00:45:24,423 --> 00:45:25,603 Was he laying on top of her, 845 00:45:25,623 --> 00:45:27,506 or was he kneeling, or was he? 846 00:45:27,526 --> 00:45:29,008 Laying on top of her. 847 00:45:29,028 --> 00:45:32,043 Ok. And how long was he on top of her? 848 00:45:32,063 --> 00:45:34,479 For a short while, then Raymond, 849 00:45:34,499 --> 00:45:36,414 then Raymond went. 850 00:45:36,434 --> 00:45:37,516 We was headed to the West Side. 851 00:45:37,536 --> 00:45:39,251 That's when I seen Kevin. 852 00:45:39,271 --> 00:45:41,554 That's where you saw Kevin? 853 00:45:41,574 --> 00:45:42,854 Was anybody with Kevin? 854 00:45:42,874 --> 00:45:45,557 Yeah, a lady. 855 00:45:45,577 --> 00:45:46,558 Who was with Kevin? 856 00:45:46,578 --> 00:45:47,592 Some lady. 857 00:45:47,612 --> 00:45:50,128 A lady? Mm-hmm. 858 00:45:50,148 --> 00:45:51,362 How was she dressed? 859 00:45:51,382 --> 00:45:53,798 I couldn't tell. It was too dark. 860 00:45:53,818 --> 00:45:55,100 What was he doing with her? 861 00:45:55,120 --> 00:45:56,468 Struggling with her. 862 00:45:56,488 --> 00:45:57,869 What were the others doing while Kevin 863 00:45:57,889 --> 00:46:00,038 was struggling with her, with the wrists? 864 00:46:00,058 --> 00:46:01,572 Antron was going for her clothes 865 00:46:01,592 --> 00:46:04,642 and Lopez was holding her arms. 866 00:46:04,662 --> 00:46:07,045 What was Kevin doing while, um, 867 00:46:07,065 --> 00:46:08,546 Steve Lopez was holding her hands 868 00:46:08,566 --> 00:46:09,547 and hitting her with the brick? 869 00:46:09,567 --> 00:46:11,682 He was having sex with her. 870 00:46:11,702 --> 00:46:12,850 Where were you standing? 871 00:46:12,870 --> 00:46:15,120 I was on the side of Kevin. 872 00:46:15,140 --> 00:46:16,854 Were you watching? 873 00:46:16,874 --> 00:46:19,107 No, I was grabbing the lady's... 874 00:46:22,111 --> 00:46:24,161 Who else had sex with her besides Kevin Richardson? 875 00:46:24,181 --> 00:46:26,882 I didn't see anybody else who had sex, just him. 876 00:46:29,085 --> 00:46:32,035 Did somebody have sex with her? 877 00:46:32,055 --> 00:46:33,070 Yeah. 878 00:46:33,090 --> 00:46:35,439 Did a lot of people have sex with her? 879 00:46:35,459 --> 00:46:36,940 Yeah. First it was the black guy, 880 00:46:36,960 --> 00:46:38,575 then it was the Puerto Rican guy with the black hood? 881 00:46:38,595 --> 00:46:40,495 Then you got on top of her? 882 00:46:43,799 --> 00:46:45,282 Lederer: What's in that picture? 883 00:46:45,302 --> 00:46:46,283 Wise: It's her. 884 00:46:46,303 --> 00:46:47,351 Is that the woman that you saw? 885 00:46:47,371 --> 00:46:49,219 Yes. 886 00:46:49,239 --> 00:46:50,254 Is that sort of the way she looked 887 00:46:50,274 --> 00:46:51,255 when you saw her? 888 00:46:51,275 --> 00:46:53,308 Yes, yes, ma'am. 889 00:46:58,280 --> 00:47:00,696 Did you see anybody hit her with the, 890 00:47:00,716 --> 00:47:02,250 with anything but their hands? 891 00:47:05,354 --> 00:47:07,136 I seen... And I'm telling you, Korey... 892 00:47:07,156 --> 00:47:09,305 I don't want you to think that 893 00:47:09,325 --> 00:47:10,974 you have to say that, 894 00:47:10,994 --> 00:47:13,543 but I want to know what you saw 895 00:47:13,563 --> 00:47:16,697 that explains how she got so badly hurt. 896 00:47:20,102 --> 00:47:26,322 I did see Kevin pick up a, a hand rock, 897 00:47:26,342 --> 00:47:31,694 a small hand rock, and hit her across the face with it. 898 00:47:31,714 --> 00:47:33,162 How big was the rock? 899 00:47:33,182 --> 00:47:39,635 It was a hand, about that big, like, it was nice, 900 00:47:39,655 --> 00:47:42,371 it was big, it was a good-shaped rock. 901 00:47:42,391 --> 00:47:44,458 Hit her across like that. 902 00:47:49,297 --> 00:47:50,947 Are you just saying that because I... 903 00:47:50,967 --> 00:47:52,547 No. Uh, uh, no. I am asking you. 904 00:47:52,567 --> 00:47:53,950 Why didn't you say it before? 905 00:47:53,970 --> 00:47:55,884 - Huh? - Why didn't you say it before? 906 00:47:55,904 --> 00:47:57,485 Because I remember I was, 907 00:47:57,505 --> 00:47:59,255 me taking a quick glance in the dark. 908 00:47:59,275 --> 00:48:01,591 I remember him picking up a rock 909 00:48:01,611 --> 00:48:04,626 from out the, out the dirt. 910 00:48:04,646 --> 00:48:06,561 Woman: Why did you tell them something that wasn't true, 911 00:48:06,581 --> 00:48:08,148 that you hadn't seen? 912 00:48:12,520 --> 00:48:14,237 I guess... I would strongly guess 913 00:48:14,257 --> 00:48:17,539 just to save my own life. 914 00:48:17,559 --> 00:48:20,141 To get out, get out, get outta there 915 00:48:20,161 --> 00:48:22,544 as quickly as I, I can as possible 916 00:48:22,564 --> 00:48:26,214 because I been there too long as it was. 917 00:48:26,234 --> 00:48:28,316 And, you know, bein' a kid 918 00:48:28,336 --> 00:48:31,052 I never experienced that in my life. 919 00:48:31,072 --> 00:48:32,087 How old were you? 920 00:48:32,107 --> 00:48:33,622 16. 921 00:48:33,642 --> 00:48:38,460 16 and I felt like I was about 12. 922 00:48:38,480 --> 00:48:40,228 Lederer: Did you tell us the truth voluntarily? 923 00:48:40,248 --> 00:48:41,463 Yes, ma'am. 924 00:48:41,483 --> 00:48:42,663 Because you wanted to? Yes, ma'am. 925 00:48:42,683 --> 00:48:43,665 Did anyone force you? 926 00:48:43,685 --> 00:48:44,666 No, ma'am. 927 00:48:44,686 --> 00:48:45,766 Did anyone threaten you? 928 00:48:45,786 --> 00:48:47,302 No. 929 00:48:47,322 --> 00:48:49,371 Thank you very much. It is now 930 00:48:49,391 --> 00:48:53,607 20 minutes to 4:00 and the interview is concluded. 931 00:48:53,627 --> 00:48:56,677 Detective: Hey. Sit down... 932 00:48:56,697 --> 00:48:58,078 Got to get you to sign something, eh? 933 00:48:58,098 --> 00:48:59,264 Huh? 934 00:49:02,770 --> 00:49:03,984 Santana, Jr.: They put us in the cell 935 00:49:04,004 --> 00:49:05,886 with the rest of the guys. 936 00:49:05,906 --> 00:49:08,857 Now there's all these guys that I don't even know, you know. 937 00:49:08,877 --> 00:49:11,225 Who are you, you know? And, um... 938 00:49:11,245 --> 00:49:12,660 And everybody's asking each other. 939 00:49:12,680 --> 00:49:14,461 You know, "Well, what did you say?" 940 00:49:14,481 --> 00:49:15,864 What did you say?" 941 00:49:15,884 --> 00:49:17,965 And everybody's basically saying, 942 00:49:17,985 --> 00:49:20,200 "Well, I told 'em I was with my boy. 943 00:49:20,220 --> 00:49:23,203 And we left. I didn't see nothing." 944 00:49:23,223 --> 00:49:25,272 Nobody's saying what they actually said. 945 00:49:25,292 --> 00:49:28,809 Everybody had that sense of don't let it out the bag because 946 00:49:28,829 --> 00:49:32,563 if I let it out then I'm not gonna go home. 947 00:49:36,601 --> 00:49:38,619 Woman: In New York City this morning, a jogger is 948 00:49:38,639 --> 00:49:41,555 fighting for her life after a brutal attack in Central Park. 949 00:49:41,575 --> 00:49:43,624 Woman: Viciously battered and unconscious, 950 00:49:43,644 --> 00:49:47,127 wearing only a jogging bra, her hands tied over her mouth. 951 00:49:47,147 --> 00:49:49,929 Woman: The suspects are 14- and 15-year-olds 952 00:49:49,949 --> 00:49:52,399 who blazed a nighttime trail of terror. 953 00:49:52,419 --> 00:49:54,034 Assaulting an elderly man, 954 00:49:54,054 --> 00:49:57,338 attacking a male runner, hitting another person with a lead pipe. 955 00:49:57,358 --> 00:49:59,706 At one time, the group was running in a pack of 956 00:49:59,726 --> 00:50:01,474 more than 25 youths. 957 00:50:01,494 --> 00:50:03,609 Woman: The victim is now in critical condition 958 00:50:03,629 --> 00:50:04,611 at Metropolitan Hospital. 959 00:50:04,631 --> 00:50:05,879 Two skull fractures, 960 00:50:05,899 --> 00:50:08,915 a significant loss of blood, and advanced hypothermia. 961 00:50:08,935 --> 00:50:10,584 Woman: If she lives, it's likely she'll 962 00:50:10,604 --> 00:50:11,718 suffer from brain damage. 963 00:50:11,738 --> 00:50:14,487 8 suspects were arraigned this weekend, 964 00:50:14,507 --> 00:50:16,456 aged 14 to 17. 965 00:50:16,476 --> 00:50:17,557 Jennings: Some of the young men told police 966 00:50:17,577 --> 00:50:20,326 they were just out wilding. 967 00:50:20,346 --> 00:50:22,980 Woman: Wilding is a word you won't find in Webster's. 968 00:50:23,034 --> 00:50:25,042 Wilding. New York city police say 969 00:50:25,062 --> 00:50:28,782 that's new teenage slang for rampaging in wolfpacks, 970 00:50:28,802 --> 00:50:31,024 attacking people just for the fun of it. 971 00:50:31,044 --> 00:50:32,234 The district attorney's office says 972 00:50:32,254 --> 00:50:34,299 the teenagers have confessed. 973 00:50:34,319 --> 00:50:38,127 The spokesman said some of those confessions are on videotape. 974 00:50:39,498 --> 00:50:43,900 Koch: A woman jogging and Central Park. 975 00:50:44,250 --> 00:50:46,804 Central park was holy. 976 00:50:46,824 --> 00:50:50,715 If it had happened any place else other than Central Park, 977 00:50:50,735 --> 00:50:52,451 it would have been terrible, 978 00:50:52,471 --> 00:50:55,708 but it would not have been as terrible. 979 00:50:58,722 --> 00:51:02,315 It was for everybody, not just me, 980 00:51:02,335 --> 00:51:04,146 the crime of the century. 981 00:51:09,332 --> 00:51:11,416 Colangelo: Today we are announcing the arrests of 982 00:51:11,436 --> 00:51:16,651 4 males, all between 14 and 15 years of age, in connection with 983 00:51:16,671 --> 00:51:20,334 the April 19 attempted murder, rape, and assault 984 00:51:20,354 --> 00:51:22,665 of a female in Central Park. 985 00:51:22,909 --> 00:51:25,442 "They got 'em!" That was the, uh, feelings. 986 00:51:25,462 --> 00:51:29,367 "Thank God, uh, for Ben Ward and the NYPD. 987 00:51:29,387 --> 00:51:30,476 They got 'em!" 988 00:51:32,417 --> 00:51:35,457 Kassin: Set against the backdrop of New York City 989 00:51:35,477 --> 00:51:38,649 and a crime that just about has everybody flipping out, 990 00:51:38,909 --> 00:51:41,884 you can only imagine the pressure that NYPD 991 00:51:41,904 --> 00:51:45,190 was under to have this crime solved and solved quickly. 992 00:51:45,959 --> 00:51:47,670 Dwyer: Jack Maple, one of the architects of 993 00:51:47,690 --> 00:51:51,146 the 1990s New York city police revolution, 994 00:51:51,407 --> 00:51:55,122 once told me that he remembered seeing detectives 995 00:51:55,142 --> 00:52:00,278 involved in the Central Park jogger case in Elaine's 996 00:52:00,461 --> 00:52:02,941 within a day or so of the crime, 997 00:52:03,102 --> 00:52:05,224 celebrating the arrests. 998 00:52:06,015 --> 00:52:10,949 There was a sense that this had been a home run 999 00:52:11,334 --> 00:52:13,513 from a law enforcement standpoint. 1000 00:52:23,113 --> 00:52:25,920 When they chained us up to go to another precinct, 1001 00:52:26,380 --> 00:52:27,612 pictures snapping. 1002 00:52:28,419 --> 00:52:30,692 Me and Yusef did the walk together 1003 00:52:30,877 --> 00:52:32,884 and we just kept our head down. 1004 00:52:33,288 --> 00:52:36,245 When we saw the lights we, we still didn't know. 1005 00:52:36,265 --> 00:52:37,645 We still didn't understand. 1006 00:52:38,421 --> 00:52:40,195 Richardson: I'm walking and I'm scared 1007 00:52:40,215 --> 00:52:41,303 but I had my head up high. 1008 00:52:41,323 --> 00:52:45,107 And all I think to myself, "OK, the truth is going to come out." 1009 00:52:47,181 --> 00:52:49,913 Dwyer: After they got out of the interrogation room, 1010 00:52:50,028 --> 00:52:51,032 they backed off. 1011 00:52:51,215 --> 00:52:53,934 Each one of them denied having done it. 1012 00:52:54,282 --> 00:52:56,517 Consistently, again and again and again. 1013 00:52:56,703 --> 00:52:58,863 They said, "No, we didn't do it." 1014 00:52:59,478 --> 00:53:01,504 For the first time since the April 19 1015 00:53:01,524 --> 00:53:05,039 rampage through Central Park, Manhattan D.A. Robert Morgenthau 1016 00:53:05,059 --> 00:53:07,941 spoke out publicly on the attacks to officially announce 1017 00:53:07,961 --> 00:53:10,052 indictments involving 6 of the 8 suspects 1018 00:53:10,072 --> 00:53:12,472 charged with the most serious crimes. 1019 00:53:12,492 --> 00:53:14,038 Morgenthau: Each is charged in this attack 1020 00:53:14,058 --> 00:53:17,212 with attempted murder, rape in the first degree, 1021 00:53:17,232 --> 00:53:19,199 sodomy in the first degree, 1022 00:53:19,219 --> 00:53:20,943 sexual abuse in the first degree, 1023 00:53:20,963 --> 00:53:23,110 two counts of assault in the first degree, 1024 00:53:23,266 --> 00:53:25,384 and riot in the first degree. 1025 00:53:59,749 --> 00:54:02,462 Hancock: There's no way that I as a woman 1026 00:54:02,482 --> 00:54:07,476 could not feel horrible for her and feel scared for myself 1027 00:54:07,496 --> 00:54:09,941 and every other woman walking the street. 1028 00:54:10,453 --> 00:54:14,011 And I was on the edge of my seat hoping that she would get better 1029 00:54:14,031 --> 00:54:17,838 but there was no indication that she would recover consciousness. 1030 00:54:23,990 --> 00:54:26,026 Byfield: For me, the one piece of information 1031 00:54:26,046 --> 00:54:29,041 that just got me was her friends coming in 1032 00:54:29,061 --> 00:54:31,097 to identify her and her being just 1033 00:54:31,117 --> 00:54:32,282 beaten beyond recognition. 1034 00:54:32,449 --> 00:54:36,224 And the only way that her friends could identify her 1035 00:54:36,244 --> 00:54:39,173 was by a ring that she wore. 1036 00:54:57,562 --> 00:55:00,058 The 28-year-old victim lies in a coma. 1037 00:55:00,078 --> 00:55:02,283 A teacher called her "golden girl," 1038 00:55:02,303 --> 00:55:05,157 an investment banker with a blue-chip background 1039 00:55:05,177 --> 00:55:08,340 whose savage beating and gang rape has provoked outrage 1040 00:55:08,360 --> 00:55:10,987 in a city famous for indifference. 1041 00:55:11,007 --> 00:55:13,663 Suspects in the crime were arraigned this weekend, 1042 00:55:13,683 --> 00:55:16,016 aged 14 to 17. 1043 00:55:16,036 --> 00:55:17,565 Lederer: Rape in the first degree; 1044 00:55:17,585 --> 00:55:19,199 sodomy in the first degree; 1045 00:55:19,219 --> 00:55:20,922 sexual abuse in the first degree... 1046 00:55:20,942 --> 00:55:23,457 We was at arraignment and, um, 1047 00:55:23,477 --> 00:55:26,021 I remember them reading charges off... 1048 00:55:26,041 --> 00:55:28,274 robbery in the first, attempted murder in the first, 1049 00:55:28,294 --> 00:55:29,626 rape in the first. 1050 00:55:29,646 --> 00:55:31,542 And the lawyer was like, "Don't say anything. 1051 00:55:31,562 --> 00:55:32,471 Just keep your head down." 1052 00:55:32,491 --> 00:55:33,936 Lederer: ...That he had her by the legs, 1053 00:55:33,956 --> 00:55:36,612 and that he raped her after defendant Santana did. 1054 00:55:36,632 --> 00:55:38,434 But it wasn't until 1055 00:55:38,454 --> 00:55:42,454 you got into that jail and, and you felt the impact. 1056 00:55:44,486 --> 00:55:47,313 McCray: Spofford Juvenile Detention. 1057 00:55:47,598 --> 00:55:50,711 You had kids that committed serious crimes. 1058 00:55:52,059 --> 00:55:54,068 Murder, rape. 1059 00:55:56,227 --> 00:55:57,743 Santana, Jr.: This counselor came down, 1060 00:55:57,865 --> 00:55:59,180 he sat there with us. 1061 00:55:59,385 --> 00:56:03,428 And he said, "You know, you know how serious y'all case is?" 1062 00:56:04,114 --> 00:56:06,932 And we was like, "What are you talking about?" 1063 00:56:07,411 --> 00:56:10,338 And he said, "You all, y'all over the paper." 1064 00:56:10,358 --> 00:56:12,434 "Y'all in every news station. 1065 00:56:12,792 --> 00:56:14,520 Everybody's talkin' about y'all." 1066 00:56:14,848 --> 00:56:18,360 He said, "It's so serious the whole jail want to get you." 1067 00:56:22,741 --> 00:56:24,487 Salaam: Because he was 16, 1068 00:56:24,720 --> 00:56:26,711 they sent Korey to Rikers Island. 1069 00:56:27,960 --> 00:56:31,481 Rikers Island would make Spofford... 1070 00:56:33,339 --> 00:56:34,922 Look like a country club, 1071 00:56:37,375 --> 00:56:39,638 'specially when you're in there 1072 00:56:39,658 --> 00:56:40,841 for a rape charge. 1073 00:56:41,859 --> 00:56:44,750 To be a child, to be 16 years old 1074 00:56:44,770 --> 00:56:48,403 and to be in an adult facility, I can't imagine that. 1075 00:56:50,365 --> 00:56:55,088 Rikers Island at the age of 16. 1076 00:56:56,754 --> 00:57:01,346 Bein' forced to grow up very fast. 1077 00:57:08,913 --> 00:57:11,279 Byfield: In the first few days after the incident, 1078 00:57:11,422 --> 00:57:13,967 the narrative that came out was that 1079 00:57:14,155 --> 00:57:16,202 these young men were guilty. 1080 00:57:16,687 --> 00:57:19,401 And it was almost unquestioned. 1081 00:57:20,508 --> 00:57:23,951 Koch: When parents or grandmothers, ahh, 1082 00:57:23,971 --> 00:57:27,098 of some of these, ah, alleged perpetrators... 1083 00:57:27,118 --> 00:57:31,287 we always have to say alleged because that's the requirement. 1084 00:57:33,282 --> 00:57:35,996 When those grandmothers say, "But he's a good boy." 1085 00:57:36,587 --> 00:57:38,250 He never did anything." 1086 00:57:38,359 --> 00:57:39,616 Don't you believe it! 1087 00:57:39,636 --> 00:57:41,412 Black: There was so much hate. 1088 00:57:41,949 --> 00:57:43,602 We couldn't watch TV. 1089 00:57:43,622 --> 00:57:45,555 There's something wrong with the parenting 1090 00:57:45,575 --> 00:57:48,372 and the families and the home life of our city. 1091 00:57:48,392 --> 00:57:50,759 It's an outrage. It's, it's... 1092 00:57:51,792 --> 00:57:53,126 The violence in this city, 1093 00:57:53,146 --> 00:57:54,591 the quality of life in this city, 1094 00:57:54,611 --> 00:57:55,727 is getting worse and worse. 1095 00:57:55,747 --> 00:58:02,190 This is the, the, mm, the ultimate shriek of alarm. 1096 00:58:02,210 --> 00:58:05,394 This is the ultimate siren that says none of us is safe. 1097 00:58:05,414 --> 00:58:07,385 The story has enraged many New Yorkers, 1098 00:58:07,405 --> 00:58:10,005 startled others, and started renewed talk of 1099 00:58:10,025 --> 00:58:12,699 an under-policed city with crime out of control. 1100 00:58:12,719 --> 00:58:18,244 Mayor Koch said, "This will be a test of the system." 1101 00:58:18,500 --> 00:58:23,431 People want to see how the, ah, criminal justice system 1102 00:58:23,451 --> 00:58:25,614 works, or if it works. 1103 00:58:25,971 --> 00:58:28,187 Woman: The brutal attack on the young investment banker 1104 00:58:28,207 --> 00:58:30,660 is fueling a new battle for the death penalty, 1105 00:58:30,782 --> 00:58:34,102 even though as the proposed law now stands, it would only apply 1106 00:58:34,122 --> 00:58:35,617 to those 18 or older. 1107 00:58:35,730 --> 00:58:37,082 Woman: I'm for the death penalty. 1108 00:58:37,102 --> 00:58:40,157 If someone were to hurt my family or a loved one 1109 00:58:40,177 --> 00:58:42,176 as they did this woman, 1110 00:58:42,196 --> 00:58:44,019 I would probably want them dead. 1111 00:58:44,039 --> 00:58:46,659 You better believe that I hate the people 1112 00:58:46,894 --> 00:58:49,898 that took this girl and raped her brutally. 1113 00:58:49,918 --> 00:58:51,081 You better believe it. 1114 00:58:51,101 --> 00:58:53,869 Woman: Trump put his money where his mouth is by taking out 1115 00:58:53,889 --> 00:58:57,692 this full-page ad in 4 New York City newspapers. 1116 00:58:57,834 --> 00:58:59,842 "Bring back the death penalty." 1117 00:59:03,000 --> 00:59:04,696 Byfield: They were children. 1118 00:59:05,062 --> 00:59:06,498 They were children. 1119 00:59:06,949 --> 00:59:09,593 Bringing up the death penalty in the context of the case 1120 00:59:09,613 --> 00:59:13,801 in which you were discussing children was outrageous to me. 1121 00:59:13,821 --> 00:59:15,980 I think that if she had been a wa... young woman 1122 00:59:16,000 --> 00:59:22,111 who, ah, who had been found in an alley in Bedford-Stuyvesant; 1123 00:59:22,448 --> 00:59:25,846 if she had been found, ah, in Harlem; 1124 00:59:25,987 --> 00:59:30,973 ah, if she had been found in any of the, any of the, ah, ah, 1125 00:59:30,993 --> 00:59:34,771 darker enclaves in this city or in this state, 1126 00:59:35,146 --> 00:59:37,898 Donald trump wouldn't have spoken, he, he wouldn't have 1127 00:59:37,918 --> 00:59:39,636 even whispered a word. 1128 00:59:40,039 --> 00:59:42,967 Interracial rapes are covered differently. 1129 00:59:43,511 --> 00:59:47,198 And there was another major rape in the city at the time. 1130 00:59:48,240 --> 00:59:50,381 And this is the woman who was raped in Brooklyn 1131 00:59:50,401 --> 00:59:52,143 and thrown off a rooftop. 1132 00:59:52,163 --> 00:59:54,502 That got little to no coverage 1133 00:59:54,522 --> 00:59:56,822 because the assailants and the victim 1134 00:59:57,057 --> 00:59:59,141 were in the same racial group. 1135 01:00:00,207 --> 01:00:03,726 If there's a white woman and the accusation is that she's 1136 01:00:03,746 --> 01:00:07,410 been done-in by blacks, that by itself takes you back 1137 01:00:07,430 --> 01:00:12,031 to Emmett Till, who did nothing but whistle at a woman 1138 01:00:12,051 --> 01:00:16,021 and ended up in a shallow Mississippi grave. 1139 01:00:17,231 --> 01:00:23,899 If this had happened in 1901, they would have been lynched, 1140 01:00:24,603 --> 01:00:29,151 perhaps castrated, and their bodies burned and that 1141 01:00:29,171 --> 01:00:30,551 would have been the end of it. 1142 01:00:30,571 --> 01:00:32,931 But this was New York City, 1989. 1143 01:00:32,951 --> 01:00:35,656 It was not Jim Crow South. 1144 01:00:35,676 --> 01:00:38,245 And yet the same words are being used with the same 1145 01:00:38,265 --> 01:00:39,853 damaging results. 1146 01:00:41,191 --> 01:00:45,442 Butts: They seized on the fears of the people. 1147 01:00:45,462 --> 01:00:46,582 Wilding. 1148 01:00:46,602 --> 01:00:51,227 The bestial characterization of the black man, these young 1149 01:00:51,247 --> 01:00:53,765 hoodlums, these thugs. 1150 01:00:56,391 --> 01:01:00,504 Wilder: Once we were on the path to identifying these young men 1151 01:01:00,524 --> 01:01:04,307 as the culprits, it's hard to get off that path. 1152 01:01:04,710 --> 01:01:09,800 And race, power, and politics make it extremely difficult. 1153 01:01:09,820 --> 01:01:12,663 It requires extraordinary courage. 1154 01:01:12,915 --> 01:01:15,863 A lot of people in the black community went along 1155 01:01:15,883 --> 01:01:17,777 with the confessions. 1156 01:01:19,035 --> 01:01:22,528 Many of us were frightened by our own children. 1157 01:01:23,016 --> 01:01:30,922 Many of us had been pushed around, raped, burglarized, 1158 01:01:31,317 --> 01:01:34,590 pocketbooks snatched, harassed on the subway 1159 01:01:35,174 --> 01:01:37,324 often by young black men. 1160 01:01:39,811 --> 01:01:43,188 People just said, "Oh, how terrible. 1161 01:01:43,667 --> 01:01:44,841 How terrible." 1162 01:01:45,395 --> 01:01:48,119 Everyone turned against them, except a few. 1163 01:01:54,060 --> 01:01:57,109 Woman: The good news is, she continues to improve neurologically 1164 01:01:57,129 --> 01:01:58,580 from her attack. 1165 01:01:59,428 --> 01:02:02,122 For the first time, she called her father "Dad." 1166 01:02:02,234 --> 01:02:03,813 She did simple arithmetic. 1167 01:02:03,833 --> 01:02:06,365 Her brain is working, still abnormally... she thought 1168 01:02:06,385 --> 01:02:10,271 the year was 1952... but her brain is working. 1169 01:02:10,524 --> 01:02:15,211 She's getting better, and so far she looks good. 1170 01:02:15,333 --> 01:02:18,021 Woman: The medical case of the 28-year-old jogger 1171 01:02:18,041 --> 01:02:19,648 continues to improve. 1172 01:02:19,668 --> 01:02:22,305 She is undergoing physical and psychological therapy 1173 01:02:22,325 --> 01:02:23,734 at a Connecticut hospital. 1174 01:02:23,754 --> 01:02:26,324 The young woman attacked has apparently made a remarkable 1175 01:02:26,344 --> 01:02:29,480 recovery, although she reportedly cannot recall any 1176 01:02:29,500 --> 01:02:31,190 details about the attack. 1177 01:02:48,267 --> 01:02:50,820 McCray: When I was bailed out, I thought the case was over. 1178 01:02:50,840 --> 01:02:52,313 I thought the truth came out. 1179 01:02:52,333 --> 01:02:55,633 I didn't know nothing about bail until I got home. 1180 01:02:55,653 --> 01:02:58,189 My mother explained to me, "No, it's bail. We paid for you to get out." 1181 01:02:58,209 --> 01:02:59,890 We still got to go on with this." 1182 01:03:03,275 --> 01:03:05,727 Hancock: The police controlled the story from the beginning. 1183 01:03:05,987 --> 01:03:10,652 They created the story and the theory, and all the pieces 1184 01:03:10,672 --> 01:03:11,466 fell into place. 1185 01:03:11,726 --> 01:03:15,745 The authorities release a chronology to the press 1186 01:03:16,030 --> 01:03:19,088 of what this wilding was all about. 1187 01:03:19,108 --> 01:03:21,776 Together at about 8:50 P.M., they entered... 1188 01:03:22,036 --> 01:03:24,570 Dwyer: The newspapers love chronologies. 1189 01:03:24,590 --> 01:03:25,894 We call 'em tick-tocks. 1190 01:03:25,914 --> 01:03:29,781 We like to say, "Here's how this night of terror unfolded" 1191 01:03:29,801 --> 01:03:30,534 in the park." 1192 01:03:30,828 --> 01:03:34,154 At 8:55, they attacked an older male. 1193 01:03:34,294 --> 01:03:39,777 The timeline says the kids did these attacks at this place with the homeless guy, 1194 01:03:39,797 --> 01:03:42,286 at this place with the taxi driver, over there with 1195 01:03:42,306 --> 01:03:45,478 the bicycle rider, and then with people running 1196 01:03:45,498 --> 01:03:46,689 around the reservoir. 1197 01:03:46,709 --> 01:03:47,658 At 9:25... 1198 01:03:47,678 --> 01:03:51,950 They did various acts of malice or mischief with these folks. 1199 01:03:52,300 --> 01:03:56,288 Now, those people reported these things either 1200 01:03:56,308 --> 01:03:59,669 simultaneously or right after to the police. 1201 01:03:59,689 --> 01:04:03,049 So there is a clear-cut timeline. 1202 01:04:04,683 --> 01:04:08,954 And what they do is they append to the end of this 1203 01:04:08,974 --> 01:04:12,509 sequence of crimes the attack on the jogger. 1204 01:04:12,997 --> 01:04:15,029 Then something happens. 1205 01:04:15,289 --> 01:04:20,068 Her movements that night start to become defined. 1206 01:04:20,806 --> 01:04:24,675 And all of a sudden we find out when she left her house,... 1207 01:04:24,695 --> 01:04:27,467 What route she normally took around the park. 1208 01:04:27,570 --> 01:04:31,400 And with not necessarily absolute certainty, 1209 01:04:31,420 --> 01:04:35,624 but with a good degree of certainty you can figure out 1210 01:04:35,644 --> 01:04:38,785 that Trisha Meili should have been in the park 1211 01:04:38,916 --> 01:04:43,740 around the place where she was attacked at around 20 after 9:00. 1212 01:04:44,707 --> 01:04:49,251 We know for certain that at that time, those kids were 1213 01:04:49,271 --> 01:04:53,853 beating up, hassling other people on the reservoir, 1214 01:04:53,994 --> 01:04:56,106 South of that spot in the park. 1215 01:04:56,520 --> 01:05:00,620 They weren't at that part of the park at the time she would 1216 01:05:00,640 --> 01:05:01,974 have been there. 1217 01:05:01,994 --> 01:05:06,795 And if you watch the videotape confessions, it turns out they 1218 01:05:06,815 --> 01:05:09,146 actually don't know where the crime took place; 1219 01:05:09,166 --> 01:05:11,412 they don't know when it took place; 1220 01:05:11,432 --> 01:05:12,857 and they don't know how it took place. 1221 01:05:12,877 --> 01:05:14,616 They just know that it happened. 1222 01:05:18,187 --> 01:05:22,756 Kassin: The problem is, once you form a strong belief that somebody is 1223 01:05:22,776 --> 01:05:24,984 guilty of a crime, 1224 01:05:25,004 --> 01:05:26,913 the contradictory details are just that. 1225 01:05:26,933 --> 01:05:29,972 They're details but they don't fundamentally 1226 01:05:29,992 --> 01:05:32,084 change our belief in their guilt. 1227 01:05:34,646 --> 01:05:37,985 But when the DNA results come back and none of their 1228 01:05:38,005 --> 01:05:42,574 DNA is present, that should have stopped the investigation 1229 01:05:42,595 --> 01:05:45,234 in its tracks and they should have at least paused and moved 1230 01:05:45,254 --> 01:05:47,595 in another direction. 1231 01:05:47,615 --> 01:05:51,452 Warren: Harlan Levy was a DNA prosecutor at the time. 1232 01:05:51,472 --> 01:05:56,706 And he recalls how Elizabeth Lederer said, "Please, come to my office." 1233 01:05:56,726 --> 01:05:59,299 And he could sense urgency in her voice. 1234 01:05:59,319 --> 01:06:01,926 And she said, "Look, I feel like I've been kicked" 1235 01:06:01,946 --> 01:06:03,921 "in the stomach. 1236 01:06:03,941 --> 01:06:06,348 "There's no DNA match whatsoever 1237 01:06:06,368 --> 01:06:08,943 to any of these boys." 1238 01:06:08,963 --> 01:06:12,100 Kassin: It is improbable, given the nature of this crime 1239 01:06:12,121 --> 01:06:16,124 and the scene, that these boys would not have left a single 1240 01:06:16,144 --> 01:06:20,147 trace of themselves on the scene or the scene a single trace on them. 1241 01:06:20,167 --> 01:06:24,603 The improbability of that is striking. 1242 01:06:24,623 --> 01:06:28,261 But the decision was we can still prosecute this case. 1243 01:06:28,281 --> 01:06:31,187 And the argument we will make to the jury is just because we 1244 01:06:31,207 --> 01:06:34,113 didn't get all of them, doesn't mean we didn't get 1245 01:06:34,133 --> 01:06:35,061 some of them. 1246 01:06:37,024 --> 01:06:41,361 They now created a scenario by which there is a 6th perpetrator 1247 01:06:41,382 --> 01:06:43,157 a 6th perpetrator who mysteriously 1248 01:06:43,177 --> 01:06:46,881 doesn't appear in any of the confessions. 1249 01:06:46,901 --> 01:06:50,339 But even if they were correct, that 6th perpetrator's 1250 01:06:50,359 --> 01:06:53,033 absence in their confessions makes the confessions 1251 01:06:53,053 --> 01:06:55,046 factually incorrect. 1252 01:06:56,377 --> 01:06:59,284 That should have been the dilemma. 1253 01:06:59,304 --> 01:07:04,237 Dwyer: The trail in the grass at the very spot where she was taken down 1254 01:07:04,257 --> 01:07:08,228 is 18 inches wide, that wide. 1255 01:07:08,248 --> 01:07:13,415 You can't tell me that 5 kids or 10 or whatever the number is 1256 01:07:13,435 --> 01:07:15,377 that were supposedly involved in this wilding 1257 01:07:15,397 --> 01:07:21,661 dragged this woman off the road and left an 18-inch-wide trail. 1258 01:07:21,681 --> 01:07:28,245 That trail was a photograph of the beginning of this attack. 1259 01:07:28,265 --> 01:07:33,333 And in that picture there are not 5 kids, there are only 1260 01:07:33,353 --> 01:07:37,823 2 people: The victim and her assailant. 1261 01:07:57,905 --> 01:08:00,784 Reyes: I asked her to get undressed. 1262 01:08:01,269 --> 01:08:04,023 When she was coming towards me, I picked up the knife. 1263 01:08:04,941 --> 01:08:08,527 And I shoved the knife and I caught her hair. 1264 01:08:09,016 --> 01:08:11,081 And she was saying, "Ah, you stabbed me." 1265 01:08:11,232 --> 01:08:14,049 And I don't know even where, I kept on stabbing her, 1266 01:08:14,069 --> 01:08:16,181 and I don't know what places I got her. 1267 01:08:16,201 --> 01:08:21,030 I see her on the floor, shaking and nervous, 1268 01:08:21,050 --> 01:08:23,499 so I run out the door. 1269 01:08:29,537 --> 01:08:36,241 Dwyer: Matias Reyes was a young man living essentially by himself 1270 01:08:36,261 --> 01:08:39,311 in his late teenage years. 1271 01:08:39,331 --> 01:08:41,931 He would steal Walkmans, he would steal watches, 1272 01:08:41,951 --> 01:08:43,531 he would steal jewelry. 1273 01:08:43,551 --> 01:08:47,959 Then he started sexually assaulting women, 1274 01:08:47,979 --> 01:08:52,044 attacking women all around that neighborhood. 1275 01:08:52,064 --> 01:08:57,757 On April 17, 1989, just two days before the jogger was attacked, 1276 01:08:57,777 --> 01:09:01,504 he attacked a woman in the northern part of Central Park. 1277 01:09:01,524 --> 01:09:06,031 But the woman noticed that he had fresh stitches on his chin, 1278 01:09:06,051 --> 01:09:08,369 and she told the police about this. 1279 01:09:08,389 --> 01:09:14,679 And a young detective went to the hospitals in the area 1280 01:09:14,699 --> 01:09:18,059 and found out that there had been a guy named Matias Reyes 1281 01:09:18,079 --> 01:09:21,608 who had these stitches on his chin. 1282 01:09:21,890 --> 01:09:23,918 That was ignored. 1283 01:09:24,369 --> 01:09:26,820 He was the "East Side Rapist" that we'd been covering 1284 01:09:26,840 --> 01:09:28,651 in the "Daily News." 1285 01:09:28,671 --> 01:09:31,182 And one of the police officers 1286 01:09:31,202 --> 01:09:33,093 who was working on the jogger case 1287 01:09:33,113 --> 01:09:37,242 and also working on one of the rapes that Reyes has 1288 01:09:37,262 --> 01:09:42,070 been accused of, has the DNA markers in both files. 1289 01:09:42,417 --> 01:09:46,464 Detective Mike Sheehan... he knew because he was working 1290 01:09:46,484 --> 01:09:48,549 with Linda Fairstein and Elizabeth Lederer 1291 01:09:48,569 --> 01:09:50,802 and all the other detectives... he knew that there 1292 01:09:50,822 --> 01:09:55,261 was no DNA match to these young Central Park Five. 1293 01:09:56,835 --> 01:09:59,135 TV reporter: The only real evidence the prosecutors have 1294 01:09:59,155 --> 01:10:02,556 is the evidence the defendants gave them: Hours of graphic 1295 01:10:02,576 --> 01:10:04,268 videotaped confessions. 1296 01:10:04,578 --> 01:10:07,766 Kassin: What is particularly disturbing about this case 1297 01:10:07,786 --> 01:10:11,674 and about so many other cases like it is that once that 1298 01:10:11,694 --> 01:10:15,502 confession is taken and once that confession is in the air, 1299 01:10:15,767 --> 01:10:17,761 it corrupts everything else. 1300 01:10:18,214 --> 01:10:23,060 And confessions will trump DNA, confessions will change 1301 01:10:23,080 --> 01:10:27,157 witnesses' testimony, confessions are irresistibly 1302 01:10:27,177 --> 01:10:30,572 persuasive, and almost the effects can't be reversed. 1303 01:10:43,776 --> 01:10:45,576 Rather: Screening for jurors began today 1304 01:10:45,596 --> 01:10:48,405 in a case that shocked New York and jolted the nation. 1305 01:10:48,425 --> 01:10:52,030 Prosecutors are expected to call 50 witnesses, possibly 1306 01:10:52,050 --> 01:10:53,458 including the victim herself. 1307 01:10:53,478 --> 01:10:58,031 Woman: Though she has no memory of the attack, prosecutors expect her to testify. 1308 01:10:58,051 --> 01:11:00,304 Her mere appearance will pack an emotional punch 1309 01:11:00,324 --> 01:11:02,162 for the prosecution's case. 1310 01:11:06,838 --> 01:11:10,378 Santana Jr.: In the back of my mind, I knew we wasn't gonna beat this case. 1311 01:11:11,214 --> 01:11:13,242 It was in the paper too much. 1312 01:11:13,346 --> 01:11:15,214 Too many people were against us. 1313 01:11:18,360 --> 01:11:20,510 Everybody washed their hands from us, 1314 01:11:20,641 --> 01:11:25,614 and I felt like people accepted whatever happened to us. 1315 01:11:26,120 --> 01:11:29,849 It was like, "Whatever happens to those kids, forget 'em." 1316 01:11:35,742 --> 01:11:39,602 McCray: My father, as the trial came, he left me and my mother. 1317 01:11:39,911 --> 01:11:40,908 Disappeared. 1318 01:11:42,569 --> 01:11:43,745 I couldn't understand. 1319 01:11:43,765 --> 01:11:46,325 And I just, I hated him after that. 1320 01:11:49,726 --> 01:11:52,582 Me and my mother started going to court by ourself. 1321 01:11:55,098 --> 01:11:57,191 Demonstrators, you know people just shouting, 1322 01:11:57,211 --> 01:11:59,361 you know, "Rapist", "You animal." 1323 01:11:59,381 --> 01:12:01,286 "You don't deserve to be alive." 1324 01:12:02,713 --> 01:12:05,866 It just felt like the whole world hated us. 1325 01:12:09,381 --> 01:12:13,596 Joseph: The amazing thing to me in meeting Antron was that he was 1326 01:12:13,616 --> 01:12:18,435 the exact opposite of the way he was portrayed in the news. 1327 01:12:18,455 --> 01:12:23,064 He is a timid, calm, non-aggressive individual, 1328 01:12:23,084 --> 01:12:25,872 not anything as he was portrayed. 1329 01:12:30,874 --> 01:12:33,860 Woman: In her opening argument, the prosecutor made it clear 1330 01:12:33,880 --> 01:12:36,486 their own words would be the main evidence against 1331 01:12:36,506 --> 01:12:38,269 the first three defendants. 1332 01:12:38,289 --> 01:12:39,433 Lederer: Where were you standing? 1333 01:12:39,453 --> 01:12:41,258 Santana Jr.: I was on the side of Kevin. 1334 01:12:42,019 --> 01:12:43,568 Lederer: Were you watching? 1335 01:12:43,672 --> 01:12:45,427 Santana Jr.: No, I was grabbing the lady's tits. 1336 01:12:45,447 --> 01:12:48,054 It was very hard not to believe those confessions. 1337 01:12:48,074 --> 01:12:49,659 Lederer: What was Anton doing to her clothes? 1338 01:12:49,679 --> 01:12:51,424 Santana Jr.: Trying to pull them off. 1339 01:12:51,444 --> 01:12:52,595 It seemed genuine. 1340 01:12:52,615 --> 01:12:54,069 These confessions seemed genuine. 1341 01:12:54,089 --> 01:12:57,590 They didn't seem like they were rehearsed or made up or anything. 1342 01:12:57,900 --> 01:12:59,481 I think that Raymond lied. 1343 01:12:59,501 --> 01:13:01,369 It'll come out that Raymond lied. 1344 01:13:01,481 --> 01:13:05,164 He was lying when he was being asked questions by 1345 01:13:05,184 --> 01:13:06,356 the district attorney, 1346 01:13:06,376 --> 01:13:10,364 and I think that will come out very... graphically 1347 01:13:10,477 --> 01:13:12,402 in my cross examination tomorrow. 1348 01:13:12,422 --> 01:13:15,753 Woman: Yusef Salaam didn't make taped statements, but police say he 1349 01:13:15,773 --> 01:13:19,488 verbally admitted beating the female jogger with a lead pipe 1350 01:13:19,508 --> 01:13:21,478 while others climbed on top of her. 1351 01:13:24,138 --> 01:13:26,721 Salaam: Bobby burns... He was a friend of my mom's. 1352 01:13:27,162 --> 01:13:29,594 He was originally a divorce lawyer. 1353 01:13:32,215 --> 01:13:33,661 I thought he was a nice guy. 1354 01:13:33,858 --> 01:13:38,375 But at one point in time I remember looking over at him 1355 01:13:38,619 --> 01:13:40,370 and I thought he was sleeping. 1356 01:13:47,331 --> 01:13:50,298 Santana Jr.: Mentally, you know, physically it was draining, 1357 01:13:50,529 --> 01:13:52,586 not knowing what's going on, 1358 01:13:52,736 --> 01:13:56,154 seeing these people get on the stand, nobody actually saying 1359 01:13:56,174 --> 01:13:57,112 you did it. 1360 01:14:03,226 --> 01:14:05,723 Woman: ...That there is another perspective. 1361 01:14:05,846 --> 01:14:09,285 Crowd: No more Scottsboro boys! 1362 01:14:09,305 --> 01:14:10,346 No more Scottsboro boys! 1363 01:14:10,366 --> 01:14:14,176 Woman: There has been no evidence in any form that could show me, 1364 01:14:14,196 --> 01:14:21,406 for one moment, anything related to his being anything other than innocent. 1365 01:14:21,426 --> 01:14:23,123 Yusef is innocent. 1366 01:14:23,143 --> 01:14:24,445 Crowd shouting: No justice. No peace! 1367 01:14:24,465 --> 01:14:26,050 No justice. No peace! 1368 01:14:26,070 --> 01:14:27,481 No justice. No peace! 1369 01:14:27,501 --> 01:14:28,331 No justice. No peace! 1370 01:14:28,351 --> 01:14:30,970 There have been charges of racism, that authorities 1371 01:14:30,990 --> 01:14:33,942 aggressively pursued the case because the victim is white 1372 01:14:33,962 --> 01:14:36,207 and the suspects Black and Hispanic. 1373 01:14:36,227 --> 01:14:38,649 Woman: Meantime, a group of people came to demonstrate 1374 01:14:38,669 --> 01:14:41,482 for the female jogger and against a regular cadre 1375 01:14:41,502 --> 01:14:43,877 of protestors who have suggested that the jogger's 1376 01:14:43,897 --> 01:14:44,966 boyfriend raped her. 1377 01:14:44,986 --> 01:14:47,022 Where the jogger's boyfriend? 1378 01:14:47,042 --> 01:14:49,060 Where's the jogger's boyfriend? 1379 01:14:49,080 --> 01:14:51,081 Woman: All people should be outraged about this, 1380 01:14:51,194 --> 01:14:53,297 not any particular race. 1381 01:14:53,317 --> 01:14:56,634 We need to remember that this was a human being and people 1382 01:14:56,654 --> 01:14:57,797 need to support that. 1383 01:15:01,976 --> 01:15:05,460 Woman: She walked with an unsteady gait, clutched the railing 1384 01:15:05,480 --> 01:15:06,998 as she stepped into the witness stand. 1385 01:15:07,675 --> 01:15:09,440 Her scars were evident, 1386 01:15:10,013 --> 01:15:12,905 but she spoke clearly in a strong, sweet voice. 1387 01:15:14,083 --> 01:15:16,278 Hancock: She was a miracle now at this point. 1388 01:15:16,872 --> 01:15:19,859 She couldn't contribute anything to the actual case 1389 01:15:19,879 --> 01:15:21,883 because thankfully she couldn't remember. 1390 01:15:22,297 --> 01:15:26,381 But the fact of her being on the stand galvanized 1391 01:15:26,401 --> 01:15:31,139 the public around her and against these young boys. 1392 01:15:33,422 --> 01:15:35,791 McCray: I was like just sitting there, like looking, like, "Man", 1393 01:15:35,812 --> 01:15:37,872 I really hope this lady can remember." 1394 01:15:37,893 --> 01:15:40,275 You know, I'm, like, "Why she can't remember?" 1395 01:15:40,509 --> 01:15:43,077 It's messed up what happened to her, but I didn't do it. 1396 01:15:47,151 --> 01:15:50,082 Woman: With the prosecution resting its case in the final hour today, 1397 01:15:50,102 --> 01:15:52,200 the defense begins its case tomorrow, starting 1398 01:15:52,220 --> 01:15:54,801 with the parents of Antron McCray. 1399 01:15:55,733 --> 01:16:01,744 Joseph: My strategy was obviously to try to convince the jury that 1400 01:16:01,764 --> 01:16:05,583 the statements were not accurate, were the product 1401 01:16:05,603 --> 01:16:08,622 of coercion, should be inadmissible, 1402 01:16:08,642 --> 01:16:10,532 and were not credible. 1403 01:16:10,552 --> 01:16:14,392 But when they testified in court, the police officers 1404 01:16:14,412 --> 01:16:18,251 said, "All we did is ask him what happened." 1405 01:16:18,626 --> 01:16:21,196 That seemed to me to be incredible. 1406 01:16:21,216 --> 01:16:25,009 They also denied that they ever made any 1407 01:16:25,029 --> 01:16:27,246 promises whatsoever. 1408 01:16:27,266 --> 01:16:31,499 They denied even knowing Antron was a suspect. 1409 01:16:32,175 --> 01:16:35,227 Gold: Even though he had asked him to tell the truth no matter what 1410 01:16:35,247 --> 01:16:37,687 and to bring the clothes he was wearing, and all kinds 1411 01:16:37,707 --> 01:16:41,544 of stuff, that made it perfectly obvious that he was a suspect, 1412 01:16:41,564 --> 01:16:43,327 he said he didn't think of him as a suspect. 1413 01:16:43,347 --> 01:16:44,886 That was just nonsense. 1414 01:16:45,178 --> 01:16:48,557 Some of the detectives were obviously lying through their teeth. 1415 01:16:49,979 --> 01:16:53,637 Dwyer: The lawyers in the case had another defense, 1416 01:16:53,657 --> 01:16:55,964 which is they had alibis. 1417 01:16:57,020 --> 01:17:03,135 They were not where the jogger was when she was attacked. 1418 01:17:03,155 --> 01:17:04,579 Why? 1419 01:17:04,599 --> 01:17:06,917 They were beating up other people. 1420 01:17:08,049 --> 01:17:12,036 That alibi defense was not offered. 1421 01:17:13,949 --> 01:17:16,030 Gold: The only evidence against Yusef was 1422 01:17:16,050 --> 01:17:19,066 the testimony of McKenna, the detective. 1423 01:17:19,213 --> 01:17:23,652 And Burns absolutely undercut Yusef in the most 1424 01:17:23,672 --> 01:17:25,704 terrifying way. 1425 01:17:26,081 --> 01:17:30,547 He put into evidence the notes of McKenna which hadn't been 1426 01:17:30,567 --> 01:17:32,440 put into evidence before. 1427 01:17:32,460 --> 01:17:35,464 And that was the only evidence against Yusef. 1428 01:17:37,898 --> 01:17:39,789 Santana Jr.: There was one part during trial 1429 01:17:39,809 --> 01:17:43,029 I think Peter Rivera, my lawyer, he woke up. 1430 01:17:43,049 --> 01:17:45,392 And they was talking about the statements, of how 1431 01:17:45,412 --> 01:17:47,906 the statements were coerced by the police. 1432 01:17:47,926 --> 01:17:52,481 I remember him reading something, and I heard him... 1433 01:17:52,501 --> 01:17:54,385 I heard him whisper it. 1434 01:17:54,405 --> 01:17:56,089 He didn't say it loud but he sat next to me. 1435 01:17:56,109 --> 01:17:59,361 He said, "They didn't do it." 1436 01:17:59,381 --> 01:18:02,201 And I heard him say that. 1437 01:18:02,221 --> 01:18:05,006 And I said, "All right, well, maybe now he gonna fight." 1438 01:18:05,026 --> 01:18:06,962 But it was too late. 1439 01:18:09,033 --> 01:18:10,819 Gold: No blood on the kids. 1440 01:18:10,839 --> 01:18:13,074 Nobody could identify them. 1441 01:18:13,971 --> 01:18:16,253 It was just a question of believing 1442 01:18:16,273 --> 01:18:17,690 the confessions or not. 1443 01:18:18,120 --> 01:18:22,520 And it was very hard to imagine why anybody would make up 1444 01:18:22,540 --> 01:18:26,802 something that not only incriminates them but is full 1445 01:18:26,822 --> 01:18:30,852 of details that sound like they actually happened. 1446 01:18:32,049 --> 01:18:35,636 Santana Jr.: It got to one point where they pulled me, Yusef, and Antron 1447 01:18:35,656 --> 01:18:37,273 in the conference room. 1448 01:18:37,293 --> 01:18:40,602 And the lawyer says, "You know, we're gonna lose this case." 1449 01:18:41,340 --> 01:18:45,014 What we're planning to do is see if we can get you a plea deal." 1450 01:18:45,962 --> 01:18:49,531 Salaam: And I remember telling them, you know, "You guys can cop out." 1451 01:18:49,551 --> 01:18:54,054 "But if I did something, I would cop out. 1452 01:18:54,401 --> 01:18:57,279 "I would want the least amount of time for what I did. 1453 01:18:57,509 --> 01:19:01,187 But if I didn't do anything, you can give me the rest of my life in prison." 1454 01:19:01,431 --> 01:19:04,528 You know, I didn't know what that meant back then, but I 1455 01:19:04,548 --> 01:19:07,918 just knew that there would be no way that I would cop out 1456 01:19:07,938 --> 01:19:09,393 for something that I didn't do. 1457 01:19:09,524 --> 01:19:13,412 They said, "Well, it has to be all three of you guys or it's nobody." 1458 01:19:13,432 --> 01:19:16,586 And so we, you know, we looked at each other. 1459 01:19:16,606 --> 01:19:18,690 We was like, "Well, guess it's nobody." 1460 01:19:19,180 --> 01:19:21,128 Coming out. Let's roll. 1461 01:19:21,148 --> 01:19:23,821 The crimes and the colors in this case have been a focus 1462 01:19:23,841 --> 01:19:25,871 of attention here for more than a year. 1463 01:19:26,198 --> 01:19:29,361 It will now be up to a jury to decide the guilt or innocence 1464 01:19:29,381 --> 01:19:30,515 of the defendants. 1465 01:19:30,535 --> 01:19:33,622 John McKenzie, ABC News, New York. 1466 01:19:39,768 --> 01:19:43,569 It is day 10 of deliberations and the jogger jury appears to 1467 01:19:43,589 --> 01:19:45,269 be going back to what they were thinking 1468 01:19:45,289 --> 01:19:47,282 about on day one. 1469 01:19:47,302 --> 01:19:50,783 Were those damaging videotaped confessions coerced by cops, 1470 01:19:50,952 --> 01:19:52,408 overeager to solve the case? 1471 01:19:52,428 --> 01:19:53,462 Joseph: Each day that 1472 01:19:53,482 --> 01:19:55,846 the jury remained out, 1473 01:19:56,187 --> 01:19:59,781 I started to get a little more optimistic. 1474 01:20:00,041 --> 01:20:00,932 People were shocked. 1475 01:20:00,952 --> 01:20:04,395 What's taking them so long? They confessed to it! 1476 01:20:06,247 --> 01:20:09,180 I was going nuts, quite frankly. 1477 01:20:09,200 --> 01:20:12,044 I mean, everyone was blaming the fact that we were there 1478 01:20:12,064 --> 01:20:13,545 so long on me. 1479 01:20:13,792 --> 01:20:17,450 And I had to fight with my fellow jurors to consider 1480 01:20:17,470 --> 01:20:20,777 the discrepancies between the 3 statements, 1481 01:20:20,908 --> 01:20:23,492 but it didn't matter to them. 1482 01:20:23,697 --> 01:20:26,335 If they confessed, they confessed, and that was that. 1483 01:20:27,127 --> 01:20:29,961 Everyone's hurling imprecations at me and 1484 01:20:29,981 --> 01:20:31,559 telling me what a rat I am. 1485 01:20:31,916 --> 01:20:35,474 And I just went along with it at the end because, 1486 01:20:35,859 --> 01:20:37,831 frankly, I was wiped out. 1487 01:20:38,329 --> 01:20:43,436 I found some cockamamie excuse to vote guilty, 1488 01:20:43,456 --> 01:20:44,771 just to get outta there. 1489 01:20:59,187 --> 01:21:03,044 Santana Jr.: When the verdict came out, they brung us out. 1490 01:21:03,259 --> 01:21:04,746 The courtroom was packed. 1491 01:21:06,300 --> 01:21:09,089 As they started to read, everything kinda got numb. 1492 01:21:09,433 --> 01:21:11,849 McCray: I remember standing there and just, 1493 01:21:11,869 --> 01:21:13,258 they found me guilty. 1494 01:21:13,278 --> 01:21:16,455 That's when I was just... the world just collapsed. 1495 01:21:16,975 --> 01:21:18,891 Salaam: My whole insides dropped. 1496 01:21:18,911 --> 01:21:22,636 Just... like this is crazy. 1497 01:21:22,656 --> 01:21:23,604 Are you... are you kidding me? 1498 01:21:23,624 --> 01:21:25,801 Like, I couldn't believe it at all. 1499 01:21:26,620 --> 01:21:29,538 McCray: I couldn't hear nothing after that. I just sat down. 1500 01:21:29,698 --> 01:21:32,007 I looked back at my mother. She was crying. 1501 01:21:35,557 --> 01:21:36,813 You know, that was it. 1502 01:21:36,833 --> 01:21:39,249 Woman: After the jury foreman, a law school graduate... 1503 01:21:39,269 --> 01:21:42,153 One of my friends had a radio, and then I heard it. 1504 01:21:42,173 --> 01:21:46,106 Woman, continuing: Guilty, guilty, guilty on rape, robbery, riot, and assault... 1505 01:21:46,275 --> 01:21:47,862 Tears came out of my eye. 1506 01:21:48,218 --> 01:21:49,262 And I was mad. 1507 01:21:49,282 --> 01:21:53,199 Woman, continuing: 16-year-old McCray clenched his jaw and brushed away tears. 1508 01:21:53,554 --> 01:21:56,137 15-year-old Santana looked wide-eyed ahead, 1509 01:21:56,322 --> 01:21:59,468 while Salaam stared at the jurors, then back at the courtroom. 1510 01:21:59,599 --> 01:22:01,943 Pure anguish. 1511 01:22:02,388 --> 01:22:07,060 Joseph: Antron leaned over to me and said, "Thank you very much" 1512 01:22:07,080 --> 01:22:09,071 for all of your efforts." 1513 01:22:09,570 --> 01:22:14,893 That's not something that you see from clients in general 1514 01:22:14,913 --> 01:22:19,017 and certainly not something you would expect to see 1515 01:22:19,037 --> 01:22:20,313 from a young man, 1516 01:22:20,333 --> 01:22:22,156 and I truly appreciated it. 1517 01:22:23,355 --> 01:22:25,873 McCray: I just looked at him, and I was like, "Thank you for helping me." 1518 01:22:25,893 --> 01:22:27,673 He did his best. 1519 01:22:28,161 --> 01:22:30,563 He did his best, you know, in my eyes. 1520 01:22:33,267 --> 01:22:35,072 Santana Jr.: They took me out first. 1521 01:22:35,939 --> 01:22:39,138 They asked for my belt, they asked for my laces. 1522 01:22:39,909 --> 01:22:44,077 And then Yusef and Antron came out like a little bit after me. 1523 01:22:44,849 --> 01:22:46,058 And then we cried. 1524 01:22:46,078 --> 01:22:47,936 We cried inside the bull pen. 1525 01:22:48,142 --> 01:22:51,737 We didn't... it was like you didn't wanna show them that, 1526 01:22:51,757 --> 01:22:56,410 you know, because you didn't want them to see defeat. 1527 01:22:56,655 --> 01:22:58,982 So you know we did it when we went in the back. 1528 01:23:00,528 --> 01:23:02,612 Woman: The defendants' families left the courtroom 1529 01:23:02,632 --> 01:23:04,264 quickly, in tears. 1530 01:23:04,284 --> 01:23:06,735 They left without their teenage sons. 1531 01:23:11,780 --> 01:23:12,819 All right! 1532 01:23:12,839 --> 01:23:14,377 Thank you! 1533 01:23:16,387 --> 01:23:19,277 Law and order in the nation's largest city seemed to get 1534 01:23:19,297 --> 01:23:22,208 a boost tonight as the first three youths to be tried 1535 01:23:22,228 --> 01:23:24,777 in the Central Park jogger case were found guilty 1536 01:23:24,797 --> 01:23:27,625 of gang rape and brutal assault and robbery. 1537 01:23:28,555 --> 01:23:29,817 Woman: You're pleased with the verdicts? 1538 01:23:29,837 --> 01:23:30,639 I am. 1539 01:23:30,659 --> 01:23:34,300 How much of a help has your detectives... have your detectives 1540 01:23:34,320 --> 01:23:35,759 been to you during this case? 1541 01:23:35,779 --> 01:23:38,018 Lederer: They've been the best. They're terrific. 1542 01:23:38,154 --> 01:23:41,036 Woman: Were you concerned about the lack of genetic evidence? 1543 01:23:41,056 --> 01:23:44,162 A lot of people made a big deal about that, that none 1544 01:23:44,182 --> 01:23:46,329 of the semen from the defendants matched that 1545 01:23:46,349 --> 01:23:47,803 that was found in the jogger. 1546 01:23:47,823 --> 01:23:49,656 I think, because there's another trial, 1547 01:23:49,676 --> 01:23:51,281 it's better not to discuss the evidence. 1548 01:23:51,301 --> 01:23:53,770 Woman: How do you feel about the prospect of another trial? 1549 01:23:53,790 --> 01:23:56,006 I think I could use a vacation before we start. 1550 01:23:56,026 --> 01:23:58,787 - Are you going to give it to her? - I'm going to give it to her. 1551 01:24:28,925 --> 01:24:30,342 Richardson: They offered me a plea. 1552 01:24:30,362 --> 01:24:33,760 And I said, "I will never plead to anything 'cause I was innocent." 1553 01:24:33,780 --> 01:24:38,826 And that we gonna fight this the whole way through." 1554 01:24:43,147 --> 01:24:45,342 It was just really a circus. 1555 01:24:45,764 --> 01:24:47,802 At this time, I was 16 now. 1556 01:24:48,365 --> 01:24:51,398 So it was already two years of going through that. 1557 01:24:53,647 --> 01:24:56,820 Wise: I'm just goin' from Rikers Island, back and forth, 1558 01:24:56,942 --> 01:24:59,525 goin' to this court thing like it's a job. 1559 01:25:00,848 --> 01:25:04,798 Her only argument on me is my confession tapes. 1560 01:25:04,818 --> 01:25:06,200 Lederer: Did you hold her legs down? 1561 01:25:06,220 --> 01:25:09,371 Wise, on tape: I hold her legs down for what? 5 seconds. 1562 01:25:09,391 --> 01:25:15,476 Wise: So I'm lookin' at this like..."That's me? 1563 01:25:17,134 --> 01:25:21,502 "Is that me? She usin' me against me." 1564 01:25:23,070 --> 01:25:25,810 16-year-old Kevin Richardson has been quiet through most 1565 01:25:25,830 --> 01:25:28,060 of the trial, but his mother has not. 1566 01:25:28,220 --> 01:25:30,688 Cuffie: He was set up, he was set up. 1567 01:25:30,708 --> 01:25:31,730 Richardson's attorney 1568 01:25:31,750 --> 01:25:34,901 says he won't claim his client's taped confession was coerced. 1569 01:25:35,182 --> 01:25:37,969 Instead, he'll argue Richardson was with the gang 1570 01:25:37,989 --> 01:25:40,185 but never took part in any of the crimes. 1571 01:25:40,205 --> 01:25:42,523 Wise's attorney said he'll try to show the confessions 1572 01:25:42,543 --> 01:25:43,819 were coerced. 1573 01:25:43,960 --> 01:25:46,157 By putting him under continuous pressure 1574 01:25:46,260 --> 01:25:47,819 for 1 hour and 24 minutes, 1575 01:25:47,931 --> 01:25:50,692 after he had been interrogated for over 24 hours, 1576 01:25:50,870 --> 01:25:53,057 that amounts to pressure. 1577 01:25:53,077 --> 01:25:57,329 I was asked from my lawyer, Colin Moore, 1578 01:25:57,601 --> 01:25:59,440 do I wanna testify? 1579 01:26:00,549 --> 01:26:04,647 And the D.A., she came up there tearin' me apart. 1580 01:26:05,507 --> 01:26:08,876 I had wanted to get up and say, "Woman you don't know me!" 1581 01:26:08,896 --> 01:26:11,263 You talkin' like you know me. You don't know me." 1582 01:26:15,733 --> 01:26:17,262 Black: The reporters were runnin', 1583 01:26:17,282 --> 01:26:20,855 and people were runnin', and we were like, "What's goin' on?" 1584 01:26:20,875 --> 01:26:22,460 And somebody said, "The verdict is in." 1585 01:26:26,265 --> 01:26:28,049 Richardson: The first thing I heard was "Guilty," 1586 01:26:28,562 --> 01:26:31,772 and everything else was just like fading out. 1587 01:26:32,997 --> 01:26:35,575 Wise: The judge said, "How do you find?" 1588 01:26:35,758 --> 01:26:40,114 "Guilty: Assault, riot, and sexual abuse." 1589 01:26:41,870 --> 01:26:43,184 So that was that. 1590 01:26:44,438 --> 01:26:47,189 I remember being handcuffed right on the spot, 1591 01:26:48,719 --> 01:26:51,893 and that's when I felt completely alone, 1592 01:26:52,521 --> 01:26:55,544 'cause, you know, before I had my family at least supportin' me, you know. 1593 01:26:57,666 --> 01:27:03,175 But at that point once the gates closed and I was in the cell, 1594 01:27:03,640 --> 01:27:08,269 and I just thought my life was pretty much over. 1595 01:27:17,527 --> 01:27:20,718 Get the... out of my face! 1596 01:27:20,738 --> 01:27:21,870 Outside the courthouse, 1597 01:27:21,890 --> 01:27:23,805 supporters of the two teenagers erupted 1598 01:27:23,825 --> 01:27:25,063 with violent emotion. 1599 01:27:26,857 --> 01:27:30,041 Get the... out! 1600 01:27:30,061 --> 01:27:33,510 Inside, 16-year-old Kevin Richardson cried loudly. 1601 01:27:33,680 --> 01:27:36,420 His mother screamed, "We love you", and collapsed, 1602 01:27:36,440 --> 01:27:38,484 later to be taken to a hospital. 1603 01:27:38,504 --> 01:27:41,522 18-year-old Korey Wise shouted, "Racism," 1604 01:27:41,542 --> 01:27:42,856 as he was led from court. 1605 01:27:42,876 --> 01:27:45,519 The prosecutor was taken from court under heavy guard 1606 01:27:45,539 --> 01:27:47,735 as an angry crowd swirled around her. 1607 01:27:47,755 --> 01:27:49,631 You lying ...! You lied! 1608 01:27:49,951 --> 01:27:52,534 This was the second trial in the jogger case. 1609 01:27:52,554 --> 01:27:55,016 Last summer, three teenagers were convicted of rape 1610 01:27:55,036 --> 01:27:57,947 and assault and are now serving their juvenile terms. 1611 01:28:21,789 --> 01:28:24,006 This is the test Mayor Koch had laid out. 1612 01:28:24,026 --> 01:28:29,898 He was out of office now but people felt the system had passed. 1613 01:28:40,479 --> 01:28:44,465 Richardson: I went to a maximum security for juveniles. 1614 01:28:44,485 --> 01:28:49,377 Me and Yusef Salaam, we wound up being in the same place. 1615 01:28:51,645 --> 01:28:58,515 I remember sayin' that we just have to stay strong together 1616 01:28:58,535 --> 01:28:59,971 and try to get through this together 'cause 1617 01:28:59,991 --> 01:29:02,289 all we have is each other right at this point. 1618 01:29:03,875 --> 01:29:06,658 Santana Jr.: In the beginning, it was very hard because they perceived me 1619 01:29:06,678 --> 01:29:10,529 as this was a rapist and, uh... he committed 1620 01:29:10,549 --> 01:29:13,924 one of the most heinous crimes in New York State history. 1621 01:29:14,713 --> 01:29:17,738 You could be the most peaceful person, but then you come to 1622 01:29:17,758 --> 01:29:21,075 the point where you have to defend yourself to avoid 1623 01:29:21,095 --> 01:29:25,941 possibly being beaten, or worse, even, you know, killed. 1624 01:29:25,961 --> 01:29:29,835 So I had to adjust to that environment and basically 1625 01:29:29,855 --> 01:29:32,005 I had to grow up really fast. 1626 01:29:33,442 --> 01:29:37,122 McCray: And it's real hectic in there, you know, people dying 1627 01:29:37,142 --> 01:29:38,588 over cigarettes. 1628 01:29:39,484 --> 01:29:40,917 It's real crazy. 1629 01:29:55,294 --> 01:29:56,787 Santana Jr.: Why me? 1630 01:29:57,306 --> 01:29:59,880 Cursed God out a coup of times. 1631 01:30:00,290 --> 01:30:02,492 You know, my faith was gone. 1632 01:30:02,512 --> 01:30:06,998 I lost that, um, ah... 1633 01:30:07,018 --> 01:30:09,616 Just my faith was gone and, um... 1634 01:30:10,396 --> 01:30:13,456 I didn't, um... Know what to do. 1635 01:30:17,982 --> 01:30:20,014 My father came once in a while. 1636 01:30:20,034 --> 01:30:22,686 He apologized to me, but I didn't accept it. 1637 01:30:24,204 --> 01:30:26,009 My mother came a lot. 1638 01:30:26,582 --> 01:30:28,855 I mean, there was sometimes I had to tell her to stay home 1639 01:30:28,875 --> 01:30:31,392 because the weather would be so messed up. 1640 01:30:31,993 --> 01:30:33,982 She'd still come. 1641 01:30:38,488 --> 01:30:40,816 Wise: When I heard that my dad had passed, 1642 01:30:41,582 --> 01:30:43,126 it was hurtin', uh... 1643 01:30:44,131 --> 01:30:48,414 It was hurting and I would think, surely think, he just... 1644 01:30:48,434 --> 01:30:50,500 he drunk hisself to death. 1645 01:30:51,740 --> 01:30:56,021 You know, through... what do they call that? Cirrhosis of the liver? 1646 01:30:56,460 --> 01:31:01,135 But no one shared it with me or gave me the chance 1647 01:31:01,155 --> 01:31:02,899 to come down. 1648 01:31:02,919 --> 01:31:05,883 So I just learned it and that was that. 1649 01:31:07,511 --> 01:31:08,957 That was that. 1650 01:31:17,502 --> 01:31:21,795 But as time passed, I started to make changes. 1651 01:31:22,709 --> 01:31:25,158 I was able to get my G.E.D. 1652 01:31:25,178 --> 01:31:27,061 I was able to get a degree, you know. 1653 01:31:27,081 --> 01:31:28,463 I got an associate's. 1654 01:31:28,483 --> 01:31:31,867 I jumped on the opportunity to go to college. 1655 01:31:31,887 --> 01:31:35,306 It was a real graduation, the Dean and everybody. 1656 01:31:35,959 --> 01:31:39,467 Salaam: I was able to get a college degree before they took 1657 01:31:39,487 --> 01:31:41,346 education out of prison. 1658 01:31:41,900 --> 01:31:45,308 McCray: They stopped the program, so I didn't get a degree. 1659 01:31:46,074 --> 01:31:48,453 After that, I just started doing trades and stuff like that. 1660 01:31:48,473 --> 01:31:50,035 Like I worked in the tailor shop, and that was like 1661 01:31:50,055 --> 01:31:52,131 the highest-paying job in prison. 1662 01:31:52,929 --> 01:31:55,362 I think it was, like, 30 cents an hour. 1663 01:31:57,519 --> 01:31:59,367 woman on radio: Good afternoon, 47 degrees... 1664 01:31:59,387 --> 01:32:01,472 In New York, republican Rudolph Giuliani 1665 01:32:01,492 --> 01:32:03,104 defeated incumbent David Dinkins... 1666 01:32:03,124 --> 01:32:04,340 Mayor Dinkins' handling 1667 01:32:04,360 --> 01:32:07,209 of the Black on Jewish Crown Heights rioting hurt him. 1668 01:32:07,229 --> 01:32:10,195 Giuliani promises tougher approaches to homelessness 1669 01:32:10,215 --> 01:32:10,981 and crime... 1670 01:32:11,001 --> 01:32:12,917 Giuliani: Squeegee operators and excessive noise 1671 01:32:12,937 --> 01:32:14,318 and aggressive panhandling... 1672 01:32:14,338 --> 01:32:16,622 Woman: Crime has plunged 33% 1673 01:32:16,642 --> 01:32:17,955 from the same month a year ago... 1674 01:32:17,975 --> 01:32:19,158 Since 1990, 1675 01:32:19,178 --> 01:32:21,426 homicides have fallen dramatically in New York... 1676 01:32:21,446 --> 01:32:24,030 Brokaw: New York City is no longer a crime capital. 1677 01:32:31,558 --> 01:32:33,408 Richardson: I came up to parole. 1678 01:32:33,428 --> 01:32:37,547 And my hearing lasted a couple of minutes. 1679 01:32:37,567 --> 01:32:38,967 I walked in. 1680 01:32:40,069 --> 01:32:42,338 You know, said who I was. 1681 01:32:43,173 --> 01:32:46,088 They looked at the time that I'd been there 1682 01:32:46,108 --> 01:32:47,938 and realized that I haven't gotten into no trouble 1683 01:32:47,958 --> 01:32:49,263 the whole time. 1684 01:32:50,709 --> 01:32:52,503 They just wanted to know one thing. 1685 01:32:52,851 --> 01:32:55,502 They said, "Did you do the crime?" 1686 01:32:55,795 --> 01:32:57,015 I said, "No." 1687 01:32:57,524 --> 01:32:59,813 They told me, "Have a good day." 1688 01:33:27,092 --> 01:33:29,542 McCray: Got my stuff, my personal stuff, 1689 01:33:29,562 --> 01:33:31,945 had my money in my account, 1690 01:33:31,965 --> 01:33:34,061 and they took me to the bus stop. 1691 01:33:36,004 --> 01:33:38,472 Called my mother every stop we made, 1692 01:33:38,669 --> 01:33:40,833 let her know where I was at. 1693 01:33:41,885 --> 01:33:44,636 And I'm just looking around, like, wow, free. 1694 01:33:50,020 --> 01:33:51,703 Got home, forgot the building I lived in 1695 01:33:51,723 --> 01:33:53,105 'cause all the buildings look alike. 1696 01:33:53,125 --> 01:33:55,237 I went in the wrong building. 1697 01:33:56,162 --> 01:33:58,562 My mother and my father ran downstairs. 1698 01:34:00,903 --> 01:34:03,450 The day he was actually released he said, "They're 1699 01:34:03,470 --> 01:34:04,466 sending me home on a bus." 1700 01:34:04,486 --> 01:34:06,620 We're like, "Nope. We're comin' to get you." 1701 01:34:06,640 --> 01:34:08,356 And of course, my family was crying which made me 1702 01:34:08,376 --> 01:34:10,325 start to cry. 1703 01:34:10,345 --> 01:34:14,463 And everybody jumped up. You know, we jumped for joy 1704 01:34:14,483 --> 01:34:19,221 and we got in the car, 1705 01:34:19,241 --> 01:34:21,535 and we sped off and never looked back. 1706 01:34:21,555 --> 01:34:24,803 And we drove. It was about 3 hours from the city. 1707 01:34:25,742 --> 01:34:29,434 And so we went straight, like, not even stoppin'. 1708 01:34:31,303 --> 01:34:32,236 Beautiful. 1709 01:34:34,411 --> 01:34:36,624 Santana Jr.: When I was released... 1710 01:34:36,644 --> 01:34:38,559 Best feeling in the world, you know. 1711 01:34:38,579 --> 01:34:40,128 I said, "Wow." 1712 01:34:40,148 --> 01:34:42,364 You know, I got a fresh start. 1713 01:34:42,384 --> 01:34:45,153 I can try to pick up, put my life back together. 1714 01:34:45,173 --> 01:34:46,869 Yeah, he came home. 1715 01:34:46,889 --> 01:34:51,041 And I was happy he's home and all that. 1716 01:34:51,061 --> 01:34:54,971 But you know, I brung a lot of stuff with me, you know, 1717 01:34:55,130 --> 01:34:57,187 that I didn't even know exists. 1718 01:34:57,569 --> 01:34:59,711 I loved to stay inside my room, 'cause my room was like 1719 01:34:59,731 --> 01:35:01,354 the size of a cell. 1720 01:35:01,374 --> 01:35:03,890 I would go in the shower and wash in my boxers, 1721 01:35:03,910 --> 01:35:06,293 wash my boxers in the shower. 1722 01:35:06,313 --> 01:35:08,262 I had this aggression. 1723 01:35:08,282 --> 01:35:11,265 You know, if I'm in a room with too many people, 1724 01:35:11,285 --> 01:35:14,803 I can talk to you but I won't give you eye-to-eye contact 1725 01:35:14,823 --> 01:35:16,490 'cause I'm too busy watching the room. 1726 01:35:18,997 --> 01:35:21,044 McCray: When I got home, my father, he was living, you know, 1727 01:35:21,064 --> 01:35:23,372 with my mother because they were back together. 1728 01:35:25,265 --> 01:35:28,186 But I didn't really... I didn't talk to him. 1729 01:35:28,206 --> 01:35:30,644 We lived in the same house, but I didn't even talk to him. 1730 01:35:31,844 --> 01:35:34,495 I noticed he was getting sick, 'cause he lost a lot of weight. 1731 01:35:34,515 --> 01:35:37,702 He was real sick. I didn't even care. 1732 01:35:40,074 --> 01:35:42,069 My mother, she would try to get us to talk. 1733 01:35:42,224 --> 01:35:44,261 I was just like, "You don't remember what he did to us?" 1734 01:35:44,281 --> 01:35:46,095 "You know, he left you." 1735 01:35:47,897 --> 01:35:51,671 My mother, you know, got that call, and she was like, 1736 01:35:51,691 --> 01:35:54,185 "Your father just passed away." 1737 01:35:54,205 --> 01:35:56,493 I was still was like, "All right." 1738 01:35:57,608 --> 01:36:00,831 But seeing him laying there, it just hit me. 1739 01:36:01,947 --> 01:36:03,980 You know, he used to be my best friend. 1740 01:36:10,838 --> 01:36:14,087 Richardson: I was a sex offender, labeled as that. 1741 01:36:14,857 --> 01:36:19,338 And I had to register, um, every month. 1742 01:36:20,568 --> 01:36:23,384 I applied for the post office at one point. 1743 01:36:23,404 --> 01:36:25,556 And I was about to get the job. 1744 01:36:25,859 --> 01:36:28,700 But I'm an honest person and so they asked me have I ever 1745 01:36:28,720 --> 01:36:30,528 been incarcerated? 1746 01:36:30,548 --> 01:36:31,837 I put yes. 1747 01:36:32,504 --> 01:36:34,053 And they didn't hire me. 1748 01:36:35,355 --> 01:36:37,715 McCray: I just wanted to get out of New York. 1749 01:36:37,847 --> 01:36:39,639 I had a cousin that lived in Maryland. 1750 01:36:39,659 --> 01:36:41,554 I kind of liked Maryland. 1751 01:36:41,929 --> 01:36:45,742 So I went out there job hunting for the whole day, 1752 01:36:46,234 --> 01:36:48,638 and on the spot I got a sanitation job. 1753 01:36:50,939 --> 01:36:54,023 Santana Jr.: Months went by where I didn't have no money, 1754 01:36:54,043 --> 01:36:55,738 and there's nothin' I could do. 1755 01:36:55,758 --> 01:36:57,895 I can't get a job. 1756 01:36:58,059 --> 01:36:59,830 I was becoming a burden. 1757 01:36:59,984 --> 01:37:01,935 You know, here I am in my father's house, I'm eating 1758 01:37:01,955 --> 01:37:04,480 the food, you know, 'cause I'm a bigger guy 1759 01:37:04,500 --> 01:37:06,296 and I'm not contributin'. 1760 01:37:06,893 --> 01:37:08,976 I said, "I can't function." 1761 01:37:08,996 --> 01:37:11,047 That was my breaking point. 1762 01:37:11,631 --> 01:37:13,213 And so I said, "You know what?" 1763 01:37:13,233 --> 01:37:15,749 "I'm gonna just, I'm gonna get in the drug game." 1764 01:37:15,769 --> 01:37:17,503 And I started to sell drugs. 1765 01:37:38,504 --> 01:37:42,193 Dwyer: All of the jogger defendants have gone home 1766 01:37:42,213 --> 01:37:43,555 except one, Korey Wise. 1767 01:37:43,575 --> 01:37:45,778 He was the eldest of the group convicted and he had 1768 01:37:45,798 --> 01:37:47,288 the longest sentence. 1769 01:37:47,479 --> 01:37:49,628 And he had stopped going to the parole board... didn't even 1770 01:37:49,648 --> 01:37:52,146 bother going anymore to deny his guilt. 1771 01:37:53,498 --> 01:37:58,040 One day in late 2001, Matias Reyes meets him 1772 01:37:58,651 --> 01:38:00,425 at the Auburn prison. 1773 01:38:01,562 --> 01:38:03,852 Warren: This is the first time they had seen each other 1774 01:38:03,872 --> 01:38:07,693 since 1989, when both of them were at Rikers Island. 1775 01:38:08,295 --> 01:38:12,852 And at that time, they had a little incident in the TV room. 1776 01:38:13,091 --> 01:38:16,603 And it almost, you know escalated to blows. 1777 01:38:17,438 --> 01:38:19,861 Wise: He said, "I would like to apologize to you." 1778 01:38:20,030 --> 01:38:23,899 We had a fight at Rikers Island about a TV, and so forth. 1779 01:38:24,309 --> 01:38:27,802 I said, "Matias, ain't about nothin' man. Ha!" 1780 01:38:28,440 --> 01:38:32,793 "We here. It's not gonna free neither one of us. 1781 01:38:32,872 --> 01:38:33,867 Don't worry about it." 1782 01:38:33,887 --> 01:38:35,880 Reyes doesn't say anything to him, 1783 01:38:36,144 --> 01:38:39,884 but he starts talking to people in the prison. 1784 01:38:40,212 --> 01:38:43,140 "Hey, I met somebody who's doing time for a crime that he 1785 01:38:43,160 --> 01:38:45,310 didn't have anything to do with that I did myself." 1786 01:38:45,536 --> 01:38:48,563 They send up an investigator, and he takes this statement. 1787 01:38:48,838 --> 01:38:51,156 They send it down to the Manhattan D.A.'s office which 1788 01:38:51,176 --> 01:38:55,037 has no idea that this case from 13 years earlier, 1789 01:38:55,768 --> 01:38:58,652 which has long been stored and forgotten by everybody except 1790 01:38:58,672 --> 01:39:01,694 the people involved, is suddenly gonna come 1791 01:39:01,714 --> 01:39:02,998 back to life. 1792 01:39:05,677 --> 01:39:09,773 I showed them the top of the entrance, the direction she came by. 1793 01:39:11,463 --> 01:39:15,323 I showed them where I picked up the tree branch and down 1794 01:39:15,343 --> 01:39:18,461 the road where I dragged her in. 1795 01:39:20,245 --> 01:39:22,021 I'm the one that did this. 1796 01:39:26,957 --> 01:39:29,915 When I saw Korey Wise in Auburn, I saw in his eyes, 1797 01:39:29,935 --> 01:39:32,516 you know, the suffering that he's been going through, 1798 01:39:33,042 --> 01:39:36,187 to know that a man has suffered 13 years of his life 1799 01:39:36,207 --> 01:39:38,812 in jail for something that he has not done, 1800 01:39:38,916 --> 01:39:42,661 to know that all these kids got arrested for something 1801 01:39:42,681 --> 01:39:44,399 that they didn't do. 1802 01:39:45,181 --> 01:39:47,003 You want to know something? 1803 01:39:47,023 --> 01:39:49,189 I have done everything possible that I can come 1804 01:39:49,209 --> 01:39:50,974 forward and admit the truth. 1805 01:39:51,284 --> 01:39:54,445 I'm to the point where if people don't do something, 1806 01:39:54,465 --> 01:39:57,694 or if they don't do what's right, then, hey, 1807 01:39:57,947 --> 01:39:59,632 there's nothing else I can do. 1808 01:40:04,869 --> 01:40:10,694 To hear this after all the trials and tribulations 1809 01:40:10,714 --> 01:40:12,456 that I done been through... 1810 01:40:15,291 --> 01:40:23,213 the scuffle, the jumping on, the stabbin', 1811 01:40:26,167 --> 01:40:28,768 the whole unneeded package... 1812 01:40:31,540 --> 01:40:33,782 It felt so good! 1813 01:40:35,367 --> 01:40:38,896 Dwyer: Morgenthau's office begins an exhaustive re-examination 1814 01:40:38,916 --> 01:40:39,517 of the case. 1815 01:40:39,537 --> 01:40:42,475 And they pulled out the old files and they found the 1816 01:40:42,495 --> 01:40:47,113 unknown semen from the rape kit, and they matched Reyes. 1817 01:40:48,380 --> 01:40:50,221 Then they began to interview Reyes. 1818 01:40:50,333 --> 01:40:54,300 Reyes steps in 13 years later and immediately gives off 1819 01:40:54,320 --> 01:40:56,686 details that turn out to be verified and accurate that 1820 01:40:56,706 --> 01:40:57,954 the police didn't know. 1821 01:40:57,974 --> 01:41:01,719 He described her as having black running tights on 1822 01:41:01,739 --> 01:41:03,092 and a white T-shirt. 1823 01:41:03,112 --> 01:41:05,476 That's what Ms. Meili was wearing. 1824 01:41:05,496 --> 01:41:07,241 He tells them about the Walkman. 1825 01:41:07,372 --> 01:41:09,861 Turns out she did run with a Walkman. 1826 01:41:09,881 --> 01:41:12,419 Nobody knew it 'cause it wasn't found at the scene. 1827 01:41:12,546 --> 01:41:15,239 He describes how he took off her sneakers. 1828 01:41:15,259 --> 01:41:19,244 When the police came on the scene and they found her, 1829 01:41:19,264 --> 01:41:23,249 her sneakers were... one sneaker was in one location, 1830 01:41:23,269 --> 01:41:25,251 another sneaker was in another location. 1831 01:41:25,271 --> 01:41:28,397 He talked about taking her keys and trying to get her address 1832 01:41:28,519 --> 01:41:30,258 and then tossing the keys. 1833 01:41:30,278 --> 01:41:33,395 Well, that explained the dilemma about where her key was 1834 01:41:33,415 --> 01:41:34,776 'cause her door was locked. 1835 01:41:34,796 --> 01:41:39,168 These were details that even the most assiduous student 1836 01:41:39,188 --> 01:41:43,608 of the case would have had a hard time coming up with 1837 01:41:43,628 --> 01:41:45,176 as some kind of fake story. 1838 01:41:45,196 --> 01:41:51,016 There was no question that Reyes knew what had happened. 1839 01:41:51,036 --> 01:41:54,653 And his DNA was present on the scene and the way in which 1840 01:41:54,673 --> 01:41:56,524 he committed this crime was perfectly consistent with 1841 01:41:56,544 --> 01:41:58,859 the way he committed other crimes. 1842 01:41:58,879 --> 01:42:00,761 It stands to reason that Reyes was giving 1843 01:42:00,781 --> 01:42:02,502 an accurate statement. 1844 01:42:09,632 --> 01:42:11,096 McCray: I worked the third shift. 1845 01:42:11,116 --> 01:42:14,411 It was from 8:00 to 6:30 in the morning. 1846 01:42:15,125 --> 01:42:18,016 I got home, got out of the shower, about to watch 1847 01:42:18,036 --> 01:42:20,552 "Sportscenter," and my cousin called. 1848 01:42:20,572 --> 01:42:23,121 She was like, "Tron, Tron, turn on CNN." 1849 01:42:23,141 --> 01:42:24,590 And I'm like, "Why? What's going on?" 1850 01:42:24,610 --> 01:42:26,627 She was like, "The truth came out. The truth came out." 1851 01:42:26,647 --> 01:42:27,960 "The truth came out? What are you talking about?" 1852 01:42:27,980 --> 01:42:29,464 "Your case! Somebody that did it, 1853 01:42:29,484 --> 01:42:32,767 he told the truth, he confessed. He did it." 1854 01:42:32,787 --> 01:42:34,335 And I'm like, "Are you serious? 1855 01:42:34,355 --> 01:42:36,137 "Are you serious?" And I just started crying. 1856 01:42:36,157 --> 01:42:41,031 New DNA evidence conclusively connects Reyes to the victim. 1857 01:42:41,051 --> 01:42:42,846 Santana, Sr.: My son called me on a Saturday, 1858 01:42:42,866 --> 01:42:45,348 and I said, "I want you to sit down." 1859 01:42:45,368 --> 01:42:46,864 I got news for you." 1860 01:42:47,519 --> 01:42:49,738 And he said, "What news you got for me?" 1861 01:42:49,758 --> 01:42:51,456 "Get a chair, sit down. I'm gonna tell you." 1862 01:42:51,476 --> 01:42:54,260 He says, "Oh, you know, they found the guy that did it." 1863 01:42:54,280 --> 01:42:55,475 And I said, "What?" 1864 01:42:56,198 --> 01:42:58,563 And he says, "Yeah, they found the guy that 1865 01:42:58,583 --> 01:43:00,694 committed your case." 1866 01:43:00,967 --> 01:43:03,471 And I said... man, I gotta curse. 1867 01:43:03,491 --> 01:43:05,926 I said, "Get the fuck outta here." 1868 01:43:06,170 --> 01:43:08,778 He said, "No, for real. They found the guy." 1869 01:43:08,798 --> 01:43:10,670 "You're gonna be comin' home soon." 1870 01:43:10,690 --> 01:43:12,848 And I'm like, "Yeah, OK. Whatever." 1871 01:43:12,868 --> 01:43:14,185 He's the only one that has the hope. 1872 01:43:14,205 --> 01:43:16,620 But I'm like, "You know what? I'll talk to you later." 1873 01:43:18,408 --> 01:43:20,560 It started raining outside. 1874 01:43:20,955 --> 01:43:24,174 And I'm looking out the window, and I'm like, 1875 01:43:24,194 --> 01:43:26,739 "Damn. Did they really find this dude?" 1876 01:43:27,687 --> 01:43:30,290 And I'm thinking about this. Then I start crying. 1877 01:43:39,735 --> 01:43:42,185 Why are we here? The Central Park five! 1878 01:43:42,205 --> 01:43:44,821 Why are we here? The Central Park five! 1879 01:43:44,841 --> 01:43:46,228 In the snow! 1880 01:43:46,681 --> 01:43:49,404 Dwyer: There was a motion by the defense to overturn 1881 01:43:49,591 --> 01:43:52,145 the convictions on the grounds of newly discovered evidence. 1882 01:43:52,408 --> 01:43:57,032 And Morgenthau not only said that the new evidence 1883 01:43:57,052 --> 01:43:58,713 likely would have led to a different verdict, 1884 01:43:58,733 --> 01:44:04,177 he said to me and he said to others, "If we knew then 1885 01:44:04,356 --> 01:44:09,950 what we know now, we wouldn't have indicted these guys." 1886 01:44:11,133 --> 01:44:15,528 Koch: My faith in Robert Morgenthau is such that I don't 1887 01:44:15,548 --> 01:44:17,581 quarrel with his decision. 1888 01:44:17,601 --> 01:44:18,817 Warren: This is step one. 1889 01:44:18,837 --> 01:44:22,188 The response from the district attorney's office has been to 1890 01:44:22,208 --> 01:44:26,375 concede, or agree, or consent to our application that 1891 01:44:26,395 --> 01:44:27,797 the verdicts be set aside. 1892 01:44:27,817 --> 01:44:31,233 The judge has to make a formal ruling in that regard. 1893 01:44:31,430 --> 01:44:34,679 We expect for that ruling to be made forthwith. 1894 01:44:36,377 --> 01:44:39,213 Dinkins: I wanna share with you a statement from 1895 01:44:39,233 --> 01:44:42,386 District Attorney Robert Morgenthau's office. 1896 01:44:43,119 --> 01:44:44,609 The office said, 1897 01:44:44,629 --> 01:44:49,407 "A comparison of the statement... statements, reveals troubling discrepancies." 1898 01:44:50,421 --> 01:44:53,364 "Accounts given by the five defendants differed from one 1899 01:44:53,384 --> 01:44:56,831 another on the specific details of virtually every 1900 01:44:56,851 --> 01:44:59,018 major aspect of the crime: 1901 01:44:59,150 --> 01:45:00,868 Who initiated the attack; 1902 01:45:00,971 --> 01:45:02,529 Who knocked the victim down; 1903 01:45:02,549 --> 01:45:04,094 Who undressed her; Who struck her; 1904 01:45:04,370 --> 01:45:06,023 Who held her; Who raped her; 1905 01:45:06,136 --> 01:45:07,206 What weapons were used 1906 01:45:07,226 --> 01:45:08,818 in the course of the assault." 1907 01:45:08,838 --> 01:45:11,824 And went into the sequence of events the attack took place. 1908 01:45:12,341 --> 01:45:15,439 And some of what they said was simply contrary to 1909 01:45:15,459 --> 01:45:16,867 established fact. 1910 01:45:17,233 --> 01:45:20,683 Now, this is a damned shame. 1911 01:45:24,255 --> 01:45:26,253 Warren: I have an application at this time 1912 01:45:26,273 --> 01:45:30,169 on the behalf of all of the defendants: Korey Wise, 1913 01:45:30,189 --> 01:45:34,067 Yusef Salaam, Kevin Richardson, Raymond Santana, 1914 01:45:34,087 --> 01:45:37,079 and Antron McCray, all the indictments against each one 1915 01:45:37,099 --> 01:45:39,613 of them in their entirety be dismissed. 1916 01:45:39,896 --> 01:45:41,219 Motion is granted. 1917 01:45:41,239 --> 01:45:44,872 Everyone have a very Merry Christmas. Happy New Year. 1918 01:45:44,892 --> 01:45:46,008 Thank you! 1919 01:45:49,526 --> 01:45:52,141 Woman: The judge handling the review of the Central Park jogger case 1920 01:45:52,161 --> 01:45:54,272 has just ruled in the last hour that those 1921 01:45:54,292 --> 01:45:57,937 convictions against the five young men must be set aside. 1922 01:45:57,957 --> 01:46:00,494 It is a stunning reversal in one of the most controversial 1923 01:46:00,514 --> 01:46:02,853 crime cases in the city's history. 1924 01:46:05,108 --> 01:46:09,155 That was the best Christmas, ever... first... excuse me. 1925 01:46:09,175 --> 01:46:12,399 Best Christmas gift ever, and me and my mother, 1926 01:46:12,419 --> 01:46:13,997 we just hugged each other in our apartment 1927 01:46:14,017 --> 01:46:16,580 for seemed like forever. 1928 01:46:19,305 --> 01:46:21,071 That was a beautiful thing. 1929 01:46:23,700 --> 01:46:24,789 Still is. 1930 01:46:26,877 --> 01:46:29,212 I would always see these photos of my mother walking around 1931 01:46:29,232 --> 01:46:31,957 with a "Yusef is Innocent" shirt. 1932 01:46:31,977 --> 01:46:36,142 And then when they dropped all the charges, 1933 01:46:36,402 --> 01:46:38,309 she had her coat open 1934 01:46:38,329 --> 01:46:42,019 and the "Yusef is Innocent" shirt on and this huge smile 1935 01:46:42,039 --> 01:46:46,235 on her face like, not only did I told you so, but I'm 1936 01:46:46,255 --> 01:46:47,897 so happy today. 1937 01:46:50,216 --> 01:46:52,981 Woman: Now 4 of the 5 are out... they served long prison terms, 1938 01:46:53,001 --> 01:46:55,090 but Raymond Santana remains behind bars 1939 01:46:55,110 --> 01:46:56,746 on an unrelated conviction. 1940 01:46:56,766 --> 01:46:59,409 But the length of time that he's serving on a drug charge 1941 01:46:59,429 --> 01:47:01,909 was based upon the fact that he was a predicate felon, 1942 01:47:01,929 --> 01:47:04,152 his conviction in the Central Park jogger case. 1943 01:47:04,172 --> 01:47:07,641 So lawyers close to the case representing the five are telling me that they expect 1944 01:47:07,661 --> 01:47:10,830 to challenge that and try to get Raymond Santana home to 1945 01:47:10,850 --> 01:47:13,119 his parents before Christmas. 1946 01:47:13,825 --> 01:47:15,471 Santana Jr.: It was celebration. 1947 01:47:15,491 --> 01:47:18,034 All the guys jumped around. They, "Waaaa!" 1948 01:47:18,054 --> 01:47:19,602 They were all cheering. 1949 01:47:19,622 --> 01:47:23,433 "You goin' home. It's over. You goin' home." 1950 01:47:23,453 --> 01:47:25,330 The correctional officer said, "Well you know, there's a lot 1951 01:47:25,350 --> 01:47:26,866 of people out there." 1952 01:47:26,886 --> 01:47:29,340 "You wanna go through the back? I'll get a car for you." 1953 01:47:29,360 --> 01:47:31,198 "You know, you can go out the back way." 1954 01:47:31,389 --> 01:47:33,200 And I said, "Well, I'm a free man." 1955 01:47:33,220 --> 01:47:36,962 "I'm goin' out the front! Open that door and let's go!" 1956 01:47:37,264 --> 01:47:40,410 Amid a crush of cameras, Raymond Santana left jail 1957 01:47:40,430 --> 01:47:43,425 a free man, much to his father's joy. 1958 01:47:43,445 --> 01:47:46,641 I always believed he was innocent, from the beginning. 1959 01:47:47,876 --> 01:47:51,521 Santana Jr.: It took me back to that perp walk that they do. 1960 01:47:51,541 --> 01:47:55,621 And then now this time, it was a free man walk. 1961 01:47:55,641 --> 01:47:58,457 And it was definitely great to walk through that, you know, 1962 01:47:58,477 --> 01:48:00,684 and to hold my head up high. 1963 01:48:00,704 --> 01:48:03,068 And I said, "I told you we were innocent." 1964 01:48:04,835 --> 01:48:06,563 Santana, Sr.: This is a miracle. 1965 01:48:07,369 --> 01:48:10,914 And let me tell you, when I was in that yard, I was saying 1966 01:48:10,934 --> 01:48:14,228 I need to pray for him a lot. 1967 01:48:15,496 --> 01:48:19,410 They say if your prayer don't come out it did for me. 1968 01:48:19,430 --> 01:48:22,380 Because I pray a lot for that kid, and look. 1969 01:48:23,362 --> 01:48:26,135 That was the happiest day of my life, boy. 1970 01:48:34,446 --> 01:48:38,833 Wilder: I felt ashamed, actually, for New York and I also felt 1971 01:48:38,853 --> 01:48:44,291 extremely angry, because their innocence never got 1972 01:48:44,311 --> 01:48:46,366 the attention that their guilt did. 1973 01:48:46,808 --> 01:48:53,273 The furor around prosecuting them still drowns out 1974 01:48:54,146 --> 01:48:56,127 the good news of their innocence. 1975 01:48:56,372 --> 01:49:04,664 These were 5 kids who we tormented, we falsely accused, 1976 01:49:05,181 --> 01:49:10,716 we pilloried in the press, we attacked, we invented 1977 01:49:10,736 --> 01:49:14,156 phrases for the imagined crimes that we're 1978 01:49:14,176 --> 01:49:15,829 accusing them of. 1979 01:49:16,486 --> 01:49:18,817 And then we put them in jail. 1980 01:49:19,012 --> 01:49:20,831 We falsely convicted them. 1981 01:49:20,944 --> 01:49:23,581 And when the evidence turned out that they were 1982 01:49:23,601 --> 01:49:30,175 innocent and they were released, we gave a modest nod 1983 01:49:30,776 --> 01:49:34,354 to fairness, and we walked away from our crime. 1984 01:49:34,614 --> 01:49:39,838 It was a more interesting story when it was all about 1985 01:49:39,969 --> 01:49:44,440 a white woman that was raped by 5 black boys. 1986 01:49:44,790 --> 01:49:53,504 The coverage in 2002 was worse than what had happened in 1989. 1987 01:49:54,185 --> 01:49:59,999 More resistant to fact, more obstinate 1988 01:50:00,573 --> 01:50:02,250 about being wrong. 1989 01:50:04,917 --> 01:50:09,104 The police department commissioned this panel led by 1990 01:50:09,124 --> 01:50:11,328 a very distinguished lawyer named Mike Armstrong, 1991 01:50:11,469 --> 01:50:14,585 to review what had happened in the jogger case. 1992 01:50:14,605 --> 01:50:16,942 And the police department found that the police 1993 01:50:16,962 --> 01:50:19,393 department had done nothing wrong even though it had let 1994 01:50:19,413 --> 01:50:22,304 the right man get away and apparently had put the wrong 1995 01:50:22,324 --> 01:50:23,718 people in prison. 1996 01:50:25,163 --> 01:50:29,605 This was institutional protectionism that was going on. 1997 01:50:32,047 --> 01:50:36,168 Hancock: Linda Fairstein made a huge name for herself in part 1998 01:50:36,188 --> 01:50:37,944 because of this case. 1999 01:50:38,971 --> 01:50:41,129 It was extremely important to her profession 2000 01:50:41,149 --> 01:50:43,253 and her reputation. 2001 01:50:50,197 --> 01:50:54,937 So she's got a lot to lose by saying, "I got everything wrong" 2002 01:50:54,957 --> 01:50:57,591 "and I railroaded these kids into jail." 2003 01:50:59,318 --> 01:51:03,052 Whatever you do in life, you make mistakes, 2004 01:51:03,756 --> 01:51:06,554 and you either face your mistakes or you don't. 2005 01:51:07,775 --> 01:51:10,977 I don't think the press faced its mistakes. 2006 01:51:14,253 --> 01:51:16,564 I don't think the police department faced the truth 2007 01:51:16,584 --> 01:51:19,877 of what had happened because the truth of what had happened 2008 01:51:19,897 --> 01:51:21,397 is almost unbearable. 2009 01:51:21,960 --> 01:51:26,407 By prosecuting the wrong people for the Central Park 2010 01:51:26,427 --> 01:51:31,459 jogger case, Matias Reyes continued to hurt, 2011 01:51:31,479 --> 01:51:33,359 maim, and kill. 2012 01:51:33,961 --> 01:51:38,281 And they could have had him but they got stuck 2013 01:51:38,478 --> 01:51:39,624 with a mistake. 2014 01:51:40,299 --> 01:51:43,041 And they're still invested in that mistake. 2015 01:51:44,335 --> 01:51:46,129 Patricia Meili... 2016 01:51:49,068 --> 01:51:51,491 My brother, all the boys, 2017 01:51:51,751 --> 01:51:53,665 all of our families... 2018 01:51:54,519 --> 01:51:56,350 all of us are victims. 2019 01:51:59,735 --> 01:52:04,325 Nobody wants to look at the damage, the terror that they 2020 01:52:04,345 --> 01:52:06,315 put my family through. 2021 01:52:06,335 --> 01:52:09,313 Nobody wants to take responsibility. 2022 01:52:10,252 --> 01:52:13,677 I want us to remember what happened that day and be 2023 01:52:13,697 --> 01:52:17,689 horrified by ourselves because it really is a mirror 2024 01:52:17,917 --> 01:52:19,297 on our society. 2025 01:52:19,523 --> 01:52:22,986 And rather than tying it up in a bow and thinking that 2026 01:52:23,006 --> 01:52:24,985 there was something that we can take away from it 2027 01:52:25,005 --> 01:52:28,160 and we'll be better people, I think what we really need to 2028 01:52:28,180 --> 01:52:30,762 realize is that we're not very good people. 2029 01:52:31,405 --> 01:52:33,061 And we're often not. 2030 01:52:43,806 --> 01:52:45,430 Santana Jr.: I'm always behind. 2031 01:52:46,294 --> 01:52:49,159 Those years that it took from me, I lost a lot. 2032 01:52:49,179 --> 01:52:53,503 And even now at the age of 36 where I should be 2033 01:52:53,762 --> 01:52:58,287 fully in a career, have a house, a car, maybe married, 2034 01:52:58,307 --> 01:53:00,169 I don't have any of that. 2035 01:53:00,453 --> 01:53:02,950 And so I don't know how to regain that stuff anymore. 2036 01:53:03,147 --> 01:53:04,668 So I'm just here. 2037 01:53:07,222 --> 01:53:09,992 I lost my youth. 2038 01:53:11,088 --> 01:53:13,272 I lost 7 years of my life. 2039 01:53:15,530 --> 01:53:22,794 I lost that sense of being youthful and missing the 2040 01:53:22,814 --> 01:53:27,513 average things of going to school and going to the prom 2041 01:53:27,533 --> 01:53:30,728 and just livin' like average 14, 15 year-old kid. 2042 01:53:38,339 --> 01:53:40,837 Wise: You can forgive but you won't forget. 2043 01:53:42,237 --> 01:53:44,220 You won't forget what you done lost. 2044 01:53:46,812 --> 01:53:49,976 No money could bring that time back. 2045 01:53:50,686 --> 01:53:55,474 No money could bring the life that was missin' or the time 2046 01:53:55,494 --> 01:53:57,545 that was taken away bring back. 2047 01:53:58,585 --> 01:54:00,010 Nothin'. 2048 01:54:02,273 --> 01:54:06,132 Salaam: It hasn't become easier to live as an adult. 2049 01:54:06,152 --> 01:54:07,460 It's become harder. 2050 01:54:08,898 --> 01:54:12,923 It's always more difficult to do something if you have this 2051 01:54:12,943 --> 01:54:15,905 huge gap of your life taken away from you. 2052 01:54:16,881 --> 01:54:20,219 And it's not like just because they said, "OK, we're 2053 01:54:20,239 --> 01:54:24,257 vacating the convictions", that that vacated the whole prison term. 2054 01:54:24,426 --> 01:54:26,341 That whole prison term happened. 2055 01:54:26,491 --> 01:54:29,337 It was a reality. We really went through that. 2056 01:54:35,321 --> 01:54:37,227 McCray: I still struggle every day, 2057 01:54:37,881 --> 01:54:39,850 but I made it, you know. 2058 01:54:39,870 --> 01:54:41,696 Came home, didn't get in trouble. 2059 01:54:42,059 --> 01:54:43,977 Worked ever since I came home. 2060 01:54:44,281 --> 01:54:46,925 Pay taxes, take care of my kids. 2061 01:54:48,690 --> 01:54:50,423 I'm doing the best I can, so... 2062 01:54:51,576 --> 01:54:55,174 I told them I was going to make it. Told 'em. 2063 01:54:56,153 --> 01:54:57,929 The truth came out. 2064 01:54:59,070 --> 01:55:00,760 Truth came out. 167033

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