The Central Park Five: A Chronicle of a City Wilding
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| Rating | : | 4.82 (593 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0307266141 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 256 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-06-20 |
| Language | : | English |
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"there is no reason to give validity to the fact that he claims he "found religion" and felt bad that others were being accused o" according to Matthew L. This account is very one-sided. The Author claims to be providing the framework of racism during this time period but she presents her own opinions of racism, so called minority crime, and how other people viewed black culture at the time, as fact.She also distorts the truth about other famous cases such as Bernard Goetz and Eleanor Bumpers. Even somehow finding a way to blame police for shooting Ms. Bumpers when she is the one who lunged at an officer with a knife trying to kill them. She has the audacity to suggest they should have used pepper spray to deter lethal force.. I thought I was ordering the DVD, so was I thought I was ordering the DVD, so was surprised whens I realized I ordered the book instead. I have only started reading it.. "Good Story, Easy Read" according to Book Fanatic. This is an easy read and is short (less than 200 pages). It's a good story and I read it in one day and I learned a lot about the 1989 Central Park Jogger rape and beating case. There was absolutely nothing wrong with this book as far as it went, but it wasn't an in-depth analysis. It's basically a historical view of what happened in the crime and how the five accused were wrongly convicted and eventually exonerated. It's a very important story and the book correctly points out how many involved in law enforcement still refuse to admit the five were not guilty (and they cle
Sarah Burns tells a harrowing story, in which her only allegiance is to the truth.” –Kevin Baker, author of Dreamland“Remarkable…Straightforward, thought-provoking reportage.” –Booklist “Measured, riveting…The Central Park Five is an important book.” –The Cleveland Plain Dealer“A riveting retrospective.” –News Blaze . You may think you know the true story of the Central Park jogger, but you don’t. “This is a controversial and important book, presenting a powerful argument that the minority youths who are convicted of raping and nearly murdering “the Central Park Jogger” were innocent of that crime (though not n
Sarah Burns graduated from Yale University in 2004 with a degree in American studies and went on to work for Moore & Goodman, a small civil rights law firm based in New York. . She lives in Brooklyn, New York. She is now producing a documentary film with Ken Burns based on this book
Within days, five black and Latino teenagers confess to her rape and beating. The young men are tried as adults and convicted of rape, despite the fact that the teens quickly recant their inconsistent and inaccurate confessions and that no DNA tests or eyewitness accounts tie any of them to the victim. Most dramatically, she gives us a portrait of a city already beset by violence and deepening rifts between races and classes, whose law enforcement, government, social institutions, and media were undermining the very rights of the individuals they were designed to safeguard and protect.. They serve their complete sentences before another man