“I hope that you will look at these men and say they were wronged, they're innocent, and let them represent a large part of the incarcerated population who are behind bars for similar scenarios,” DuVernay said. - NBCBLK
The five black and Latino teens initially confessed to the crime to police but would later say their admissions were coerced by officers during hours of interrogations.
At the time, Korey Wise was 16 years old. Wise says he was beaten before he gave a false confession. He was the only one who was convicted as an adult and served time in adult prison facilities. Matias Reyes had been incarcerated since 1991 for committing murder and other rapes. In 2002, Reyes confessed that he was actually the perpetrator in the 1989 Central Park crime. DNA from the crime scene confirmed that Reyes was in fact guilty.
McCray said it’s painful that they never received an apology from anyone directly involved with the case., people of color make up 37 percent of the U.S. population but 67 percent of the prison population, and black men are six times as likely to be incarcerated as white men.
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