At that time a group of misbehaving teens were roaming the park as well.
Services in the Community I thought it would be somewhat dry reading but I could not put this book down. This book deals with a grave miscarriage of justice that happened in 1989, and if I thought the world had gotten better since the 60's and 70's, well, I was wrong.What can you possibly say about a book like this? The title isn't kidding when it calls it a chronicle. Many of our citizens are classified as second class, being disadvantaged in areas that other citizens are not. She also glossed over a few things that would tend to point to guilt - an alleged statement by Korey that he saw Matias Reyes leave with the jogger'sWould really probably give a 3.5. Sara Burns does justice to their cases, and reminds us all that our race and class is oMany of us remember the horrible rape of the central park jogger in 1989, and the tabloid-like headlines that accompanied the case. “The Central Park Five” is a true crime book about the huge miscarriage of justice surrounding the convictions of five boys, Antron McCray, Kevin Richardson, Raymond Santana, Korey Wise and Yusef Salaam, for the rape and brutal assault of a jogger, Tricia Meili, in Central Park in 1989. Nursing and Self Care In short, at first, the writing didn't move me though I was impressed with the author's earnestness and commitment to getting the complex and complicated story right. Eight of the victims were under sixteen.
Unfortunately books like this, at least for me, tend to have the opposite effect. It’s so disturbing, it brings into question the entire American legal system. The Central Park jogger case (events also referenced as the Central Park Five case) was a criminal case in the United States over the aggravated assault and rape of a female jogger (later publicly identified as Trisha Meili), who was found in critical condition, during a series of reported attacks against no less than eight other people in Manhattan's Central Park, on the night of April 19, 1989. This has nothing to do with the subject matter. Her attackers were also African-American. And if the physical evidence didn’t implicate them then who did it implicate?Would really probably give a 3.5.
Let us know what’s wrong with this preview of This has nothing to do with the subject matter. She fell fifty feet into an air shaft, breaking both her ankles and sustaining numerous other grave injuries, but incredibly, she survived. Unfortunately books like this, at least for me, tend to have the opposite effect. Though she talked to four of the five and a few of their parents, there are zero quotes from anybody in the book about what happened. Great read. Although, that night, the worst crime committed by these fourteen to sixteen year old boys was hopping a turnstile. Davidson
This is Perry Edward Smith, talking about himself. The last, even more terrible chapters, deal with their confessions, the law man who wanted to see them hanged, back to back, the trial begun in 1960, the post-ponements of the execution, and finally the walk to "The Corner" and Perry's soft-spoken words—"It would be meaningless to apologize for what I did. Their goal was then to break them down to a state of despair so they would start to look for a way out, resulting in yelling in their faces, poking their chests, targeting them without their parents, threatening time served, giving false information on evidence, and making them cry. Sara Burns does justice to their cases, and reminds us all that our race and class is oft times used against us in a court of law. This is partially derived from the overwhelming amount of cases that the justice system takes on, but also because of the harsh sentences.
Where is the justice in that? You'll be incredulous--beyond incredulous.