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Police Control Story

Season 1 Episode 1 | 5m 01s

The police controlled the story to the news media and for them, all the pieces came into place. Upon closer investigation the time sequence of the jogger's movement do not add up with the police narrative. It does not matter once guilt is established, through the confessions, and they carry the case.

Extras
In Sept. 2012 the City of New York subpoenaed all the materials from the film.
Five teenagers from Harlem are wrongfully convicted of a brutal crime in 1989
Ken Burns, Sarah Burns and Dave McMahon discuss their film, Central Park Five
The Central Park Five talk about what the film means to them.
Five teenagers from Harlem are wrongfully convicted of a brutal crime in 1989
Film making has become a family business for Ken Burns, Sarah Burns and Dave McMahon.
The Central Park Five did not take a plea bargain.
Ken Burns, Sarah Burns and David McMahon discuss the term, 'wilding.'
Kevin Richardson and Raymond Santana discuss the manipulation of their interrogation.
Natalie Byfield discusses the horror of the death penalty.
Five teenagers from Harlem are wrongfully convicted of a brutal crime in 1989
En 1989, cinco adolescentes de Harlem son condenados injustamente por un crimen brutal.