Soci 111 Central Park 5 Ken Burns: The Central Park Five

This study source was downloaded by 100000859819779 from CourseHero.com on 02-03-2023 07:52:07 GMT -06:00https://www.coursehero.com/file/176126946/Central-Park-5docx/ 1 Jones Ken Burns: The Central Park FiveQuWanna JonesIvy Tech Community CollegeSOCI 111: Introduction to SociologyAmy Hemphill December 8, 2021This study source was downloaded by 100000859819779 from CourseHero.com on 02-03-2023 07:52:07 GMT -06:00https://www.coursehero.com/file/176126946/Central-Park-5docx/2 Jones Ken Burns: The Central Park FiveCentral Park Five is a story of five teenage boys who were Black and Latino from Harlem, New York who were wrongly accused and convicted of raping a white woman in New York citys Central Park. The incident took place on Wednesday April 19 th, 1989. There had beenreports of joggers and bicyclists being attacked. The police arrested the 5 teenagers and took them to the police department originally for questioning. The group of boys were first placed in a cell together. Once the officer revealed that therehad been a rape in the park, the boys were separated. The boys went back and forth with the officers denying the charges. The detectives begin to piece together a narrative of what happenedto try to make it fit what they knew had happened to the victim. The detectives wanted to make the story become factual. A lot of when,