06-07-2020 23:20 via news.yahoo.com

Exonerated Central Park Five members speak out: ‘Not too many things have changed since 30 years ago’

In 1989, five Black and Hispanic teens were falsely accused of raping and nearly killing Trisha Meili, a white woman jogging in Central Park.Known collectively as the Central Park Five, Antron McCray, Kevin Richardson, Yusef Salaam, Raymond Santana and Korey Wise were convicted in two trials despite a lack of eyewitness testimony or DNA evidence and spent between six and 13 years in prison.Exonerated in 2002 after an investigation confirmed that a convicted murderer and rapist had committed the
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