Overview
In 1989, five black and Latino teenagers from Harlem were arrested and later convicted of raping a white woman in New York City's Central Park. They spent between 6 and 13 years in prison before a serial rapist confessed that he alone had committed the crime, leading to their convictions being overturned. Set against a backdrop of a decaying city beset by violence and racial tension, this is the story of that horrific crime, the rush to judgment by the police, a media clamoring for sensational stories and an outraged public, and the five lives upended by this miscarriage of justice.
Cast
- Antron McCray as Self (voice)
- Kevin Richardson as Self
- Yusef Salaam as Self
- Raymond Santana as Self
- Kharey Wise as Self
- Matias Reyes as Self (archive footage)
- Jim Dwyer as Self - New York Times
- Angela Black as Self - Kevin's Sister
- Ed Koch as Self
- Craig Steven Wilder as Self - Historian