Rating for The Central Park Five 5 Piercing and powerful, "The Central Park Five" shakes, shocks and stirs you to outrage as the documentary gives five young black and Latino men a platform that was severely diluted by a vitriolic mainstream media 23 years ago in New York City. Raymond Santana, Kevin Richardson, Yusef Salaam, Kharey Wise and Antron McCray were convicted in 1990 of a crime they didn't commit: the rape and brutal beating of Trisha Meili, a white woman jogging in Central Park on April 19, 1989. Directed by Sarah Burns, her husband David McMahon and her father Ken Burns, and based on Ms. Burns' book, "The Central Park Five" opens with haunting audio of Matias Reyes talking about...
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