CNN's Cuomo Claims 'Innocent' Central Park Five Convicted Because of Race

bradwilmouth | December 22, 2019
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PAUL CALLAN, CNN CONTRIBUTOR: And you're right -- it brings back the memory of the Central Park Five case which I represented two of the assistant district attorneys who reinvestigated the case and found the confessions were inaccurate, and the wrong people were arrested in that case. But that case terrified the city because it happened in a beloved park, and it really emphasized how dangerous the city had become....

CHRIS CUOMO: And, look, remember, what made us scared at the time -- these were the wrong kids that they got. And one of the reasons they were convicted -- of course it was color, of course it was socioeconomic, of course it was about policing culture at that time -- but wilding was real. Kids running around in the city like a pack of dogs doing terrible things was real -- white kids, brown kids, all kinds of kids.

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