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Toure Show

The Central Park 5—We Are Free

Toure Show

DCP Entertainment

Society & Culture, Arts, Performing Arts

4.8880 Ratings

🗓️ 25 December 2022

⏱️ 108 minutes

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Summary

The Exonerated 5, formerly known as the Central Park 5, now have an entrance into Central Park named in their honor, a stunning turnaround for men who spent years in prison, convicted of crimes they did not do. In 2019 I spoke with two of them, Dr. Yusef Salaam and Raymond Santana, about their extraordinary experience. These men survived a nightmare. Let me know what you think! Instagram @toureshow. Twitter: @toure Toure Show Ep 76: The Central Park 5 - We Are Free Original Air Date: June 19, 2019 Support the show: https://www.dcpofficial.com/toureshow See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

How does it feel like to not get an apology?

0:14.7

Does that bother you?

0:15.6

That bothers me and that's a slap in the face.

0:17.8

That adds insult to injury because here you are saying,

0:24.5

we're going to pay you some money so that you can go away.

0:26.1

Yeah.

0:29.6

Be quiet and sit over there and go on the beach and sit mites.

0:33.4

But if you're going to do that, then you'll be quiet also, right?

0:38.4

If you're going to pay us, then don't have Linda Fairsting still coming out talking junk.

0:39.9

She's very loud.

0:40.6

Very loud.

0:41.4

Yeah.

0:43.3

What do you want to happen to Linda Fairsteen?

0:46.7

It's above me now.

0:56.0

The story of the Central Park Five is one of the most important stories in modern American life. It exposes how little black life matters in America.

1:00.0

In 1989, in New York City, five black and brown teenagers were arrested for a crime they did not commit.

1:08.0

The vicious rape and brutal beating of a white female jogger in New York City's

1:13.4

most famous park. They were 14, 15, and 16 years old, but because they were young, black,

1:19.7

and brown males from the hood, few people believed their innocence. There was no physical evidence

1:26.1

linking them to the crime and the confessions

1:27.9

were a mess of contradictions because they were coerced by investigators who lied to them,

1:32.5

threatened them, and in some cases beat them. But all five were convicted.

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