Central Park Jogger Case In 1989

The issue of discrimination towards racial minorities from workers of Law Enforcement is wide spread and has been discussed for last decades. The exonerations of African Americans, after the most of the lifetime imprisonment breakdown the news of the American media, displaying the crucial mistakes of police officers. The Central Park Jogger Case in 1989 is a depiction of the police officers’ wrongdoing based on racial biases: 5 young African American and Latino men were accused of raping, beating up and leaving for dead 28 years old white woman in Central Park. They would sign a confession and later claim that those confessions are coerced – compliant, meaning that the police literally forced them to do it. They were, however, plead guilty based on this confession statements, even though no other evidence of guiltiness was given. According to the case analyst Edwin Grimsley the incriminate statements were given by these
He remembered the beating they had given him and how he had signed his name to a confession, a confession which he had not even read. He had been too tired when they had shouted at him, demanding that he sign his name; he had signed it to end his pain.(“TMWLU” p.28)
Footsteps sounded in the room and the man in a blue suit passed in front of him, then another, then still another. Policemen, he breathed. Yes, they were trying to make watchmen confess, just as they had once made him confess to a crime he had not done.|| Oh… Those were the same policeman who had beaten him, had made him sign that paper when he had been too tired and sick to care. Now they were doing the same thing to the watchman. His hear pounded as he saw one of the policemen shake a finger into the watchman’s face.(“TMWLU”