‘Gate of the Exonerated’ unveiled, honouring wrongly-convicted Central Park Five
New York City unveiled the “Gate of the Exonerated” at Central Park on Monday, 19 December, honouring the wrongly-convicted “Central Park Five.”
The group of Black and Hispanic teenagers were wrongly found guilty of beating and raping a 28-year-old white female jogger in 1989.
All of the Five - Korey Wise, Antron McCray, Raymond Santana, Kevin Richardson and Yusef Salaam - spent several years in prison their exoneration in 2002.
Footage shows the unveiling of the entry way on the park’s northern perimeter between Fifth Avenue and Malcolm X Boulevard.
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