In 1989, five Black and Hispanic teens were falsely accused of raping and nearly killing Trisha Meili, a white woman jogging in Central Park. Known collectively as the Central Park Five, Antron McCray, Kevin Richardson, Yusef Salaam, Raymond Santana and Korey Wise were convicted in two trials despite
Exonerated in 2002 after an investigation confirmed that a convicted murderer and rapist had committed the crime, the Central Park Five sued the city and state of New York, settling for millions. Salaam and Richardson spoke last week with Yahoo News about the current state of race relations in America, including a May 25 incident in which Amy Cooper, a white woman, called the police on Christian Cooper, a Black bird watcher in Central Park.
The married father of two daughters who lives with his wife in New Jersey, Richardson also sees parallels between race relations now and when he and his friends were wrongfully convicted. “It’s basically saying we should be executed without even knowing us as people, not knowing our families, our background,” Richardson said.
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