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I remember the Central Park jogger case, of twenty years ago, when I was still a student myself, the white yuppie woman who got set upon by a group of black youths, raped and beaten to an inch of her life. Going by the media, people feared a new, dark trend: wilding. There is a story in the Times today on it. Ken Burns, the famous documentarian who got big after his Civil War series, has a new documentary on it.
I apparently missed some of the more recent developments in the case: “The convictions were overturned in 2002, after a serial rapist and murderer, who had staged a similar attack in the park just 48 hours before the one on the jogger, stepped forward to admit his crime, saying that he had acted alone.” Of course, this is not such an unfamiliar pattern in American justice and American society, though I am sure it is not just American, but a world thing, with America just making it more of a black and white thing, rather than the more general rich and poor thing.
(source: The New York Times)
I apparently missed some of the more recent developments in the case: “The convictions were overturned in 2002, after a serial rapist and murderer, who had staged a similar attack in the park just 48 hours before the one on the jogger, stepped forward to admit his crime, saying that he had acted alone.” Of course, this is not such an unfamiliar pattern in American justice and American society, though I am sure it is not just American, but a world thing, with America just making it more of a black and white thing, rather than the more general rich and poor thing.
(source: The New York Times)
