Background
What year did the Central Park jogger case happen?
What is 1989?
Where did the crime take place?
What is Central Park, New York City?
What term did the media use to describe the teens’ behavior?
What is “wilding”?
What type of confessions did the boys give?
What are false confessions?
What is this case considered in U.S. history?
What is a wrongful conviction case?
What was the victim doing when she was attacked?
What is jogging?
What happened to the five teens shortly after the incident?
What is they were arrested?
Give one word used by the media to describe the boys (besides “wilding”).
What is “wolf pack,” “animals,” “savages,” or “bloodthirsty”?
How long were the boys interrogated?
What is for hours?
What idea does the case expose about racism?
What is systemic racism?
What age range were the boys when arrested?
What is 14–16 years old?
What happened between 1990–2002?
What is conviction, imprisonment, and eventual exoneration?
How did media coverage influence public perception?
What is it made them seem guilty before trial?
What tactic was used to pressure the boys into confessing?
What is telling them others had already confessed?
What major idea does this case represent?
What is a pattern, not an exception?
What other minor activities were happening in the park that night?
What are assaults and harassment by teens?
What major legal action was filed in 2003?
What is a civil lawsuit?
What kind of storytelling did the media focus on instead of evidence?
What is fear-driven storytelling?
What key evidence was missing linking the boys to the crime?
What is DNA evidence?
what shapes perception before evidence?
What are racial stereotypes/media representation?
What was the victim’s name?
Who is Trisha Meili?
What event in 2014–2016 marked official acknowledgment of wrongdoing?
What is the settlement (state settlement)?
What is the effect of describing the boys as a “collective threat”?
What is dehumanization and loss of individuality?
What does the case show about the neutrality of the law?
What is the law is not neutral and reinforces bias?
According to Yusef Salaam, how are people viewed in their communities before trial?
What is they are seen as guilty before proven innocent?