They are the Central Park Five. When They See Us is a dramatised account of how the five young boys came to be arrested, convicted and sentenced for raping and beating almost to death Trisha Meili – “the Central Park jogger” – a young white woman whose poor, battered body was found that same night. Their night out is recharacterised as “a rampage”, the boys as “animals” moving in “a pack”, hellbent on destruction. As with the early establishment of the boys’ normality, Fairstein and her team are never explicitly labelled as racist. Photograph: Atsushi Nishijima/NetflixWhen They See Us: behind the harrowing Netflix drama about the Central Park Five Read moreWhat could easily become agitprop resists the temptation.

Source: The Guardian May 31, 2019 07:52 UTC