The Central Park Five Exonerated settle lawsuit with NYC for $40 million

BREAKING NEWS — After an extraordinary civil rights lawsuit and legal battle over a 1989 crime and wrongful conviction that came to symbolize a sense of lawlessness, racism and police coercion in New York, the exonerated men of the Central Park Five have agreed to a settlement of about $40 million from New York City.

In recent years, the case was kept in the news by THE CENTRAL PARK FIVE, a documentary which premiered on closing night of DOC NYC 2012. For the first time since the arraignment, all five members of the Central Park Five came together for a Q&A at DOC NYC with filmmakers Ken Burns, Sarah Burns and David McMahon.

Read more about the settlement on The New York Times, and the New York Daily News. The film can now be viewed on PBS.