The minute-long teaser gives a mother’s glimpse at the five teenagers of color who were wrongly convicted of the rape of a Central Park jogger.
“You watch them grow, and you start to think you did a good job. And then one night, you look away,” the mother says as her son readies himself to leave the house, only to be detained by police moments later.
The “film in four parts,” as Duvernay called it on Twitter, will focus on Antron McCray, Kevin Richardson, Yusef Salaam, Raymond Santana and Korey Wise and begins in spring 1989, when the teens were first questioned about the alleged rape. From there, “When They See Us” will span 25 years of the notorious case, highlighting their exoneration in 2002 and the settlement reached with the city of New York in 2014, Netflix said.
Not thugs. Not wilding. Not criminals. Not even the Central Park Five. They are Korey, Antron, Raymond, Yusef, Kevin. They are millions of young people of color who are blamed, judged and accused on sight. May 31. A film in four parts about who they really are. WHEN THEY SEE US.
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