Central Park 5 still seeking justice in NYC jogger case: 'You always hear about black on black crime. Why is it that only our race is color-connected to crime? White people commit crimes against white, Asian against Asian. You never hear about other groups committing crimes against their own people. It is a constant process of criminalizing and seeing black men as animals, savages and beasts fixated on criminal behavior,' Barron noted. 'Do we commit crime, yes, but it is not peculiar to us.'
When asked why the city refuses to settle with these men, the councilman suggested that doing so would create an embarrassment by exposing the abuses of the criminal justice system. This would force the city to address the police practice of coercion. 'Why not settle? Because if they do settle it is an indictment-- coercing innocent people into saying they're guilty.
