Cousins!
Legislation has officially approved a new law which now requires for police officials to videotape all interrogation involving minors!
The ‘Central Park’ law is named after the members of the Exonerated 5 in efforts of preventing false confessions pursued by cops.
The Exonerated five consists of five teenagers between the ages of 14 to 16 wrongfully convicted for the rape of a Central Park jogger in 1989 after being forced into a false confession by cops.
According to the Brooklyn paper the law was signed on November 27th by Governor Andrew Cuomo.
Sources have confirmed that under the ‘ Central Park Five’ law detectives can not force minors to confess to any offenses including non violent ones.
“When the power of law enforcement is focused on minors, we must make sure that they are not coerced or manipulated into confessing to something that is not true,” stated Coney Island Assemblywoman Mathylde Frontus.
“What happened to the Central Park Five, who we now refer to as the Exonerated Five, should never happen to any child, and the way to ensure that is with the transparency that these recordings will provide.”
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