two of the five why kevin richardson and raymond santana. >> we had to go back out and start getting more of the kids that were involved in the attack. that included yusef salom. cory weiss and antwon mcray. >> reporter: days of questioning began. >> those that are 14 or 15 are supposed to have a parent or guardian present, and largely they do, but i think even the parents are pretty naÏve about what's going on. >> and they used us. they used our lack of knowledge of the justice system against us. >> they were all starting to talk and give stories about what happened. >> these interrogations are not recorded in any way, no the written down. >> these are not my rules. these are the rules i was handed. and that's what we played by. >> i didn't know what was going on. i wanted to get the hell home. >> give me what he wanted. >> if you take an individual who's 15 years old and put that individual in a room by themselves with two to four to six officers, some of them wanting to attack you, that individual would be terrified. it could be almost tantamount to someone having a gun to your he

raymond santana, yusef salaam, antron mccray -- they are finally through with the pretrial publicityfit. and they put their best people on this case. >> this was like the new york yankees playing against your high school baseball team. you had elizabeth lederer and, of course, robert morgenthau. on the other side, the defense attorneys in this case were outclassed, outstrategized and outlived in terms of their ability to survive a case like this. >> 14 months after the crime was committed, the first of 2 trials in the central park jogger case. >> outside of the courtroom, the atmosphere was pretty intense. there were always protesters. >> you lying devil! bunch of racist dogs and devils down here. >> al sharpton had rallied a lot of people on behalf of the five. >> no justice, no peace. no justice, no peace! >> and there was always a line of people trying to get into the courtroom. >> there were people that wanted us dead. i mean, it became so dangerous that my mother camouflaged me, you know, just so that it could be all right for me to walk around. >> ms. lederer, how do you think

youssef salaam, antoine mccray, kevin richardson, cory wise, and raymond santana.fter, the horrific crime, they were arrested an quickly branded "the central park five". >> this whole process was surreal just to see like our life story portrayed and to still be relevant 30 years later. >> is my mom here? >> it's just us -- you and us. >> reporter: convicted on what they always maintained were coerced confessions, each was sentenced to years behind bars what was it like for you to watch those scenes oyour enkae incarceration? was it difficult >> it was. it was it was it still is, but it rwas. >>eporter: their convictions were vacated in 2002 after anesher man confsed to the attack his dna a match. the central park five were awarde1 d $4llion in a settlement with the city of new york. >> we didn't get an apology at all. all the time we did for something we didn't do, and itrt hu >> we have this indelible scarf, oh, that's, you know, kevin richardson, the guy from the central park jogger se, you know, the wilding case. >> so nothing makes that right. >> nothing it's 3

youssef salam, antwaun, corey wise and raymond santana, but soon after the horrific crime, they were central park five. >> this whole process was surreal just to see, like, our life story portrayed and it still be relevant 30 years later. >> is my mom here? >> it's just us. you and us. >> reporter: convicted on what they always maintained were coerced confessions, each was sentenced to years behind bars. >> corey, what was it like for you to watch those scenes of your incarceration? was it difficult? >> it was. it was. it was. still is, but it was. >> reporter: their convictions were vacated in 2002 after another man confessed to the attack. his dna, a match. the central park five were awarded $41 million in a settlement with the city of new york. >> we didn't get an apology. all the time we did for something we didn't do, and it hurts. >> we have this indelible scar of, oh, that's kevin richardson, the guy from the central park jogger case. >> nothing make that is right. >> nothing. >> and it's 30 years later, and we are the proof that when you damage kids as young as 14, 15 and 16

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. >> reporter: those five, kevin richardson, antron mccray, yusef salaam, raymond santana and korey wisemenon where kids of color go berserk and try to harm people. >> it's all over the newspapers every day, every newscast. >> wilding. >> wilding. >> wilding, by any name it means terror. >> that fear of the sexual violation of white women at the hands of black men is a fear that goes all the way back to the days of slavery in this country. >> reporter: amidst those fears and racial tensions, the teens went on trial with video confessions they made to police, though no dna evidence linked them to the victim. >> they came from strong supportive families. what they were not involved in were criminal activities. >> there was this rising tide of these boys becoming the symbols of all that was wrong in new york. this is why we need to come down on these young teenagers, these thugs. >> and the press who rely on the police for their information about crimes or largely rely on the police felt that the case was solved. >> reporter: one of the voices in the growing chorus, donald trump, then a swa