. >>> sarah burns wrote about the ordeal in her book, "the central park five, the details behind newpa into mansion crim spoke with her earlier. >>> sarah, this is a $40 million settlement, big. were you surprised by this or was this going to happen sooner or later? >> well, you know, i think it was going to happen but it took the de blasio administration for it to happen. i think a year ago, this would have been a shock. >> and that's because the bloomberg administration says that the police, the authorities acted with cause, so what changed was the change in administration? >> i think so. absolutely. i mean, i think there was a sense of de blasio said on the campaign trail this was a mischaracter of justice and needed to be righted. >> i grew up in boston. this was a national story. we heard about this story up there. we knew what was going on. to be here in the city during that time, bring us back, you know, make us remember, what a circus this turmoil and anger this caused. >> yeah, it was, i think new york city in 1989 is different than today and the fear of crime was at an all-

as they told sarah and ken burns in the important film on the case. >> i lost my youth. en years s s sn years of my life. i lost that sense of being youthful and missing the average things of going to school and going to the prom, just living like an average 14, 15-year-old kid. >> it hasn't become easier to live as an adult. it's become harder. it's always more difficult to do something if you have this huge gap of your life taken away from you. it's not like just because they said, okay, we are vacating the convictions that it vacated the whole prison term. that prison term happened. it was a reality. we went through that. >> i spoke to them in december of 2012 about the interrogations and why they confessed to a crime they didn't commit. >> they were telling everybody's families that all you've got to do is say this and we'll let your sons go home. you know? this is the amount of tricknology they were using was so dooeevious it caused our pars to say, you know, maybe if we go along with it we can get out of here. >> being 14 stuff goes over your head. it seems like a

a lawsuit gained renewed attention in 2012 when documentary filmmaker ken burns and his daughter sarah released the "central park five." this is the trailer from the film. >> i want to remember what happened that day and to be horrified by ourselves. new york in the late 1980's was a completely schizophrenic divided city. >> new york is now the capital of racist violence. wars, drugity, gang wars. it would have been irrational not to be afraid. jogger night, a woman was found unconscious and partially clothed in central park, beaten and sexually assaulted. >> a woman jogging in central park. central park was holy. it was the crime of the century. five youths were arrested on 96th street all between 14 and 15 years of age. you can only imagine the pressure to have this crime solved and solved quickly. they started to put us in different rooms separately. what did you do, who were you with? i felt like they might take is to the back of the precinct and kill us. i am telling the guy, i don't know what you are talking about. then they get angry. he has been interrogated for over 24 hours.

in 2012, film maker ken burns - with his daughter sarah and her husband david mcmahon, released a documentaryonicling the crime and its aftermath. here's a short excerpt from it santana and richardson described how police turned them against one another. >> i didn't do anything. they said, we just wanted you to help because we know you didn't do anything. you're a good kid. he said, you a good kid? i said no. he said the scratch under his eye came from the woman. we know he did it. he's going down. >> i didn't know the guys that did it so i'm just going to make up something and include these guys' names. >> okay, you know, if you're going to do it to me, then i'm going to do it to you. >> he was coaching me and i was writing it down. >> he just fed it to me. what did he do? what did andrew mccrane do? he gave me the names. i put them in. i couldn't tell you who they were, who they looked like. if he had given me # hundred names, i would have put 100 people at the crime scene. >> brown: we're joined by craig steven wilder, a professor of urban american history at m.i.t. who followed the kids c