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The Marshall Project / Carroll Bogert and Lynnell Hancock / Nov 22, 2020
“Just a few years before, the news media had introduced the terms ‘wilding’ and ‘wolf pack’ to the national vocabulary, to describe five teenagers — four Black and one Hispanic — who were convicted and later exonerated of the rape of a woman in New York’s Central Park. ‘This kind of animal imagery was already in the conversation,’ said Kim Taylor-Thompson, a law professor at New York University.”
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