Central Park entry gate commemorates the ‘Exonerated Five’

It commemorates not only the miscarriage of justice suffered by the five men, organisers say, but also the unknown others who might have been wrongly imprisoned.

Kevin Richardson, far left, Yusef Salaam, second from left, and Raymond Santana Jr., far right foreground, three of five men exonerated after being wrongfully convicted as teenagers for the 1989 rape of a jogger in Central Park, along with Cicely Harris, second from right, chair of Harlem’s Community Board 10, unveil the “The Gate of the Exonerated” at the northeast gateway of Central Park in New York (Bebeto Matthews/AP/PA)

An entryway to Central Park in New York has been dedicated to remember the injustice that imprisoned five black and Latino teenagers after they were wrongly convicted of the 1989 rape of a white jogger.

The entryway on the northern perimeter of the park flanking Harlem is now known as the “Gate of the Exonerated”.