the crack epidemic come forward and then again the central park jogger case happening at the same time. so it was a time when i think the black community having this wonderful image of a black family in a positive light was really a wonderful thing for us. and you didn t want to bring all of that crashing down? no. to have that weighing on your heart and your mind and knowing that if you came forward that you would perhaps be tarnishing an image that was so important to the black community. so kaya what did turn it around for you? i tried many times initially right after the incidents. and it was not accepted well. i had medical professionals not believe me. so i learned kind of the hard
investigator with the police department brought the case to us. we looked at the video, which is obviously very disturbing and made a decision that there was in fact a battery. we looked at all aspects of the case about whether or not he was acting in self-defense. i think the video clearly shows that he was not. and we ve obviously interviewed the victim in the case and she is well prepared to go forward with a prosecution. and we intend to go forward with a prosecution. did she mention anything during her interview about what she might have said to him? and does it matter what she said to him or did to him before he hit her? well from her perspective and my conversation with her, the idea that there was some kind of a racial statement made is simply not true. basically she was being pushed
telling me story wouldn t only help bring down cosby. i feared it would undermine the entire african american community. imagine that weight you carried. and still do. and still do. the cosby show came out, as i mentioned in the article, during a time in the 80s. this was a time when the central park jogger case was full throttle in the media. it was about a young black man attacking a white woman. yes. and the way black men were being portrayed in the media was really bad. he was a needed icon in the community. we needed that sense to feel good about ourselves i think, i think. i think that it made us feel validated and we wanted to feel you know better about ourselves. particularly in the 80s we had
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you know, i said i waited for this day to come, right? when the day finally came, i couldn t sleep, and i felt like even though we was about to acre knowledge the settlement was done, i felt someway, somehow the city would pull the rug from under our feet and say oops, sorry. like when you fight against an agency or system for so long, we talking 25 years and to get to the point where you stop fighting it s difficult to take the gloves off and hang them up, you know. to me it s like we getting up and going to do a press conference for fighting against injups t injustice for the central park five. it still hasn t sunk in. i want to read something your mom said. she said i m not smiling or laughing all the way to the bank, i m still covered in shame. do you feel that, as well? a sense of shame? there is a scar placed on us