A difficult but necessary watch.
The statement above is just one way Ava DuVernay’s ‘When They See Us’ has been described since it was unveiled on Netflix.
In it, the visionary tells the real-life story of five African-American children (cruelly named ‘The Central Park Five‘ ) who were falsely accused of raping an affluent white women in Central Park.
Accused, without evidence or proof that the boys had even seen the violated woman.
What unravels next is a stomach-churning story of racism, corruption within law enforcement and a life-changing plot twist no one could have seen coming.
Social media’s response below…