Tawana Brawley Case Exposes Racial Fault Lines in New York

Tawana Brawley, a 15-year-old Black girl from Wappingers Falls, New York, is found in a garbage bag, her body smeared with feces and racial slurs. She claims six white men, including law enforcement officers, raped her. Al Sharpton, Alton Maddox, and C. Vernon Mason take up her case. A grand jury concludes in October 1988 that the attack was fabricated, but the case inflames debates about race and the justice system.