Police consulting firm behind widely criticized ‘Reid technique’ claims
Netflix drama When They See US misrepresents method
The director Ava DuVernay and Netflix are facing a lawsuit from the
police consulting firm behind a widely criticized interrogation technique referenced in the miniseries When They See Us.
John E Reid and Associates, a US company that trains law enforcement on interrogations, filed a defamation suit on Monday, challenging DuVernay’s critically acclaimed Netflix drama based on the case known as the Central Park Five. When They See Us is a four-part dramatization of the true story of five black and brown teenage boys from Harlem who were wrongfully convicted of the rape of a white woman in Central Park in the spring of 1989.