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People are running ald’s takes the bait. Typically, Mc- ald’s. Keener also argues that the
Donald’s would be on the bottom flavor was finger-licking amazing
around like chickens with of the totem pole but he begs to and he couldn’t get enough of it.
their heads cut off over these differ. He says, in fact, the sand-
sandwiches! All our favorite wich was very tasty, speaking W hen you take a gigan-
food chains are coming out since it was coming from McDon-
with this mouth-watering ald’s. Keener also argues that the tic bite of your sandwich do you
goodness, but who takes the flavor was finger-licking amazing ever think about where it came
chicken sandwich crown? and he couldn’t get enough of it. from? Me neither honestly, but I
do know there’s a lot of tension
Chicken has always been fairly C hick-Fil-A seems to be between these restaurants about
who was the first to fry up these
popular in America. From chick- the reigning king of the chicken feathers. Chick-Fil-A claims they
en tenders to chicken patties, sandwich, but now the pressure claim out with their Southern-style
this has always been our go-to is on to be at the top. Many of sandwich in 1964. Now more
meal. But now, we’ve got chick- McDonald’s US franchises have than 70 years and 1,500 restau-
en sandwiches? This is new for been pushing to make a sand- rants later, Chick-Fil-A’s slogan
us. At first McDonald’s made this wich to rival Chick-Fil-A’s, but is, “We didn’t invent the chicken”.
juicy sandwich for us, then Wen- sophomore Chuck Keener thinks How ironic. In March 1978, Wen-
dy’s and Chick-Fil-A topped the, McDonald’s takes the bait. Typi-
off. But the real question still re- cally, McDonald’s would be on the
mains, who has the best chicken bottom of the totem pole but he
sandwich? Well let’s hear from begs to differ. He says, in fact, the
our Desales community. sandwich was very tasty, speak-
ing since it was coming from McDon-
Chick-Fil-A seems to be

the reigning king of the chicken
sandwich, but now the pressure
is on to be at the top. Many of
McDonald’s US franchises have
been pushing to make a sandwich
to rival Chick-Fil-A’s, but sopho-
more Chuck Keener thinks McDon-

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dy’s founded their chicken sand- ternet went crazy. Within a week, and moisture of the sandwich was
wich and sold out. 41 years later, Popeyes received $23.25 million a complete 10/10 and personally, I
Wendy’s still amazes us with the in advertising. Now how EGG-cit- agree. However, Junior Devin Fos-
spicy chicken nuggets and the 4 ing is that? ter disagrees. Foster says Popey-
for 4. McDonald’s tried this idea in es is at the top for their mouth-wa-
1980 with their famous McChick- We spoke to a few members of tering spice and flavor that the
en but came as a huge disap- sandwich holds. The sauce and
pointment, and was replaced with the Desales Community to hear lettuce adds an extra flavor, he
McNuggets. After the McNuggets a view voices and perspectives. gave the sandwich a 9 out of 10.
sky rocketed, they reintroduced Sophomores Cidney Barron and
it in 1988. ast forward to August William Djedje think Chick-Fil-a
2019, Popeyes posted their tweet deserves the crown. The flavor
saying “Bun + Pickles + Chicken
= all love for the original”, and the In-





Innocent Behind Bars

T he Innocence Project was brought to life in 1992 in New
York by Barry Scheck and Peter Neufield at Yeshiva University.
The Innocence Project is a public, non-profit organization that is
dedicated to exonerating wrongfully convicted people using DNA
and forensic science. They also work with reforming the justice
system, and technology to avoid further situations like this. Ac-
cording to Time magazine, around 10,00 people are falsely con-
victed of crimes each year and around 4.1% of inmates on death
row are innocent. At least 340 people have been exonerated, and

some of the more famous cases such as the Exonerated 5,
Malcolm Alexander, Kevin Bailey, and Corey Batchelor.

“T here’s turmoil and CePnatrrakl5 in the park when the cha-
os was in motion, Patricia
there’s greed and poverty,” Tony Montalvo recalls, “we states, “we saw this whole
commented Jelani Cobb, basically took over the entire line of kids.” Montalvo said
New Yorker staff writer. “Then park. Anything we wanted, when the group saw the
there’s fear and violence and we made sure to get it. We Malones, he said “get them.”
it’s all wrapped in one big, saw an elderly man walking They ran and attacked Ger-
vast city between the East across the street with big bags ry, throwing him off of his
and Hudson Rivers.” On in his hands. Then, you know, bike. Instantly they charged
the night of April 19, 1989, a bunch of kids ran over and at Patricia, ripping at her
police were running around robbed him and started kick- arms, legs, and clothing.
to answer calls about 30 ing him and all that.” Patricia She says, “as a woman, you
to 40 teenagers harassing and Gerry Malone were biking instantly know what’s going
people in the park. One of to happen.”
the teenagers in the group,

“...As a woman, The Destroyed Lives of Malcom Alexander and His Family “The stakes in this case
you instantly know
couldn’t have been higher for
what’s going to Mr. Alexander who faced a
happen.” mandatory life sentence with-
out parole.” Malcolm Alexander
was just 21 years old when he
was convicted with a trial that
started and ended all in one
day. In February 1980, Alexan-
der had an intimate encounter
with a Caucasian woman in
exchange for money, and later
accused him of sexual assault.
The victim claims she was
grabbed from behind by an Af-
rican American male and taken
to a small, dark bathroom in the
back of the store then raped at
gunpoint. Afterwards, the Cau-
casian victim washed off with
a towel and called the police.
Almost 23 years later, in 2013,
hair recovered from the scene
was found at the Jefferson Par-
ish Sheriff’s Crime Office Lab.
The hairs were tested and did
not belong to Alexander or the
victim. After a reinvestigation
and a further look into alibis
and DNA evidence, Malcolm Al-
exander was released from jail
after serving 38 years.

Malcolm Alexander was

exonerated in 2018, and now
has a complicated relationship
with time. He wants to be early to
his job out of the desire to make
a good first impression since
he’s been spending nearly the
last 40 years of his life, at one
of the most notorious prisons in
the U.S. When Malcolm walked
free from Louisiana’s prison, he
married the mother of his son
and continues to fight for those
wrongfully convicted.

Imagine being 19 years Kevin Bailey
and Corey
old and questioned about a mur- Batchelor, 2
der you didn’t commit, let alone Teens Gone
didn’t even know happened. This
was the case for Kevin Bailey Too Soon
and Corey Batchelor, who were
brought in for questioning just
five days after the murder of
Lula Mae Woods. Woods was In the hands of for-
found by a neighbor, murdered in mer Police Commander, Jon
her garage. Upon recovery, po- Burge, over 120 black men
lice found a Domino’s pizza hat and women were physically
which became the main focus for assaulted and subject to tor-
the investigation. Bailey, one of ture in many different meth-
the many neighborhood teens, ods. Bailey, who served 28
was rounded up and taken in for years, was exonerated on
investigation. No more than 2 January 30, 2018. Batchelor,
hours later, Batchelor was taken was released in 2004 after
to Area 2 for questioning. After serving 15 years. “Four differ-
more than 14 constant hours of ent projects have dedicated
kicking, beating, slamming, and their blood, sweat, and tears
choking these teens, the detec- for a decade in the hopes of
tives forced them to confess in rectifying the injustice perpe-
exchange for a meal. The con- trated on two teenagers near-
fessions on tape were wildly in- ly 30 years ago,” said Josh
consistent with each other and no Tepfer, an attorney with the
connecting details with the story. Exoneration Project, who rep-
resented Batchelor.

“Four different projects have
dedicated their blood, sweat,
and tears for a decade in the
hopes of rectifying the injustice
perpetrated on two teenagers

nearly 30 years ago.”

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CePnatrrakl5
The Innocence
Project has been around
for nearly thirty years. It has
helped exonerate people
through DNA testing. One of
the most famous cases is the
Central Park Five, now known
as the Exonerated Five. It was
a case in the nineties that in-
volved five innocent minority
teenage boys. I sat down with
history teacher Steve Ulry to
get his thoughts on this im-
portant group.
1DNAwas never matched.
Kevin Richardson,14Q: What do you know about
Q: What do you know about
the Central Park Five?
the Innocence Project?
A: This case took place in the late
A: The Innocence Project was
founded in the early 1990’s as a 1980’s. There was a series of at-
means to bring about criminal jus- tacks in NY (New York),
tice reform, and help those wrong- several around Central Park.
fully convicted of crimes mount a Some of the attacks were violent,
new legal defense. This was in re- including the assault and rape of
sponse to the fact that many poor at least one woman, a jogger if I
and minority groups were being con-remeber correctly. Most convic-
victed of crimes due to their inability tions were based on confessions
to get competent legal that were forced. The rape and
assualt of the jogger was the most
advice. severe case. I do not remember

how many years later, but a man
finally confessed to the crime and
his DNA matched, whereas the

5 Q: How did you feel when the 2
case was going on? Did you
think they were innocent? Yusef Salaam, 15
A: The new propaganda sure
made it sound like the teens were
guilty, especially with the news of
confessions and members turning
on each other. I remember that I
was not convinced of the arrests,
that I thought they were easy tar-
gets because they were poorer
minority youths, but at the time
I had no major reason to doubt
what the media was telling us. As
news began to turn, and reports of
inconsistency in the confessions, I
began to feel that these kids might
have been invovled in some activi-
ties, but not the most severe ones,
like the rape of the jogger.

1“The In-
nocence
Project
has done
so much
good and
is still
continuing
to.”

Q: Your thoughts on our current 3
President calling to bring back the
death penalty for
teenage boys? What are your
thoughts on him taking out a full
page advertisement?
A: INSANE and WRONG. Not only
does the death penalty violate the teach-
ings of the Church, but it is immoral, bar-
baric, and time after time it is shown we
execute innocent people. I would rather
us not execute anyone knowing that we
cannot in any way be 100% sure of the
guilt.
Q: Your thoughts on the fact that
there are still many people serving
time for crimes they
didn’t commit?
A: Anger. This is an issue in our system.
I have no idea how to fix it, and some
innocent people that are convicted are
done so by juries that honestly feel the
evidence points to guilt. That is
tough to reconcile, but it happens. Some
innocent people are convicted through
manipulation of evidence and juries.

Korey Wise,16

3 “I would
rather us not
execute any-
one knowing
that we can-

not in any
way be 100%

sure of the
guilt.”

Antron McCray,15

Q: Any other important cases
you know about and would like
to share?
A: There was a case a few years
ago of a soccer coach in upstate NY
who was arrested for the
murder of a young boy. I think in the
end he was found not guilty, but had
he been found guilty,
that would have been an important
case.

“Minorities have
a history of be-
ing discriminated
against and the
case of the Central
Park Five was just
another example.”

There have been so many Raymond Santana,14

more cases like the Central Park Even though the Central
Five, but they haven’t gained
nearly as much attention. One Park Five members lost so much
case that is not very well known time of their lives, they have be-
is the case of Miguel Roman from come an inspiration and a symbol
Connecticut. He is a Hispanic of justice for minorities in America.
man who went to prison for a mur- Minorities have a history of being
der he did not commit. He was discriminated against and the case
convicted of murder in 1988 and of the Central Park Five was just
was exonerated (found innocent)
in 2008. He lost twenty years of another
his life. example. We have to as a coun-
try face this real tragedy. So many
“We have to as a people have lost part of their lives
country face the and are continuing to. No one can
real tragedy of that ever get back the time that was sto-
so many people
have lost and are len from them.
continuing to lose
part of their lives.” The Innocence Project has

done so much good and is still con-
tinuing to. This year was their record
high in exonerations. They helped to

exonerate 9 innocent people.



“These two
apps have

Just

Revolutionized

Television”

Disney Plus is of Disney plus is a lot cheap- “If you are
er than Netflix for multiple looking to
course what we are all add- reasons. Disney plus has spend less
ing to our Christmas wish no screen limit and you money and
lists. It offers a variety of don’t have to purchase HD reminisce
shows, movies, and its own (high definition) quality. about your
original series. If you want You can buy Disney plus childhood
to see all your childhood for a month with the cost days, Disney
favorites, get Disney Plus. of $6.99 or purchase it for Plus is defi-
However, there’s the ele- an entire year for $69.99, nitely the
phant in the room— Netflix. which comes down to choice for
Which is better? $5.83 per month. you though.”

Disney plus dropped Netflix’s cheapest

on the app store November plan is $7.99 per month
12 and by the first week which includes only 1
they already had over 10 screen and is not HD qual-
million subscribers. The ity. Their most expensive
app is doing even bet- plan is $11.99 per month
ter than anyone thought. which includes 4 screens
When Disney announced and ultra HD quality.
in October that they were
d making an original series
for Marvel exclusively on
Disney Plus, they gained
even more support. They
have managed to attract
viewers of all ages to re-
turn to their childhood and
relive the best time of their
television watching lives.

Disney Plus offers

you a free trial for 1 week
while Netflix offers a free
trial for 1 month.However,

Streamin
There are also W

downsides to Disney Black, Black Mirror, and
Plus. Navigating the much more.
home screen is not as If you are looking to If you really want
easy.For example they spend less money and to have the best of both
do not have a “Contin- reminisce about your worlds get both! At least
ue Watching” section childhood days, Disney do some free trials.
like Netflix does. If you Plus is definitely the These two apps have just
want to resume watching choice for you. If you revolutionized television.
something you have to don’t mind paying the ex- which leads us to the
type the title in the search tra money to watch more newest question, which is
bar. This only happens movies and shows than better streaming apps or
duringyour free trial. you can imagine, Netflix cable? But we’ll save that
When you actually buy it is for you. debate for another story.
you receive the “Continue
Watching” section. They
also only feature Disney,
Pixar, Marvel, and kid
friendly shows/movies.
They do not have the
same wide range as Net-
flix.

Netflix has thou-

sands of movies and
shows, not to mention
their award winning orig-
inal series. Netflix has
produced numerous
shows that have become
insanely popular such as,
Stranger Things, On My
Block, Orange is the New

ng

Wars

“If you don’t mind paying the extra money to
watch more movies and shows than you can

imagine, Netflix is for you.”