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]</ref> In addition, the suspects are African-American and the killing is reported to have "resurfaced the longstanding racial and class tensions between Columbia University and the fast-gentrifying neighborhood of Harlem".

The New York Times has compared the case to the 1989 Central Park jogger case, which occurred nearby in the North Woods of Central Park; both cases involved "a young white woman attacked in a park and even younger teenage suspects". This comparison to the jogger case was echoed by Time and the Star Tribune. Gale Brewer, the borough president of Manhattan, urged detectives to proceed with caution to avoid an outcome similar to the jogger case. In an effort to avoid the mistakes made by police 30 years prior, all questioning of the suspects in the Tessa Majors case has been video recorded. New York magazine called it a defining, once-in-a-generation crime for New Yorkers.

References

  1. Kim, Elizabeth (12 February 2020). "Murder Of Tessa Majors Reignites Racial Tensions Surrounding Morningside Park". Gothamist. Archived from the original on 13 February 2020. Retrieved 19 February 2020.
  2. Kilgannon, Corey (14 December 2019). "A Park Shed Its Reputation. Then Came the Tessa Majors Murder". The New York Times. Retrieved 19 February 2020.
  3. ^ Southall, Ashley; Dwyer, Jim (December 20, 2019). "How the Central Park 5 Case Looms Over the Tessa Majors Murder". The New York Times. Retrieved December 20, 2019.
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  5. Sisak, M. (26 December 2019). "Police release teen suspect in Barnard student's killing". Star Tribune. Minneapolis, MN. Retrieved 17 February 2020.
  6. Gioino, Catherina; Greene, Leonard (December 13, 2019). "NYPD should not repeat Central Park 5 mistakes while investigating murder of Barnard College student, Manhattan Borough President Gale Brewer cautions". New York Daily News. Retrieved December 22, 2019.
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