Y’all better stand up for THE EXONERATED 5 👏🏽 #BETAwards pic.twitter.com/dfB8GFEMid
— Nicole Perez (@nicole_perez1) June 24, 2019
The men, introduced as the Exonerated Five, formerly the so-called Central Park Five, appeared on stage to a standing ovation from the star-studded audience.
Korey Wise, Yusef Salaam, Kevin Richardson, Raymond Santana and Antron McCray were there to introduce Grammy Award-winning singer H.E.R.
Their lives and what happened when they were wrongly convicted and later exonerated of raping a Central Park jogger in 1989 was the subject of the recent Netflix series "When They See Us."
A powerful moment with “The Exonerated 5”#BetAwardspic.twitter.com/C9WftTpY4p
— Erick Fernandez (@ErickFernandez) June 24, 2019
The award show, which included performances by some of the best and the brightest in movies and TV, also included a posthumous humanitarian award for rapper Nipsey Hussle, who was shot and killed near his Los Angeles clothing store in late March.
Singer Mary J. Blige received this year’s Lifetime Achievement Award and movie mogul Tyler Perry received BET’s Ultimate Icon Award.
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