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16 Jan 2019 12:31 pm
First of all, the victim did not die, and we only issue the death penalty for murder, so the punishment he called for did NOT fit the crime.Sgt Bilko » 16 Jan 2019 4:19 am » wrote:ROTFLMAO You are upset that he wanted the penalty to fit the crime. The justice system has wrongly convicted innocent people before and will again. So what does that have to do with the ad he placed calling for penalties to fit the crime.Misty » 15 Jan 2019 6:10 pm » wrote:Google Central Park Five/Trump.Sgt Bilko » 15 Jan 2019 4:06 pm » wrote:With all of your hate filled rants about him over the years this post is a bit silly. The only thing I remember you getting angry about started with the beauty pagent.
Anyone like myself who lived in NYC during the 80's knows exactly what he is.
You were taken in by this fraud/con-artist/grifter/flim-flam man.
I was not.
And secondly, even after these men were exonerated by DNA evidence and a confession by the real attacker, he did not back down or apologize for being wrong.
He actually thought it was wrong for these innocent men to get a settlement after having spent years in jail for a crime they did not commit.
Donald J. Trump rarely apologizes. When it comes to the case of the Central Park Five, he has never even come close.
In 1989, after these black and Latino teenagers from Harlem were accused of assaulting and raping a white woman in Central Park, Mr. Trump spent $85,000 placing full-page ads in the four daily papers in New York City, calling for the return of the death penalty.
“Muggers and murderers,” he wrote, “should be forced to suffer and, when they kill, they should be executed for their crimes.”
Though he didn’t refer to the teenagers by name, it was clear to anyone in the city that he was referring to them.
Incredibly, 14 years after their sentences were vacated based on DNA evidence and the detailed and accurate confession of a serial rapist named Matias Reyes, Mr. Trump has doubled down.
“They admitted they were guilty,” he said in a statement to CNN this month.
“The police doing the original investigation say they were guilty.
The fact that that case was settled with so much evidence against them is outrageous.”
Mr. Trump is apparently ignorant of our country’s epidemic of wrongful convictions, which disproportionately affect minorities, and the prevalence of false confessions in those convictions.
Why the continued belief in the guilt of the Central Park Five, despite all the evidence to the contrary?
Race and racism surely play their role.
https://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/18/opin ... -five.html
