While America Was Riveted by P*ssygate, Trump Called for Incarceration of Innocent Minorities—and Almost No One Noticed

Sexual assault is a horrible injustice. So is wrongful imprisonment by a racially biased law enforcement system. On Friday, October 7, the world learned that Republican presidential nominee Donald J. Trump bragged about committing the former and endorsed the latter. Guess which one set the world on fire?

As the nation focused its attention last Friday on Donald Trump’s just-revealed boasts about how his supposed stardom allowed him to sexually assault women, the media pundits and Republicans condemning him largely ignored Trump’s comments reported earlier that day about five young men of color who were wrongfully imprisoned for years for the brutal 1989 rape and beating of Trisha Meili, a white investment banker, in New York's Central Park. The five teens became known as the Central Park Five. During the case, Trump had famously taken out full-page ads in the New York Daily News and the New York Times describing New York as a hellscape filled with “roving bands of wild criminals,” and implicitly called for the execution of the five teens—four black, and one a Latino. “BRING BACK THE DEATH PENALTY. BRING BACK OUR POLICE!” the ad’s headline screamed....
http://www.alternet.org/election-2016/despite-dna-evidence-trump-calls-central-park-5-men-guilty