Central Park Five members sue Trump for defamation after debate comments

Lawyers for the five allege in the lawsuit that the former president acted with "reckless disregard" for the truth and with intent to cause "severe emotional distress" by claiming during the 10 September debate that they had "killed a person" in the notorious incident and admitted their guilt. The five men have always denied the crime and were later exonerated...

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/oct/21/central-park-five-trump-defamation-lawsuit

Michael Steele on Donald Trump 'Black friends' remark: 'More BS'

"I think we should take this as it is, and it is more BS from the man who argued for and will argue to this day for the execution of five innocent young Black men," said Steele, referring to the full-page ads Trump took out in 1989 against the Central Park Five…

https://thehill.com/homenews/race-politics/4725547-michael-steele-on-trump-black-friends-remark-more-bs/

Donald Trump and the Central Park Five: the racially charged rise of a demagogue

... In 2002, after Salaam had served seven years in prison, Matias Reyes, a violent serial rapist and murderer already serving life inside, came forward and confessed to the Central Park rape. He stated that he had acted by himself. A re-examination of DNA evidence proved it was his semen alone found on Meili's body, and just before Christmas that year, the convictions against each member of the Central Park Five were vacated by New York's supreme court... 

... Trump wrote: "I want to hate these muggers and murderers. They should be forced to suffer and, when they kill, they should be executed for their crimes. They must serve as examples so that others will think long and hard before committing a crime or an act of violence."...

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/feb/17/central-park-five-donald-trump-jogger-rape-case-new-york

'Central Park Five' To Trump: Death Penalty Ad Put A 'Bounty On Our Head' - HuffPost

One of the five men who was falsely convicted in the so-called Central Park Five case slammed President Donald Trump for his vicious 1989 attack ads during a Friday event at which the group received a courage award....
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/central-park-five-trump-bounty_n_5cfc0573e4b0aab91c070dbb

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

'Trump Was Calling for Us to Be Murdered': Central Park Five Member Speaks Out in New Pro-Clinton Ad

With the Presidential election less than a month away, Yusef Salaam seeks to remind voters of the irreparable damage Donald Trump could cause with his “law and order” presidency, pointing to his own horrifying story.

Salaam was one of the Central Park Five, a group of black and Latino teens wrongfully convicted of raping a female jogger in 1990. It took over a decade to exonerate them, with DNA evidence linking another man to the crime in 2002. But in 1989, Trump was at the forefront of The Central Park Five's condemnation....
http://www.alternet.org/election-2016/wrongfully-convicted-rape-trump-was-calling-us-be-murdered-central-park-five-member

Donald Trump and the Central Park Five

The Republican nominee continues to insist that five men exonerated in a notorious case were guilty.
http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2016/10/donald-trump-doesnt-care-if-youre-innocent/503411/?utm_source=feed