Tuesday, June 4, 2019

The Central Park Five

Ava DuVernay has directed a Netflix four-part series entitled “As They See Us.”  The program is about five teenagers who were wrongfully convicted in 1989 for gang-raping and nearly killing a woman in Central Park.  

Their convictions were dismissed in 2002 and they were paid $41 million by New York in 2014 to settle their civil rights suit.  They had done nothing.  The man who did was finally caught.

A real estate developer in 1989 took out full page ads condemning the boys.  At a news conference he said, “You better believe that I hate the people who took this girl and raped her brutally,”  


That was Donald Trump.  He has never apologized.

2 comments:

  1. The word "apologize" is not in individual one's vocabulary.

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  2. And he has so many reasons to use it.

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