The Central Park Five
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The Central Park Five
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#2I'm puzzled: did they actually put five people in jail, even though there was actually one perpetrator?
Convicting the wrong person is one (terrifying) mistake, but making a five-fold mistake in the number of criminals is… incredible.
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#3Trump was quoted recently saying he still thought they should have been executed.
We owe these men, and the myriads who have experienced more and less, more that could be repaid in a thosand years. Best start.
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#4I'm puzzled: did they actually put five people in jail, even though there was actually one perpetrator? Convicting the wrong person is one (terrifying) mistake, but making a five-fold mistake in the number of criminals is… incredible.
The perpetrator confessed after they were in prison.
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#5The New York Times article doesn't mention the role Trump played in the story, about his spending $85,000 placing ads calling for a return of the death penalty.
Even after the exonerations, Trump has continued to maintain that the five men had been criminals.
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#6Trump was quoted recently saying he still thought they should have been executed. We owe these men, and the myriads who have experienced more and less, more that could be repaid in a thosand years. Best start.
Politicians say a lot of things in the US. Especially when it comes to black guys. Obviously, not much of it is true, and I wouldn't put too much stock in it, but the thing is...
as horrible as this may sound to say...
it can get a lot of votes.
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#7I'm puzzled: did they actually put five people in jail, even though there was actually one perpetrator? Convicting the wrong person is one (terrifying) mistake, but making a five-fold mistake in the number of criminals is… incredible.
>They were convicted based partly on police-coerced confessions, and each spent between six and 13-plus years in prison for charges including attempted murder, rape and assault.
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#8Trump was quoted recently saying he still thought they should have been executed. We owe these men, and the myriads who have experienced more and less, more that could be repaid in a thosand years. Best start.
Politicians say a lot of things in the US. Especially when it comes to black guys. Obviously, not much of it is true, and I wouldn't put too much stock in it, but the thing is... as horrible as this may sound to say... it can get a lot of votes.
I don’t understand why someone should NOT put “too much stock” into what a politician says. If anything, as much stock as possible should be put in. Especially in context of executing 5 innocent people.
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#9Earlier quoted context omitted.
Politicians say a lot of things in the US. Especially when it comes to black guys. Obviously, not much of it is true, and I wouldn't put too much stock in it, but the thing is... as horrible as this may sound to say... it can get a lot of votes.
I don’t understand why someone should NOT put “too much stock” into what a politician says. If anything, as much stock as possible should be put in. Especially in context of executing 5 innocent people.
I said I wouldn't put too much stock in it.
Everyone else does, which is why politicians get a lot of votes by offering up what are obviously patent falsehoods about, say, black guys.
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#10Trump was quoted recently saying he still thought they should have been executed. We owe these men, and the myriads who have experienced more and less, more that could be repaid in a thosand years. Best start.
Politicians say a lot of things in the US. Especially when it comes to black guys. Obviously, not much of it is true, and I wouldn't put too much stock in it, but the thing is... as horrible as this may sound to say... it can get a lot of votes.
He was not politician back then.
Edit: I don't mean it as defense people. Just that, he did not said it to gain votes back then. He said it because that is what he believed and who he is, nothing to do with politicians as a group.
Being genuine racist is not better then playing up racism for votes. Maybe even worst in impact (as pretender will be less zealous in pushing for such policies). Don't understand why people think otherwise.