'Central Park Five' Prosecutor Resigns From Charity Boards Amid Backlash
Julia Arciga Reporter
Updated 06.05.19 4:57AM ET / Published 06.04.19 9:27PM ET
The prosecutor in the Central Park Five case has resigned from three charity organization boards and one college board amid a backlash sparked by a new Netflix series about the case. The New York Post reports that Linda Fairstein stepped down from the boards of the Safe Horizon victims-services agency, Gods Love We Deliver, Joyful Heart Foundation, and Vassar College after the series When They See Us depicted her role in the convictionsand eventual exonerationsof five teens in the 1989 rape of a woman in New Yorks Central Park. I do not want to become a lightning rod to inflict damage on this organization, because of those now attacking my record of fighting for social justice for more than 45 years, Fairstein was quoted as writing in a letter to Safe Horizon. She also told the Post she resigned due to the mob-mentality reaction of the series, in which she claims Felicity Huffman portrays her in an inaccurate manner. Each of these organizations does great work, she said of public calls to boycott donations to the organizations she was tied with. Its so foolish of the bullies to punish the charities. Totally pig-headed and stupid.
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