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In an op-ed published in the New York Daily News on Saturday, Trump calls the settlement a "disgrace."
My opinion on the settlement of the Central Park Jogger case is that its a disgrace. A detective close to the case, and who has followed it since 1989, calls it the heist of the century.
Settling doesnt mean innocence, but it indicates incompetence on several levels. This case has not been dormant, and many people have asked why it took so long to settle? It is politics at its lowest and worst form.
Coventina
(27,115 posts)He can go pee up a rope.
Quantess
(27,630 posts)And what makes him think he is qualified to bestow us peasants his opinion?
Warpy
(111,254 posts)Because of that, they made great scapegoats and helped to keep white folks scared of black folks, especially the teenaged boys.
That's all they were. There was no forensic evidence to tie them to the crime, no bloody clothing, no semen on the victim. The DA had no other leads, so they got hustled off to the joint while racist propagandists had a field day talking about "wilding."
Eventually the real bastard confessed.
I think this is a good settlement, they can all retire on it with no reason to do more crime.
What the movers and shakers like the deplorable Trump should be talking about is how expensive prosecutorial hot dogging can get.
KamaAina
(78,249 posts)WilliamTuckness
(41 posts)What do you all think?
JHB
(37,159 posts)By MICHAEL WILSON
Published: October 23, 2002
On May 1, 1989, Donald J. Trump took out full-page advertisements in four New York newspapers calling for the return of the death penalty. Mr. Trump said he wanted the ''criminals of every age'' who were accused of beating and raping a jogger in Central Park 12 days earlier ''to be afraid.''
Thirteen years later, as new evidence raises the possibility that the five teenagers convicted in the attack had nothing to do with it, their supporters are focusing some of their fiercest anger at Mr. Trump.
''Trump is a chump!'' protesters shouted during a recent demonstration, accusing Mr. Trump of, at least, further inflaming passions and perhaps tainting the defendants' future jurors. Some called him a racist. Supporters of the Central Park defendants have demanded an apology.
One does not appear to be forthcoming.
If Trump had had his way, it would have been four executions for a crime that was committed by someone else entirely.