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hrmjustin

(71,265 posts) Mon Jun 23, 2014, 03:29 PM Jun 2014

Mayor de Blasio: Central Park Five settlement necessary to correct 'injustice'

ERIN DURKIN

Mayor de Blasio said Monday the $40 million settlement with the Central Park Five was necessary to correct the “injustice” that was done to five men wrongly convicted of raping a female jogger.

“An injustice was done. And we have a moral obligation to respond to that injustice,” de Blasio said in his first comments since Thursday’s deal. “I think that the way we've proceeded was [with] an understanding that that had to be rectified, in a way that made sense and a way that was mindful and careful, but I think we're on the right track

http://www.nydailynews.com/blogs/dailypolitics/mayor-de-blasio-central-park-settlement-correct-injustice-blog-entry-1.1840674