"I have many more witnesses I’d like to put on the stand, including the jogger’s doctors, who say they distinctly saw many different handprints on the jogger’s body, and that her injuries prove that Reyes could not possibly have acted alone. This is a wonderful opportunity to prove the truth in a court of law! They asked for it." AC
"I’m not sure the Central Park Five really want a civil trial on what happened the night of April 19, 1989, but by suing Donald Trump for defamation, that’s what they’re going to get.
"The alleged defamation was Trump’s typically garbled response to Kamala Harris’ lie at ABC’s presidential debate last month, about something that happened 35 years ago. She claimed that Trump had called for “the execution of five young Black and Latino boys who were innocent.”
"Actually, Trump’s much-maligned ad in The New York Times never mentioned the Five, who weren’t remotely eligible for the death penalty, anyway. If everyone involved here weren’t a public figure, Harris’ accusation, as well as the Five’s legal filing, and every Times story for the past decade mentioning the ad, would all be defamatory, too.
"But since they brought it up, let’s have a trial! Truth is an absolute defense to defamation, and one thing the public hasn’t gotten much of is the truth about the Central Park Five: Antron McCray, Yusef Salaam, Raymond Santana, Kevin Richardson and Korey Wise.
"Here’s some testimony we’d like to see:
"How did the detectives get the boys’ parents to go along with videotaping their sons as they confessed — falsely, they now claim — to the rape of the jogger, in addition to vicious attacks on bicyclists, joggers and other park-goers?
"Weren’t the detectives worried that if they bullied five innocent boys into making false confessions, the jogger might suddenly emerge from her coma and be able to identify her attackers? What if she woke up and blurted out, “My boyfriend did it!”? Boy, would their faces be red.
"As long as the detectives were making up confessions anyway, why not have the youths forthrightly admit to raping the jogger? Instead, all five readily admitted to the other crimes, but each of them minimized their role in the rape, as is typical for suspects in sex crimes cases. They confessed — to the police, to detectives and to their friends and acquaintances — only to fondling or restraining the jogger while others raped her.
"Thus, for example, when Santana was picked up by the police, he blurted out, “I had nothing to do with the rape. All I did was feel the woman’s tits.” The police didn’t know about the jogger yet. How did Santana?" . . .
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