Central Park Five

Trump: Central Park Five Still Guilty Despite DNA Exoneration

| Importance: 8/10

Twelve years after DNA evidence conclusively proved the innocence of the Central Park Five, Donald Trump published an opinion piece in the New York Daily News calling the city’s $41 million settlement with the wrongfully convicted men “a disgrace” and continuing to assert their …

Donald Trump Yusef Salaam Korey Wise Antron McCray Kevin Richardson +1 more Racism Central Park Five Donald Trump Criminal Justice
Read more →

Central Park Five Exonerated: DNA Proves Innocence After 13 Years

| Importance: 9/10

Justice Charles J. Tejada of the New York State Supreme Court vacated the convictions of all five men wrongfully imprisoned for the 1989 Central Park jogger case, ending one of the most notorious miscarriages of justice in American legal history. The exoneration came after Matias Reyes, a convicted …

Yusef Salaam Korey Wise Antron McCray Kevin Richardson Raymond Santana +2 more Central Park Five Criminal Justice Wrongful Conviction DNA Evidence Racism
Read more →

Trump Demands Death Penalty in $85,000 Ads Against Central Park Five

| Importance: 9/10

Two weeks after five Black and Latino teenagers were arrested for the brutal rape and beating of a jogger in Central Park, Donald Trump spent $85,000 to place full-page advertisements in four major New York newspapers calling for their execution. The ads, which appeared in The New York Times, New …

Donald Trump Yusef Salaam Korey Wise Antron McCray Kevin Richardson +1 more Racism Central Park Five Criminal Justice Death Penalty
Read more →