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Judge denied #Trump's motion to dismiss #defamation lawsuit brought by #CentralParkFive aka the #ExoneratedFive, based on Trump debate claim that they "pled guilty," although none did. Some did confess, but recanted.
https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.paed.628885/gov.uscourts.paed.628885.37.0.pdf
The men formerly known as the Central Park Five, now known as the Exonerated Five, filed a defamation lawsuit on Monday against Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump. With Election Day two weeks away, the group accused the former president of making “false and defamatory statements” about them during last month's presidential debate with Vice President Kamala Harris.
#KamalaHarris spoke about #Trump’s history on #race, including him taking out an ad calling for the execution of the #CentralParkFive in #NewYork decades ago & spreading birther #lies about fmr POTUS Barack #Obama. She is arguing that he uses race to divide instead of talking about his false comments that she “turned Black” — that was the original question.
#FactCheck #TrumpLies: It’s not true that the Central Park 5 ever pleaded guilty. They gave coerced confessions.
Thirty-five years after they were rushed through aggressive interrogations at a NYC police precinct and ultimately imprisoned, four members of the Exonerated Five – once known as the Central Park Five – stood before the Democratic National Convention Thursday and declared a new day. They reminded the audience that Donald Trump, the Republican presidential nominee,
'45 Wanted us un-alived': DNC greets Exonerated 5 as they hit out at Trump
"Thirty-five years ago my friends and I were imprisoned for a crime we did not commit. Our youth was stolen from us. Every day as we walked into the courtroom people screamed at us. Threatened us. Because of Donald Trump. He spent $85,000 on a full-page ad in the New York Times calling for our execution. We were innocent kids."
https://www.rawstory.com/democratic-national-convention-2024-2669010230/ #DNC #ExoneratedFive #Trump
The Democratic National Convention roared on Thursday in support of the Exonerated Five, five Black and Latino teenagers who were accused in 1989 of a brutal attack on a White investment banker in New York City's Central Park.Trisha Meili was found with severe trauma and rape injuries and left in a ...
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🔥 Powerfull speech by Rev. Al Sharpton and The Central Park 5, now The Exonerated Five, four of them joining him on stage at the #DNC: 'Trump loves to fan the racial flames'
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