Donald Trump Expresses More Economic Anxiety
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The Republican nominee for president believes that African-Americans who are innocent should nonetheless be in prison:
The fact that DNA evidence exonerated five men wrongfully convicted more than two decades ago in the brutal rape and assault of a female jogger in New York City’s Central Park has apparently done nothing to convince Donald Trump that they are innocent.
The Republican nominee declined to apologize when asked by CNN this week about his role as what one of the wrongfully convicted men, Yusuf Salaam, has called “the fire starter” for mobilizing public sentiment against the so-called Central Park 5.
Instead, Trump issued a statement saying, “They admitted they were guilty. The police doing the original investigation say they were guilty. The fact that the case was settled with so much evidence against them is outrageous.”
Trump’s critics have pointed to his persistent attacks on the exonerated minority individuals as evidence that his racially inflammatory stances predate the 2016 campaign.
The five then-teenagers, four of whom are black and one of whom is Latino, were arrested for the crime in the spring of 1989. Two weeks after the arrests, Trump famously took out a full-page ad in the New York Times calling for the perpetrators to be given the death penalty.
One thing that always amazes me in the Amanda Knox threads here is that there will always be at least one troofer who comes along to assert that while the coerced confession Knox gave might not be technically admissible it’s still real evidence. This is, of course, ludicrously wrong. In addition to the moral issues, coerced confessions are not legally admissible because as evidence they range from “extremely unreliable” to “worthless.” The wrongful conviction of the Central Park 5 is an excellent case in point.