I just found out that one of the Central Park rapists from 1989 was elected a Councilman in NYC last week.
He ran with the same party that has spent years screeching about Trump’s pussy comments. Apparently, whatever Trump said in the famous tape is a lot worse than an actual gang rape that put a woman into a coma.
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Words are violence.
Violence is just innocent people responding naturally to cultural oppression.
Right?
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He was wrongly convicted and later exonerated.
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The evidence against him and other rapists is overwhelming. That the conviction was vacated does not erase the simple facts of the case, which are pretty shocking.
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I remember reading about that case. It was one of the things that now makes me look twice or more at anything championed by the Innocence Project and other legal activist organizations. Like, there are legit cases that need to be re-examined because they probably got the wrong guy. But from the looks of it… not enough to keep those organizations in business. So for them, it’s all about winning enough vacated convictions to keep their name in the news, the grants coming in, their jobs secure, and maintain the fiction that the US justice system is the worst thing ever. The win, not the truth.
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They had DNA evidence that matched none of the five, though—it did match another man who later confessed to raping six women in Central Park around that time.
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It was never claimed either by the witnesses or during the trial that he ejaculated during the rape. The prosecution and the witnesses always claimed that his role in the rape was holding down the victim and groping her while others raped her.
The jury in the original trial was told that the DNA from an unidentified assailant was present at the scene. This was always known. It’s not unusual in gang rapes that several of the assailants don’t ejaculate.
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@Robert Basil
We all know why he was exonerated. I mean: look at his picture! It’s pretty evident, no?
He’s the guy who during his recent campaign kept referring to himself as Doctor Salaam (Martin Luther King, anyone?) without having a doctorate in anything but obfuscation and manipulation I suppose.
Harvey Milk the gay activist failed his bid twice to the equivalent position in San Francisco (where they are called Supervisors) until he was able to persuade the relevant authorities to abandon voting by district in favor of city-wide electoral representation. Over forty years later I discover that in NYC they still vote by district: what chance would ANYONE have over this guy when Harlem is his district? Oh, and yes – in case any Woke flowers read this – it’s a rhetorical question.
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