Perspective
Mar. 4, 2017
Central Park Five: Trump vs innocence
In 1990, five boys, 16 and under, were convicted by New York juries of violent crimes committed during a "wilding" in New York's Central Park. In 2016, Donald Trump had something to say about that. By Ronald W. Tochterman
In October 2016, Sen. John McCain criticized presidential candidate Donald Trump for his "outrageous statements (condemning) the innocent men in the Central Park Five case." That same month, documentary filmmaker Sarah Burns weighed in: "Mr. Trump is apparently ignorant of our country's epidemic of wrongful convictions ... and the prevalence of false confessions in those convictions." Regardless of what you may thi...
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