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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Maroosha Muzaffar

Central Park Five member takes out full page ad on Trump 34 years after he called for their execution

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A member of the Central Park Five has responded to Donald Trump’s indictment and arrest by taking out a full-page advertisement, similar to the former president’s call for their execution more than 30 years ago.

The five Black and Latino men, who were teenagers at the time, were wrongfully imprisoned for the 1989 rape of a white woman in New York’s Central Park after being coerced into confessing to the crime they were found to not have committed.

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