In 1990, five Black and Latino teenagers — Kevin Richardson (14), Raymond Santana (14), Antron McCray (15), Yusef Salaam (15) and Korey Wise (16) — who became known as the Central Park Five, were wrongly convicted for attacking and raping a jogger, Trisha Meili, a 28-year-old white woman was in a coma for 12 days following the incident in April 1989.
Subsequently exonerated, the five — all of them now in their 50s — now find themselves in the middle of another legal battle: On Monday, the five men filed a lawsuit in Pennsylvania suing former President Donald Trump, accusing him of “false and defamatory” statements he made during the presidential debate in September with Vice President Kamala Harris. Trump is the Republican candidate for the November election, while Harris is the Democratic Party’s nominee.
