This is a pack of lies. No suspect under 16 was kept away from his family for days, or even hours, with the exception of Yusef Salaam (15), because he lied to the police and said he was 16, and had a forged transportation pass that backed him up. The minors were questioned and confessed in the presence of family members who were of age.
The mook who wrote the thinly disguised press release for the attackers’ lawyers, Adam Klasfeld, doesn’t know the truth, and isn’t interested in learning it.
For the truth, read my new VDARE investigative reports:
“‘It Was Fun’—Robert K. Tanenbaum vs. the Central Park Five, 25 Years Later”; and
“Ken Burns’ The Central Park Five: The New To Kill a Mockingbird—Fiction Designed to Induce White Guilt.”
Judge Shines Light on Central Park Jogger Case
By Adam Klasfeld
MANHATTAN (CN) - Five men who were convicted then exonerated of the infamous rape of a Central Park jogger in 1989 can access drafts of a report that may show police pressured them into making false confessions.
[Bull. It will show no such thing.]
The victim, who identified herself as Trisha Meili in her memoir "I Am the Central Park Jogger," was found several hours after being brutally raped. Her left eye had been removed from the socket, she had lost more than 80 percent [sic] of her blood, and a fractured skull had obliterated much of her memory of the attack.
Police charged five black and Latino teenagers between the ages of 14 and 16 for the crime.
[Actually, police arrested from six to eight teenagers for the crime, and prosecutors (not police) charged at least six with the attack on the white “Central Park Jogger,” as well as on other white joggers whom they brutally beat, and for which they were also convicted and punished.]
Kept away from their families and lawyers for days [lie], the boys allegedly cracked under manipulative interrogation by more than a dozen detectives, officers and prosecutors at the District Attorney's Office. They were convicted on the basis of their videotaped confessions, but they now deny those statements.
"Although none of the plaintiffs admitted attacking or raping Meili, each ultimately rendered an account of events in which he unwittingly made himself a possible accomplish to the crimes committed against her," according to their civil rights complaint.
[That’s a lie. They all admitted to beating her. Each denied raping her, but charged his accomplices with raping her, and some of them admitted to sexually molesting her.]
After they spent more than a decade in prison [lie; most spent seven years in prison for their crimes in Central Park], their convictions were overturned [vacated] when convicted rapist and murderer Matias Reyes took the blame for Meili's attack.
In 2003, the Central Park Five, as they came to be known, sued the city, the police, the District Attorney's Office, interrogators and prosecutors for malicious prosecution, wrongful conviction and other charges.
PBS documentary filmmaker Ken Burns, who is gearing up to premiere "The Central Park Five" at the Cannes Film Festival this month, has compared their prosecution with that of the Scottsboro Boys, whose frame-up for rape drew attention to racism in the early 20th century American South.
[But unlike the Scottsboro Boys, who were all innocent, these teenagers were guilty as hell of everything but the rape, and that’s not even clear.]
Facing an order to turn over all documents prepared by Rubin Marin-Jordan [inconsistent spelling], the New York City Police Department's deputy commissioner of legal matters, the city asked for reconsideration.
Though U.S. Magistrate Judge Ronald Ellis agreed to limit some of the disclosures last week, the bulk of the city's requests failed.
Martin-Jordan [inconsistent spelling] is not a party to the lawsuit.
The five will gain access to early drafts of a report by New York attorney Michael Armstrong and commissioned by Police Commissioner Ray Kelly.
The so-called Armstrong Report was a "transparent effort" to insulate New York City from civil claims and swing public opinion against the Central Park Five by implying that they might still be guilty, their attorney Jonathan Moore told Courthouse News .
"This was clearly an effort to make some public opinion points," Moore said in a phone interview. [Unlike what Moore and the Burns Gang were doing!]
Discovery is expected to continue through at least the rest of the year.
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