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Support grows for monument commemorating the ‘Central Park Jogger’ case in the park
By Rocco Parascandola
New York Daily News |
Jan 10, 2021 at 9:30 A.M.
The city is moving closer to honoring the five teens convicted in the racially charged Central Park Jogger case.
The permanent exhibit would be installed in the northeast part of the park, near where the teens entered that fateful night in April 1989 — and would highlight their fight for justice against a system they and their supporters believe railroaded them and led to their convictions in the rape of Trisha Meili.
It’s not yet clear if there will be a statue or some other artistic rendering.
The five men are aware of the proposal and at least one, Yusef Salaam, has openly backed it, according to Karen Horry, chairwoman of Community Board 10′s Parks and Recreation Committee, and has been presenting a case for the exhibit before other boards.
[When Salaam was interrogated by NYPD detectives he said, “It was fun.”]
“We envision a permanent commemoration to the fortitude and resiliency of the five men known as the Exonerated Five and to the need [for] social justice reform,” Horry said last week during one of her presentations. “The park is the most natural location for a commemoration since its location is burned into the collective memories of New Yorkers as a major turning point in our city’s history.”
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Police and prosecutors involved in the case have long contended the five teens were not the innocents they’ve been cast as by their supporters.
(L-R) Kharey Wise, Raymond Santana Jr., Yusef Salaam, Antron McCray, and Kevin Richardson speak onstage at the 2019 BET Awards on June 23, 2019 in Los Angeles.
Retired NYPD Detective Eric Reynolds who was a patrol officer the night of the crime and arrested three of the five, said too many people have ignored what really happened.
“Does anybody know any of the actual facts of the case?” he asked. “Because this is astounding. Is there anything for the jogger? Is there anything for Trisha Meili? I think she should get a monument before they do.”
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The mayor has signaled his support, with a spokesman saying he is “absolutely open to acknowledging this chapter of our history in the park,” as has Manhattan Borough President Gale Brewer, who says any remembrance is an opportunity to learn from what went wrong.
[Gale Brewer is a supporter of White Tessa Majors’ black murderers.]
“There are a lot of racial issues to discuss,” she said. “And I think it’s important to have that discussion.”
[For Brewer, “discussion” means a monologue supporting racist, black cut-throats.]
In October, Community Board 10 submitted a statement of objectives and goals to the Central Park Conservancy and the Parks Department, an early step in the bureaucratic process.
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The New York City of 1989 was a very different place, with thousands of murders, the unfolding crack epidemic and crime on the rise. And the depravity of the jogger case still stunned the five boroughs.
[N.S.: You forgot to mention the biggest factor, Rocco: Murderous black and Hispanic racism!]
Meili, a white 28-year-old Salomon Brothers investment banker, was found bloody, beaten and violated in a ravine near the 102nd Street cross path on April 19.
Five teens, Salaam, Antron McCray, Raymond Santana, Kevin Richardson and Korey Wise, were picked up and charged in the attack, and assaults on other people in the park that night. The quintet said they were coerced into give [sic] false confessions. Four of them were on tape.
[N.S.: More than a dozen blacks and Hispanics were picked up, including Clarence Thomas, Michael Briscoe, Jermaine Robinson, Lamont McCall, Steven Lopez, Antonio Montalvo, Orlando Escobar, “T-Bone,” Al Morris, “Troy,” Ramsey Smith, Terence Campbell, et al. In all, there were 30-35 black and Hispanic thugs attacking people in the park that night, who had gone there from Harlem’s Schomburg Houses for that express purpose.]
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They served between 6½ and 13 years in prison for the crimes. Then, in 2002, convicted rapist and killer Matias Reyes stepped forward with a stunning claim: he alone raped the jogger, though doctors had said her physical injuries pointed to more than one attacker.
Reyes’ DNA matched the unidentified sample found at the scene but not linked to anyone at the time. The development gave the five a new lease on life: The rape convictions were vacated, along with the convictions connected to the “wilding” assaults of others in the park that night.
In 2014, the city settled a wrongful conviction lawsuit, paying the five $41 million but denying any wrongdoing by the NYPD or prosecutors.
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The five men did not respond to requests for comment, but Jonathan Moore, one of several lawyers who helped secure their settlement, said better than a park remembrance would be lasting reform.
“It’s most likely happening every day in the city,” Moore said, “people being forced and coerced and manipulated into giving false accounts of criminal liability.”
Meili, who remained anonymous until she came out publicly in 2003, did not respond to requests for comment.
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Linda Fairstein, the former sex crimes prosecutor who helped oversee the investigation by the Manhattan district attorney’s office, refused to comment because she is involved in a defamation lawsuit against Netflix, which broadcast a series she says cast her as a racist.
But her supporters include now-retired NYPD Detective Robert Mooney, who interviewed Reyes and does not believe his insistence that he was the sole attacker.
4 comments:
jerry pdx
Utterly insane. In the frantic rush to be seen as virtue signalling hero's, whites ignore the actual facts of the case. Yes, it's very possible that none of the CP5 actually committed penetrative rape but that does not mean they didn't help Matias Reyes by restraining and assaulting Ms. Meili, all the evidence pointing to them completing their violent assault rampage on Ms. Meili still stands. It's not unusual in gang rape situations for only one or a few to actually commit rape. Oftentimes the rest simply "help".
But as we know, negro's are so unlucky, always in the "wrong place at the wrong time", what an incredible coincidence that a gang assault occurs the very evening, in the same path that a group of racist violent negro's are beating and robbing every white they encounter. Yup, pure chance.
Will it be a statue of the actual rape?In the minority community,crime is looked upon as honorable and to be applauded(see everyone from MLK to common black/Mex thugs and rappers).
How much do minorities embrace crime?When is the last time you've heard of a black squeal on fellow black murderers,rapists or drug dealers--and don't feed me that fear bullsh*t--it isn't fear--it's complicity by an entire race to keep the status quo of felonious behavior going.Then they have the gall to march with "Stop the Violence " signs down neighborhood streets.These relatives of thugs know who is killing whom in the ghetto--the "Ghetto Hotline" is always working at high efficiency--word gets around,yet arrests are few.
So deBlasio,go ahead and rub salt into the victim's wounds and psyche and build a memorial to rapists--just include the act of rape and near murder you're celebrating--you stupid,liberal bastard.
--GRA
Isaiah 5:20:
Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!
Rip down the statue of G. Washington of erect in the place of statues of the colored rapists. That sure beats all.
I have said that to myself ever since the Floyd boy OD'd. The negro knows how pick their martyrs and heroes. Sure they do.
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