re: “When they see us” Netflix -- Political Discussion -- Abandon All Hope Ye Who Enter

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ETA: went and searched. It was, but very lightly. Maybe 3 or 4 posts.

Considering his confession and DNA match, I’m just surprised at his role not playing a bit more.

The whole thing is just a black eye on everybody involved.

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I think it isn't mentioned more because the word of a convicted serial rapist doesn't really account for much.

ETA: To me, the biggest black eye is to the prosecutor who asked to set aside the convictions and de Blasio who settled the lawsuit 10 years after it was filed. I truly thought these guys were wronged until I started looking into it. I think anyone who does the same would come to the same conclusion.

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I think it isn't mentioned more because the word of a convicted serial rapist doesn't really account for much

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It got 5 kids out of jail and $41mm

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It got 5 kids out of jail

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This is not true. They had already served their sentences. He confessed after the statute of limitations on the crime had already expired. Also, they did not "win" the $41M. They were given that by de Blasio. The City of New York clearly would have won that lawsuit. That fool gave them that money and they're STILL suing. He's a moron.

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I haven’t watched the series but didn’t he confess after meeting one of them IN jail?

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That's the story. He was in a jail with one of them at one point, but no one can corroborate that they ever interacted with each other. Regardless, the 5 were all out of jail by the time the convictions were set aside.

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Why don't you go look up the racial breakdowns of the juries in these cases and tell me more about this "brown scare" you speak of.

I swear. It's like facts are completely unnecessary.

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Old black and Hispanic people were just as afraid of black/Hispanic youth as anyone else at the time.

You told the absolute 100% truth and these cucks downvoted you.....

Tells you all you need to know .....

The narrative of Thin Blue Lyin'. That's the story, Bub. Grow a pair and just try to fathom that it happens.

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They are guilty. The evidence overwhelmingly favors them having attacked the jogger, and they even confessed to it (multiple times, sometimes on camera and sometimes with their parents present). One guy even admitted to a fried that he held down her arms while another one raped her, and that friend only gave that information to the police because she thought it would help him. These guys had already assaulted people in Central Park in the past, were specifically in the park to assault and rob people that night, and did so to the jogger. It's hard for me to even say they were wrongly convicted of rape, because it is highly unlikely that she would have been raped if they had not beaten her and left her in that position.

Maybe they should not have been convicted of rape by law, I don't know that, but they definitely weren't innocent and never should have been given $40M.

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The Central Park jogger case was a criminal case that involved the assault and rape of Trisha Meili, a white female jogger, and attacks on others in the North Woods of Manhattan's Central Park on the night of April 19, 1989. The attack on the jogger left her in a coma for 12 days. Meili was a 28-year-old investment banker at the time. According to The New York Times, the attack was "one of the most widely publicized crimes of the 1980s".[1]

On the night of the attack, five teenagers African American and one Hispanic—were apprehended in connection with a number of attacks in Central Park committed by around 30 teenage perpetrators. The children were tried variously for assault, robbery, riot, rape, sexual abuse, and attempted murder relating to Meili's and other attacks in the park, based solely on confessions that were coerced and false. Before the trial, the FBI tested the DNA of the rape kit and found it did not match any of the tested suspects. The office of District Attorney Robert Morgenthau presented these findings to the press as "inconclusive".[2] They were convicted in 1990 by juries in two separate trials. Subsequently, known as the Central Park Five, they received sentences ranging from 5 to 15 years. Four of the convictions were appealed and the convictions were affirmed by appellate courts. The defendants spent between 6 and 13 years in prison.

In 2002, Matias Reyes, a convicted murderer and serial rapist in prison, confessed to raping the jogger. DNA evidence confirmed his guilt, and he knew facts about the crime that only the offender could have known. He also said he committed the rape alone.[3] At the time of his confession, Reyes was already serving a life sentence. He was not prosecuted for raping Meili, because the statute of limitations had passed by the time he confessed. Morgenthau suggested to the court that the five men's convictions related to the assault and rape of Meili and to attacks on others to which they had confessed be vacated (a legal position in which the parties are treated as though no trial has taken place) and withdrew the charges. Their convictions were vacated in 2002.

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Yes. That is true. Even if we say they weren't guilty of rape, and I'm not sure that we can say that considering they definitely were involved, the most time any of them spent in prison was 13 years. I feel like that's fair given the fact that they definitely had a hand in almost killing a woman (she lost 80% of the blood in her body).

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Go back to the poliboard where parroting radio talkshow hosts gets you a pat on the back. Here you're just going to get called out for being a dumbass.

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I haven’t watched the series but didn’t he confess after meeting one of them IN jail?

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In 2001, convicted serial rapist and murderer Matias Reyes was already serving a life sentence for other crimes, but he was not at that point a suspect in the Central Park attack on Meili. At that time, Reyes met Wise in an upstate New York prison, the Auburn Correctional Facility.[39][51] In 2002, Reyes said that on the night of April 19, 1989, he had assaulted and raped the jogger, when he was 17 years old. He said that he had acted alone.[52][53] At the time of the attack, he was working at an East Harlem convenience store on Third Avenue and 102nd Street, and living in a van on the street.[53][54] He provided a detailed account of the attack, details of which were corroborated by other evidence.[5] The DNA evidence confirmed his participation in the rape, identifying him as the sole contributor of the semen found in and on the victim "to a factor of one in 6,000,000,000 people".[5] DNA analysis of the strands of hair found in Richardson's underpants established that the hair did not belong to the victim.[55] The victim had been tied up with her T-shirt in a distinctive fashion that Reyes used again on later victims.[5]

Reyes was not prosecuted because the statute of limitations had passed.[39][56] Reyes had been convicted of raping four other women and killing one of them.[39]

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Not only that, but they went on an elaborate heist to get Reyes' DNA in place of theirs in the kit, and stole a time machine to ensure that their method of tying up the victim matched something Reyes was already doing.

I think they're coming out with a sequel called "Central Park: Endgame" where they steal the TARDIS to make those changes. David Tennant has already signed on.