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Republican
presidential
nominee,
former
U.S.
President
Donald
Trump
speaks
during a
presidential
debate
with
Democratic
presidential
nominee,
U.S.
Vice
President
Kamala
Harris,
hosted
by ABC
in
Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania,
U.S.,
September
10, 2024
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Snyder/File
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Kevin
Richardson,
Yusef
Salaam,
Korey
Wise and
Raymond
Santana,
who,
with
Antron
McCray,
are now
known as
the
Exonerated
Five,
spoke at
the
Democratic
National
Convention
in
August.
Al
Sharpton
is
visible
behind
them.Credit...Ruth
Fremson/The
New York
Times |
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Central
Park
Five sue
Trump
for
defamation
over
debate
remarks
By Mike
Scarcella
3–4
minutes
Harris-Trump
presidential
debate
hosted
by ABC
in
Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania
Oct 21
(Reuters)
- The
five
Black
and
Hispanic
teenagers
who were
wrongfully
convicted
for the
1989
rape of
a white
jogger
in New
York’s
Central
Park
sued
Donald
Trump
for
defamation
on
Monday
over
statements
he made
at last
month’s
U.S.
presidential
debate.
Known
widely
as the
Central
Park
Five,
the
defendants
spent
between
five and
13 years
in
prison
before
they
were
cleared
in 2002
based on
new DNA
evidence
and the
confession
of
another
person.
Trump,
the
Republican
nominee
for the
White
House,
falsely
said at
the
Sept. 10
debate
with
Democrat
Vice
President
Kamala
Harris
that the
Central
Park
Five had
killed a
person
and
pleaded
guilty.
The
lawsuit,
filed in
federal
court in
Philadelphia
by Yusef
Salaam,
Raymond
Santana,
Kevin
Richardson,
Antron
Brown
and
Korey
Wise,
called
Trump's
statements
"demonstrably
false."
Salaam
is now a
member
of the
New York
City
Council.
A
spokesperson
for
Trump’s
campaign
on
Monday
called
the case
"just
another
frivolous,
election
interference
lawsuit,
filed by
desperate
left-wing
activists."
A lawyer
for the
plaintiffs,
Shanin
Specter,
said in
a
statement
that
Trump’s
remarks
“cast
them in
a
harmful
false
light
and
intentionally
inflicted
emotional
distress
on
them.”
Specter
denied
any
political
motive
in the
lawsuit.
"I’m not
commenting
on
politics.
We are
seeking
redress
in a
court of
law," he
said.
The
plaintiffs
are
seeking
unspecified
monetary
damages
for
reputational
and
emotional
harms as
well as
punitive
damages.
Trump
has
drawn
criticism
before
over his
statements
about
the
Central
Park
Five.
After
the
jogger's
assault,
he spoke
out
about
the case
and took
out a
full-page
ad in
several
New York
newspapers
calling
for the
reinstatement
of the
death
penalty.
Trump in
2019
stood by
his
prior
comments
about
the
Central
Park
Five,
and
declined
to
apologize.
Trump
asked a
U.S.
appeals
court in
September
to
reject a
$5
million
verdict
finding
him
liable
for
sexually
assaulting
and
defaming
the
writer
E. Jean
Carroll.
A
different
jury in
January
ordered
Trump to
pay
Carroll
$83.3
million
for
having
defamed
her and
damaging
her
reputation
in June
2019
after
she
first
accused
him of
rape.
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