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Ex-NYC Prosecutor Blasts 'Netflix's False Story' on Central Park Five
newbusters.org ^ | 6/15/2019 | Brad Wilmouth

Posted on 06/15/2019 9:47:03 AM PDT by rktman

In an op-ed from Tuesday's Wall Street Journal, former New York City prosecutor Linda Fairstein responded to the recent Netflix series on the Central Park Five, and accused its producer, Ava DuVernay, of fabricating words attributed to her character, played by Felicity Huffman, to portray her as a racist who was determined to convict the teens in the face of an alleged lack of evidence against them.

Fairstein began the article, titled "Netflix's False Story of the Central Park Five," by declaring that the series, When They See Us, is "so full of distortions and falsehoods as to be an outright fabrication," and complained that it is "an utterly false narrative involving an evil mastermind (me) and the falsely accused (the five)."

She added that it "attempts to portray me as an overzealous prosecutor and a bigot, the police as incompetent or worse, and the five suspects innocent of all charges against them. None of this is true."

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Philosophy
KEYWORDS: centralparkfive; lindafairstein; netflix; newyork; scotfree; settlement; thuglife
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Saw some ad for this and instantly knew it was gonna be full of lies and distortions. Yeah, they were involved. No doubt. But I guess the race card won out in the end. Sorry Ms. Fairstein is being vilified. But, that's the alinsky way.
1 posted on 06/15/2019 9:47:03 AM PDT by rktman
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The race of professional victims is rewriting history so whites will look like the oppressors. It’s time we need to hit back and push on publicizing the warts on MLK,Jr. and destroy their icon for the same reason but use the truth instead of revisionist history. Let them defend what is really repugnant.


2 posted on 06/15/2019 9:51:31 AM PDT by vetvetdoug
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To: rktman

Can’t she sue them?


3 posted on 06/15/2019 9:59:02 AM PDT by A_perfect_lady ( Political correctness forbids discussing any negative outcomes of Left-wing ideology. -PMcL)
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To: rktman

Stuff like this, the Trayvon Martin story, the Jussie Smollett fiasco... really makes me question the Emmett Till legend.


4 posted on 06/15/2019 10:00:25 AM PDT by A_perfect_lady ( Political correctness forbids discussing any negative outcomes of Left-wing ideology. -PMcL)
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Good thing the prosecutor is still alive and kicking to tell what happened.

Usually they pull this rewriting history stunt after whoever they're trying to smear is long dead and family members are also long dead or dying.

5 posted on 06/15/2019 10:08:14 AM PDT by PallMal
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her character, played by Felicity Huffman

Little Felicity is goin to prizm...

6 posted on 06/15/2019 10:09:13 AM PDT by kiryandil (Never pick a fight with an angry beehive)
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What “we”?

The right wing CBS, NBC, ABC or FOX?

We have a few cable stations with a few already at lease mildly conservative viewers and some online sites with thee same audience.

THE BIG “NON BIASED” outlets get 10s of millions of viewers.

We could try Hollywood to get our word out.

YES, that was sarcasm :)


7 posted on 06/15/2019 10:10:06 AM PDT by dp0622 (The Left should know if Trump is kicked out of office, it is WAR!)
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To: rktman
Time to bring back dueling.

I imagine that Linda Fairstein could easily give Ava DuVernay a third eyehole in the middle of her lying racist forehead...

8 posted on 06/15/2019 10:11:27 AM PDT by kiryandil (Never pick a fight with an angry beehive)
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This is a vehicle for another attack on President Trump.

Be a shame if Linda Fairstein challenged Ava DuVernay to a duel and shot her in the face...

9 posted on 06/15/2019 10:14:31 AM PDT by kiryandil (Never pick a fight with an angry beehive)
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So if these 5 are pure as the driven snow.......who beat the tar out of that poor girl?
Elves?....little green men?......


10 posted on 06/15/2019 10:16:23 AM PDT by Guenevere
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Can’t she sue them?

Sure she can.

This is the new make my clients and I, millionaires by lying about them on tv, radio, in movies or on tv.


11 posted on 06/15/2019 10:18:40 AM PDT by Grampa Dave (Gutless, Stupid, GOPe never confronts the compulsive lying Anti America Rats! Trump does it, 24/7!)
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Maybe Linda Fairstein is being falsely accused in this case. The timing is strange. Why not much earlier. But wasn’t Linda Fairstein a major enabler of Harvey Weinstein? Didn’t he get a pass at least once because of her interference?


12 posted on 06/15/2019 10:28:03 AM PDT by apocalypto
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And these 5 turds were rewarded for their criminal behavior when DiBlasi forced the city to settle a civil suit they lodged for 40 million dollars. He made an agreement with Al Sharpton to keep the black vote in his fold.


13 posted on 06/15/2019 10:36:48 AM PDT by chuckee
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I once had a supervisor tell me Hurricane Carter was innocent. He had seen it in a movie.


14 posted on 06/15/2019 10:41:56 AM PDT by Vehmgericht
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To: A_perfect_lady
Stuff like this, the Trayvon Martin story, the Jussie Smollett fiasco... really makes me question the Emmett Till legend.

Yup! Zact same here.

At one point after the Gentle Giant Michael Brown imbrolio the urban confabulation became, "He said, 'I just want to go to college and have kids..!'"

Early on they didn't know just how much they'd be able to get away with, that time, so they started out by really laying it on.

But you're right --it realllly makes you think.

"Emmett jes made a WOLF-WHISTLE at her, nothing more..!"

Oh suuuure..!

Sounds just like, "Trayvon was just walking home in da rain..!" instead of scoping out homes for his well-documented hobby, burglary.

It is amazing, the number of people who don't re-evaluate the past in light of our implausible present.

15 posted on 06/15/2019 10:47:36 AM PDT by gaijin
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"Stuff like this, the Trayvon Martin story, the Jussie Smollett fiasco... really makes me question the Emmett Till legend.

While the Emmett Till story happened just a little before my time, the facts were basically he told the grocery owner lady that he'd been with white women back in Chicago and she and he ought to have sex. His friends confirmed this in several news article following the trail and after wards. His Mississippi cousins warned him that this wasn't the way things were done in the South but, the smart Alec he was, he ignored him and insulted the woman. She told her husband and the husband and his brother-in-law along with another coworker showed up at the boy's grandfather's home intent to scared the boy but even then he smarted off at these none too politically correct rednecks and a beating turned into a vicious murder. Since they couldn't be retried by the virtue of double jeopardy, the murderers sold their story to Jet magazine and told the whole story. After the murder, they tossed the boy's remains off a bluff into the nearby river, tied down by an industrial fan. Along with the terrible wounds by the beating and the gunshot, the warm water and local catfish resulted in the horrifying photo of the boy as he lay in his casket.

The boy didn't deserve such a fate, even by the standards of 1950's American South but he ignored the warnings of his cousin's and grandfather to not go messing around with these KKK, cross burning crackers.

Much as if a redneck would wear a KKK hood and robe in any "economically distressed" area of any major city. He has the right but it ain't advisable to ignore the local "cultural norms"

And, for what ever it's worth, had a Northerner smart-ass white boy acted in the same reckless manner to a local white woman married to a local Klansman, ?I doubt the results would have been much different. His killers might get jail time if the victim had 'friends in high places' Otherwise it would never had made the national papers.
16 posted on 06/15/2019 11:30:27 AM PDT by RedMonqey (Welcome to Thunderdome... America 2019)
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Carolyn Bryant has since recanted her claim Till was making advances on her.


17 posted on 06/15/2019 12:25:01 PM PDT by Widget Jr
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To: A_perfect_lady
I am sure she can sue and win if she can prove lies are said about her.

I have no idea if she is guilty or not. There are, however, people who claim the 5 were involved and ratted on each other. In the end they received a multi-million payoff that has led some to wonder if kickbacks were involved.

Whatever Linda Fairstein's role, she is not the most credible person. She was a consultant to Harvey Weinstein and strongly defended him. A left-winger?

18 posted on 06/15/2019 12:59:51 PM PDT by Dante3
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To: rktman

BS phony-baloney about ‘oppressed’ yutes.


19 posted on 06/15/2019 1:02:51 PM PDT by Jack Hammer
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"Carolyn Bryant has since recanted her claim

Not sure what to make of her recantation. If she lied back then, surely she knew that would mean, at the very least seriously harm would be caused to the boy. Accessory to murder, IMHO. Or she is lying now to profit off the death of a teeanager.

Despicable woman either way.
20 posted on 06/15/2019 4:33:05 PM PDT by RedMonqey (Welcome to Thunderdome... America 2019)
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