CNN Panel Devolves Into Chaos Over Trump’s Attacks on Falsely Imprisoned Central Park 5

Mediaite ^ | May 28, 2019 | Reed Richardson

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A CNN panel on Cuomo Prime Time dissolved into chaos as Cuomo and his two guests, Van Jones and Steve Cortes, got into a heated argument and constantly interrupted one another over Donald Trump’s attacks on the 1989 Central Park Five rape case in New York City. “I’m not going to let you lie,” Jones declared when Cortes began to question the innocence of the five men who were convicted and then, years later, fully exonerated from the crime.

That infamous case of law enforcement abuse and false imprisonment exploded back into the news on Monday after the president tweeted a condemnation the 1994 crime bill that then-Senator Joe Biden voted for and portrayed himself as a criminal justice reformer.

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Here’s a piece from the Daily Beast as well.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-myth-of-the-central-park-five