Posted on 05/31/2019 2:24:55 PM PDT by GrandJediMasterYoda
How Ava DuVernay holds Donald Trump accountable in her Central Park Five series
In 1989, a wealthy real estate developer proudly, loudly and publicly called for the death penalty for five boys, all black or Hispanic, accused of assaulting and raping a woman in Central Park. For the next 30 years, the real estate developer would continue his attack, despite a confession, DNA evidence and an exoneration.
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Then how do you explain the only DNA found
was that of the guy who later confessed?
Ugh the link dont work...how about this?
I forgot to put cheese on my sandwich when i left for work today.
I promptly blamed Trump
:)
Ask Eric Reynolds, he’ll tell you all about it.....
https://m.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100000554394565&ref=content_filter
I don’t have a Facebook account.
Anne Coulter addressed that point (kind of) back about a year ago - not sure if you’d find it convincing, but it sounded reasonable to me:
http://www.anncoulter.com/columns/2018-07-25.html
The most telling point so far as I was concerned was that apparently the punishment that the guy who confessed got was exactly nothing - and the other five (who it sure sounds like participated in that assault) ended up as multi-millionaires.
I think the yutes got away, well they didn’t actually get away given the prison terms, with a multi-million dollar heist. I believe that were involved in the outrage.
Ann is misleading where she says,
“But in 1989, DNA was a primitive science. Most cops wouldn’t have even bothered collecting samples for DNA tests back then..”
The DNA match was done in ‘modern times’ not 1989. And rape kits had been around since the seventies. The hospital would have collected the incriminating sample.
Ann does nothing to prove her points. She says ‘they found this or that’, but no where does she provide evidence of her statements.
Exactly. If the injury on one of the accused face was from her scratching him, DNA would have been found under her nails.
Her information comes from the court records of the trials of the perps originally charged. She’s a lawyer (and a former clerk for a Supreme Court justice); she knows how to extract relevant info from that stuff. You judge a person’s credibility from their track record, and she doesn’t have a track record of pulling points out her...ear: her books, for example, are thoroughly researched and meticulously referenced.
You want a footnote for every point she makes in a column? - nobody writes that way. And if you’re an Ann Coulter and you make a claim that can’t be substantiated, you can be damn sure Media Matters or some similar collection of George Soros lickspittles will throw it in your face. When you find such a claim get back to me.
Finally, the point she makes about the DNA is not that it couldn’t be analyzed today (for crying out loud, we can identify wooly mammoth DNA today) - it’s that DNA sampling protocols were totally different (and much less thorough) at the time of that incident: do we even know if they took fingernail scrapings to do DNA analysis on?
I’ll have to search for the information. I don’t take soneone’s Word for it, just because it’s ‘Ann’, an attorney, or it was in an article. What she said was the first I’ve read anywhere and frankly, I don’t believe it. With that said, I’ll pull up the court docs and find out for myself.
I’ll find the court doc, but according to this article - nail clippings were taken
“They describe the attacks on other people in the park the night of the rape, the clothes and nail clippings collected from the defendants and some of the travails of investigating the case: ”.
Now to find the doc.
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