Posted on 09/23/2019 4:40:32 AM PDT by rightwingintelligentsia
LOS ANGELES - Ava DuVernay, the writer and director of "When They See Us," brought five special guests to the 2019 Emmy Awards on Sunday night.
According to The Associated Press and People magazine, the Exonerated Five, formerly known as the Central Park Five, appeared on the red carpet with DuVernay, whose Netflix miniseries focuses on the men's wrongful conviction in a 1989 rape case.
"My dates," she tweeted before the show, sharing a photo of the men: Yusef Salaam, Antron McCray, Kevin Richardson, Raymond Santana and Korey Wise.
"When They See Us" star Jharrel Jerome, who took home the Emmy for best actor in a miniseries, also gave them an emotional shout-out as he accepted his award.
"Most importantly, this is for the men that we know as the Exonerated Five," Jerome said as the men stood, drawing applause and cheers. "This is for Raymond, Yusef, Antron, Kevin and King Korey Wise. Thank you so much. It's an honor. It's a blessing."
(Excerpt) Read more at wpxi.com ...
Bet the ratings sucked...
The Central Park 5 Were Murderous Thugs
Despite the Left’s attempt to make them martyrs.
https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2019/06/central-park-5-were-murderous-thugs-john-perazzo/
The PC crowd are celebrating these five. Will they also make A special about the Duke la cross players that were falsely accused? I doubt it.
Wow, those who participated in a violent sexual assault, celebrated by a society of child molesters and human traffickers.
Curious, now they have trashed the meaning of the word ‘exhonerated’ for me !
Thank you. I was just about to post the very same link. Unbelievable to celebrate these violent animals. The immoral insanity of the Left proceeds apace.
These five were certainly not falsely accused. Read the article at the link posted above. It will turn your stomach.
The Emmys were on last night?
But it can't make us watch 😄
The Emmys were on last night?
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I had the same thought. What was once MUST WATCH TV is now Emmys, what is that?
They were never EXONERATED.
Their sentences were VACATED through the efforts of aging leftwing District Attorney Morgenthau.
They never recanted their confessions; they never presented any new evidence.
Morgenthau rushed his fraud through the state supreme court, while he blocked police investigators from questioning the serial rapist and murderer who suddenly ‘confessed’ to the Central Park five’s crimes.
The doctors who saved the life of Trisha Meili said the injuries they treated did not correspond to the new confessor’s confession
and the police investigators who were blocked by Morgenthau from questioning the phony ‘confessor’ said, “Why would anyone believe the words of a serial rapist/murderer?”
The Emmy’s was a parade of misfits, ugly to watch.
In his blatantly biased documentary “Central Park Five,” Ken Burns acts as an apologist and promoter for those convicted of the gang rape and beating in the head with a brick of a woman jogger in Central Park, presenting them as “civil rights” heroes. The attack on Trisha Meili left her in a coma for 12 days with loss of 80 per cent of her blood from deep stab wounds. Her skull had been fractured so badly that her left eye hung out of its socket. She was given last rites.
When she didn’t die, the five were sentenced, imprisoned and then eventually released. When Matias Reyes, a serial rapist and killer already serving a life term (Reyes had absolutely nothing to lose by confessing to the rape), suddenly “confessed” to being the jogger’s lone assailant, two doctors who helped save the jogger’s life said her wounds were not consistent with his account of the attack, while one state investigator commented, “The word of a serial rapist killer is not something to be heavily relied upon.”
But Democrat District Attorney Robert Morgenthau quickly went into action, blocking police from questioning Reyes or giving him a polygraph and ordering other inmates not to talk to any police investigators about their conversations with Reyes.
Despite strong objections from the original prosecutor, based on the doubtful new confession, Morgenthau had the New York Supreme Court vacate the convictions of “the Central Park Five,” even though in a legal oddity they never recanted their original confessions, nor did they present additional evidence contradicting the evidence that had gotten them convicted. The New York Times states that the five were “exonerated,” a false statement since they would have to stand trial and be declared not guilty in order to be exonerated. Instead their sentences were simply vacated.
In his heavily slanted “documentary,” Burns never used hours of interviews he filmed with state investigators and others who pointed to extensive evidence that the group was guilty. Burns said his purpose in making the video was to get the five men a financial settlement. According to New York writer Nicholas Stix, Burns “simply airbrushed every fact that incriminates the defendants out of the movie.”
Later, working in tandem with Burns’ campaign for the five, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio handed “the Central Park Five” over $40 million for “wrongful imprisonment.” At the time, businessman Donald Trump bought newspaper ads calling the settlement a “disgrace.” Today Burns’ heavily biased documentary is shown extensively in U.S. public schools, promoting “white guilt” in impressionable students, with PBS promoting it as “a revealing portrait of one of our nation’s most egregious miscarriages of justice.”
Ignoring the legal oddity that the assailants were never proved innocent, Ken Burns tweeted: “Apparently Mr. Trump is unfamiliar with the concept of wrongful conviction.”
“They should be very thankful I wasn’t mayor because they wouldn’t have gotten a dime,” Trump said.
Meanwhile Trisha Meili lives today, making occasional speeches on coping with head trauma.
FROM
Ken Burns: Student of History—or Left-Wing Gasbag?
https://www.aim.org/special-report/ken-burns-student-of-history-or-left-wing-gasbag/
Thanks Marv.
I watched Giuliana Rancic interviewing these guys. You would have thought that they had found the cure for cancer. To be honest, at first, I had no idea who they were.
On another note, I can't watch TMC's The Essentials because I cannot abide DuVernay, who apparently has become permanent guest host.
Left-Wing Gasbag!
And per Variety, the ratings did indeed suck!
Hooray for Hollyweird!
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