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Carol deProsse and Caroline Dieterle are insane. They continue to lie about President Trump and the Iowa City Press Shitstain prints their crap. They want Trump impeached, removed, convicted, and probably worse. I'm sure they'd love to send all of his voters to the gas chambers.
I could go over the entire thing, but I'll just highlight this lie:
Donald Trump believes he can violate laws at will, commit treason, thumb his nose at the world, enhance his wealth at the expense of taxpayers, and escape unscathed. His calls for violent action span the decades: in 1989 he called for the execution of the Central Park Five, young black men who were wrongly accused and convicted of a brutal rapeThat's not exactly true, you two old cunts.
The convictions were vacated at the request of old Manhattan DA Robert Morgenthau, and he found a lib judge who would grant it for him.
The D.A.'s report was based solely on the confession of Matias Reyes, career criminal, serial rapist and murderer. Reyes had absolutely nothing to lose by confessing to the rape -- the statute of limitations had run -- and much to gain by claiming he acted alone: He got a favorable prison transfer and the admiration of his fellow inmates for smearing the police.
While dumping on the police for screwing up the investigation, Morgenthau wouldn't let the cops interview Reyes themselves, despite the fact that his "confession" constituted the sole evidence that he raped and brutalized the jogger by himself.
Not only were the police prohibited from interviewing Reyes or giving him a polygraph, but Morgenthau ordered other inmates not to talk to any police investigators about their conversations with Reyes. First the D.A. slimed the cops, then he ran interference for a rapist-murderer.
New York journalist Nicholas Stix reports that one inmate says Reyes told him he heard the jogger's screams and raped her only after the "Central Park Five" had finished with her.
The media proclaim those five rapists innocent based on journalists' own over-excited reports that the DNA found on the jogger matched that of Reyes -- but none of the others!
Yeah, we knew that. It was always known that semen on the jogger did not match any of the defendants. ("DNA Expert: No Semen Links to Defendants," The Associated Press, July 14, 1990.)
Prosecutor Elizabeth Lederer expressly reminded the jurors of the missing rapist in her summation to the jury: "Others who were not caught raped her and got away." Reyes' confession means nothing more than: Now we know who "got away."
DNA wasn't the evidence that convicted the "Central Park Five." It's hard to believe today, but in 1989 DNA was rarely used to convict anyone, so it wouldn't have been carefully collected by police investigators. DNA identifications had only been invented a few years earlier and were not even permitted in New York courts until six months before the Central Park wilding.
Instead, this case was solved with old-fashioned police work. After the first 911 calls came in, the police arrested some of the thugs in the park that very night. Then they arrested anyone named by the first detainees.
For example, one boy picked up in the park told the cops -- without prompting -- "I know who did the murder. I know who did the murder. I know where he lives and I'll tell you his name." (The night of the attack, no one expected the jogger to live.) He named one of the so-called "Central Park Five" convicted of the attack, Antron McCray.
Of more than three dozen hoodlums brought in for questioning, only 10 were charged with any crimes, and only five of those were charged with the attack on the jogger. All those charged with the jogger's rape gave detailed, corroborated, videotaped confessions, after full Miranda warnings. Four of the five confessed in the presence of an adult relative.
Recall that none of them -- including the police -- could be sure the jogger wouldn't emerge from her coma and be able to identify her attackers. (She emerged, but blocked all memory of the attack.) All five confessed to assisting the attack on the jogger, but none to raping her themselves. That's also enough for a rape conviction.
In Antron McCray's 34-minute videotaped statement, for example, he said:
"Everybody started hitting her and stuff. She was on the ground, everybody stompin' and everything. ... I grabbed one arm, some other kid grabbed one arm and we grabbed her legs and stuff. Then we all took turns getting on her, getting on top of her. ... I just like, my penis wasn't in her. I didn't do nothing to her ... I was just doing it so everybody ... Everybody would just like, would know I did it."
There was other incriminating evidence, all of which is being ignored by the media and PBS documentarians.
Melody Jackson, whose brother was friends with defendant Kharey Wise, testified -- reluctantly -- that she talked to Wise by phone when he was at Rikers Island and that he told her that he didn't rape the jogger, he "only held her legs down while Kevin (Richardson) f--ked her." She originally volunteered this information to the police thinking it would be helpful to Wise.
(The District Attorney's report that recommended vacating the sentences described the above exchange as: "Wise replied that he had not had sex with her, but had only held and fondled the victim's leg.")
Other neighborhood witnesses provided various corroborating details to the police, such as one who said Kevin Richardson told him, "We just raped somebody," and another who heard Raymond Santana and another boy laughing about how "we made a woman bleed."
Two witnesses independently told police they saw several of the defendants walking from the 102nd Street traverse area where the jogger was raped. One said he realized the significance of that fact only when he saw where the memorial to the jogger in the park was.
When Raymond Santana was being driven to the precinct the night of the wilding, he blurted out: "I had nothing to do with the rape. All I did was feel the woman's tits." Wait! Who said anything about rape? The cops had not asked him about any rape.
Two of the defendants, Santana and Richardson, independently brought investigators to the precise location of the attack on the jogger, something only the perpetrators could have known.
The evidence against Richardson also included his vivid description of the attack -- given on videotape, in the presence of his father -- and a deep scratch wound on his cheek that he admitted was from the jogger. Oh, also -- the crotch of the underwear from the night of the attack was stained with semen, grass, dirt and debris.
Contrary to media reports, there was hair, blood or semen on all five of the defendants.
In the opposite of a rush to judgment, two multi-ethnic juries deliberated for 10 days and 11 days, respectively, before convicting the five defendants of rape or sexual abuse -- as well as the other assaults that night, incomprehensibly vacated by Justice Tejada -- and acquitting all but one on the most serious charge, attempted murder.
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