Exonerated 5. A History Lesson with YLL.
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After the major media's decisions to print the names, photos, and addresses of the juvenile suspects, they and their families received serious threats. Other residents living at the Schomburg Plaza, where four suspects lived, were also threatened. Because of this, editors of The City Sun and Amsterdam News chose to use Meili's name in their continuing coverage of the events.Reverend Calvin of the Abyssinian Baptist Church in Harlem, who came to support the five suspects, said to The New York Times, "The first thing you do in the United States of America when a white woman is raped is round up a bunch of black youths, and I think that's what happened here."The full-page advertisement was taken out by Trump in the May 1, 1989, issue of the Daily News. On May 1, 1989, Donald Trump, then a real estate magnate, called for the return of the death penalty for murder in full-page advertisements published in all four of the city's major newspapers. Trump said he wanted the "criminals of every age ... to be afraid". The advertisement, which cost an estimated US$85,000 (equivalent to $186,000 in 2021),said, in part,Mayor Koch has stated that hate and rancor should be removed from our hearts. I do not think so. I want to hate these muggers and murderers. They should be forced to suffer ... Yes, Mayor Koch, I want to hate these murderers and I always will. ... How can our great society tolerate the continued brutalization of its citizens by crazed misfits? Criminals must be told that their Civil Liberties End When an Attack On Our Safety Begins! -
According to a contemporaneous article in the New York Amsterdam News, the ad was "widely condemned", including by then-Mayor Koch. Colin Moore, one of the attorneys defending one of the Central Park defendants, said that the ad "proved that anything is possible in America", and that "even a fool can become a multi-millionaire."According to defendant Yusef Salaam, quoted in a February 2016 article in The Guardian, Trump "was the fire starter" in 1989, as "common citizens were being manipulated and swayed into believing that we were guilty." Salaam said his family received death threats after papers ran Trump's full-page ad urging the death penalty. -
Alright class, that's it for today, come back tomorrow, have a good rest of ur day, night, afternoon etc. -
{_𝐘𝐋𝐋_} Whoa… Honestly makes me scared to be a jogger at night anywhere. Goodness. Also, I’m glad Meili ended up sort of okay in the end. I thought she was dead for sure. Gosh, that’s awful though.
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{_𝐘𝐋𝐋_} Calvin O. Butts 😂
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@Duchess
This is why I hate using Wikipedia ,_, -
I just realized I never actually finished this lmao -
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I actually might start this again tbh it was kinda fun :] -
im not reading any of that
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@izzy-lolll
You don't have too
