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just watched the 1st ep...
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any adult that can willingly take away kids' childhood and innocence like this is pure evil :scust:

them cops and Linda should all serve the sentences the kids had got because not only did they miscarry justice but they let the real rapist go on freely terrorizing other women
 
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śïñe•qúå_nøn said:
Central Park Five Prosecutor, Linda Fairstein, responds to allegations against her conduct

Opinion | Netflix’s False Story of the Central Park Five



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Opinion | Netflix’s False Story of the Central Park Five
Linda Fairstein
6-8 minutes
At about 9 p.m. April 19, 1989, a large group of young men gathered on the corner of 110th Street and Fifth Avenue for the purpose of robbing and beating innocent people in Central Park. There were more than 30 rioters, and the woman known as the “Central Park jogger,” Trisha Meili, was not their only victim. Eight others were attacked, including two men who were beaten so savagely that they required hospitalization for head injuries.

Reporters and filmmakers have explored this story countless times from numerous perspectives, almost always focusing on five attackers and one female jogger. But each has missed the larger picture of that terrible night: a riot in the dark that resulted in the apprehension of more than 15 teenagers who set upon multiple victims. That a sociopath named Matias Reyes confessed in 2002 to the rape of Ms. Meili, and that the district attorney consequently vacated the charges against the five after they had served their sentences, has led some of these reporters and filmmakers to assume the prosecution had no basis on which to charge the five suspects in 1989. So it is with filmmaker Ava DuVernay in theNetflixminiseries “When They See Us,” a series so full of distortions and falsehoods as to be an outright fabrication.

It shouldn’t have been hard for Ms. DuVernay to discover the truth. The facts of the original case are documented in a 117-page decision by New York State Supreme Court Justice Thomas Galligan, in sworn testimony given in two trials and affirmed by two appellate courts, and in sworn depositions of more than 95 witnesses—including the five themselves. Instead she has written an utterly false narrative involving an evil mastermind (me) and the falsely accused (the five).

I was one of the supervisors who oversaw the team that prosecuted the teenagers apprehended after that horrific night of violence. Ms. DuVernay’s film attempts to portray me as an overzealous prosecutor and a bigot, the police as incompetent or worse, and the five suspects as innocent of all charges against them. None of this is true.

Consider the film’s most egregious falsehoods. “When They See Us” repeatedly portrays the suspects as being held without food, deprived of their parents’ company and advice, and not even allowed to use the bathroom. If that had been true, surely they would have brought those issues up and prevailed in pretrial hearings on the voluntariness of their statements, as well as in their lawsuit against the city. They didn’t, because it never happened.

In the first episode, the film portrays me at the precinct station house before dawn on April 20, the day after the attacks, unethically engineering the police investigation and making racist remarks. In reality, I didn’t arrive until 8 p.m., 22 hours after the police investigation began, did not run the investigation, and never made any of the comments the screenwriter attributes to me.

Ms. DuVernay depicts suspects Yusef Salaam and Korey Wise being arrested on the street. In fact, two detectives went to the door of the Salaam apartment on the night of the 20th because both had been named by other rioters as attackers in multiple assaults.

The film claims that when Mr. Salaam’s mother arrived and told police her son was only 15—meaning they could not question him without a parent in the room—I tried to stop her, demanding to see a birth certificate. The truth is that Mr. Salaam himself claimed to be 16 and even had a forged bus pass to “prove” it. When I heard his mother say he was 15, I immediately halted his questioning. This is all supported by sworn testimony.

Ms. DuVernay would have you believe the only evidence against the suspects was their allegedly forced confessions. That is not true. There is, for example, the African-American woman who testified at the trial—and again during the 2002 re-investigation—that when Korey Wise called her brother, he told her that he had held the jogger down and felt her breasts while others attacked her. There were blood stains and dirt on clothing of some of the five. And then there are the statements of more than a dozen of the other kids who participated in the park rampage. Although none of the others admitted joining in the rape of Trisha Meili, they admitted attacking male victims and a couple on a tandem bike, and each of them named some or all of the five as joining them.

Nor does the film note that Mr. Salaam took the stand at his trial, represented by a lawyer chosen and paid for by his mother, and testified that he had gone into the park carrying a 14-inch metal pipe—the same type of weapon that was used to bludgeon both a male schoolteacher and Ms. Meili. Mr. Reyes’s confession changed none of this. He admitted being the man whose DNA had been left in the jogger’s body and on her clothing, but the two juries that heard those facts knew the main assailant in the rape had not been caught. The five were charged as accomplices, as persons “acting in concert” with each other and with the then-unknown man who raped the jogger, not as those who actually performed the act. In their original confessions—later recanted—they admitted to grabbing her breasts and legs, and two of them admitted to climbing on top of her and simulating intercourse. Semen was found on the inside of their clothing, corroborating those confessions.

Mr. Reyes’s confession, DNA match and claim that he acted alone required that the rape charges against the five be vacated. I agreed with that decision, and still do. But the other charges, for crimes against other victims, should not have been vacated. Nothing Mr. Reyes said exonerated these five of those attacks. And there was certainly more than enough evidence to support those convictions of first-degree assault, robbery, riot and other charges.

It is a wonderful thing that these five men have taken themselves to responsible positions and community respect. That Ms. DuVernay ignored so much of the truth about the gang of 30 and about the suffering of their victims—and that her film includes so many falsehoods—is nonetheless an outrage.

Ms. DuVernay does not define me, and her film does not speak the truth.

Ms. Fairstein, a former sex crimes prosecutor, is a best-selling crime novelist.
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fukk this c*nt, and both her publisher and Hollywood agency are on the people's side.:umad:

Central Park Five Prosecutor Dropped By ICM Partners Over ‘When They See Us’ – Deadline

ICM Partners Drops Linda Fairstein As Central Park Five Prosecutor Rages Against Ava DuVernay & ‘When They See Us”

EXCLUSIVE: Linda Fairstein has been dropped by her publisher, and now the ex-Manhattan Deputy District Attorney who spurred the prosecution of the eventually exonerated Central Park Five has been shown the door by her Hollywood literary agency ICM Partners over Netflix’s When They See Us.

This comes as Fairstein lashed out late last night in the Wall Street Journal at Ava DuVernay and Netflix’s acclaimed series as an “outright fabrication” for its depiction of the shameful series of judicial events three decades ago and Fairstein’s pivotal role in them.

ICM has cut ties with Fairstein after several years, I’ve learned. The agency represented the lawyer in her post-prosecution career as the bestselling author of over a dozen mystery novels featuring fictional Manhattan Deputy D.A. Alexandra Cooper. The 1996 offering Final Jeopardy was adopted into a TV movie for ABC in 2001 starring Dana Delany as Cooper.

ICM did not respond to request for comment from Deadline on the matter or Fairstein.

This is the latest in a row of exits for ex-prosecutor, who is portrayed by Felicity Huffman in DuVernay’s limited series, since When They See Us launched on Netflix on May 31.

Publisher Dutton severed ties wit he former longtime head of the Manhattan D.A.’s sex crimes unit last week, and ex-Harvey Weinstein consultant Fairstein has exited her participation in a number of nonprofits and seen calls for previous honors to be rescinded.

Created, co-penned and directed by Selma helmer DuVernay, When They See Us’ harrowing saga of the Exonerated Five stars Huffman, Michael K. Williams, Vera Farmiga and John Leguizamo among others. The four-parter runs from 1989, when five Harlem teens were incorrectly convicted first in the media and then twice in the courts for the brutal rape of Central Park jogger, to 2014 when Santana, Antron McCray, Kevin Richardson, Yusef Salaam, and Korey Wise saw their names finally cleared.

Serial rapist and murderer Matias Reyes confessed to the attack in 2001 while behind bars for another crime; his statements were confirmed by DNA evidence and knowledge of the scene. Reyes was never prosecuted for the crime because New York’s statute of limitations on such sex crimes had expired for the 1989 incident.

Looking at potential prison time for her participation in the college admission scandal, Huffman plays Fairstein as a by-any-means-necessary prosecutor determined to see the five young men punished quickly and harshly.

It is a depiction Fairstein today took extreme umbrage with in a WSJ op-ed late yesterday. Calling When They See Us “full of distortions and falsehoods” and an “outrage” in her first significant response to the series, Fairstein goes on to say “Ms. DuVernay does not define me, and her film does not speak the truth.”

DuVernay responded to WSJ op-ed with a terse “Expected and typical. Onward…” on social media this morning.

Having just come off an Oprah-hosted FYC event on the weekend at Netflix’s campaign HQ, When They See Us is expected to be a major contender in this year’s Emmy race.
 
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TheGodling said:
fukk this c*nt, and both her publisher and Hollywood agency are on the people's side.:umad:

Central Park Five Prosecutor Dropped By ICM Partners Over ‘When They See Us’ – Deadline

ICM Partners Drops Linda Fairstein As Central Park Five Prosecutor Rages Against Ava DuVernay & ‘When They See Us”

EXCLUSIVE: Linda Fairstein has been dropped by her publisher, and now the ex-Manhattan Deputy District Attorney who spurred the prosecution of the eventually exonerated Central Park Five has been shown the door by her Hollywood literary agency ICM Partners over Netflix’s When They See Us.

This comes as Fairstein lashed out late last night in the Wall Street Journal at Ava DuVernay and Netflix’s acclaimed series as an “outright fabrication” for its depiction of the shameful series of judicial events three decades ago and Fairstein’s pivotal role in them.

ICM has cut ties with Fairstein after several years, I’ve learned. The agency represented the lawyer in her post-prosecution career as the bestselling author of over a dozen mystery novels featuring fictional Manhattan Deputy D.A. Alexandra Cooper. The 1996 offering Final Jeopardy was adopted into a TV movie for ABC in 2001 starring Dana Delany as Cooper.

ICM did not respond to request for comment from Deadline on the matter or Fairstein.

This is the latest in a row of exits for ex-prosecutor, who is portrayed by Felicity Huffman in DuVernay’s limited series, since When They See Us launched on Netflix on May 31.

Publisher Dutton severed ties wit he former longtime head of the Manhattan D.A.’s sex crimes unit last week, and ex-Harvey Weinstein consultant Fairstein has exited her participation in a number of nonprofits and seen calls for previous honors to be rescinded.

Created, co-penned and directed by Selma helmer DuVernay, When They See Us’ harrowing saga of the Exonerated Five stars Huffman, Michael K. Williams, Vera Farmiga and John Leguizamo among others. The four-parter runs from 1989, when five Harlem teens were incorrectly convicted first in the media and then twice in the courts for the brutal rape of Central Park jogger, to 2014 when Santana, Antron McCray, Kevin Richardson, Yusef Salaam, and Korey Wise saw their names finally cleared.

Serial rapist and murderer Matias Reyes confessed to the attack in 2001 while behind bars for another crime; his statements were confirmed by DNA evidence and knowledge of the scene. Reyes was never prosecuted for the crime because New York’s statute of limitations on such sex crimes had expired for the 1989 incident.

Looking at potential prison time for her participation in the college admission scandal, Huffman plays Fairstein as a by-any-means-necessary prosecutor determined to see the five young men punished quickly and harshly.

It is a depiction Fairstein today took extreme umbrage with in a WSJ op-ed late yesterday. Calling When They See Us “full of distortions and falsehoods” and an “outrage” in her first significant response to the series, Fairstein goes on to say “Ms. DuVernay does not define me, and her film does not speak the truth.”

DuVernay responded to WSJ op-ed with a terse “Expected and typical. Onward…” on social media this morning.

Having just come off an Oprah-hosted FYC event on the weekend at Netflix’s campaign HQ, When They See Us is expected to be a major contender in this year’s Emmy race.
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I never say this word, but she is a c*nt and I hope all the bad things happen to her career and livelihood.
 
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The episode 4 that focused on Korey conveyed his time amazing. His convo with his mom when she visited him when he was just begging for 10-20 bucks for commissary :mjcry: and she couldn't, the talk between his mom and brother, the guard holding him, his hallucinations in his cell

:wow:

Crazy
 
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Where is the Oprah interview with the 5 brehs? Ava said it would be on OWN and Netflix but I can't find it anywhere on Netflix?
 
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OnFleekTing said:
AVA you just made up for a wrinkle in time
still side eyeing oprah but that's for another thread
Its amazing how all this fallout for the prosecutor and DA is coming now when ken burns did a documentary on this in 2012
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Netflix got bigger pull than Pbs

And entertainment is easier to digest than a pbs doc.
 
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