7/22/2023 0 Comments Trump old black lady photo policeJust this week, when President Trump argued on Twitter on May 27 that African Americans won’t vote for 2020 Democratic presidential candidates who supported the 1994 Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act, a law that experts say has contributed to the mass incarceration of black people, DuVernay fired back that Trump himself had played a big role in creating the atmosphere that made its passage possible. On May 25, 2020, George Floyd, a 46-year-old black man, was murdered by white Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin, who kept his knee on Floyds neck. And the woman, so badly injured, will never be the same.” The fact that that case was settled with so much evidence against them is outrageous. ![]() “The police doing the original investigation say they were guilty. The gunman, who lived in Dallas, was armed with an 'AR-15. “They admitted they were guilty,” the then-candidate said in a CNN interview the month before the 2016 election. In a federal lawsuit, a 68-year-old Black librarian is accusing North Carolina law enforcement officers of using excessive force against her during a traffic stop. Garcia was killed Saturday by a police officer who happened to be at Allen Premium Outlets, about 25 miles north of Dallas, police said. Since then, he has repeatedly reiterated the guilty verdict of the men, even though their convictions were vacated. Trump called the more than $40 million settlement that the five men worked out with New York City a “disgrace,” writing in a June 2014 op-ed for the New York Daily News, “What about the other people who were brutalized that night, in addition to the jogger?…These young men do not exactly have the pasts of angels.” None of the five had been arrested before. In 2013, he tweeted that a 2012 documentary film called The Central Park Five, made by Ken Burns and his daughter Sarah Burns, “didn’t explain the horrific crimes of these young men while in the park.” Get your history fix in one place: sign up for the weekly TIME History newsletterĮven after the exonerations, Trump has continued to maintain that the five men had been criminals. The police department has said it still believes the men were involved in some way and the victim, Meili, has said that she wishes the case had gone back to court because she still believes more than one person was responsible, but the city settled with the five in 2014, giving each roughly $1 million for each year spent behind bars. 2002, the convictions of the five men were vacated after a man named Matias Reyes, whose DNA matched evidence from the crime, confessed to having been responsible. They served prison sentences ranging from six years to 13 years. ![]() Still, two juries convicted the five in 1990. (Studies have shown that false confessions are a particular problem with young suspects.) There were also notable inconsistencies in their statements and other eyewitness accounts. Trump went to an emergency management center, met with police and toured a section of the city damaged by rioting that followed the shooting of the 29-year-old Black man. ![]() While four had given video confessions, they later said those had been coerced and all maintained their innocence.
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