They beat a man, John Loughlin, with a foot-long metal bar from Wise's house that Salaam carried in his coat. Loughlin ended up unconscious & his head "looked like it was dipped in a bucket of blood." https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-myth-of-the-central-park-five … https://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/ny-news-eric-reynolds-detective-central-park-20180713-story.html … https://www.wsj.com/articles/michael-f-armstrong-persistent-myths-in-the-central-park-jogger-case-1406674229 …https://twitter.com/shondarhimes/status/1123620394970148864 …
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WSJ piece is good but the other 2 aren't paywalled. It's one thing to argue the system got the rape case wrong, but I object to turning these actual, violent criminals into martyrs or heroes.
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So we are still ignoring the fact that these children didn't rape the woman in central park ...that their ages make them children ...when white kids shoot up schools they are still identified in media as children ...black anbrown children don't get the same treatment
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