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Founder @TheNorthStar & @RealJusticePAC & @FlipTheSenate & @TheActionPAC. Host of @TheBreakdown Podcast. Voice of Social Justice @TJMShow. Husband. Father of 5.

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    1. Shaun King‏Verified account @shaunking Jun 13
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      My 17 year old daughter, a budding filmmaker who is a huge fan of @Ava, was deeply and forever moved by @WhenTheySeeUs. It made the injustice real to her. So she went to the New York Public Library today to look at old records and stories on the Central Park Five case. THREAD

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    2. Shaun King‏Verified account @shaunking Jun 13
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      What my daughter found, with the help of a librarian, when she began searching the New York City newspapers, including the @NYTimes, the @NYPost, and my former home at the @NYDailyNews was absolutely disgusting. Each newspaper played a role in the public conviction of the boys.

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    3. Shaun King‏Verified account @shaunking Jun 13
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      Less than 48 hours after the jogger was assaulted, the front page of the @NYTimes Metro section had a huge headline that said: "YOUTHS RAPE AND BEAT CENTRAL PARK JOGGER." They reported it as absolute fact. They detailed the arrest of the 5. Then boldly stated that they did itpic.twitter.com/a1ihbrHlkn

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    4. Shaun King‏Verified account @shaunking Jun 13
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      Has the @NYTimes ever apologized for this? In article after article they refer to these 5 boys, first and foremost, as fully and completely guilty. But they also use dehumanizing, animalistic language, over and over again.pic.twitter.com/E2feV3pAd9

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    5. Shaun King‏Verified account @shaunking Jun 13
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      I know we're holding the police and prosecutors accountable for what they did to these five exonerated boys, but THE ENTIRE CITY piled up on them. Every media outlet (except for @NYAmNews) pronounced them guilty, broke protocols and leaked their names, and so much more.

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    6. Shaun King‏Verified account @shaunking Jun 13
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      Has the City of New York every apologized to the Five Exonerated men formerly known as the Central Park Five? They should. A settlement is not an apology. So many complicit parties caused their pain.

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    7. Shaun King‏Verified account @shaunking Jun 13
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      All day long, my daughter sent me article after article she found from April of 1989 from the @NYTimes & @NYPost & @NYDailyNews where each paper was absolutely brutal in their depiction and premature conviction of five boys who did not do what each paper said they did.

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      Shaun King‏Verified account @shaunking Jun 13
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      Anyway, I want @Ava to know that kids all over New York City have watched @WhenTheSeeUs and have been demanding justice themselves. Thank you @Ava for making the pain, the humanity, and the injustice so very real for a new generation.

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        2. Ava DuVernay‏Verified account @ava Jun 13
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          My son, also 17, is headed to college and plans to be a lawyer. After watching When They See Us, he's now planning to be a public defender. #lifechanging

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        2. BrooklynSistaScholar‏ @BKSistaScholar Jun 13
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          @ava Please let us educators know if and when you’re ready to develop a curriculum around this film. I’m down to help create!

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        1. Mrs.Angelena Morris‏ @angelenamorris2 Jun 13
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          The media destroys people and they family.

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        1. Sibeli‏ @flacadejalisco Jun 13
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          That’s insane. :’( Thank you to your daughter for doing this research.

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          Yes, @ava 🔥pic.twitter.com/j7i1UQrUBJ

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        1. Soyla Santos‏ @AdvisorSoyla Jun 13
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          I had my 16 yr. old watch it, too. She couldn't believe it was true. We had a good talk about current events, the future, our rights, and how to be safe. #WhenTheySeeUs

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        1. ProfessorLady‏ @professorlady Jun 14
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          All NYC papers were complicit. They used the word, wilding to describe the boys’ behavior as animalistic. A word that some of the boys that they interviewed only used to express that they were hanging out.

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          Thought the same thing - there's a documentary to be made about the media coverage of the case @tcmbigcheese #WhenTheySeeUs

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