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08-27-2016, 04:36 PM
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"Long before he pledged to be the "law and order" candidate and portrayed a particularly grim vision of America's inner-city crime problem during the Republican National Convention, Trump offered up himself as a voice for concerned citizens troubled by lawlessness.
In 1989, he infamously took out four full-page ads in local New York City newspapers calling for the restoration of the death penalty in the state, particularly so it could be enforced on the so-called Central Park Five, a group of black and Latino teens accused of beating and raping a white female woman who had been jogging in the city's iconic park that April."
years later, when the real perpetrator confessed, and the Central Park Five were exonerated (it was determined that their initial confessions were coerced), Trump refused to back down. When the city of New York agreed in 2014 to pay the young men $41 million in damages for spending years in prisons for a crime they didn't commit, Trump called it the "heist of the century" and a "disgrace" in an unrepentant op-ed for the New York Daily News."
Trump'''s History Undermines New Outreach to Black Voters - NBC News
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