‘Central Park 5’ sues Trump for defamation

What happened

Members of the Central Park Five, a group of black and Latino men wrongly convicted as teenagers of the 1989 rape of a jogger in Manhattan, sued Donald Trump on Monday for spreading “false, misleading and defamatory” claims about their case last month during his presidency. debate with Kamala Harris.

Who said what

Harris noted during the debate that Trump in 1989 “placed a full-page ad in The New York Times calling for the execution of five innocent young black and Latino boys, the so-called Central Park Five.” In response, Trump said that “they confessed – they said, they pleaded guilty. And I said that if they confessed, they hurt the person badly and ended up killing him.”