My guess would be the current issue may be fmr Pres Trumps comments after they were exonerated.
'They admitted their guilt': 30 years of Trump's comments about the Central Park Five (2019)
www.usatoday.com
... President Donald Trump has repeatedly commented on a case that wrongly accused a group of black and Latino men of assaulting a white female jogger in Central Park in 1989.
Trump's comments surrounding the case, many of which were made in his capacity as a New York business mogul, have resurfaced following a Netflix series on the men who were charged with the assault. The men are commonly referred to as the Central Park Five.
Raymond Santana, Kevin Richardson, Antron McCray, Yusef Salaam and Korey Wise were all boys when they were convicted of raping Trisha Meili. They were then found innocent of the crime after convicted murder Matias Reyes in 2002 confessed to raping Meili, which was confirmed by DNA evidence. The city awarded the men $41 million in 2014, a decade after some of the men initially sued the city for how it handled the case.
Trump, now president, has doubled down on his stance that some involved in the attack were guilty.
On Tuesday, he dodged questions about apologizing for a 1989 ad calling for the death penalty for those involved in an assault.
'You have people on both sides of that':Trump doesn't apologize to Central Park Five
Here is a history of Trump's comments and actions surrounding the Central Park jogger case:...
"Maybe hate is what we need if we're gonna get something done" ...
The men who had since been exonerated for the crime were in an ongoing legal battle with New York City for how they handled the case. Richardson, Santana, and McCray sued the city in 2003. ...
Trump in a June 5, 2013 tweet referred to the Central Park Five as "muggers."
When asked by a Twitter user how Trump felt that the five men who were convicted of the crime were actually innocent, Trump in a tweet on June 29, 2013 responded: "Innocent of what-how many people did they mugg?" ...
"It's a disgrace"
After the city awarded the five men $41 million in a settlement, Trump maintained that the men " who were young teenagers when convicted " were still guilty.
Trump in an op-ed published in the New York Daily News suggested that "settling doesn't mean innocence."
"My opinion on the settlement of the Central Park Jogger case is that it's a disgrace," Trump began his op-ed. "A detective close to the case, and who has followed it since 1989, calls it "the heist of the century."
"Forty million dollars is a lot of money for the taxpayers of New York to pay when we are already the highest taxed city and state in the country," he continued in the op-ed. "The recipients must be laughing out loud at the stupidity of the city." ...
