Kamala Harris calls on Trump to watch Netflix miniseries about Central Park Five

[DonViejo]

Nicholas Wu, USA TODAY Published 8:12 a.m. ET June 20, 2019

WASHINGTON – On Wednesday afternoon, in the wake of President Donald Trump's controversial remarks about the Central Park Five, Sen. Kamala Harris called on him to watch the new Netflix miniseries about the wrongly convicted men.

In an op-ed for NBC News THINK, Harris, who is running for the Democratic presidential nomination, wrote that "Trump and all Americans should watch Ava DuVernay’s recent miniseries 'When They See Us,' on the Central Park jogger case."

The series is about the case of a group of black and Latino teenagers who had been wrongly convicted of an assault on a white female jogger in Central Park in 1989. Trump spent $85,000 to take out a newspaper ad calling for the teenagers' executions at the time. The teenagers were later exonerated, but Trump has maintained the stance over the past 30 years that the teenagers "admitted their guilt."

He did so again on Tuesday when a reporter asked whether he should apologize.

"You have people on both sides of that. They admitted their guilt," he said. "If you look at Linda Fairstein and if you look at some of the prosecutors, they think that the city should never have settled that case. So we'll leave it at that." Fairstein was the prosecutor in the case.

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[pazzyanne]

1. Good for her!

tRump will not watch it because it does not support what he believes. It might not support his plan for 'murica.

[Andy823]

2. K&R nt

[DesertRat]

3. Great idea k&r

[emulatorloo]

4. Unless Fox News broadcasts it, he won't see it

Good for Senator Harris though. Great statement

[TrogL]

5. It's not that simple

They were involved in other incidents of mugging and robbery in the park at that time and were present for the rape.