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ck4829

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Mon Dec 19, 2022, 10:02 AM Dec 2022

Central Park entrance renamed to honor 5 teens falsely convicted of rape in 1989

HARLEM, Manhattan (WABC) -- A Central Park entrance will be named "The Gate of the Exonerated," for the teenagers, known as the Central Park Five, who were wrongfully convicted in the 1989 attack and rape.

"The Gate of the Exonerated" will be on the north end of Central Park at 110th Street between Fifth Ave and Malcom X Blvd.

Workers are constructing a refashioned gate and will add signs explaining the story of the Central Park Five.

The case of a white woman raped in Central Park, allegedly by a group of Black and Latino men, sparked racial tension in New York and across the country. In time, another man confessed to the Central Park rape and his DNA matched the DNA found at the scene.

https://abc7ny.com/central-park-5-wrongful-conviction-teens-gate-of-the-exonerated/12562975/

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Central Park entrance renamed to honor 5 teens falsely convicted of rape in 1989 (Original Post) ck4829 Dec 2022 OP
Trump wanted them executed and later refused to acknowledge their innocence keithbvadu2 Dec 2022 #1
Gate enid602 Dec 2022 #2

enid602

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Mon Dec 19, 2022, 12:23 PM
Dec 2022

This gate should have been placed in a more upscale white neighborhood near the park, so the people who need to see it can do so.

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