{"id":103345,"date":"2020-06-09T16:12:55","date_gmt":"2020-06-09T23:12:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=103345"},"modified":"2020-06-09T16:12:55","modified_gmt":"2020-06-09T23:12:55","slug":"donald-trumps-horrific-response-to-the-central-park-five-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2020\/06\/09\/donald-trumps-horrific-response-to-the-central-park-five-case\/","title":{"rendered":"Donald Trump&#8217;s &#8216;Horrific&#8217; Response to the Central Park Five Case"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"container\" class=\"style-scope ytd-channel-name\">\n<h2 id=\"text-container\" class=\"style-scope ytd-channel-name\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em><a class=\"yt-simple-endpoint style-scope yt-formatted-string\" dir=\"auto\" style=\"color: #0000ff;\" spellcheck=\"false\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCn4sPeUomNGIr26bElVdDYg\">Courtesy NowThis News<\/a><\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Donald Trump&#039;s &#039;Horrific&#039; Response to the Central Park Five Case | Opinions | NowThis\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Paf8MPhSG08?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p> \u2018It was horrific then. It\u2019s horrific to hear it now.\u2019 \u2014 Ken Burns wants all of us to remember Donald Trump\u2019s extreme response to the Central Park Five case. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\n\nIn US news, Ken Burns sat down with NowThis News to talk about the Central Park 5 case and how Donald Trump reacted to it back in 1989. The Central Park 5 refers to Korey Wise, Antron McCray, Yuse Salaam, Raymond Santana, and Kevin Richardson who were convicted of raping and beating a Central Park jogger Trisha Meili. After the attack Donald Trump called for the death penalty to be used on the Central Park 5. The Central Park Five case was the subject of Sarah Burns&#8217; book, later a Ken Burns&#8217; documentary, and is now being turned into a Netflix series from Ava DuVernay called When They See Us. In a Trump interview at the time, Trump said he &#8216;hates these people&#8217; and believed hate would help get things done. \n\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy NowThis News \u2018It was horrific then. It\u2019s horrific to hear it now.\u2019 \u2014 Ken Burns wants all of us to remember Donald Trump\u2019s extreme response to the Central Park Five case. In US news, Ken Burns sat down with NowThis News to talk about the Central Park 5 case and how Donald Trump reacted [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-103345","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103345","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103345"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103345\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}