Top headline and full-page ad: New York Times, 6/18/2019
Bottom headline: New York Times, 12/12/2022
Excerpt from 2019 NYT article:
Mr. Trump’s remarks about the Central Park Five were strikingly similar to comments he made in reaction to the deadly violence at a white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Va., in 2017. A woman was killed after a driver slammed his vehicle into counterprotesters. At the time, the president said, “There was blame on both sides.”
In 1989, Mr. Trump placed full-page advertisements in four New York City newspapers, including The New York Times, calling for the state to adopt the death penalty for killers. He made clear that he was voicing this opinion because of the rape and assault of Trisha Meili, a woman who had been jogging in Central Park.
Excerpt from 2022 NYT article:
“The Gate of the Exonerated,” it will be called.
The men, who came to be known as the Central Park Five, were cleared in 2002. Ever since society has tried to understand and make amends for a mistake that cannot be undone. The men received $41 million in a settlement with New York City. Their case was the subject of a 2012 documentary, a Pulitzer Prize-winning opera and a 2019 Netflix mini-series exploring how so much could have gone so wrong.
The designation of the gate is a rare instance of a municipality formally memorializing its colossal mistake, acknowledging the error in sandstone, etched onto the wall at the point where the teenagers entered the park that evening. [emphasis added]
How do we now make up for the colossal mistake of electing Donald Trump President of the United States?
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