The Central Park Five, whose harrowing ordeal is known to most, are suing Donald Trump for claiming, during his debate with Kamala Harris, that they had pleaded guilty to the 1989 rape of a white jogger in the park, who Trump also claimed, falsely, had died. Boys at the time, they at first confessed and then recanted. The subject came up because Harris criticized Trump for taking out newspaper ads calling for a restoration of the death penalty shortly after the horrific attack, roiling the racial tension of the time.

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