I wish I was Catholic, so I’d know where to go to get forgiven.
| September 6th, 2002You know, I remember years ago, the Village Voice had an excellent article on how the “wilding” teens who confessed to raping the “central park jogger” hadn’t really confessed. The confessions were a combination of coercion and simple fakes by the cops. I thought the article was pretty convincing. The press rhetoric around the case quickly became filled with that nasty combination of racism and hating-the-young, and I thought that was pretty annoying.
Even so, I accepted that the accused were guilty. I thnk pretty much everyone did at the time, even leftists like me who should have known better. As someone later said about O.J., it seemed “they framed a guilty man.” Besides, you don’t want to be going on about the cops conspiring to frame a bunch of innocent black teens, because, y’know, that kind of talk makes you look nutty.
Sisyphus Shrugged has the skinny (via the Washington Post), but here’s the short version: DNA tests have proven that the so-called “wilding teens” didn’t rape the central park jogger. They were totally innocent. They were totally framed. And I totally bought into their guilt.
Is there any chance the cops who framed those kids will see the inside of a prison? I doubt it.
As Sisyphus says, “I feel frozen right now.”
February 28th, 2007 at 3:32 pm
[...] Despite my initial reaction, we don’t know that the 5 teens who were convicted are innocent. We do know that Matias Reyes is guilty - but police have said all along that DNA evidence showed that there was one more rapist who hadn’t been caught. It’s possible that what took place was a gang-rape involving the five convicted teens and Reyes. (Reyes has said he acted alone, but the word of a murderer and multiple rapist isn’t absolute proof). [...]
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