'Central Park Five' Sue Trump For Defamation Following Statements Made During Presidential Debate

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

52% : During the presidential debate in September, Trump was responding to a statement from Vice President Kamala Harris, in which she revisited his full-page ad in The New York Times in the wake of the incident that called for the execution of the Central Park Five.
37% : And if they plead guilty -- then they pled we're not guilty," Trump said previously.
30% : In the lawsuit, the five men, identified as Yusef Salaam, Raymond Santana, Kevin Richardson, Antron Brown, and Korey Wise, argued that Trump knew he was acting with "reckless disregard" for the truth when he said that they pleaded guilty to crimes connected to the beating and rape of woman in New York City, and that the five teenagers "badly hurt a person, killed a person" in the attack.
28% : According to the court filing, Salaam, one of the Central Park Five members, was present at the debate and attempted to confront Trump about his comments in the spin room afterwards.
25% : On Monday, the five members, who now call themselves the "Exonerated Five," filed the suit, accusing Trump of spreading "false, misleading and defamatory" statements about their 1989 case during the September 10 ABC News presidential debate.
19% : Salaam claimed he repeatedly shouted questions to Trump, saying, "Will you apologize to the Exonerated Five?"
17% : It cites statements Trump made after his presidential opponent, Kamala Harris, attacked him for buying ads in the past that called for the death penalty of the woman's attackers at the time, when New Yorkers were outraged and fully consumed by the case.

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