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(PHILADELPHIA) — Members of the “Central Park Five” filed a defamation suit against former President\u00a0<\/span>Donald Trump<\/span><\/a>\u00a0on Monday, accusing him of spreading “false, misleading and defamatory” statements about their 1989 case during the\u00a0<\/span>Sept. 10 ABC News presidential debate<\/span><\/a>, according to a new court filing.<\/span><\/p>\n

Attorneys representing the five men — Yusef Salaam, Raymond Santana, Kevin Richardson, Antron Brown and Korey Wise — filed their civil suit against Trump in federal court in the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, seeking monetary damages over his statements, which they say have caused them “severe emotional distress and reputational damage.”<\/span><\/p>\n

The five men, then teenagers, were accused of\u00a0<\/span>the violent rape of a female jogger<\/span><\/a>\u00a0in Central Park in April 1989. The five, who always maintained their innocence, were convicted and served years in prison. A decade after the attack, a different man confessed to the crime, which was confirmed through DNA analysis.<\/span><\/p>\n

During the debate, 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 when he said the following: “[T]hey come up with things like what she just said going back many, many years when a lot of people including Mayor [Michael] Bloomberg agreed with me on the Central Park Five. They admitted — they said, they pled guilty. And I said, well, if they pled guilty they badly hurt a person, killed a person ultimately. And if they pled guilty — then they pled we\u2019re not guilty.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

The lawsuit points out that Trump’s statements were false in multiple respects — noting none of the members of the Central Park Five ever entered guilty pleas in the case, none of the victims of the Central Park assaults were killed, and the mayor at the time of the assaults was Ed Koch — who did not agree with Trump’s position in the full-page ad.<\/span><\/p>\n

“Defendant Trump\u2019s conduct at the September 10 debate was extreme and outrageous, and it was intended to cause severe emotional distress to Plaintiffs,” the lawsuit stated.<\/span><\/p>\n

Trump’s attorneys have not yet entered an appearance on the court docket as of Monday morning.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

“This is just another frivolous, Election Interference lawsuit, filed by desperate left-wing activists,” a Trump campaign spokesperson said in response to an inquiry about the lawsuit.<\/span><\/p>\n

According to the court filing, one of the Central Park Five members, Salaam, was actually present at the debate and\u00a0<\/span>sought to confront Trump<\/span><\/a>\u00a0over his statements in the spin room afterward.<\/span><\/p>\n

Salaam says he repeatedly shouted questions to Trump, saying, “Will you apologize to the Exonerated Five?” and, “Sir, what do you say to a member of the Central Park Five, sir?”<\/span><\/p>\n

Trump reportedly responded to him at one point, “Ah, you’re on my side then,” to which Salaam responded, “No, no, no, I’m not on your side.”<\/span><\/p>\n

“Plaintiff Salaam was attempting to politely dialogue with Defendant Trump about the false and defamatory statements that Defendant Trump had made about Plaintiffs less than an hour earlier, but Defendant Trump refused to engage with him in dialogue,” the lawsuit stated.<\/span><\/p>\n

The five men’s convictions were vacated in 2002 and Wise, who was still in prison at the time, was released early. The group sued New York City in 2003 and after a decadelong standstill, the lawsuit was settled for $41 million. The city did not admit to any misconduct by its police department or prosecutors.<\/span><\/p>\n

Salaam was\u00a0<\/span>elected to the New York City Council<\/span><\/a>\u00a0last year, representing northern Manhattan, including Harlem, East Harlem, parts of the Upper West Side and Morningside Heights.<\/span><\/p>\n

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