Dude, who even knows.
Post reblogged from argumate with 28 notes
another sad case of a woman murdered on her way home by a random assailant with mental issues, and weirdly it immediately triggers calls for police to tackle domestic violence, which is obviously an important issue but not really related to these crimes at all, you would think.
I mean the whole problem with intimate partner violence is that many people tend to write it off or downplay it, while fucked up dude lurking in the bushes violence already gets universal condemnation.
Yeah, like The View and Sister Act’s Whoopi Goldberg put it in 2009, rape rape, to distinguish it from Roman Polanski’s ~sTaTuToRy~ rape or when they worked up “date rape” in the mid-’80s
You know the Central Park Five case, where these five black kids were imprisoned for raping this jogger and then-celebrity developer now-President Donald Trump took out full page ads in the NYC newspapers
and he continued to insist on their guilt even years later when DNA evidence cleared them?
And that story gets told as a tale of the bad old days of framing poor black kids, the “superpredator myth” etc when the context is in the days before Giuliani Time there were like a platoon’s worth of kids wreaking havoc but those Five weren’t the ones that put DNA in her
Attacks
At 9 p.m. on the night of April 19, 1989, a group of over 30 teenagers who lived in East Harlem entered Manhattan’s Central Park at an entrance in Harlem, near Central Park North.[4] They committed several attacks, assaults, and robberies in the northernmost part of Manhattan’s Central Park.[5][6] According to The New York Times, the attacks committed that night were “one of the most widely publicized crimes of the 1980s”.[1] According to a police investigation, the main suspects were gangs of teenagers who would assault strangers as part of an activity that became known as “wilding”. New York City detectives said the term was used by the suspects themselves to describe their actions to police.[7] This account has been disputed by some journalists, who say that it originated in a police detective’s misunderstanding of the suspects’ use of the phrase “doing the wild thing”, lyrics from rapper Tone Lōc’s hit song “Wild Thing”.[8][9]
The teenagers attacked and beat people as they moved south, on the park’s East Drive and the 97th Street Transverse, between 9 pm and 10 pm.[4] Between 102nd and 105th Streets they attacked several bicyclists, hurled rocks at a cab, and attacked a man who was walking, whom they knocked to the ground, assaulted, robbed, and left unconscious.[4][10] A schoolteacher out for a run was severely beaten and kicked between 9:40 and 9:50.[4] Then, at about 10 p.m. at the northwest end of the Central Park Reservoir running track, they attacked another jogger, hitting him in the back of the head with a pipe and stick.[4][11] They pummeled two men into unconsciousness, hitting them with a metal pipe, stones, and punches, and kicking them in the head.[10][12] A police officer testified that one male jogger, who said he had been jumped by four or five youths, was bleeding so badly he “looked like he was dunked in a bucket of blood”.[13]
Assault on Trisha Meili
Trisha Meili was going for a run on her usual path in Central Park shortly before 9 p.m.[6][14][10] While jogging in the park, she was knocked down, dragged or chased nearly 300 feet (91 m), and violently assaulted.[4] She was raped, sodomized, and almost beaten to death.[15] About four hours later at 1:30 a.m., she was found naked, gagged, tied up, and covered in mud and blood. Meili was discovered in a shallow ravine in a wooded area of the park about 300 feet north of the 102nd Street Transverse.[4][15][11][16] The first policeman who saw her said: “She was beaten as badly as anybody I’ve ever seen beaten. She looked like she was tortured.”[17]
She was comatose for 12 days.[18] She suffered severe hypothermia, severe brain damage, Class 4 (the most severe) hemorrhagic shock, loss of 75–80 percent of her blood, and internal bleeding.[19][20][16][18][21] Her skull had been fractured so badly that her left eye was dislodged from its socket, which in turn was fractured in 21 places, and she suffered as well from facial fractures.[19][20][12]
The initial medical prognosis was that Meili would succumb to her injuries and die.[19] She was given last rites.[20] The police initially listed the attack as a probable homicide.[22] At best, doctors thought that she would remain in a permanent coma due to her injuries. She came out of her coma 12 days after her attack, and spent seven weeks in Metropolitan Hospital in East Harlem. When she initially emerged from her coma, she was unable to talk, read, or walk.[20][15] In early June, she was transferred to Gaylord Hospital, a long-term acute care center in Wallingford, Connecticut, where she spent six months in rehabilitation.[19][23][18] She was first able to walk again in mid-July.[24] She returned to work eight months after the attack.[25] Remarkably, she largely recovered, with some lingering disabilities related to balance and loss of vision. As a result of the severe trauma, she had no memory of the attack or of any events up to an hour before the assault, nor of the six weeks following the attack.[24]