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Opinion

BY LES WHITTINGTON

June 3, 2020

OTTAWA—In 1989, as five young teens (four Black, one Latino) were going to trial in New York for allegedly beating and raping a woman who was jogging through Central Park, Donald Trump took out full-page ads in New York city newspapers suggesting they should be executed. “BRING BACK THE DEATH P...

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