Linda Fairstein is up against karma and karma is winning. Once a celebrated prosecutor and author, now Fairstein is losing a lot for her role in the Central Park Five case.
Since Ava Duvernay’s “When They See Us” series premiered on Netflix, Fairstein has received immense backlash for her role in condemning the five innocent Black and Latino New York teens to prison for a brutal rape they didn’t commit.
First she was dropped by her longtime book publisher Dutton, then released by her literary agency ICM Partners. She’s also resigned from several non-profit boards including: Vassar College, Safe Horizon, God’s Love We Deliver and Joyful Heart Foundation, Associated Press (AP) reported. Because the organizations do great work, Fairstein said she didn’t want them to suffer due to a “mob mentality.”
In DuVernay’s dramatic retelling of the case, Fairstein and her team are portrayed as being racist and having little regard for lack of evidence against the boys.
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Fairstein lashed out against the portrayal and defended the way she and her colleagues handled the case in an op-ed published Tuesday in the Wall Street Journal (WSJ). In it, she accuses the series of being full of falsehoods and an “outright fabrication.”
“Ms. DuVernay’s film attempts to portray me as an overzealous prosecutor and a bigot, the police as incompetent or worse, and the five suspects as innocent of all charges against them. None of this is true,” Fairstein wrote.
That only made matters worse according to Above The Law. Social media users, including DuVerna, went in on Fairstein’s ‘defense’ – telling her she didn’t have a problem with the mob mentality when they ‘mobbed’ the Central Park Five.
Oh how the tables have turned. It doesn’t feel good when the shoe is on the other foot.
