Handout/Getty/NetflixThe fallout from the Netflix miniseries about the Central Park Five case, When They See Us, continues to pile up.Prosecutor Elizabeth Lederer won’t be returning as a part-time lecturer at Columbia Law School after students demanded the university cut ties with her.“The mini-series
The fallout from the Netflix miniseries about the Central Park Five case, When They See Us, continues to pile up.
“The mini-series has reignited a painful—and vital—national conversation about race, identity, and criminal justice,” law school dean Gillian Lester said in a statement Wednesday that was first reported by Bloomberg Law. More than 10,000 people had also signed a petition demanding Columbia cut ties with high-profile former prosecutor Linda Fairstein, but her fate was unclear.
Fairstein has slammed the miniseries by acclaimed director Ava DuVernay as a “pack of lies” and pushed back on its portrayal of her and Lederman as racists who railroaded five black youths for the 1989 rape of a white jogger in Central Park.
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