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ICE Masks, Billionaires and the Politics of Anti-Accountability (talkingpointsmemo.com)

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This article uses the word 'wilding' which is not in widespread use.

Trump got into politics when there were a series of rapes in Central Park in New York City. The police, under pressure to find the culprits, coerced a group of young black men into false confessions, in which the police described "wilding" where the falsely accused supposedly ran around raping and killing white women. Trump took out full-page newspaper ads calling for them to be executed, and the Central Park 5 spent many years in prison before eventually being exonerated when DNA analysis became possible.

So "wilding" is is a reference to wanton rape and attempted murder, to Trump's racist smearing of the innocent, and to the perfidy of police.

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