Five Black men falsely accused of raping and beating a white jogger in New York City’s Central Park in 1989 have sued former President Donald Trump for defamation.

The group known as the “Central Park Five” sued Trump on Monday over his comments about the then-teenagers during last month’s presidential debate.

The men, exonerated in 2002 when DNA evidence linked another person to the crime, accused Trump of knowing he was acting with “reckless disregard” for the truth when he said the men pleaded guilty and that they “badly hurt a person, killed a person” in the attack, CNN reported.

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