Beware of a kinder-gentler Donald Trump as he weeps crocodile tear over extrajudicial shooting by police. Alex Altman in Time March 14 writes about Trump’s relationship with the Central Park Jogger case. In April 1989, New York City was rocked by the rape of a young investment banker while she was jogging in Central Park. Twelve days later, Donald Trump placed a full-page newspaper ad calling for the resurrection of the death penalty. “I want to hate these murderers, and I always will,” he wrote.

The attendant publicity helped Trump cultivate an image as a foil to the city’s political leaders. Five black and Latino teens were convicted for the rape after making false confessions.

All were later exonerated by DNA evidence. When the city announced a $41 million settlement with the wrongly convicted men in 2014, Trump called the idea a “disgrace” in an op-ed. “These young men,” he noted, “do not exactly have the pasts of angels.”

Kareem Abdul Jabbar suggests that all people shouldn’t vote.

If we begin by the conversation that some people shouldn’t be encouraged to come to the polls, that does nothing to help us. And just as a practical matter, when we don’t encourage voters to come out to the polls, the people who stay home quickest are black and brown folk. And when you do that, you almost certify a Trump presidency, particularly in states such as Ohio and Pennsylvania and so on down the list.

Know the issues — vote them: Black Votes Matter.

— Mary Gravitt