Linda Fairstein, the former Manhattan sex-crimes prosecutor who played a key role in convicting the Central Park Five, is speaking out against Ava DuVernay’s Netflix limited drama series “When They See Us.” Fairstein penned an op-ed for The Wall Street Journal in which she calls the series an “outright fabrication.” Backlash against Fairstein has been reignited following the show’s debut May 31, so much so that she has resigned from various boards such as the one she served on for Vassar College.
Retailers have also begun dropping her books.
Fairstein is played by Felicity Huffman in DuVernay’s Netflix series.According to the former prosecutor, “When They See Us” is “so full of distortions and falsehoods as to be an outright fabrication.” Among the show’s “most egregious falsehoods” is how it “repeatedly portrays the suspects as being held without food, deprived of their parents’ company and advice, and
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