Central Park 5 case keeps getting nastier

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City lawyers call pact ‘political payout.’

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News front page after historic deal in Central Park Five case.

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Day after day News front pages of Central Park Five case.

Like a terrible $ 41 million penny, it keeps turning up – the Central Park Five case. And one black officer wants to know why, in all the furor, that his name and that of the other black arresting officer were left off the racial-bias suit against the city.

First, there was the case, then the dismissal, then Ken Burns’ documentary, then the agreement by Mayor de Blasio, then Sunday’s front page Day after day News report detailing the former administration’s push for a trial of the lawsuit, followed by the call to The News by the CP5 themselves demanding a final clearing of their names.

If you remember, one of de Blasio’s first orders of business was to make good on his campaign look excellent to settle the CP5 case. And he did. For $ 41 million big ones, despite the former administration’s push not to settle.

Yet, in all of this, one troubling question remains: Why were the two black arresting officers, Rudy Hall and Eric Reynolds – who himself arrested five of the black CP5 defendants – never named in the lawsuit that claimed racial bias by the cops?

And the main person asking that question is African-American retired detective Eric Reynolds himself. “I wasn’t named and Rudy Hall wasn’t named. Why?”

According to one official who wishes to remain anonymous, “Yes, more than 20 white officers were named, even though most of whom had no friend with these five!”

So I questioned a lawyer for the CP5, Myron Beldock, why the two black officers were left off the racially motivated charge. His answer: “I’m not going to tell you.” What?

“This conversation has to go in another management,” he demanded. What management? It couldn’t head any further south! Then it did.

“Did you read the names?” he barked. I told him that yes I had. But Myron wasn’t having any of it. “I’m not answering you.”

So I didn’t get to question him why – if Reynolds says he was the first police officer to use the term “wilding” and to call them a “wolfpack” in his arrest report – he wasn’t named in the suit against the cops for bias.

I didn’t get to tell him that Reynolds said, “I never saw a ‘white conspiracy’ to deprive these kids of their civil rights.”

But as the former city official told me, immediately after being appointed as the new corporation counsel, Zachary Carter “told (those caught up in the case) that, like it or not, it was going to be settled. The only issue was how much, whether we believe it right or incorrect. Hideous stuff.”

Hideous indeed. Like that $ 41 million penny, this nasty report gets more tarnished with every passing year.

MR. & MRS. & MRS. & MRS. SMITH

If Mormon prophet Joseph Smith were alive today, he wouldn’t have been shot to death by an mad mob, he’d have his own reality show. “40 Wives and Counting.”

Now an essay has been published by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints in which a 14-year-ancient girl who claimed to be married to Joseph Smith says he had 40 wives, and the prophet told her that he didn’t mean to take other men’s wives, but that an angel made him do it.

At least he didn’t say the devil made him do it. Current members of the Mormon church are shocked – shocked! -– that Smith had as many as 40 wives. Who isn’t shocked? Wikipedia names at least 50.

Anthony Harvey/Getty Images for MTV Nicki Minaj apologized for Nazi-themed descriptions on her video.

NICKI DOES NAZI

Nicki Does Nazi

Nicki Minaj semi-apologized for the Nazi-themed descriptions on her new composition video, “Only,” by tweeting, “I didn’t come up w/the concept, but I’m very sorry & take full responsibility if it has offended anyone.” Then she said that the person overseeing it is not just Jewish but a best friend.

Ah, taking full responsibility means you don’t say you didn’t come up with the concept, or that the artist happens to be your Jewish best friend.

That’s like saying “one of my best friends is black.” Or, “I didn’t realize that lynching slaves in cartoons is offensive.”

Meantime, no one is complaining that the video also happens to be as demeaning to women as the Turkish commercial with the führer selling shampoo. Only thing is: Drake, featured in the video, is also Jewish.

ROBE-A-DOPES

Was that global or interstellar relations they were trying for? Prez Obamahad the nerve to give Vladimir Putin the cold shoulder at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summitwhile both menwere dressed like the gay monks from outer space in SyFy’s old “Lexx” series. Based on Obama’s demeanor towards theKGB-turned-demonic head of Russia, the chance for cooperation – economic or political – has about as much chanceof succeeding as “Lexx.”

Spencer Platt/Getty Images Mayor de Blasio and top cop Bill Bratton roll out mellower plot toward pot.

LET’S BLOW THIS JOINT

It’s not pot luck any longer if you get busted with an ounce or less of weed in the city. How much is that? From the pleased look on Bill Bratton’s face, it looked like it was a bit less than the ounce bag he was holding. Too terrible it was oregano.

MIRRORING FAIRY TALES

Speaking of all things demonic, a Dayton, Ohio, mother was shocked and disgusted when the princess wand she bought for her 2-year-ancient daughter turned out to have a demonic girl slicing her wrists under the mirror. What’s worse, making little girls aspire to be princesses, which is about as aspirational as hoping to be a mermaid, or finding a cackling demon girl under the mirror? Why the shock? After all, sooner or later all fairytale princesses run into a cackling female demon in the mirror.