Publisher drops Central Park 5 prosecutor Linda Fairstein amid CancelLindaFairstein campaign
Author Linda Fairstein attends the Twelfth Annual Authors In Kind Literary Luncheon benefitting God's Love We Deliver at The Metropolitan Club on April 14, 2015 in New York City. Her publisher recently dropped her amid fallout over the Central Park 5 case.Former Central Park Five prosecutor Linda Fairstein has been dropped by her book publisher after renewed backlash over her role in the wrongful convictions of five black and Latino teens for the rape and beating of a jogger in 1989.
Not long after its debut, the hashtag #CancelLindaFairstein began trending on social media platforms as part of a pressure campaign to de-platform the former prosecutor-turned-crime novelist.that the publisher had parted ways with Fairstein, abestselling author who's published more a dozen books. Many of her novels a centered around a character named Alex Cooper, a sex crimes prosecutor working in Manhattan.
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