Yusuf Salaam, one of the five men exonerated in the Central Park Five case, has taken out a full page ad in the New York Times against former President Donald Trump, over 30 years after Trump called for the teens' execution in a series of ads.
On April 30, 1989, Trump, then a brash and influential real estate mogul, took out a reportedin four New York newspapers with the headline:"BRING BACK THE DEATH PENALTY, BRING BACK OUR POLICE!" regarding the case of the"Central Park Five" – Kevin Richardson, 14, Raymond Santana, 14, Antron McCray, 15, Yusef Salaam, 15, and Korey Wise, 16, who were wrongfully accused of raping and assaulting a white female jogger in Central Park in New York City.
After spending years in prison, the convictions of the now “Exonerated Five” were eventually vacated in 2002 following DNA evidence and a confession from Matias Reyes affirming that they were wrongfully convicted of various crimes.issued by Salaam's campaign last Thursday when news broke of Trump's indictment."Karma."
“Being wrongfully convicted as a teenager was an experience that changed my life drastically,” Salaam wrote. “But the problem our community faced when my name was splashed across the newspaper a generation ago — inadequate housing, underfunded schools, public safety concerns, and a lack of good jobs — became worse during Trump’s time in office,” the ad read.
“These actions, just like your actions leading up to the January 6 insurrection at the US Capitol, are an attack on our safety. Thirty-four years ago, your full-page ad stated, in all caps: CIVIL LIBERTIES END WHEN AN ATTACK ON OUR SAFETY BEGINS. You were wrong then and you are wrong now.”the former president gets
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