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Over 30 years ago, Donald Trump took out full-page ads urgently calling for the death penalty for a group of boys of color then-known as the Central Park Five.
Yusef Salaam, one of the wrongly imprisoned Central Park Five, is running in a competitive City Council race in Harlem. He described the former president’s indictment as “karma.”
In a 2019 interview, Salaam said, “We were convicted because of the color of our skin. People thought the worst of us,” he said. “And this is all because of prominent New Yorkers-especially Donald Trump.” He added, “I look at Donald Trump, and I understand him as a representation of a symptom of America.” Many of Trump’s supporters will continue to vote for him despite two impeachments, one insurrection and now a criminal indictment. At times, his divisive hate-filled rhetoric connects with the motivations behind the death of Emmett Till and the massacres in Tulsa and Rosewood. T...
Donald Trump has been railing about how “unfairly” the justice system is allegedly treating him. A prime example of what inhumane treatment looks like is a…
Donald Trump has been railing about how “unfairly” the justice system is allegedly treating him. A prime example of what inhumane treatment looks like is a case Donald Trump is familiar with, involving the now-Exonerated Central Park Five, who were wrongfully convicted of the rape of a white jogger more than 30 years ago. Dr. Yusef Salaam, a member of the Exonerated Five, joins Joy Reid on turning the ad that Donald Trump created calling for his death and that of the others erroneously accused, into a campaign ad for his current run for New York City Council.