Exonerated “Central Park Five” member Yusef Salaam mimicked an ad after former President Trump's arraignment — 34 years after Trump's ad targeting Salaam and his peers: 'I do not resort to hatred, bias or racism — as you once did ... I wish you no harm.'
Exonerated “Central Park Five” member Yusef Salaam issued a statement on social media mimicking a full-page ad that Donald Trump issued 34 years ago that has become a flashpoint in Trump's political rise.calling for the state to bring back the death penalty and strengthen policing in the city after the brutal beating and rape of a female jogger in Central Park.
Salaam and four friends, known as the"Central Park Five," were falsely accused of the crime and imprisoned.. “On the day he was arrested and arraigned, here is my ad in response.”of falsifying business records. He pleaded not guilty. Salaam’s full-page open letter called out Trump’s actions toward him and his peers even after the government clear them of the Central Park attack.
“On May 1, 1989, almost thirty-four years ago, Donald J. Trump spent $85,000 to take out full-page ads in
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