Trump has never apologized for taking out a full page newspaper ad that called for the death penalty for the wrongly accused defendants.
Yusef Salaam, one of the wrongly convicted"Central Park Five", looks on following a news conference announcing the payout for the case at City Hall in New York June 27, 2014.
“How can our great society,” Trump’s inflammatory ad read, “tolerate the continued brutalization of its citizens by crazed misfits?” “Trump played a big role in that,” Salaam told Yahoo News, referencing the widespread public belief at the time that the five young men — all of whom were Black or brown — had to be responsible for the brutal assault on the jogger.
At a Thursday media appearance, Salaam held up a copy of the infamous advertisement, preserved in a laminated sleeve but showing wear around its edges., a trend spurred by the crack epidemic and federal disinvestment in social services and public housing.
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