Central Park 5 on Trump Paying for Ads Calling for Them to Get Death Penalty

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Raymond Santana and Yusef Salaam of the Central Park 5 here take Vlad through the next part of their story: being charged with rape and assault, turning down a plea deal, the public’s increasing involvement in the case, and their eventual loss in the trial. Santana and Salaam reflect on the toxic, racially charged imagery that began to take hold, and argue that it was Donald Trump who started the “fire in the media.” “Trump paid for ad space in 4 major New York papers calling for the reinstatement of the death penalty for our case,” Salaam says. Watch above.

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