Exonerated Members of the ‘Central Park 5’ Lash Out at Trump From DNC Stage
Four members of the group that had been dubbed the “Central Park Five”—and now known as the “Exonerated Five”—took to the Democratic National Convention stage Thursday to speak out against Donald Trump.
The group has a history with the former president—after their wrongful arrests in 1989 for the rape of a jogger in New York City’s Central Park, Trump took out full-page ads in major newspapers calling for the return of the death penalty.
After Raymond Santana, Kevin Richardson, Yusef Salaam and Korey Wise were introduced by Rev. Al Sharpton, two took to the podium to remind Americans how Trump involved himself in that case—and how he still hasn’t accepted their innocence all these years later.