Wrongly accused Central Park 5 member cheers Trump's indictment with a single word statement: 'Karma'

Authored by businessinsider.com and submitted by mountaintop111
image for Wrongly accused Central Park 5 member cheers Trump's indictment with a single word statement: 'Karma'

Donald Trump declined to apologize for his controversial position in 1989 on the Exonerated 5.

Now that he's been indicted, a member of the group's response was "Karma."

Yusef Salaam said on Twitter that Trump "never said sorry for calling for my execution."

Top editors give you the stories you want — delivered right to your inbox each weekday. Loading Something is loading. Thanks for signing up! Access your favorite topics in a personalized feed while you're on the go. download the app Email address By clicking ‘Sign up’, you agree to receive marketing emails from Insider as well as other partner offers and accept our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy

As President, Donald Trump declined to apologize for his controversial position in 1989 on the Central Park 5, the five Black and Latino teenagers who were wrongly convicted of assaulting and raping a White woman in Central Park.

Now that Trump has been indicted in New York, a member of that exonerated group has a concise response: "Karma."

Yusef Salaam, now a candidate for New York City Council, noted in his brief statement on Twitter that Trump "never said sorry for calling for my execution."

—Yusef Abdus Salaam (@dr_yusefsalaam) March 30, 2023

In 1989, Trump bought newspaper advertisements calling for New York State to adopt the death penalty after the attack on the jogger. He made clear that he was speaking out because of the attack, though the ads did not explicitly call for the death penalty for the five defendants, The New York Times reported.

The five teenagers, including Salaam, were convicted, but said they were coerced into giving confessions for crimes they didn't commit.

"You have people on both sides of that," Trump said in 2019, when asked about it at the White House. "They admitted their guilt."

Trump has been indicted by a Manhattan grand jury in connection with hush-money payments to adult film star Stormy Daniels, making him the first former president to be criminally charged.

The Rev. Al Sharpton, who protested outside the courthouse during their trials, said in a statement to Insider, "All I can say is, what goes around comes around."

"It's not lost on those of us who were there in 1989 that Donald Trump will likely walk into the same courthouse where the Exonerated 5 were falsely convicted for a crime they did not commit," he said. "Let's not forget that it was Donald Trump who took out full-page ads calling for these five Black and Brown young men to get the death penalty. This is the same man who's now calling for violence when he has to go through the same system. The same man will have to stand up in a courtroom and see firsthand what the criminal justice system is like."

Narrow_Competition41 on April 5th, 2023 at 12:50 UTC »

Maybe he should take out a full page spread in the Times calling for the reinstatement of the death penalty for Chump? Now that'd be some REAL comeuppance....

mountaintop111 on April 5th, 2023 at 12:31 UTC »

The Central Park 5 were wrongly convicted. But despite being wrongly convicted, Trump has still called for their death penalty and he still insists they are guilty.

This is probably because Donald Trump is racist against African Americans. Donald Trump was known for refusing to rent to African Americans. Even Nixon's Justice Department sued Trump and his father for their discrimination. Not to mention that Trump kept insisting Obama was born in Kenya, even after Obama provided proof of his birth certificate from Hawaii, until the media forced Trump to backpedal in the 2016 election. His racism knows no bounds, SMH.

HiTekBlueneck on April 5th, 2023 at 12:28 UTC »

Never forget that Donald Trump has never stopped calling for the lynching of these 5 men.