Yusef Salaam, one of the Central Park Five who were wrongfully imprisoned for a crime they did not commit, had a simple response to the news of former President Donald Trump’s indictment: “Karma.”
Trump had taken out full-page newspaper ads in the 1989 rape of a white woman case, calling for the death penalty to be reinstated in New York before any of the five teens had been tried. Although Trump’s ads did not explicitly call for the death penalty for the defendants, they were seen as playing a major role in securing a conviction.
Salaam, who recently announced his candidacy for New York City Council, noted that Trump never apologized for his actions. In 2019, when asked if he would apologize, Trump responded by saying that there were “people on both sides of that” and that the defendants had admitted their guilt. The case was explored in the 2019 Netflix series “When They See Us.”
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For those asking about my statement on the indictment of Donald Trump – who never said sorry for calling for my execution – here it is:
Karma
— Yusef Abdus Salaam (@dr_yusefsalaam) March 30, 2023
