Central Park Five exoneree Dr. Yusef Salaam talks about Donald Trump — Transcript

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1. 0:00it's widely known that uh the current
2. 0:02president of the united states took out
3. 0:03a
4. 0:04four-page ad back then calling for the
5. 0:06central park five to receive the death
6. 0:08penalty baby
7. 0:09basically be put to death what was your
8. 0:11thoughts as donald trump was running for
9. 0:13president and then actually became
10. 0:14president
11. 0:16i think i was like everyone else in the
12. 0:17world probably believed and thought nah
13. 0:19this is just
14. 0:21this is another reality show this isn't
15. 0:22really going to happen all of a sudden
16. 0:24they hired the reality star
17. 0:29as the chief executive officer of these
18. 0:32united states
19. 0:34and i gotta tell you since that time we
20. 0:36have been
21. 0:37experiencing collectively
22. 0:42the hashtag this is america especially
23. 0:46especially with what's been going on
24. 0:47lately as the whole world is out crying
25. 0:50things like black lives matter
26. 0:52as people are able to see the exonerated
27. 0:55five and the same
28. 0:56so to speak light as we would we were
29. 0:58called when this case first started 31
30. 1:00years ago they said we were the modern
31. 1:02day scottsboro boards
32. 1:04looking at this ad that was placed in
33. 1:05the city's newspapers
34. 1:07in big bold headlines for the world to
35. 1:09see really it was a whisper
36. 1:12that ad that donald trump placed was a
37. 1:14whisper
38. 1:15into the darkest enclaves of society
39. 1:18hoping that someone would do to us
40. 1:20what they had done to emmett till at his
41. 1:24birthday
42. 1:25just the other day and he's not here he
43. 1:28was 14 when he
44. 1:30was brutally
45. 1:38murdered