WATCH: Yusef Salaam and Korey Wise of Central Park Five speak at 2024 Democratic National Convention — Transcript

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1. 0:06Go
2. 0:33Good evening people. My name is Corey Wise, 35 years ago, my friends
3. 0:40and I were in prison. For a crown we did not commit. I will use was
4. 0:47stolen
5. 0:49from us every day as we walked into courtroom people scream at us,
6. 0:56threatened us because of Donald Trump. He spent 45 $85,000
7. 1:03on a full page ad in the in the New York Times.
8. 1:07Calling for our execution.
9. 1:19We. We were innocent kids, but we, but we all, but we serve a total
10. 1:26of 41 years in prison. Reverend Al Sharpton stood with us now
11. 1:34I'm proud to stand with him today.
12. 1:47Vice President Kamala Harris has also worked to make things fairer.
13. 1:54I know she will do the same as president. Now prove that message.
14. 2:10I love these guys. These are my brothers.
15. 2:15These are my brothers. Yes, indeed.
16. 2:20America
17. 2:23I am Yusuf Salam.
18. 2:31A New York City councilman representing my hometown of Harlem.
19. 2:38That's right
20. 2:46Yeah
21. 2:51Representing my hometown of Harlem, USA. And listen
22. 2:56As my friend Corey Wise just said. 45.
23. 3:02Want us unalive. He wanted us dead.
24. 3:09Today we are exonerated. Because the actual perpetrator confessed.
25. 3:15And DNA proved it. That guy says he still stands. By the original
26. 3:22guilty verdict.
27. 3:27He dismisses the scientific evidence.
28. 3:31Rather than admit he was wrong. He has never changed.
29. 3:38And he never will.
30. 3:47That man thinks that hate is the animating force in America.
31. 3:51It is not. We have the constitutional right to vote.
32. 3:58In fact, it is a human right. So let us use it.
33. 4:04I want you to walk with us. I want you to march with us. I want you
34. 4:08to vote with us.
35. 4:18And together
36. 4:22And let me tell you this is gonna be so beautiful. And together On
37. 4:27November 5th. We will usher in common law Harris.
38. 4:34And Tim Walls into the White House.
39. 4:42So I wanna do this
40. 4:46When I say one day I want you to say see us.
41. 4:49When they
42. 4:51One day
43. 4:54When they see us. America will finally say goodbye to that hateful
44. 5:00man.
45. 5:10We will say what I have said after 7 long years of wrongful incarceration.
46. 5:17Free
47. 5:18At last. Free at last
48. 5:22Bree at last
49. 5:24Thank God Almighty, we are free at last.
50. 5:28God bless you. And God bless the United States of America.