Yusef Salaam Blasts Trump For Views On Central Park Five, Demands Apology — Transcript

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1. 0:04he was the fire starter let's all hate
2. 0:06these people because maybe hate is what
3. 0:08we need if we're going to get something
4. 0:09done Donald Trump was calling basically
5. 0:11for us to be murdered here we are full
6. 0:14circle if we look at everything that
7. 0:16this man has said everything is
8. 0:19destructive and
9. 0:21dangerous that was a clip from Central
10. 0:23Park 5 Yousef Salon speaking out against
11. 0:25Donald Trump and his history of hate in
12. 0:271989 Yousef was one of the five teenage
13. 0:29boys is wrongfully convicted of raping a
14. 0:31woman in New York's Central Park just
15. 0:33two weeks after the teens were arrested
16. 0:34Donald Trump spent $85,000 on a full
17. 0:37page ad in New York's four daily
18. 0:39newspapers stating that the teenagers
19. 0:40should face the death penalty for their
20. 0:42crimes 13 years later the Central Park 5
21. 0:44as they were widely known were fully
22. 0:46exonerated of the crime received a $41
23. 0:48million settlement from the state of New
24. 0:49York however Trump refuses to accept the
25. 0:51Central Park 5's uh exoneration and
26. 0:54still says they are guilty joining us
27. 0:57right now is Yousef Salam via FaceTime
28. 0:59from Atlanta youf uh you did that
29. 1:02particular um uh move on.org ad and it's
30. 1:06been interesting to me how frankly
31. 1:08people with these debates won't even
32. 1:10bring this issue up yeah yeah you know
33. 1:13um the thing about it is that you know
34. 1:15when you look at all of the all of the
35. 1:17sides that uh people bring into the
36. 1:19presidential debate um the good and the
37. 1:20bad you know um for Donald Trump to rush
38. 1:23the Judgment back then and for the
39. 1:25overwhelming evidence to be seen clearly
40. 1:28that we were innocent of the crime that
41. 1:30they they charged us with um it's just
42. 1:32it's ridiculous for him to still stand
43. 1:34on that side you know um but what's more
44. 1:37important is the fact that when he took
45. 1:38out those ads that right there was
46. 1:40almost like a cry to the people in the
47. 1:42darker enclaves of society to go into
48. 1:45our homes to drag us from our homes and
49. 1:48to hang us from trees in Central Park
50. 1:50rush to judgment take us out of the
51. 1:52picture we are bad news because we're
52. 1:54black and really that was what we would
53. 1:56we that was that was the biggest crime
54. 1:58the color of our skin
55. 2:00and uh when Trump was asked about this
56. 2:03he literally doubled down and said I
57. 2:05still think they're guilty yes yes you
58. 2:08know that was that was unfortunate
59. 2:09because he really you know he has the
60. 2:11absolute wherewithal to be able to you
61. 2:13know uh see all of the uh pieces of the
62. 2:15puzzle put it all together and make some
63. 2:17proper decisions on it but for him to
64. 2:18look at all of the pieces of the puzzle
65. 2:20and say you know what even though all of
66. 2:22the false confessions that were brought
67. 2:24about were completely fabricated I'm
68. 2:26still going to stand on that side and
69. 2:28say you know what they made uh false
70. 2:30they made a confession forget the fact
71. 2:32that the confessions were fin to be
72. 2:34false and forget the fact that the
73. 2:35police were doing malicious things in
74. 2:37order to G Garner these confessions you
75. 2:40know Deni us of food for up to 30 30 36
76. 2:44hours you know Deni us of sleep Deni of
77. 2:46drink you know even with the uh whole
78. 2:49dynamic of some of our families being
79. 2:51there many of our families didn't even
80. 2:53know the law so we were all being taken
81. 2:55advantage of and the city was being
82. 2:57taken advantage of as well because they
83. 2:59were made to believe believe that lie
84. 3:00for 13 years the worst person I mean the
85. 3:03worst uh part of it is that the Syra
86. 3:05Baga herself was made to believe that
87. 3:08lie for 13 years and still probably
88. 3:10lives in this kind of fog of a reality
89. 3:13as to well what really happened and who
90. 3:15really did this to me one of the things
91. 3:17that you have called for is for Donald
92. 3:18Trump to apologize on Central Park 5 uh
93. 3:21for calling for the death penalty yes
94. 3:23indeed you know um to to ear is a part
95. 3:28of us being human
96. 3:30and you know one of the worst things I
97. 3:32mean when I look at Donald Trump I mean
98. 3:33he he walks around with this air of
99. 3:36affluenza he also walks around with this
100. 3:38whole idea that he's completely
101. 3:40infallible and so forth and so on and I
102. 3:42mean he would have probably never
103. 3:44apologized to anything had he been able
104. 3:46to get away with it 100% but those
105. 3:48videos that came out about him groping
106. 3:50women and bragging about it and so forth
107. 3:52and so on you know he had to come out
108. 3:54and apologize for that but here to still
109. 3:57stand on this side of wrong I mean over
110. 3:59whelming evidence is showing that we
111. 4:01were not the ones who did this crime
112. 4:04100% not the ones none of the crimes
113. 4:06that happened in Central Park the
114. 4:08Central Park 5 had nothing to do with
115. 4:10any one of them and he still refuses to
116. 4:13apologize still says that he wants to be
117. 4:16the Law and Order president still says
118. 4:18that he wants to bring into the fry
119. 4:21across the country practices that were
120. 4:23found to be
121. 4:24unconstitutional in New York City stop
122. 4:26and frisk this is this is uh this is
123. 4:29really really a sad time for us that we
124. 4:31have two candidates really one is the
125. 4:34only one that people can vote for
126. 4:35because this other one is going to send
127. 4:37us all good home youf Shalom we
128. 4:40appreciate you joining us on TV1 thanks
129. 4:41a lot well thank you I appreciate that
130. 4:43all right Angela real quick yeah I just
131. 4:45wanted to say I I was thinking back to
132. 4:46the beginning of our conversation we
133. 4:48were talking about the the absence of
134. 4:50policy in the voter in this election and
135. 4:52I think and and and Dena said that it's
136. 4:54responsibility of the electorate of the
137. 4:56public to push candidates to talk about
138. 4:58the issues and I and I we could have
139. 4:59argument about that but I think it is
140. 5:01the Cid's responsibility to show
141. 5:02leadership right like whether or not
142. 5:04you're putting out the different
143. 5:05policies we're voting for someone to be
144. 5:07the leader of this country and if you're
145. 5:09a leader if the leader that you're
146. 5:10supporting is unable to say I was wrong
147. 5:14is unable to apologize is unable to even
148. 5:17admit when they didn't have all the
149. 5:19facts that is a hug that should be a red
150. 5:22flag and I think that the people who
151. 5:24don't acknowledge that are just
152. 5:26strugling in our politics literally 15
153. 5:28seconds literally agree and I think that
154. 5:30we can't look at we have to look at both
155. 5:32candidates in their ability to do that
156. 5:33I'm talking about Donald Trump as a
157. 5:35leader I'm not talking about
158. 5:39Donald Donald Trump Donald Trump is he
159. 5:41should say that he was wrong and because
160. 5:43I have 5 Seconds Google Ricky Rector and
161. 5:46Hillary Clinton's support of him all
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