Show threadNonilexAug 23, 2024

#YusefSalaam, speaking about how #Trump persecuted them said, “That man thinks that #hate is the animating force in America. It is not.”

#Trump never allowed that #TheExoneratedFive deserved a #trial before deciding they were guilty, telling reporters he wanted the city to hate them even as Mayor Ed Koch urged for calm.

Their stories take on greater meaning as Trump continues to insist he himself is being persecuted by the justice system.

#DNC #DNC2024 #HarrisWalz2024

Show threadNonilexAug 23, 2024

Four of the five of the #TheExoneratedFive, formerly known as the “#CentralParkFive”, joined #TheRev #AlSharpton onstage.

Huge cheers for #YusefSalaam when he introduced himself as a #NYC councilman. “Forty-five wanted us un-alive," Salaam says of #Trump. "He wanted us dead.”

#DNC #DNC2024 #HarrisWalz2024

Show threadNonilexAug 23, 2024
Reverend #AlSharpton referring to the #CentralParkFive, as #TheExoneratedFive, said #Trump spent a “small fortune” in newspaper ads calling for the execution of the wrongly accused men, & that he las long “fanned” the flames of #racism.
Sharpton was talking about Trump’s full-page newspaper ad calling for the death penalty for the group, 5 #Black & #Latino teenagers who had been arrested —but had not yet been tried when Trump placed the ad— in connection w/the gang rape of a white female jogger.
KChernecky For DemocracyAug 23, 2024

Free at last, free at last, thank God Almighty we are free at last. 😭😭😭

#TheExoneratedFive