Central Park 5 on Donald Trump Paying for Ads That Called for their Execution (Flashback)

In this flashback from 2017, Raymond Santana and Yusef Salaam spoke to VladTV about being persecuted in the court of public opinion during the infamous Central Park 5 case, most of which was fueled by racially charged imagery that portrayed the young men as animals. From there, they note how Donald Trump was the one who created a firestorm within the media, following the ad space he paid for in New York City newspapers that called for the reinstatement of the death penalty regarding their case.