This image shows the May 1, 1989, full-page newspaper ad that Donald Trump famously took out in the New York Daily News calling for the execution of five Black and Latino youths, also known as the Central Park five, wrongly convicted in a vicious attack on a white female jogger. The case roiled racial tensions locally and many point to it as evidence of a criminal justice system prejudiced against defendants of color.
Some Black Americans found irony in Trump railing against the injustice of his own conviction, in a courthouse where five Black and Latino teenagers were wrongly convicted in a case Trump supported so vociferously. The Central Park Five case was Trump's first foray into tough-on-crime politics that preluded his full-throated populist political persona.
Wiley, who ran unsuccessfully for New York City mayor in 2021, said the city’s Black and Hispanic residents also remember Trump’s comments about the Central Park jogger case. Salaam and the other young men had their convictions vacated in 2002 after evidence linked another person to the crime. Trump in 2019
Racial justice advocates are also using the historic moment to remind the public that Trump and his associates attempted to overturn the will of voters byin heavily Black and Latino districts. The hush money trial was just one part of a broader narrative around electoral justice, said Derrick Johnson, president and CEO of the NAACP, who called the verdict against Trump “a monumental step toward justice for the American people.
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