As Donald Trump lambasted the guilty verdict of his hush money trial, he stood inside a Manhattan courthouse that was the site of one of the most notorious examples of injustice in recent New York history. And he had a part in that. It's the same courthouse where five Black and Latino youths were wrongly convicted 34 years ago in the beating and rape of a white female jogger.
Al Sharpton, an advocate for the five exonerated men, called Trump’s conviction a symbolic measure of justice for them. “This is the same building that Antron McCray, Kevin Richardson, Yusef Salaam, Raymond Santana and Korey Wise all passed into, day after day, as they endured a show trial for a crime they did not commit,” Sharpton said just after the verdict was read. “Now the shoe is on the other foot. Donald Trump is the criminal, and those five men are exonerated,” he said.