The Central Park jogger case was a horrific crime made all the more worse by a heinous miscarriage of justice that put five innocent teenage boys in jail for a crime they did not commit. The scars these men bear were ripped open once again on Friday, October 14, when Donald Trump told CNN that he believes the Central Park Five, as they are known, are guilty despite DNA evidence and a confession that exonerated them in 2002.
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Yesterday, in an interview with The Washington Post, Yusef Salaam, one of the Central Park Five, spoke out against Trump’s latest attack: “When I heard Trump’s latest proclamation, it was like the worst feeling in the world. I felt as if I couldn’t breathe. Since I was 15, my life has never been my own. I had no control over what happened to me. Being in the spotlight makes me wary and self-conscious again. I am overwhelmed with a nagging fear that an overzealous Trump supporter might take matters into his or her hands.”
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