“He spent a small fortune on full-page ads calling for the execution of five innocent young teenagers,” Sharpton said in reference to the five Black and Brown New York teenagers who were wrongly convicted of rape.
The NPR Network will be reporting live from Chicago throughout the week bringing you In remarks that leaned heavily on his background as a reverend, Al Sharpton delivered an impassioned speech on the fourth night of the DNC.“On one side of this race is Donald Trump, a fellow New Yorker I’ve known for 40 years. Only once — once — in that time did he take a position on racial issues,” Sharpton said.
Exonerated members of the “Central Park Five" called on the DNC audience to"vote with us" for Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris. At the time, former President Donald Trump, then a rising real-estate mogul in New York, took out full-page ads in newspapers demanding the state bring back the death penalty.
"45 wanted us unalive," Salaam said, referring to Trump, the nation's 45th president."Today we are exonerated because the actual perpetrator confessed and DNA proved it. still says he still stands by the original guilty verdict. He dismisses scientific evidence rather than admit he was wrong."
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