With less than 40 days until Election Day, the Rev. Al Sharpton's choice of a battleground state for a get-out-the-vote bus tour made sense. It was a strategic choice on Sharpton's part to recruit speakers who many first knew as Black and Latino teenagers wrongly convicted in a case that former President Donald Trump supported so vociferously.
Organizers with the National Action Network put up banners for a Get Out the Vote event as the prepare to depart on a bus tour toward Philadelphia in the Harlem neighborhood of New York on Friday, Sep. 27, 2024. Yusef Salaam , New York City Council member and a member of ‘The Central Park Five,’ poses for a portrait at the National Action Network headquarters in the Harlem neighborhood of New York as members of the organization prepare to depart on a Get Out the Vote bus tour on Friday, Sep.
Yusef Salaam, one of the exonerated men, said Friday that using his voice to encourage voter participation lines up with lessons his mother taught him as a teenager. His message to voters in Philadelphia was part condemnation of Trump and part championing doing one’s civic duty. Salaam and the other wrongly convicted young men had their convictions vacated in 2002 after evidence linked another person to the brutal beating and rape of the Central Park jogger. Trump in 2019to the exonerated men, and again defended his position on the case during a debate with Vice President Kamala Harris earlier this month.
Of the Exonerated Five, Wise spent the most time in prison before his conviction was overturned. He wants people to vote as a way of preventing any other young person from experiencing what h did. In August, during the final night of Democratic National Convention in Chicago, Sharpton shared the stage with members of the Exonerated Five. From the stage, Salaam called out Trump’s failure to apologize for his harmful rhetoric in the Central Park jogger case.
“These moments of standing for yourself, of speaking for yourself, also speaks life into others,” Salaam told AP. “It gives others the opportunity to see, if he could stand up, I could stand up. If he could still be here, I could be here.”
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