Wrongly accused Central Park 5 member cheers Trump's indictment with a single word statement: 'Karma'

Thu, 03/30/2023 - 19:10

yusef salaam 2 — Honoree Yusef Salaam poses at the ACLU SoCal's 25th Annual Luncheon in Los Angeles on June 7, 2019. Salaam, one of the five teens wrongly imprisoned for the assault of a Central Park jogger, has a memoir coming out in the spring.
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Donald Trump declined to apologize for his controversial position in 1989 on the Exonerated 5.
Now that he's been indicted, a member of the group's response was "Karma."
Yusef Salaam said on Twitter that Trump "never said sorry for calling for my execution."

As President, Donald Trump declined to apologize for his controversial position in 1989 on the Central Park 5, the five Black and Latino teenagers who were wrongly convicted of assaulting and raping a White woman in Central Park.