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| Not long after Donald J. Trump surrendered at the Manhattan Criminal Courthouse on Tuesday, becoming the first former president to face criminal charges, Yusef Salaam, a candidate for a City Council seat in Harlem, sent out a statement. | Not long after Donald J. Trump surrendered at the Manhattan Criminal Courthouse on Tuesday, becoming the first former president to face criminal charges, Yusef Salaam, a candidate for a City Council seat in Harlem, sent out a statement. |
| Mr. Salaam, 49, was one of five Black and Latino men exonerated in 2002 in the rape and assault of a female jogger in Central Park in 1989. Mr. Trump stoked the racist and sensationalized reaction to the case by taking out full-page advertisements in four city newspapers, including The New York Times, calling for the death penalty to be reinstated. | Mr. Salaam, 49, was one of five Black and Latino men exonerated in 2002 in the rape and assault of a female jogger in Central Park in 1989. Mr. Trump stoked the racist and sensationalized reaction to the case by taking out full-page advertisements in four city newspapers, including The New York Times, calling for the death penalty to be reinstated. |
| Decades later, even after Mr. Salaam and the others, who were imprisoned as teenagers and known as the Central Park Five, had been cleared by the confession of another man and DNA evidence, Mr. Trump refused to apologize to them. | Decades later, even after Mr. Salaam and the others, who were imprisoned as teenagers and known as the Central Park Five, had been cleared by the confession of another man and DNA evidence, Mr. Trump refused to apologize to them. |
| “Now that you have been indicted and are facing criminal charges, I do not resort to hatred, bias or racism — as you once did,” Mr. Salaam, who spent almost seven years in prison, wrote in the statement, a fund-raising email made to look like the ad Mr. Trump published in 1989. “I hope that you exercise your civil liberties to the fullest, and that you get what the Exonerated Five did not get — a presumption of innocence and a fair trial.” | “Now that you have been indicted and are facing criminal charges, I do not resort to hatred, bias or racism — as you once did,” Mr. Salaam, who spent almost seven years in prison, wrote in the statement, a fund-raising email made to look like the ad Mr. Trump published in 1989. “I hope that you exercise your civil liberties to the fullest, and that you get what the Exonerated Five did not get — a presumption of innocence and a fair trial.” |