Welcome to hardtalk. I am sarah montague. Yusef salaam was just 16 when he and four other black and latino teenagers were wrongly convicted of the rape and assault of a white woman jogging in new yorks central park. Even before the trial, the then property tycoon donald trump took out newspaper ads calling for the death penalty. The five served out their sentences before being exonerated when another man admitted to the crime. Yusef salaam says their case is the story of the criminal system of injustice in america. But as antiracism protests continue, and with fears of worse unrest to come, is the chance of real change even more remote now than in the america of his youth . Yusef salaam, welcome to hardtalk. Take us back and tell us what happened on the night of the 19th of april in 1989. What happened was young people hanging out in the park, a park that they looked at as their backyard, and all of a sudden, we fast forward to the evening and then the next day and we were accused of r