But, by the 1980s, this place that was meant to barrier. Night would fall, and it would change. It would become a place where youd be nervous about going. Where in 1989, you must remember that the city was in a real divisive, polarized condition. This is a sort of caldron in which the central park jogger narrative emerged. Raping a young woman out on a ee jog that came at the intersection of race, class and politics in america. That wednesday night, it was easter vacation. Kids would hang out a little later. There was no school till monday. You go from hanging out with friends, thinking that youre going to go skateboarding in the park or walk around late to mayhem. We got a call of 30 to 40 males inside central park harassing people. We started to get a lot of radio runs of a group of black and hispanic teenagers, assaulting and harassing people. I would run to the park, just byhe w tng was very chaotic. We were lot of 911 calls. Theyre chasing a large group over there, about 30 to 40
Winw win. I cant believe were here. What do you think of those fears . What do you think of how this language is, as its been put forth, dangerous . I cant believe were hearing it either and it is dangerous language in any number of respects that you just highlighted. One important respect is going to be in the polling place on election day. Donald trump has called for his supporters to go to the polls and watch what happens in certain places as he calls them. When his supporters arrive theyre going to be disappointed and upset to learn that theyre not going to be allowed in. Theyre not going to be allowed in because you just cant walk into a voting place in most states and stand around and watch things. You need to be appointed and have a credential, you need to be trained and understand the process. Even in those few states the public can watch what happens theyre not going to get anywhere near voting and if they try to interfere with voting or communicate with voters or Election Off
for our death. other people began to chime in after he wrote that piece and put it in the papers and basically said, yeah, i think we should take the elvis one and hang him from the tree and take the other ones and horsewhip them. here was a situation where they were making assumptions about the cover and not going into the actual book. so if donald trump, yusef, were here right now, you could have a conversation with him, what would you say? you know, it s such a confusing kind of thing. here it is, the innocence project has done tremendous work in getting people off. tremendous. when you look at people like donald trump who i don t even want to say donald trump. the supporters of donald trump, really, are the ones who scare me the most. donald trump, for him saying i ll go out on fifth avenue and shoot someone and i won t lose any supporters. for him to degrade and talk
came forward and confessed and his dna was linked to the crime. youss yusef salom would like an apology from mr. trump. he was one of the five. yusef, welcome. thank you. before we get to what we re here for today, tell me what happened for all those years. it was the worst feeling in the world. here we thought we would be the average youngster, the average teenager being able to live their lives wait othe way one s and here we were the outcasts, we were the pariahs. i went from being yusef to being the guy that, hey, that s the central park jogger rapist. when people are put in as