Central Park Five take on Donald Trump at DNC with convention speech

Published: Aug 22, 2024 Duration: 00:08:00 Category: News & Politics

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let me say as we transition I'm a preacher and in Psalms it says weeping may endure for night but joy comes in the morning we've endured January 6 we've enjoed conspiracy theories we've endured lies and areas of Darkness but if we stay together black white Latina Asian Indian American if we stay together Joy joy joy joy coming in the morning I want to now since I was a teenager I was Mentor by Reverend Jesse Jackson and Reverend Jackson taught us to fight for what's right and now I want to bring out some young men that I fought for I referred to them then they were known as the Central Park five now they are the exonerated five Raymond Raymond Santana Kevin Richardson Yousef Salam Ki Weiss the exonerated f we won't go back good evening people my name is Cory wise 35 years ago my friends and I were in imprisoned for a crime we did not commit our youth were stolen from us every day as we walked into cour courtroom people screamed at us threaten us because of Donald Trump he spent 45 $85,000 on a full page ad in the in the New York Times calling for our execution we we were innocent kids but we but we all but but we serve a total of 41 years in prison Reverend Al shop stood with us now I'm proud to stand with him [Applause] today vice president C Harris has also worked to make things fairer I know she will do the same as president now prove that message I Love These Guys these are my brothers these are my brothers yes indeed America I am Yousef Salam a New York city councilman representing my hometown of Harlem that's right man representing my hometown of Harlem USA and listen as my friend Cory wise just said 45 wanted us un alive he wanted us dead today we are exonerated Because the actual perpetrator confessed and DNA proved it that guy says he still stands by the original guilty verdict he dismisses the scientific evidence rather than admit he was wrong he has never changed and he never will that man thinks that hate is the animating force in America it is not we have the constitutional right to vote in fact it is a human right so let us use it I want you to walk with us I want you to march with us I want you to vote with us and together and let me tell you this is going to be so beautiful and together on November 5th we will usher in Kamala Harris and Tim Walls into the White House so I want to do this when I say one day I want you to say see us when they see us when they see us when they see us America will finally say goodbye to that hateful man we will say what I have said after seven long years of wrongful incarceration free at last free at last free at last thank God Almighty we are free at last God bless you and God bless the United States of America wow our country is built on Justice and people's lives as we just heard can be harmed when we fail to do justice but kamla Harris fights to do justice no one knows that better than the prosecutors who fought alongside her these are their story

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