WATCH: Central Park Five Member Recalls Donald Trump as a Racist Insider

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Laurence Mathieu-Léger and Oliver Laughland
February 17, 2016Human Rights
Donald Trump ‘was the firestarter’ when he called for the death penalty in the 1989 Central Park jogger case, says Yusef Salaam, one of the wrongfully convicted Central Park Five: ‘To see that he has not changed his position of being a hateful person ... what would this country look like with Donald Trump being the president? I can’t even imagine.'
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