“Here you had Donald Trump taking out a full page ad, two weeks in, rushing to judgement. Finding out 13 years later after he did all that that we were not the real culprits,” he said.

“The Central Park Five, their families,” Salaam said. “We were not able to move on with our lives. Our lives were completely destroyed and devastated.”

“Any kind of dream or idea or goal that we had in life was quickly erased by this accusation,” he said.