In this flashback from 2017, Raymond Santana and Yusef Salaam spoke to VladTV about being persecuted in the court of public opinion during the infamous Central Park 5 case, most of which was fueled by racially charged imagery that portrayed the young men as animals. From there, they note how Donald Trump was the one who created a firestorm within the media, following the ad space he paid for in New York City newspapers that called for the reinstatement of the death penalty regarding their case.