As Donald Trump’s arrest in Georgia continues to headline world news and his mug shot circulates all corners of the web, MSNBC correspondent Joy Reid’s remarks on his jail booking are drawing some attention after she compared Trump’s demonization of the Central Park Five to his recent arrest in a full-circle moment on air.
Reid first recounted how she internalized the Central Park Five case when it emerged in New York during her teenage years, citing the fearmongering Trump weaponized to dehumanize the young Black boys who were wrongfully accused and arrested.
“I still remember he made five teenagers my age to take a mug shot. As a teenager living in New York, I despised Donald Trump because to me he signified the rich white guy in Manhattan that absolutely hated and despised me, my cousins, my friends,” Reid said on MSNBC as the network covered Trump’s surrender in Atlanta on Aug. 24. “People like Trump persecuted Black and brown people in New York. It’s what they did for fun, it’s what they did for pleasure.”
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To be clear, the mug shots were taken by authorities. However, Trump did pay for a full-page newspaper ad calling for the group of teenage boys to face the death penalty. Decades later, they were exonerated for the crime.
Reid underscored the significance of documenting this arrest with a mug shot, a part of the booking process that wasn’t conducted when Trump was taken into custody for his other criminal cases.
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“To me, this is justice. The fact that Manhattan didn’t give him a mug shot, I thought was offensive. The feds said, ‘We already know what he looks like, he was the president of the United States.’ Okay, offensive,” Reid stated.
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