Salaam, who was just 15 at the time of the case, told The Guardian in 2016 that Trump played a role in the quick trial and rush to convict him and the other boys.
“He was the firestarter. Common citizens were being manipulated and swayed into believing that we were guilty,” Salaam said.
Local news outlets did not say which members of the Exonerated Five were participating, but videos and images flooded social media showing the painting in front of Trump's building.
The city plans to put at least one Black Lives Matter mural in all five boroughs, NBC New York reported. Multiple cities, starting with Washington D.C. last month, have decided to put large murals with the words in symbolic places. Washington D.C. put its painting right in front of the White House, and other cities have painted the murals near police stations.
According to The New York Times, there are already Black Lives Matter paintings on Richmond Terrace in Staten Island and along Fulton Street in Brooklyn.
There will be others in Manhatten, Brooklyn, Queens and the Bronx. One painting was finished Wednesday on Adam Clayton Powell Boulevard in Harlem.
“It is going to be bold, yellow letters, but in addition to that, we also are including the names of men and women whose lives have been taken due to racial violence in this country, starting with Emmett Till all the way to George Floyd,” Indira Etwaroo, executive artistic director of the Billie Holiday Theatre, told CBS New York of the Fulton Street mural.
