Yusef Salaam, one of the exonerated “Central Park Five,” has won a Democratic primary for a seat on the New York City Council, all but assuring him of eventual victory.
It’s an improbable feat for a political novice who was wrongly accused, convicted and imprisoned as a teenager for the rape and beating of a white jogger in Central Park.
Salaam and the four other Black and Latino teens from Harlem became known as the Central Park Five after their arrest in 1985 in the headline-grabbing rape, one of the city’s most notorious and racially fraught crimes. He served nearly seven years in prison before the group was exonerated through DNA evidence.
Salaam fell slightly below 50% of the vote in the update on July 5, triggering the release of preliminaryresults that showed him as the clear winner. The city’s Board of Elections was still tabulating late-arriving mail ballots that could potentially push him back above the 50% threshold for an election-night victory.
“I’ve heard him talk. He seems to be talking about the things I care about,” Mwendwa said on June 27. “I think people saw him as a survivor,” Onyioha said. “He was vindicated and the system eventually ended up working out for him.”
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