Exonerated ‘Central Park Five’ member wins New York City council seat
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Yusef Salaam's victory comes two decades after DNA used to overturn mistaken conviction in 1989 rape case
The exonerated Central Park Five" member Yusef Salaam has won a seat on the New York City council, marking a stunning reversal of fortune for a political newcomer who was wrongly imprisoned as a teenager in the infamous rape case.
Salaam, a Democrat, will represent a central Harlem district on the city council, having run unopposed for the seat in one of many local elections playing out across New York state on Tuesday. He won his primary election in a landslide.
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