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Yusef Salaam, a man who was famously wrongly convicted of a sensationalized violent crime as a teenager, is now set to serve on the New York City Council, and people are loving the glow-up.
The Exonerated Five member won more than 50% of the primary vote for the District 9 city council seat.
Voting for the Democratic primary was officially capped on Tuesday, June 22, leaving two prominent Black candidates advancing to the November election for City Council in Harlem’s District 9 and Brooklyn’s District 42.
Yusef Salaam, who as a child was part of a group of teenagers wrongly accused, convicted and imprisoned for the rape of a woman jogging in Central Park, took a commanding lead Tuesday in a Democratic primary for a City Council seat in New York. Salaam faces two veteran politicians, New York Assembly members Al
“What has happened on this campaign has restored my faith in knowing that I was born for this,” he told supporters. Salaam was one of a group of five Black men wrongfully convicted of beating and raping a white woman jogging in Central Park in 1989.