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(Reuters) - Yusef Salaam, one of five Black and Latino men wrongly imprisoned as teenagers in the notorious Central Park jogger rape case in 1989, won...
Salaam was chosen as the Democratic candidate in June's primary election and ran unopposed in Tuesday's race to represent a central district in Manhattan's Harlem neighborhood. His city council victory came 20 years after he and the other four men, known as the "Central Park Five," sued New York City for wrongful conviction and violation of their civil rights, eventually winning a $41 settlement in 2014.
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After winning a competitive Democratic primary in June, Salaam was elected unopposed to represent Harlem on the New York City Council on November 7.
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