Exonerated member of ‘Central Park Five’ wins primary, nearly assuring seat on NYC Council ...Middle East

NEW YORK (AP) — Yusef Salaam, one of the exonerated “Central Park Five,” has won the Democratic primary, all but assuring him a seat on the New York City Council. 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’s primary win is for the seat representing Central Harlem on the City Council. The Associated Press refrained from calling the race on election night but additional votes released Wednesday showed him to be the clear winner. “I am here because, Harlem, you believed in me,” Salaam said in his victory speech Tuesday night. Salaam and the four other Black and

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