Yusef Salaam, who was wrongly convicted and later exonerated as a member of the “Central Park Five,” has won a seat on the New York City Council. In 1989, Salaam was one of five Black and Latino teenagers who were falsely accused of raping and beating a white woman in Central Park. The teenagers admitted to the crime under the duress of exhaustion and coercion by the New York City Police…

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