{"id":1318601,"date":"2023-11-08T18:58:56","date_gmt":"2023-11-08T18:58:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/radiofree.asia\/?guid=46d2675f495c9d4275d879a09e8c76f0"},"modified":"2023-11-08T18:58:56","modified_gmt":"2023-11-08T18:58:56","slug":"exonerated-central-park-five-member-wins-seat-on-new-york-city-council","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2023\/11\/08\/exonerated-central-park-five-member-wins-seat-on-new-york-city-council\/","title":{"rendered":"Exonerated Central Park Five Member Wins Seat on New York City Council"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yusef Salaam, who was wrongly convicted and later exonerated as a member of the &ldquo;Central Park Five,&rdquo; 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...<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/truthout.org\/articles\/exonerated-central-park-five-member-wins-seat-on-new-york-city-council\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/truthout.org\/articles\/exonerated-central-park-five-member-wins-seat-on-new-york-city-council\/\">Latest \u2013 Truthout<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;I am really the ambassador for everyone\u2019s pain,&#8221; Salaam said during the campaign.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1460,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27089,49,2633,4931,71276,4,861],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1318601"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1460"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1318601"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1318601\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1318899,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1318601\/revisions\/1318899"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1318601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1318601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1318601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}