Exonerated ‘Central Park Five’ member Yusef Salaam wins New York City Council seat

PO1 William "Chip" Nagel GOOD FOR HIM...
..."The first-time candidate, who was wrongly accused in 1989 and then convicted along with four other Black and Latino teenagers of raping a jogger in Manhattan’s Central Park, spent nearly seven years in prison before DNA evidence emerged linking someone else to the crime.

In the wake of the case in 1989 that dominated the headlines in New York and drew national attention, former President Donald Trump, then still a local figure, took out full-page newspaper ads that read: “Bring Back The Death Penalty. Bring Back Our Police!”
“There were large ads bought in 1989, a whisper for the state to kill us,” Salaam said after the June primary in reference to the ads. “A whisper, in fact, into the darkest enclaves of society for them to do to us what they had done to Emmett Till.”

Salaam won the primary for the heavily Democratic district after a reallocation of ranked-choice voting results expanded his lead."...