Yusef Salaam, a defendant exonerated in the infamous Central Park 5 rape case, will likely be the next councilman for central Harlem.
Yusef Salaam, a defendant exonerated in the infamous Central Park rape case, will likely be the next councilman for central Harlem.
With 98% of scanners reporting, Salaam, 49, garnered 50% or 5,403 votes to 25% or 2,706 votes for state Assemblywoman Inez Dickens, 73 and 14% or 1,564 votes for 65-year-old Assemblyman and pastor Al Taylor. Salaam is a board member of the Innocence Project and founding member of Justice 4 the Wrongfully Incarcerated.
“I’m here because Harlem you believed in me. Harlem has spoken,” Salaam said during his victory speech.— and did between six and 13 years in prison — but their convictions were tossed in 2002 after a career criminal confessed to the attack.Inez Dickens lost to Yusef Salaam in Harlem’s Council District 9 Democratic primary, but is still a state assemblywoman.“Having to be kidnapped from my home as a 15-year-old child, to be lodged in the belly of the beast. … I am my ancestor’s wildest dreams.
Salaam’s victory is a blow to Mayor Eric Adams, Congressman Adrian Espaillat and much of the Harlem establishment that rallied around Dickens.and for touting an endorsement from an unindicted co-conspirator in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing.
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