Yusef Salaam, who was one of five teenagers wrongfully convicted for the infamous 1989 attack on a jogger in Central Park, has continued the remarkable progress that he and the others have made since being cleared of that crime. Now, Salaam will take his public life and activism to a new level as voters elected… Continue reading A Look At Yusef Salaam Of The Exonerated Five Winning His New York City Council Seat
This is called vindication.
Yusef Salaam, who at 15 was convicted with five others in 1989 in the Central Park Jogger case, won a seat on the NYC council.
In 1989, Salaam went to jail for seven years, along with the other defendants in the case. They were vilified and railroaded. Donald Trump
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