Yusef Salaam won a seat Tuesday on the New York City Council, completing a stunning reversal of fortune decades after he was wrongly imprisoned in an infamous rape case.
An exonerated member of the "Central Park Five" a group of Black and Hispanic teenagers falsely convicted of a 1989 rape in New York has won a seat on the city council, in a victory hailed by campaigners.Yusef Salaam, who won a seat Tuesday on the New York City Council, will represent a Harlem district as a Democrat.