Tag: Salaam, Yusef

The NYPD Pulled Over Yusef Salaam. Now Both Are Under Fire.

Yusef Salaam, the newly elected New York City Council member who was wrongfully convicted in 1990 as a member of the Central Park Five, was in Harlem on Friday night, driving downtown to dinner with his wife and four of his children, when the flashing lights of a police car appeared behind him. He pulled […]

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He Was One of the Central Park Five. Now He’s Councilman Yusef Salaam.

Yusef Salaam stood at the front of the City Council Chamber in Lower Manhattan with his right hand raised and his left hand on the Quran held by his wife. It was the one that his mother gave him when he was 15 years old and standing trial for a crime he did not commit. […]

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