Yusef Salaam, one of the exonerated Central Park Five, is running for office. Salaam formally announced his candidacy for a highly coveted City Council seat in Harlem's 9th District on Saturday.
Salaam and four other minors, who were all Black and Latino, were wrongfully convicted and imprisoned for the rape of a white jogger in Central Park in 1989. Salaam, who was 15 at the time, served almost seven years in prison before he was exonerated.
Decades before he became president, Donald Trump took out a full-page ad calling for the Central Park Five to face the death penalty, which Salaam referenced in his announcement.
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