Yusef Salaam runs for office, while the man who reviled him faces charges.
Tag: Central Park Jogger Case (1989)
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Trump’s Arrest Lifts Campaign of Man He Once Condemned
Yusef Salaam, one of the wrongly imprisoned Central Park Five, is running in a competitive City Council race in Harlem. He described the former president’s indictment as “karma.”
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Decades After the Central Park Jogger Attack, a City Marks Its Mistake
An entrance to Central Park will be named the Gate of the Exonerated, for the teenagers who were wrongfully convicted of a crime that triggered a national conversation on racial injustice.
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Sixth Teenager Charged in Central Park Jogger Case to Be Exonerated
Steven Lopez is expected to have a robbery charge linked to the 1989 attack cleared from his record.