Yusef Salaam Delivers Message To Donald Trump After Winning Democratic Primary For NYC Council Seat
Yusef Salaam, an exonerated member of the Central Park Five, has officially won the Democratic primary for the New York City council seat. Now, he has delivered a message to Donald Trump. The Central Park Five was a 1989 case involving five black and Latino teenagers who were wrongfully accused of raping a woman who was jogging in Central Park. The men were sentenced to six to 13 years in prison and served their terms until 2002, when serial rapist Matias Reyes confessed to the crime. When the men were exonerated, Trump took out a full-page newspaper advertisement that read, “Bring back the de...