Wall Street Journalさんのインスタグラム写真 - (Wall Street JournalInstagram)「Roughly two decades after the exoneration of the group once known as the Central Park Five, Yusef Salaam was declared the winner of the Democratic primary for a seat on the New York City Council.⁠ ⁠ Salaam spent nearly seven years in prison in connection with the 1989 rape of a jogger, which was front-page news in New York and galvanized white fears about Black and Hispanic teenagers “wilding” in Central Park. DNA evidence eventually linked a serial rapist to the crime. He then confessed that he alone was responsible for the rape.⁠ ⁠ Last week, the Associated Press declared Salaam the winner of the Democratic primary for a seat on the City Council representing Central Harlem. There is no Republican candidate running against Salaam in the November general election, which he is expected to win easily.⁠ ⁠ Salaam’s personal story powered his political rise, as many voters felt his run-in with the criminal-justice system’s failings made the 49-year-old fit to overhaul it. His platform—whether talking about affordable housing, investments in economic development and the workforce, or public safety—almost always includes the word justice.⁠ ⁠ The story of unjust incarceration resonated in one of the nation’s most prominent historically Black neighborhoods. Older voters said Salaam’s candidacy forced them to recall the heavy-handed policing tactics of the 1990s. Some younger voters said they learned about the Central Park Five from a more recent documentary and limited Netflix series—and that they saw a connection between Salaam’s experience in 1989 and the murder of George Floyd in 2020.⁠ ⁠ “This guy is Harlem’s version of Nelson Mandela,” said Keith Wright, the chair of the Democratic Party in Manhattan and a longtime Harlem resident, who traveled to the Atlanta area, where Salaam had moved, to recruit him as a candidate.⁠ ⁠ “He was wrongly incarcerated, he took the bullets, he took the bows and arrows, and he took them for us—for this community.”⁠ ⁠ Read more at the link in our bio.⁠ ⁠ Photos: Bea Oyster/@wsjphotos, Phillip Schoultz/AP」7月16日 4時00分