Yusef Salaam, one of the five teenagers who were wrongfully convicted of raping a woman in Central Park and later exonerated, is leading in a race for New York City Council after Tuesday's Democratic primary.
and later exonerated, is leading in a race for New York City Council after Tuesday's Democratic primary.
."This campaign has been about those who have been forgotten. This campaign has been about our Harlem community that has been pushed into the margins of life." In 1989, a White woman, Trisha Meili, was jogging in Central Park when she was brutally beaten and raped. Meili, then 28, was found by passersby battered and unconscious, and was so beaten that investigators couldn't immediately identify her. She remained in a coma for 12 days before waking up with brain damage and little memory of the attack.
The teens — then aged 14 to 16 — confessed to being there, but none of them actually confessed to committing the offense and instead blamed others. Their confessions also did not match the details of the attack, and came after lengthy interrogations by police, leading to questions that their statements had been coerced.
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