[1/2] Yusef Salaam, one of the wrongly convicted "Central Park Five", gestures while praising god following a news conference announcing the payout for the case at City Hall in New York June 27, 2014.
REUTERS/Carlo Allegri/File Photo Acquire Licensing RightsNov 8 (Reuters) - Yusef Salaam, one of five Black and Latino men wrongly imprisoned as teenagers in the notorious Central Park jogger rape case in 1989, won a seat on the New York City council in Tuesday's elections, according to unofficial results from the city's elections board.
His city council victory came 20 years after he and the other four men, known as the "Central Park Five," sued New York City for wrongful conviction and violation of their civil rights, eventually winning a $41 settlement in 2014.
Salaam invoked his nightmarish ordeal in his bid for city council.
Salaam and the other four men were between 14 and 16 years old when investment banker Trisha Meili, who was white, was raped and almost killed in Central Park in 1989.
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