Posted on 01/30/2024 2:39:56 AM PST by Libloather
New York City Councilman Yusef Salaam is facing calls to step down as head of the council’s influential public safety committee after a controversial traffic stop revealed he was motoring around the Big Apple with out-of-state license plates and allegedly illegal tinted windows.
Salaam is also taking heat with claims he embellished his Friday night encounter with an NYPD cop in Harlem, during which the officer pulled him over for the tinted windows but cut him a break when the lawmaker ID’d himself.
“This is damning,” City Councilman Robert Holden (D-Queens) said in a post on X. “An elected official with illegal tints and out-of-state plates, not legally registered, using his official title to evade the law.
“Worse, he lied about the exchange until NYPD set the record straight,” Holden wrote. “CM Salaam should resign as Public Safety Chair.”
Councilman Joe Borelli (R-Staten Island) also joined the fray online, noting that the entire episode was caught on police bodycam.
“What is sad is taking an incident where someone cuts you a break, does right by you, and then misrepresenting the truth to get them in trouble,” Borelli said in another X post.
Salaam, one of the exonerated “Central Park Five,” has not responded to repeated requests for comment from The Post in recent days.
However, Salaam’s office did confirm that he had Georgia license plates on his car until just this week — despite living in New York and holding office here for two years.
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NY City Council bio
District 9
Yusef Salaam, Morningside Heights, Manhattanville-West Harlem, Hamilton Heights-Sugar Hill, Harlem (South), Harlem (North), East Harlem (South), East Harlem (North), Upper West Side-Manhattan Valley
In 1989, at just fifteen years young, Dr. Yusef Salaam was tried and convicted in the “Central Park jogger” case along with four other Black and Latino young men. The Exonerated Five spent between seven to 13 years behind bars for crimes they did not commit, until their sentences were overturned in 2002.
Since then, they have received a multi-million dollar settlement from the city of New York for its injustice and have been profiled in award-winning films, including The Central Park Five documentary from Ken Burns, Sarah Burns and David McMahon and most recently the Emmy award-winning Netflix limited series When They See Us, written and directed by Ava DuVernay.
Over the past two decades, Yusef has become a family man, father, poet, activist and inspirational speaker. He continues to utilize his platform to share his story with others and educate the public about the impact of mass incarceration and police brutality rooted in our justice system. He regularly advocates for criminal justice reform, prison reform and the abolition of juvenile solitary confinement and capital punishment.
Yusef was awarded an Honorary Doctorate (2014) and is the recipient of a Lifetime Achievement Award from President Barack Obama (2016).
…” recipient of a Lifetime Achievement Award from President Barack Obama (2016)”
…impressive until this.
God, this galls me. They were not exonerated. They were definitely guilty of gangrape. They were convicted for helping hold the victim down, not for actually having sex with her themselves. The DNA from the guy who did was the only DNA found because he’s the only one who went that far, but helping hold a victim down, beating her unconscious, is participating in a gangrape. And these boys were confessing before the cops even knew there WAS a woman. That this whole thing has been ret-conned into “they had nothing to do with it” makes me sick.
Gets a break and is too dumb to just keep his mouth shut.
Not too dumb, too hateful. Been that way since he was a child.
I’m guessing the goat roper has known more than one Fani.
BTTT
A separate monster was identified as a rapist, through dna, but, I'm not convinced these 5 were innocent.
Thanks, Liz. BUMP!
Why isn’t that cop being investigated for firing, he heard power elite and instantly turned away from his investigation into the automobile legality issues.
They confessed to the gang rape. I believe they did it.
They confessed to the gang rape. I believe they did it.
Me too.
Not something you’d want to brag about.
No words for this.
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