BREAKING: Yusef Salaam, one of the exonerated “Central Park Five,” has won a Democratic primary, all but assuring him a seat on the New York City Council.
Leandro De Niro Rodriguez, a grandson of Robert De Niro and Diahnne Abbott, has died at 19. His mother, Drena De Niro, announced the news Monday in an Instagram post.
Salaam declared victory on election night with his vote tally barely exceeding 50%, even though an unknown number of absentee ballots were yet to be counted. But his lead over Dickens, his nearest competitor, seemed insurmountable, and both she and Taylor conceded. “I’ve heard him talk. He seems to be talking about the things I care about,” Mwendwa said on election day.“He comes from the neighborhood, and he was incarcerated then turned himself around,” Carnation France said. “He’s trying to do something for the people.”
“I think people saw him as a survivor,” Onyioha said. “He was vindicated and the system eventually ended up working out for him.” A 2012 Ken Burns documentary called “The Central Park Five” rekindled public attention on the men’s childhood saga. More recently, a 2019 television miniseries, “When They See Us,” drew attention again, just before the Black Lives Matter Movement was launched in response to the killing of George Floyd by a Minneapolis police officer.
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