One of the men from the Central Park Five has his eyes set on public office. A source close to Yusef Salaam shared that the New York native plans to run for state senate. According to the New York Daily News, Salaam plans to fill the role vacated by Harlem state Senator Brian Benjamin (D). Benjamin was recently nominated to be New York's lieutenant governor after current Governor Kathy C. Hochul replaced Andrew Cuomo who resigned from his post amid sexual harrassment allegations, the East New York reported . The 47-year-old will focus his attention on social and criminal justice, with emphasis on police brutality, prison reform and the abolition of juvenile solitary confinement. Salaam, along with Korey Wise, Antron McCray, Kevin Richardson and Raymond Santana, were each wrongly convicted for the rape of a white woman who was jogging in Central Park in 1989. They were each exonerated in 2002 after another person confessed to the crime. Salaam served nearly seven years behind bars...
