NYPD Pulls Over the One Guy They Maybe Don’t Want to Pull Over Right Now

On Friday night, just as Mayor Eric Adams was making his last stand to try and prevent the City Council from overriding his veto of an NYPD transparency bill involving police stops, the cops happened to pull over the newly minted chair of the council's public safety committee, a man who was wrongfully imprisoned for nearly seven years, Dr. Yusef Salaam. 

In a press release sent out on Saturday morning, Councilmember Salaam said that he was driving with his family in his Harlem district and listening to a conference call the council was having to discuss the How Many Stops Act, when he was pulled over.