Bill Perkins, Defender of His Harlem Constituents, Dies at 74
Briefly

Bill Perkins, who for 24 years as a legislator from Harlem championed his community by, among other things, challenging Donald J. Trump's aggressive demand for the death penalty when five teenagers, who were later exonerated, were arrested in connection with a rape in Central Park in 1989 died on Tuesday at his home in Manhattan.
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