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Several participants on a group phone call with City Councilman Yusef Salaam backed up his assertion that he asked a police officer who stopped him in Harlem why he was being pulled over. The lawmaker was on a Zoom conference call when he was stopped Friday in Harlem, and three of the call’s participants — Councilwoman Sandy Nurse, Mandela Jones of the council speaker’s office and the NYCLU’s Michael Sisitzky — say they heard the question. “We clearly heard it on the Zoom, because as soon as he left, we started talking about it. Like, ‘Why didn’t he answer your question?’” Nurse recounted Sund…

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