Due to Manhattan District Legal professional Alvin Bragg, New York is a metropolis turned the other way up.
Get caught with an unlawful gun, get launched with out bail. Shove an aged particular person to the bottom, assault somebody as a result of they’re Asian, a slap on the wrist. Shoplift once more . . . and once more . . . and once more . . . nothing.
However defend your self and your administrative center from a person who assaults you, and Bragg sends you to Rikers.
Jose Alba, 51, was working at a bodega on Broadway close to West 139th Avenue late final Friday evening. A girl got here in wanting chips and couldn’t pay; Alba wouldn’t give them to her totally free.
Livid, the lady’s boyfriend, Austin Simon, 35, went behind the counter and confronted Alba. Video of the incident clearly exhibits Simon is the aggressor. He yells at Alba, will get in his private area, then shoves him into the wall.
Whereas Simon continues to rant, Alba will get up and tries to depart. Simon grabs him by the again of the neck.
It’s at this level that Alba takes a knife off a nearby shelf and stabs Simon. The 2 proceed to battle, falling off digital camera, till Alba comes again into body — his arm wounded, bleeding, maybe as a result of he was stabbed by Simon’s girlfriend. A bloody knife in his fingers.
“He was cornered in,” Alba’s daughter, Yulissa, tells The Put up. “As you’ll be able to see within the video, he was cornered in, and when he noticed himself getting taken outdoors, he thought his life was being threatened and he defended himself.”
And never simply threatened. Simon assaulted him.
However in Bragg’s world, Alba is being manner overcharged with homicide within the second diploma, and locked up on $250,000 bail.
What Alvin Bragg is practicing isn’t justice. It’s madness. Police are villains, criminals are heroes and victims are advised to just accept their destiny.
Jose Alba must be free. Alvin Bragg must be out of workplace.
