EXCLUSIVE: ‘He’s trying to score cool points in the hood, but he’s no Tupac’: Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg tells tales of growing up in ‘dangerous’ Harlem to justify police reforms - despite being raised in $2m brownstone and attending elite private school
Manhattan’s new District Attorney Alvin Bragg regularly gives speeches about the hardships of growing up in Harlem, recalling cops pointing guns at him
DailyMail.com has learned that he grew up in an upper middle-class enclave of brownstones and attended an elite school on the Upper West Side
Bragg, a Harvard graduate, sparked outrage last week when he announced his office will stop prosecuting many low-level crimes
Those familiar with his upbringing say he should stop distorting his past to justify reforms that would keep all but the most serious felons out of jail
‘He’s made his biography his moral compass, making it seem like there’s something magic about his life story that gives him the wisdom to establish policies,’ one critic tells DailyMail.com
Manhattan’s new District Attorney Alvin Bragg regularly gives speeches about his childhood, recalling that cops and civilians pointed guns at him a half dozen times, and says it’s his hardships growing up in Harlem that make him the right man for the moment.
But critics familiar with his upbringing tell DailyMail.com that he actually enjoyed quite a cushy existence, and should stop distorting his past to justify reforms that would keep all but the most serious felons out of jail.
Bragg, the first black Manhattan DA, grew up in Harlem but on one of the safest blocks around, an upper middle-class enclave of brownstones known as Strivers Row, and since age 4 commuted to the elite Trinity School on Manhattan’s Upper West Side - details he conveniently leaves out when he makes his case.
‘He’s made his biography his moral compass, making it seem like there’s something magic about his life story that gives him the wisdom to establish policies that affect over one million people,’ one insider told DailyMall.com. ‘I’m not saying he hasn’t experienced racism, but there’s lots of privilege he leaves out of his story.’
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