Posted on 07/07/2022 12:17:38 PM PDT by grundle
Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg charged a bodega worker with murder when he clearly acted in self defense.
51-year-old Jose Alba stabbed his attacker several times in self-defense and now he’s at Rikers Island jail facing a murder charge.
Alba fatally stabbed Austin Simon, 35, a career criminal who violently attacked him behind the counter last Friday night.
According to reports, Austin Simon’s girlfriend got into an argument with Alba after her EBT card was declined when she tried to purchase a bag of chips.
The disgruntled woman then left the bodega, ran home and returned with her boyfriend – and that’s when the confrontation escalated.
According to Alba’s defense lawyer, the 32-year-old woman took a knife out of her purse and stabbed the bodega worker in the shoulder, the New York Post reported.
She is not facing charges for stabbing Jose Alba – But Jose Alba is facing a second-degree murder charge for fatally stabbing Austin Simon – AFTER the assailants stabbed him and violently attacked him.
Alba’s family says he was in fear for his life and acted in self-defense.
Video at https://twitter.com/stillgray/status/1545074624127729665
The New York Post reported:
A hard-working Manhattan bodega clerk who was forced to grab a knife to fend off a violent ex-con, now finds himself sitting behind bars at the notorious Rikers Island jail charged with murder and unable to post $250,000 bail.
The sky-high bail for Jose Alba — who has no known criminal history — was just half of what controversial Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s office demanded, despite surveillance video showing the clerk being assaulted by his alleged victim in the bodega.
Alba, 51, was charged with the fatal stabbing of Austin Simon, 35, who can be seen storming behind the counter at the Hamilton Heights Grocery on Broadway and West 139th Street to attack the store worker Friday night.
“It was either him or the guy at the moment,” Alba’s daughter Yulissa told The Post Wednesday, saying it was a case of self-defense.
“He’s never hurt anybody. He’s never had an altercation where he had to defend himself. This is the first time for him.”
“Racial Justice” now demands that certain protected groups get carte blanche to commit crimes and not be punished.
Conversely, the system must crush anyone outside of the protected group with disproportionate sentences.
Bad blacks are ruining it for peaceful blacks. With the illegals invading, there will
surely be much more hispanics than blacks around. If it comes down to black vs.
brown, the browns will win by attrition.
I know a couple of guys close to Zeldin, two cousins, Suffolk County GOP types. I’ll ask if Zeldin has considered this. It’s a great idea.
All this over a bag of chips the clerk was expected to give away for free.
The dumb bitch runs home and comes back with her boyfriend. Coulda just come back with enough money to buy the damn chips. Idiot.
The old guy should have just let him kill him..then the other guy would be charged with assault but its ok cus the old guy was a racist
How many more times do I need to write this. The police and all democrat politicians are the enemy.
Why on God’s green earth... it’s not like he’s a Canadian trucker or something.
/sarc
This is wrong. He acted out of self defense.
Leftists want the protected underclass to waltz right in and take what is “rightfully” theirs from their “oppressors.”
black trumps brown
A perfect defendant to sacrifice on the altar of restorative payback justice. And he won't be the last.
New York another state with no U-Haul’s left in it.
This is great shades of Bernie Goetz who shot the three dumbasses on the subway when they tried to hold him up. The jury said it was self defense but then the NewJerks prosecuted him again for having a pistol, Cost him a year in jail.
“black trumps brown”
Not on the streets. Entire black communities have been racially cleansed in California by Mexicans. FReepers have warned that the Mexicans will take over California. LA county will fall to the Mexicans within the next year or two.
If the worker had been killed, I bet no charges would have been filed.
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