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Manhattanites are again reminded that self-defense is illegal: The rule of law is being stood on its head in Manhattan, where the guilty go free and the innocent get charged.
American Thinker ^ | 04/02/2023 | Andrea Widburg

Posted on 04/02/2023 8:18:53 PM PDT by SeekAndFind

Beginning in the early 1960s, D.C. Comics introduced the idea of “Bizarro World,” a place in which everything on earth is in reverse. Most significantly, in Bizarro World, criminals are the good guys and those who try to fight crime are the bad guys. Or, as Bizarro World’s deliberately stupid denizens say, “Us do opposite of all Earthly things! Us hate beauty! Us love ugliness! Is big crime to make anything perfect on Bizarro World!” Manhattan under D.A. Alvin Bragg is Bizarro World. It’s not just that this out-of-control politician indicted Donald Trump for a non-crime; it’s also that he’s making self-defense illegal for ordinary citizens.

Last July in Manhattan, a video captured a thug brutally stabbing assaulting Jose Alba, a Manhattan bodega clerk. Alba, defending himself, proved to be the more effective fighter, leaving the thug dead. It was a textbook case of self-defense, so Alvin Bragg and his team charged Alba with murder and sent him to Rikers Island. Only a public outcry saved Alba from the maw of Bragg’s criminal injustice system.

The same story is apparently playing out again in Manhattan, this time against Moussa Diarra, a 57-year-old parking attendant who, according to current news reports, successfully defended himself against an attempted murderer:

A New York City parking garage attendant was hit with an attempted murder charge after confronting an armed thief and wrestling the gun away before opening fire on the suspect.

Moussa Diarra, 57, is also charged with assault and criminal possession of a weapon in connection with the incident that occurred at around 5:30 a.m. Saturday morning.


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The attendant had observed a man looking into cars on the second floor of the West 31st Street garage in Manhattan, police said, according to the New York Post. Diarra suspected the man was stealing, so he brought him outside and questioned him about what was inside his bag.

The man then pulled a gun on Diarra, who attempted to grab the firearm. The gun was fired, leaving Diarra with a shot to the stomach and grazed in the ear by a bullet.

Diarra proceeded to turn the firearm on the potential thief and shot him in the chest.

1 posted on 04/02/2023 8:18:53 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

The Bizarro World people have embraced the principle that, as the NRA says, “If guns are outlawed, only outlaws will have guns”—and they’ve taken it one step further. Because New York City has effectively outlawed legal guns, their syllogism says that anyone using a gun must be an outlaw—even if that person was innocent of criminal intent and, instead, successfully turned the tables on a would-be murderer by seizing the criminal’s gun and using it against him, thereby saving his (the intended victim’s) life. That’s bad.

What’s worse is that, because Bragg is in Bizarro World, that foul syllogism has a sub-syllogism: The outlaws who are intentional criminals are victims of systemic something or other, be it racism, sexism, trans-ism, poverty-ism, etc. As victims, they can never be guilty, even if they possess an illegal weapon and use it in the commission of a crime. Given the criminals’ automatic victim status, their targets must somehow be morally culpable so, when the victims fight back, the victims are the real criminals.


2 posted on 04/02/2023 8:19:43 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

Bragg - and all other Soros sponsored DAs - has got to go.


3 posted on 04/02/2023 8:24:13 PM PDT by Rummyfan (In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized of man.)
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To: Rummyfan

Along with Gyorgy boy himself.


4 posted on 04/02/2023 8:26:37 PM PDT by No name given (Anonymous is who you’ll know me as.)
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To: SeekAndFind

I know it’s VERY TOUGH for many, but the bottom line is that reasonable, honest, people need to GET OUT of Blue areas, be they states or cities (or both). Because, whether they know it or not, they are DESPISED in those areas.


5 posted on 04/02/2023 8:50:15 PM PDT by BobL
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To: SeekAndFind

That’s a good reason to live remotely. We have things that will eat all evidence long before anybody comes asking questions.


6 posted on 04/02/2023 8:51:19 PM PDT by GreyHoundSailor
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To: SeekAndFind

Hey, they voted for this. Tough cookies.


7 posted on 04/02/2023 9:11:56 PM PDT by jmacusa (Liberals. Too stupid to be idiots. )
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To: BobL

I know it’s VERY TOUGH for many, but the bottom line is that reasonable, honest, people need to GET OUT of Blue areas, be they states or cities (or both). Because, whether they know it or not, they are DESPISED in those areas.

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I live in a blue state & won’t be leaving. We know they despise us and we despise them as well.

“I welcome their hatred.”(Usually with a “Trump 2024” hat on)


8 posted on 04/02/2023 10:06:12 PM PDT by unclebankster ( Globalism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Bizarro World........close to FarSide.


9 posted on 04/02/2023 10:12:28 PM PDT by Osage Orange
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To: SeekAndFind

Goes back to Bernie Goetz.


10 posted on 04/02/2023 11:21:35 PM PDT by Fido969 (45 is Superman! )
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To: GreyHoundSailor
That’s a good reason to live remotely. We have things that will eat all evidence long before anybody comes asking questions.

What evidence?😇

11 posted on 04/02/2023 11:38:15 PM PDT by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith….)
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To: SeekAndFind

Throw the Marxists out of government.


12 posted on 04/03/2023 3:58:16 AM PDT by popdonnelly (All the enormous crimes in history have been committed by governments.)
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To: SeekAndFind

you get what you vote for.


13 posted on 04/03/2023 4:32:12 AM PDT by wny
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To: SeekAndFind

The charges have been dropped. I know it’s not much of a consolation, but it is worth mentioning.


14 posted on 04/03/2023 4:34:03 AM PDT by thefactor
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To: jmacusa

Did the nation vote for BiteMe?

Why do you think Gotham now has RCV for mayorals, hmmm?


15 posted on 04/03/2023 4:34:12 AM PDT by mewzilla (We will never restore the republic if we don't first secure the ballot box.)
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To: thefactor

https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/jose-alba-case-manhattan-da-moves-to-drop-murder-charge-in-bodega-self-defense-stabbing/3780714/

What Alba went through.

You’re right. Not much of a consolation.


16 posted on 04/03/2023 4:36:33 AM PDT by mewzilla (We will never restore the republic if we don't first secure the ballot box.)
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To: mewzilla

In my experience, the Manhattan DA charges everybody involved then sorts out the facts later. I’m not saying it’s correct, but it is procedure. Especially when it involves guns.


17 posted on 04/03/2023 5:10:56 AM PDT by thefactor
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To: SeekAndFind
breaking it down to its simplest form...

as it stands now, they say 1% of the population make up for 42% of the violent crime in this country. If, they played it straight and charged the guilty accordingly, I’d bet those numbers of that 1% would increase to 65% or greater.

...and we cant acknowledge something like that can we!??

18 posted on 04/03/2023 5:22:22 AM PDT by sit-rep
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RE: the charges have been dropped

And how much did the innocent guy have to spend on lawyer fees to defend himself?


19 posted on 04/03/2023 6:13:37 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: popdonnelly

RE: Throw the Marxists out of government

With our rotten voting system? Good luck with that.


20 posted on 04/03/2023 6:15:13 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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