Posted on 10/08/2022 12:47:00 PM PDT by grundle
The homeless man accused of fatally slashing a union steamfitter aboard a Brooklyn L train was free without bail after a 2021 knife attack in Brooklyn.
Alvin Charles, 43, was arrested in July 2021 and charged with attempted first-degree assault, accused of stabbing a man in the arm and stomach that April. Prosecutors asked for $50,000 bail, but Judge Jessica Earle-Gargen granted him supervised release.
Law enforcement sources said he was complying with the terms of his release and showing up at his court appearances, so when a grand jury indicted him on attempted murder charges in March, Supreme Court Judge Matthew Sciarrino continued his supervised release.
Charles is accused of getting into an argument with victim Tommy Bailey, 43, on a Canarsie-bound L train at around 8:50 p.m. Friday. He stabbed and slashed Bailey repeatedly in the head, neck and torso, killing him, according to a criminal complaint.
The stabbing was caught on video, and the NYPD used facial recognition software to identify Charles, the complaint alleges. Several people also witnessed the attack, according to cops, though the witnesses aren’t mentioned in the complaint.
Charles’ lawyer, Roy Wasserman of the Legal Aid Society, said he’s heard of no other evidence beyond the facial recognition hit that established Charles as the killer — software that “has been found by experts and other jurisdictions to be racially biased against darker-skinned people.”
“It says on police paperwork that I’ve observed before that it can be used in terms of investigation but it cannot be used for probable cause,” she said. “It seems that he became a suspect based on racially biased software that the NYPD uses. I haven’t heard otherwise.”
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First, kill all the lawyers.
You and NYDN are so insensitive, racist & extreme.
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Seriously, though...
A little payback is entirely justifiable.
It's systemic white racism. America was founded to enslave black people in 1619.😇
Some people are content to pretend these predators should be released with low or no bail to victimize citizens again.
The Left wants to suppress them stories but people see them in person and local news gets ratings reporting them so it doesn't work.
People are getting angry-----very angry.
Others are not. These are the ones who will take offense at the Jan.6 people held in worse conditions than serial killers and the previous President being attacked in the courts by the banana republic new bosses in DC.
Free without bail.
I’m Free by The Who
I’M free-
I’m free,
And freedom tastes of reality,
I’m free-
I’m free,
An’ I’m waiting for you to follow me
typo:
to suppress these stories
I can’t believe there’s a news story about a black male being violent. Will wonders never cease?!?
So will he be freed again tomorrow?
Democrat’s blood lust will never be satiated.
Did they provide a better knife?
Just another white supremacist the DOJ is so concerned with ... oh wait, wrong color nothing to see ... just move on
Ah, they may wait until Tuesday.
If this crap of letting criminals out of jail like this continues, nature will take its course and it won’t be pretty for the criminals.
Intentionally or not the Left is building the Wild West/Vigilante society that they have warned about for decades when spouting anti-firearm rhetoric.
When the society can not depend on the Justice system to protect it from lawlessness it will find the means to protect itself.
Either that or it will reform the system to that which it deems best able to fulfill its need for order and freedom.
I would guess that the first thing we will see (are seeing) is more and more people will carry concealed weapons and use them for self protection.
If lawlessness continues to be a problem vigilante groups will form and carry out policing and extra-judicial punishments.
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If at first you don't succeed, try, try again.
Persistence pays.
We must stop tolerating this. Local politicians should be pressured to do something.
But, but, but, Mayor Adams says the only emergency situation going on in his city is having to deal with a busload of illegals.
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