A former bodega worker is seeking retribution after being charged with second-degree murder by a Soros-backed New York DA in what critics, including New York City Mayor Eric Adams, described as an apparent self-defense incident.
Jose Alba, the Dominican immigrant who fatally stabbed a violent brute following an altercation, faced an infamous arrest but was later released. Afterward, Alba filed a racial discrimination lawsuit against the Soros-backed Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg. Attorneys for Alba explicitly blamed Bragg’s “racial equity” policies for his client’s arrest, which they said led to “inhumane and unconstitutional conditions” in the Rikers Island jail complex. Alba’s case, marked a turning point against the soft-on-crime policies unleashed by the Soros-backed prosecutor, as accurately reported by Spanish-language Univision in July.
Earlier this summer, Univision reported that a wave of crime frightened New York bodega workers, who demanded imminent action against violent attackers. Alba’s attorneys echoed the bodega workers’ concerns in the federal lawsuit against Bragg. “While in theory, Bragg’s ‘racial equity’ policies are a well-intentioned attempt by him to implement even-handed justice, the means and methods employed by Bragg have instead had an opposite effect and resulted in discrimination against certain defendants based on race,” the lawsuit stated, as reported by the New York Post.
Alba’s arrest ignited massive indignation against Bragg, who jailed the hard-working 61-year-old worker and set his bail at an astonishing $500,000, despite video evidence showing a vulnerable Alba being overpowered by ex-convict Austin Simon. Bragg dismissed the charges only after Mayor Adams, a Democrat ally, and prominent lawmakers rebuked the attempted prosecution.
Even Univision reported that New Yorkers are demanding tougher sentences for potential thieves.
“After three days in prison, Alba was released and later left the country, but the long-term consequences of thefts have complicated matters for workers, including small businesses, who can’t afford to pay for private security,” Univision Correspondent Nayeli Chavez-Geller reported on July 4 for Primer Impacto. “Amidst security concerns and massive business closures in New York, activists are demanding authorities to increase charges and penalties for violent assailants who hurt workers and business owners.”
Alba’s disturbing case is not the first time Bragg, a Soros-backed prosecutor, has come under fire for punishing New Yorkers who are left to fend for themselves. Bragg — whose 2021 campaign for DA received the backing in the amount of $1,000,000 from Color of Change, a Soros-funded PAC, — faced scorching criticism for indicting a Marine veteran hailed as a hero who used a deadly chokehold against an unhinged homeless man. Minutes prior, the violent man had threatened bystanders by screaming in their faces and shouting he was not afraid of dying or going to jail.
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