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Bad taste: The food of Trump's campaign

"You know where the crime is? It's in the bodegas," Trump said while visiting a Harlem bodega last week

Salon · Apr 22, 2024

Jim Jordan releases initial witness list for GOP hearing; Bragg isn’t on it

A Harlem bodega clerk who fatally stabbed an attacker and was initially charged with murder by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg will be a star witness at a U.S. House hearing in New York highlighting violent crime in the city where Donald Trump is facing charges.

Tribune News Service · Apr 12, 2023

Manhattan D.A. To Prosecute Domestic Violence Victim for Murder After Saying It Wasn't Murder

Alvin Bragg campaigned on Tracy McCarter’s innocence. Once in office, that was apparently less politically expedient.

Reason · Sep 2, 2022

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Manhattan DA Drops Murder Charge Against Jose Alba. It Never Should Have Been Filed.

The initial decision to pursue prosecution runs contrary to the campaign promises of Alvin Bragg, who claims to understand that, so often, the process is the punishment.

Reason · Jul 19, 2022

Murder charges dropped against bodega worker who stabbed customer in New York City

Jose Alba had been charged with murder of Austin Simon after fight over a bag of chips

The Independent UK · Jul 19, 2022

New Footage Shows Bodega Clerk Trying To Avoid Deadly Fight. Will Manhattan D.A. Drop the Murder Charges?

Alvin Bragg campaigned on "ending mass incarceration." But that promise apparently does not apply to Jose Alba.

Reason · Jul 11, 2022

Family defends man killed while apparently attacking Harlem bodega worker: ‘He’s not a monster’

‘Everyone is judging him on a clip of video’

The Independent UK · Jul 9, 2022

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Charging a Bodega Worker Who Stabbed His Attacker Isn't Criminal Justice Reform

The case of Jose Alba reminds us that progressive prosecutors don't always apply their principles when they're inconvenient.

Reason · Jul 8, 2022

A deadly bodega row and the shocking video that may help shopkeeper walk free

A criminal defense attorney tells Rachel Sharp it is ‘unfathomable’ that prosecutors have charged Jose Alba with murdering Austin Simon under New York’s self-defence law

The Independent UK · Jul 8, 2022

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