Perhaps you haven’t heard the news. A Hispanic Bodega worker was involved in an altercation with a Black man. It started when his girlfriend try to purchase some illicit merchandise with an EBT card. The boyfriend was not there at the time.
What we have here is a Racist D.A. who has a problem with Hispanics protecting their property, obeying the law and defend their lives from criminals. Need we say more?
‘I don’t want no trouble’: New footage shows how NYC bodega worker, who stabbed gangster to death in self-defense, tried to defuse argument over $3
- New video footage of the fatal stabbing in a Harlem bodega shows what took place in the minutes leading up to the July 1 incident
- Jose Alba, 61, is accused of killing Austin Simon, 37, an ex-con who attacked him after his girlfriend could not afford a bag of chips
- Video shows the tense interaction between Alba and a woman whose benefit card was declined while trying to buy chips for her daughter
- Simon is seen storming into the store, behind the counter and confronting Alba
- Alba attempts to calm the angry customer but a fight breaks out
- Alba was freed from jail last Thursday after his bond was lowered from $250,000 to $50,000 following a public outcry over the decision for his sky-high amount
Why DA hasn’t charged ex-con’s girlfriend in stabbing of NYC bodega worker Jose Alba was defending beau: sources
The gal pal of the ex-con killed while attacking Manhattan bodega worker Jose Alba was not charged with stabbing the clerk during the melee because prosecutors felt she was just defending her beau, police sources told The Post on Monday.
The decision stunned Alba’s supporters, not to mention the worker himself — who faces a controversial slay rap for the boyfriend’s death even though he and hordes of supporters say video shows he clearly was acting in self-defense, a bodega rep said.
“I don’t understand why the [district attorney] hasn’t charged her,” Francisco Marte of the Bodega and Small Business Association Group said outside Alba’s Hamilton Heights apartment after visiting the worker Monday.
He said the 61-year-old clerk and his supporters believe the 32-year-old gal pal should be locked up for stabbing Alba three times while he was fending off her irate boyfriend.
“She participated in that,” Marte said of the incident. “She’s supposed to be in jail and the $250,000 bail [Alba once faced] should be on her, not on him. He was just defending himself.”
A video of the attack shows Alba being confronted behind the counter by a man who shoves him down before appearing to threaten him verbally. Alba then slipped past his attacker, grabbed a knife and then allegedly stabbed the man to death.
“It was either him or the guy at the moment,” Alba’s daughter Yulissa told The Post last week.
Alba was subsequently charged with murder and sent to Rikers Island before being released on bail.
“The DA has to consider has a lot to consider with respect to this particular case, but when we talk about stand your ground, I firmly believe that that has been a concept that has been subjected to a lot of abuse around the country, and I just don’t think that’s the direction we should be going in,” Dinowitz added.