Jose Alba, the Harlem bodega worker who was first attacked on stabbed by a female over a bag of chips, before her boyfriend came to attack Alba spent five days at Rikers Island and faced murder charges. After immense backlash, the Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg dropped the murder charges (THREE WEEKS AGO). Jose Alba will not face any charges, in a rare win for justice. Now it’s my hope that Mr. Alba sues the hell out of Alvin Bragg and the city for his false imprisonment and murder charges.
New York doesn’t have a recall rule like California does, so the only way to get rid of Bragg would be by the failed mayor of New York City Eric Adams firing him, or the loser governor Kathy Hochul, and that’s very unlikely.
After widespread outrage, the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office has filed a motion to dismiss a murder charge against bodega worker Jose Alba, who fatally stabbed a man who assaulted him during a dispute inside the Hamilton Heights store.
Alba, 51, was charged with second-degree murder after the incident earlier this month.
Austin Simon, 34, went into the store to confront Alba after his girlfriend was denied a bag of chips for her daughter after her credit card was declined at the Bluemoon Convenient Store.
Alba allegedly had snatched the chips back from the girl. The woman told Simon, who then went to the store, walked behind the counter, and pushed Alba.
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A criminal complaint obtained by Fox News Digital stated that when Simon attempted to “steer” Alba out from behind the counter area, the worker “picked up a kitchen knife that was stashed behind the counter and stabbed Mr. Simon in the neck and chest at least five times.”