New York’s Alvin Bragg is a disgrace, just like Gascon in L.A., Boudin (now out in San Francisco) or “Uncle Larry” in Philadelphia. Jose Alba is a man, who was attacked by a left wing thug in a $300 shirt. When Alba fought back (with a knife) to try and protect himself, Bragg, and the scumbag leftists in New York through Mr. Alba in Riker’s Island. They initially set his bail at $250,000. This is the same New York and Alvin Bragg that let’s out radical left wing extremists from jail with no bail. Today, finally, Jose Alba has been released from Rikers.
This is what communist Democrat “justice” looks like. You defend yourself against a thug, YOU get thrown in jail and the attacker thug is the victim. Getting tired of this crap yet?
The hard-working Manhattan bodega worker languishing on Rikers Island on a murder charge after fending off a violent ex-con was sprung from jail Thursday after a judge agreed to lower his sky-high bail.
The plight of dad-of-three Jose Alba — detailed in a front-page Post story Thursday — was eased after his family was able to post the reduced bond with the help of his boss following a hearing in Manhattan Criminal Court.
“He has every intention to return to court and defend this case,” Alba’s attorney, Danielle Jackson of Neighborhood Defender Service of Harlem, said in court.
Alba, 61, was sent to Rikers Island on a whopping $250,000 bail — half of what prosecutors with Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s office had requested at his arraignment Saturday night, claiming the worker was a flight risk because of a planned trip to the Dominican Republic next week.
Under state law, Alba would have had to be released Thursday as prosecutors had not yet presented the second-degree murder case to the grand jury — but they could delay the presentation if he was free on bail.