New York City’s Soros-funded prosecutor has jailed and charged an innocent bodega owner who killed a feral career criminal in self-defense during a robbery.
Prosecutor Alvin Bragg, a hard-core pro-criminal leftist, also set bail at $250,000, an impossible sum for Jose Alba to pay.
Bragg is just one of 75 pro-criminal prosecutors that George Soros, the Hungarian communist billionaire and Nazi collaborator, has helped put into office.
The Stabbing
Alba’s life went south when the girlfriend of violent maniac Austin Simon — the 35-year-old man whom Alba stabbed to death in self-defense — squabbled with Alba over a bag of chips.
The woman tried to pay for chips with a taxpayer-funded EBT (welfare) debit card that was declined, the New York Post reported:
The 32-year-old woman claimed Alba grabbed the snack out of her daughter’s hand — so she knocked over items on the counter and ran home to get Simon, who stormed into the bodega and attacked Alba about 10 minutes later.
Video shows Simon brutally assaulting Alba, and “during the fight, Simon’s girlfriend allegedly stabbed the worker in the shoulder with a knife she had in her purse, according to Alba’s defense attorney — but she is not facing charges.”
The video clearly shows that Alba stabbed the enraged sociopath in self-defense. Simon was “on parole for assaulting a cop at the time of the deadly encounter — and has at least eight prior busts, including for assault, robbery, and assault during a domestic dispute,” the Post reported.
But Soros-backed Bragg charged Alba with second-degree murder.
Even New York’s leftist mayor, the Post also reported, backs the small-business owner.
“My heart goes out to the employee who was in the store doing his job,” Mayor Eric Adams said. “I am hoping that we take all of that into consideration, as [this] hard-working New Yorker was doing his job, and someone aggressively went behind the counter to attack him.”
But Adams said he cannot interfere with Bragg.
Communist-backed Bragg
Bragg’s outrageous move is no surprise. In January, he made his pro-criminal bias clear in a lengthy memo to staff members.
Aside from ordering staff members not to prosecute a long list of crimes, Bragg mandated that all criminals but the most dangerous be freed prior to trial:
There is a presumption of pre-trial non-incarceration for every case except those with charges of homicide or the death of a victim, a class B violent felony in which a deadly weapon or dangerous instrument causes serious physical injury, sex offenses in Article 130 of the Penal Law, domestic violence felonies or charges of PL § 215.50, public corruption, rackets, or major economic crimes, including any attempt to commit any such offense under Article 110 of the Penal Law. For any charge of attempt to cause serious physical injury with a dangerous instrument, ADAs must obtain the approval of an ECAB supervisor to seek pretrial detention.
Nor will Bragg seek a “carceral sentence,” meaning prison, for any criminals but those who merit pretrial incarceration.
The crazed policy is similar to those Soros-backed prosecutors are pursuing nationwide.
The Law Enforcement Legal Defense Fund recently reported that Soros has helped elect 75 leftist prosecutors.
“These 75 prosecutors represent more than 1 in 5 Americans or more than 72 million people, including half of America’s 50 most populous cities and counties,” the group’s Justice for Sale report says:
From 2018 to 2021, Soros spent $13 million on just 10 prosecutors’ races, where his organizations were by far the biggest spender in the race and comprised the majority of the progressive candidate’s campaign spending — as much as 90% in some cases.
Soros has spent $40 million electing pro-criminal prosecutors such as Bragg.
The group says Bragg collected “at least $1,072,000 from Soros via the New York Justice and Public Safety PAC and Color of Change PAC. Bragg also received substantial help from the state’s Working Families’ Party and other smaller groups which Soros partly funds.”
Leftist GoFundMe stopped a fundraiser that had collected $20,000 for the innocent, 62-year-old entrepreneur.
